Okay cool, so... “You need two subscriptions to play this game” is the same as “You only need one subscription to play this game.”

Got it.  I’m tuned into your bizarro logic.

According to Square Enix you do not need PS+ to play FF14 on PS5, it’s just that a large proportion of FF14 players on PS5 also have PS+. The situations aren’t the same in the least. This reeks to me of a Microsoft requirement that SE was required to adhere to in order to release FF14 on Xbox.

I don’t think that makes Final Fantasy XVI lazy. It looks like quite an enjoyable game for people who are into its particular flavor of action combat and character tropes. I bounced off of it like a bouncy ball on a brick wall, but I’m not about to say the game is awful because it doesn’t really try to appeal to me.

I have had a few situations at work where I had a program crash and lost literally 3 hours of work because I trusted the autosave. That was not a fun lesson to learn (and my boss was understanding, but annoyed)

Years of losing hours of progress to a program crashing on me have conditioned me to never trust autosaves in any program/game that gives me a manual save. Ever. They can tell me that the autosave is super frequent and incredibly stable and I will still manually save every 10-15 minutes if it allows me to save freely.…

I’m going to withhold my judgement of the game’s pacing until I can play it next week but to me the inclusion of minigames that you have to do to progress doesn’t sound like a terrible thing. Hell, they did it from time to time in the original FF7 so it’s not outside the realm of possibility. (snowboarding after the…

The devs have been saying for months that Cid and Vincent won’t be playable in this episode.

The console war bullshit has been tired since it was Nintendo vs. Sega. It frustrates me that it has been this pervasive over the years, and announcements like this (and a lot of what the leaders of the game companies do) just feed into it and make it worse.

Either you got seriously unlucky with bugs or my wife and I have been seriously lucky. We have not had a single of the game-breaking issues you’ve described here (yet) on PS5 and we’re both level 13. The matchmaking issues are definitely a persistent thing but considering we play either as a duo or with our other…

I mean, anyone who assumed that Microsoft would be getting out of the console race over this sort of rumor is either naive or so entrenched in the Xbox ecosystem that they can’t fathom a world where gamers have the choice to play whatever games they want on whichever console they want to buy.

If the rumors of…

I realize, that but my point was that the choice of where they could play those games would benefit the consumer more than it would benefit Nintendo. I know why they don’t release their games on other systems, but what benefits them isn’t relevant to the point I was making.

This.   Making games multiplatform is always a win for gamers.  I don’t personally care to play Starfield, but I know at least a few people who will be ecstatic they can play it on their PS5 if this is true.  I would also support Sony and Nintendo making their exclusives multiplatform.

Are you trying to say that it wouldn’t benefit gamers if it was available on all platforms, or are you just attacking a straw man?

The state of Starfield at launch tells me exclusives matter less than you’re giving them credit for, and yes my argument applies to all games. I wouldn’t be upset if/when Sony or Nintendo games came to other consoles either. Stop shilling for corporations in general.

I feel the same way about Xbox that you feel about Playstation, but agreed that it’s better for everyone if we don’t have console exclusives. I’m never going to buy another Xbox again anyway, but I honestly wouldn’t have any problems if the games I love on my PS5 went over to Xbox. It benefits consumers to have that…

Don’t get me wrong I totally understand why some exclusives exist but situations like that are the exact reason I think games being made multiplatform is actually a net positive for the consumer.

I mean, if this is in fact true... I can’t be upset about it. Exclusives aren’t a good thing for the everyday consumer like some console warriors like to pretend they are. Being able to play a game on whatever platform you play on (console, PC, etc) is a net win for the majority of gamers, and especially for gamers…

I spent hundreds of hours playing around in each entry in the Soul Calibur series and in Tekken 6. Every Tekken after 6 just phoned in the customization.

I just hope we actually get another Soul Calibur game now that they’ve released Tekken 8 but I’m not going to hold my breath.

I’m glad people are enjoying the game.  Everything I’ve seen on it just does not appeal to me but hey... not every game is for everybody.

Soul Calibur 3 and Tekken 6 for the two series, respectively.  I swear the devs just make customization as a ‘here, so you’ll shut up’ for the people who enjoy it these days.