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PT no longer downloadable in US (and EU/UK) even with license
- Thread starter bigkrev
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I mean, sure, that's been made pretty clear. But you'd think they'd want to go out quietly, not guns blazing and setting every village and bridge on fire along the way. It's completely unprecedented in the industry.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Um... what?
LiquidSolid
Member
It's still downloadable on SCEE (UK/EU/ME/SA/AU/NZ) accounts, so get it ASAP. They'll probably take it down when they update the store in ~10 hours.
Obliterator
Member
Yeah cant say I disagree. They are going full on villian mode. Whatever went down with them and Kojima must have been crazy toxic
That's the worst part. For the past couple of months they've been spitting in the faces of the people that have put them in the position that they're in today.
Sure, you can argue that they've been doing stuff like this for years, but it has never been on this scale before. They have, in one fell swoop, alienated an entire customer base, and for what?
They make shitty business decisions and people call them out on it. The Konami response? "You guys are mean. I'm taking my toys and bringing them home."
And MGSV will still sell millions of copies at launch.
I'm being facetious.
Emperor Bohe
Member
Konami, you fucking idiots.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
The response is a bit reactionary, but I can kinda see where they're coming from? The project no longer exists and as goofy as PT was it still aimed to be a teaser for Silent Hills. From Konami's perspective stripping it from the store is a means of removing what is essentially incorrect advertising.
Removing future downloads by people who already own it is the reactionary part and doesn't serve much of a point in my opinion. People who have it, have it, and will not do their best not to delete it. People who didn't have it couldn't once it was removed from the store. So...*shrug*.
Gouge it out.
Removing future downloads by people who already own it is the reactionary part and doesn't serve much of a point in my opinion. People who have it, have it, and will not do their best not to delete it. People who didn't have it couldn't once it was removed from the store. So...*shrug*.
Gouge it out.
Sword Familiar
178% of NeoGAF posters don't understand statistics
Well, that sucks. Guess I'll never get to experience PT for myself. ;_;
MasterOfPuppets
Member
I do not know.
KCroxtonJr
Member
Thank goodness I decided to finally try it out for myself about a week before all the bad news happened. This is so shitty :/
mgs2master2
Banned
You might be able to erase the markings, but the memories will never disappear
EdReedFan20
Member
I hope Sony will eventually add the ability to back up downloads to external hard drives because if you decide to upgrade your hard drive as of now, you will lose PT when you put in the new drive.
I'll be shocked if they develop ANY game after mgsv
Megawarrior
Member
....oh. Well there goes me finally playing it when I get the silver Batman PS4 next month. At least I have a friend who has it.
vxXJordanXxv
Banned
Why is everything I love in gaming either being changed or destroyed completely? I loved you Konami why won't you love me back?
Hopefully it is. It'll be nice to know that there's a physical preservation of it for everyone.
Lord Error
Insane For Sony
You can do that now.
GreyOcelot
Member
The response is a bit reactionary, but I can kinda see where they're coming from? The project no longer exists and as goofy as PT was it still aimed to be a teaser for Silent Hills. From Konami's perspective stripping it from the store is a means of removing what is essentially incorrect advertising.
Removing future downloads by people who already own it is the reactionary part and doesn't serve much of a point in my opinion. People who have it, have it, and will not do their best not to delete it. People who didn't have it couldn't once it was removed from the store. So...*shrug*.
Gouge it out.
i get it, but i just comes across really, really badly. i sort of understand the mentality of companies that perpetuate the existence of games they aren't even working on. if they really aren't working on silent hills, the confirmation of the game being cancelled and subsequent removal of PT from the store is the "like-a-band-aid" approach of just ripping it off and taking the heat now as opposed to later. still it just comes across as a really, really poor business decision. console games still make them money, but apparently it's not "enough" money. burning bridges with very loyal gamers in is a very poor decision to make in the industry in which your brand is most visible.
drotahorror
Member
Yeah I won't be buying anymore full priced games from Konami anymore.
*I buy all games full priced for the most part
Some of the stuff they've pulled lately....straight up scummy.
*I buy all games full priced for the most part
Some of the stuff they've pulled lately....straight up scummy.
liquidekkah
Member
I honestly don't think Konami cares. I think they're tossing away the core gaming market and going full force on the casino gaming market.
Neff
Member
Then you'll be shocked.
jetsetmario
Member
This should definitely serve as a cautionary tale for anyone looking to go all in on digital purchases.
DangerMouse
Member
Yup, they just keep doing their best to remind people why digital can suck ass.
Edit: Especially potentially purchases of streaming copies of movies. Though I suppose if it were charged for they probably would have to atleast allow previous buyers to be able to re-download, as has generally been the case so far.
It really might if you don't get into japanese night fitness center or casino business
PetriP-TNT
Member
Konami going after the Flappy Bird money
NYCmetsfan
Banned
Fushichou187
Member
Konami may be run by a bunch of assholes but your point is still spot on in that leaving PT available only creates confusion in the long run.
I hope down the line the source files for PT get smuggled out of Konami HQ-- or someone ends up sorting out how to decrypt it out of the PS4's HDD-- and it ends up floating around torrent sites, eventually allowing the Internet to sort out how to get it up an running on PCs. With Oculus support.
this get's tossed around way too much. it's not like some major fuckup like this happens every day. plus, konami couldn't do things they are doing now (at least not without consequences) if they would have charged money for P.T.
HappehLemons
Member
Woah this sucks. I glad I have a copy on my PS4 but it's crazy to think you can't download this anymore. Really hope people can find some way to backup the game.
Quadraphonic
Member
This would have been a perfectly fine disc-based demo in a magazine.
Could you imagine OPM bundling this, without telling people what it was?
magazines still exist? who's buying those?
Nobody reads those things anymore! Not even a third of people would have had the opportunity to try it.
Also, packing in a Blu-Ray? That's gonna be hella expensive.
Hypothetical situations, how do they work?
Quadraphonic
Member
Non-digital future = print magazines would be thriving still.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
Konami are welcome to go right out of business now, no need for you anymore. Idiots.
Still have P.T. on my PS4, will try to keep it that way. They can't somehow kill the license for a demo so you can't even start it (like with a PS+ title), right?
Still have P.T. on my PS4, will try to keep it that way. They can't somehow kill the license for a demo so you can't even start it (like with a PS+ title), right?
Yes. The 360 had a few that were pulled even from redownloading.
Offhand, the Doritos game with the Trex and the cars and Yaris were both pulled. Eventually they came back for redownloading, for no apparent reason.
Nor would we have any of the nice things that we do now, such as being able to live stream E3 conferences, a huge range of different news sources to read from, news updates as and when they happen rather than weekly / fortnightly...
Let's not be silly mate.
StrongBlackVine
Banned
Can't we back up entire hard drives now?
YianGaruga
Banned
So you can't download it but it's still listed in the PS4's library, taunting us forever? Konami pls
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