immortal-joe
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Again, EA's service is NOT comparable with PS Now, it's copying PS Plus. Ps Now is a cross-platform game streaming service. EA's service offers locally stored content and discounts, just like PS Plus.
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All PS Now games available in open beta
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Again, EA's service is NOT comparable with PS Now, it's copying PS Plus. Ps Now is a cross-platform game streaming service. EA's service offers locally stored content and discounts, just like PS Plus.
It's Alone In The Dark.
I bought the Limited Edition with artbook, soundtrack and other stuff for around 5 EUR 1 or 2 years ago. So it's also not a good price.
I guess it's "just" $5, because they expect people to stop playing after a few minutes. It's a terrible game. And at least in my case I would have been able to sell it afterwards. The artbook + soundtrack are nice though, so I kept them.
90 days, makes sense.
But 4 hours? Pay-Per-View 10 years ago gave me a limited time (1 day or so) to watch the movie. It's silly to make the "4 hour" option real-time. This means that you HAVE to play the game for 4 hours non stop, otherwise you will get way less out of it. That combined with the high price is just silly. People have to eat, go shopping, etc. Sony is effectively telling them "fuck you, you have to play the game for 4 hours now, don't do anything else". It seems they never thought about grown adults, who have stuff to do (children, family, job, etc.). It's artificially limiting the service. Say I want to play a game right now, but I only got 1 hour until I need to do something else. With a physical disc, that's not a problem. With PlayStation Now, I would have to pay for 4 hours.
It wouldn't have been a big problem to make that limited to a certain timeframe (let's say 1 day) and then count playtime instead.
They are both rental services competing for my video game discretionary income.
Whether they have the same content or business model is irrelevant from my and many other consumer's purchasing decision. We'll vote with our dollars solely on which one offers a better perceived value.
Sure, but it depends on the customer.
For customers who have access to all these platforms - XB1, PSNow, etc. - already, then PSNow is just another avenue to play already accessible content. And so they become comparable.
For customers who don't have access to all these platforms - or indeed, any of them - they become incomparable. PSNow will, theoretically, allow a whole range of people access content that EA's service (or Sony's others) cannot reach. Until, I guess, they start adding streaming games on-demand too.
There's many people on both sides of those fences - arguably, though, many more on the latter side of the fence.
Revolutionary
Member
It's $10 on Steam and I'm not likely to play through it more than once, so the price was right for me. That said, yeah the game is... rough, to say the least.
NavyPharaoh
Member
The prices aren't bad at all. For everyone making the, "it's xx.xx at amazon!" Buy it off amazon and put it in your ps4.
I think it's grimey that over time, Sony has removed backwards compatible. They have then monetized this heavily through remasters and now this.
If I have a problem with anything it's that. The ps now prices are perfect. Even the 4 hour price. Everyone in business knows, you discount bulk purchases. If 4 hours was $2, you'd keep buying the 4 hours until you beat it. They're up selling all of us.
I think it's grimey that over time, Sony has removed backwards compatible. They have then monetized this heavily through remasters and now this.
If I have a problem with anything it's that. The ps now prices are perfect. Even the 4 hour price. Everyone in business knows, you discount bulk purchases. If 4 hours was $2, you'd keep buying the 4 hours until you beat it. They're up selling all of us.
Scully Scully Scoo
Member
its clear sony are going after the masses with this services, they want ps now to be a hit on ipad and stuff, this isnt meant for ps3 owners.
Scully Scully Scoo
Member
yeah people are missing this aspect of the business. they want to encourage people to spend more and buy the 7 day rental/1 month, the 4 hour option is there just to be scoffed at
Hydrargyrus
Member
I hope, I really hope that the lack of PSX/PS2 games means that will be software emulation in PS4...
Amentallica
Unconfirmed Member
If anything people are fucking themselves if they rent something for four hours that runs on real time despite having other responsibilities at that same moment. Rent it later? The fuck. Lol
SerTapTap
Member
1 they have for ds4, they're just direct input instead of xinput
2 just use DS4Windows it's basically perfect
Lord Panda
The Sea is Always Right
$5 for 90 days (gameplay time) standard would be awesome.
90 days of actually played time? No way are you getting that. And what game has even needed it? And for 4.99? Say what?
Seriously a lot of people need to actually look at the game prices. There are like 2 or 3 that I think are ridiculously priced for the 90-day option (two Square games and Saints Row). The rest are 14.99 and below. On some of these titles you could go to Amazon or Gamestop and maybe get them cheaper, if they actually have it in stock. That assumes you are going to go the 90 day route. There is no reason to rent MGS IV for 90 days. The same can be said about other titles.
Yeah, the 7 day option will suffice for most games outside the usual long to finish games like RPGs etc. Its the one I will be using the most for sure.
MeBecomingI
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I had a few dollars sitting my wallet and a few hours of nothing yesterday so I decided to rent Enslaved. Enslaved isn't the smoothest game out there to begin with so it may not have been the best choice to pick, but it works. I noticed some lag, but it wasn't game breaking. Just took a little while for my brain to adjust and compensate. Visually there some compression, but not much. I wouldn't say it was perfect by any stretch but it absolutely works and there is a very satisfying feeling to be able to rent a game and stream it almost immediately after without moving, at all. Considering where I live in Canada, I wouldn't be surprised if I was fairly far away from any of the Now servers too. Internet wise, things are acceptable here and more than enough for Now.
I'll probably rent something I actually have been meaning to play for awhile now, but just never got around to it. Like Darksiders, I think. Maybe Ninja Gaiden 2.
Solid for now, but we'll see how Darksiders turns out.
I'll probably rent something I actually have been meaning to play for awhile now, but just never got around to it. Like Darksiders, I think. Maybe Ninja Gaiden 2.
Solid for now, but we'll see how Darksiders turns out.
Shadow_FFVI
Member
Catherine is such an excellent game. Has it ever been on Plus?
I want my wife to play it.
Also, do you earn trophies with games that you rent?
I want my wife to play it.
Also, do you earn trophies with games that you rent?
Yes you do, it's cool
SerTapTap
Member
There were free games in the closed beta but none right now
ToVenusAndBack
Member
I didn't think it was working on US accounts based in the UK? It says I fail the test which shouldn't really be the case (I'm on fibre broadband, ~30mb down)
You may have fiber to your local hub, but you still have to transfer data across the ocean and that greatly increases the latency and [edit] affects [/edit] bandwidth, which is what the PSNow test looks at.