They should not be getting praise for walking this back. It was ridiculous from the start, and if not for the justifiably overwhelming negative response, they would have just done it. The absolute most that should happen is people stop giving them shit for it
There is something to be said about the devs going to bat for the players, though. They stood up to the big bosses and won. Ain’t nobody praising Sony.
The community manager got fired apparently
Source?
Spitz conveniently ignoring that they told people there’s nothing wrong with the PSN connectivity and that the players are all a bunch of big whiners. They may have done a heel face turn, but they still have to deal with the consequences of their actions as a heel.
He took one for democracy
If reviews don’t flip back to positive in response (seeing as they only went negative in anticipation of this policy being enforced), then we have no way of indicating our dissatisfaction next time Sony do something undesirable.
Oh for fuck sake, let people be happy. I’m happy with the decision, very happy in fact.
Not to mention Sony probably got a lot of new accounts registered and linked in these few days, so they already got what they wanted and walking back doesn’t change much…
Yeah I’m going to disagree. The community manager got fired for standing up on behalf of the players.
I don’t know what else people expect Arrowhead to do realistically to “make this right,” but that community manager guy had always dreamed of working for Arrowhead and lost his dream job by NOT acting like a corporate shill when it came to choosing the players or his bosses.
SONY was in the wrong here. Please let’s stop being so harsh to the guys killing their careers by saying to the people like the community manager who lost his job (by doing the right thing no less) that they “should’ve done more.”
Direct your ire to whatever Sony executive was pushing for this. Please just let Arrowhead devs continue to polish this game that most of us are really enjoying otherwise.
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The community manager (that you somehow failed to name?) was known to be combative and derisive toward users in forum posts and was already leaving a bad taste prior to this recent event. His “24hr redemption arc” had nothing to do with SONY or Arrowhead’s actions on the issues at hand. Don’t conflate the events.
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Stay vigilant. Sony’s still looking to profit at all times.
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Have they already backtracked in practice or just in PR?
It would have gone live with yesterday’s patch and didn’t, so there’s significant substance to their statement so far
That’s great news. I’ve seen reviews go from overwhelmingly negative back to mixed. I wonder if reviews will ever get back to normal.
I know a fair number of people are waiting for the delisted coubtries to be relisted, plus the people who don’t want to change it back because the fiasco happened. Harder to recover once trust is lost.
So it probably won’t make it above mixed again.
I’m leaving my review as is. Sony trying this and saying in their tweet that they’re “still learning what’s best for PC players” does not instill me with enough confidence to give it a thumbs up.
As you mentioned, it’s a lot easier to lose trust than to (re)earn it.
Last I checked the overall reviews were already back in “mostly positive” territory
For now. 🤌🏽
Just PR, it’s still not available in all the countries they said they’d restrict it from. (those that own it can play it though). So in some ways it’s like they went through with it and no one cares because Sony said the magic words ‘you guys win’.
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Fucking astroturfing. Typical.
