Soul Calibur VI: General discussion

Call me cynical but maybe they are riding it out a little to see how many people buy it again because they can't wait. Extra pocket money. Or to take it further, a deliberate ploy in the first place. We live In strange times, nothing would surprise me anymore!
With respect, LS, there's a difference between cynicism and paranoid delusion. As others have said, these things do happen, and this is clearly on the side of the marketplace (playstation), not the developer/publisher. We're all (to varying degrees) frustrated by this, but let's keep it real: the scheme you suggest would be the dumbest criminal conspiracy in the history of digital commerce: you may be willing to buy the product twice, but assuming you'd actually follow through and do that (and please don't because you know it's going to go up five minutes later!), I can't imagine that even one consumer in a thousand would be willing to do so. So you're talking maybe a few thousand dollars of grift, for a product that we can probably safely assume has cleared a hundred million in gross profit and then some. That's an infinitesimal profit for a scheme that, if revealed, would lead to:
  • An enraged and embittered fanbase for the game and quite possibly the death of the franchise
  • Almost certain class action litigation
  • Both companies being investigated and turned inside out by regulators in dozens of countries and other major disruptions of their business practices leading to incalculable losses and ripple effects
  • Maybe the worst and most damaging PR disaster in the history of the industry, the costs of which could also scarcely be calculated for companies the size of Sony and Namco
  • To say nothing of the fact that this criminal enterprise would have to involve numerous fairly highly-positioned employees at the two companies, each of which individuals would be liable for the common law offense of felony larceny by deception (multiplied by as many counts as persons who were defrauded). And that's just the tip of the iceberg for the potential criminal charges, considering we're talking about wire fraud that crosses numerous borders
Not to mention that the people who committed the scheme wouldn't even profit directly, since the money for these digital transactions would go straight to the the companies themselves. I don't care what days we live in, there's just no way: it is more reasonable to believe the Illuminati will kidnap Elon Musk and take him to be interrogated at the Great Pyramids by the shapeshifting Freemason lizard people and their Jeffrey Epstein's clones, than this theory.
 
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When you ask the director too many questions that he kinda scolds you twice in less than a day.
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Still props to him actually responding about the tech which by the look of things he usually doesn't.

Regarding Setsuka, you really have to jolt your thumb and arm on your control pad just to pull off the standard agB, I feel like I've got no fucking chance doing the just frame version of it.
 
When you ask the director too many questions that he kinda scolds you twice in less than a day.
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Still props to him actually responding about the tech which by the look of things he usually doesn't.

Regarding Setsuka, you really have to jolt your thumb and arm on your control pad just to pull off the standard agB, I feel like I've got no fucking chance doing the just frame version of it.
What works for me is doing the ag part by flatly half-pressing A first, then continuing the flat press to G, then pressing R1 (A+B is mapped there). I'm on PS4 controller, tho. This way, I get ag:B done like maybe 75% of the time.
 
With respect, LS, there's a difference between cynicism and paranoid delusion. As others have said, these things do happen, and this is clearly on the side of the marketplace (playstation), not the developer/publisher. We're all (to varying degrees) frustrated by this, but let's keep it real: the scheme you suggest would be the dumbest criminal conspiracy in the history of digital commerce: you may be willing to buy the product twice, but assuming you'd actually follow through and do that (and please don't because you know it's going to go up five minutes later!), I can't imagine that even one consumer in a thousand would be willing to do so. So you're talking maybe a few thousand dollars of grift, for a product that we can probably safely assume has cleared a hundred million in gross profit and then some. That's an infinitesimal profit for a scheme that, if revealed, would lead to:
  • An enraged and embittered fanbase for the game and quite possibly the death of the franchise
  • Almost certain class action litigation
  • Both companies being investigated and turned inside out by regulators in dozens of countries and other major disruptions of their business practices leading to incalculable losses and ripple effects
  • Maybe the worst and most damaging PR disaster in the history of the industry, the costs of which could also scarcely be calculated for companies the size of Sony and Namco
  • To say nothing of the fact that this criminal enterprise would have to involve numerous fairly highly-positioned employees at the two companies, each of which individuals would be liable for the common law offense of felony larceny by deception (multiplied by as many counts as persons who were defrauded). And that's just the tip of the iceberg for the potential criminal charges, considering we're talking about wire fraud that crosses numerous borders
Not to mention that the people who committed the scheme wouldn't even profit directly, since the money for these digital transactions would go straight to the the companies themselves. I don't care what days we live in, there's just no way: it is more reasonable to believe the Illuminati will kidnap Elon Musk and take him to be interrogated at the Great Pyramids by the shapeshifting Freemason lizard people and their Jeffrey Epstein's clones, than this theory.

Wow, thanks for that in depth analysis, but I think you took my musing a little too seriously!

While I wasnt suggesting some grand conspiracy orchestrated by the illuminati, it's true that game companies push the boundaries ever more in terms of exploiting their fan bases - it doesn't have to be a criminal conspiracy to happen. Once upon a time they released full games without the need for DLC at all, and we've all seen that go from bad to worse - who's to say how far they'll go. I don't think anyone can blame my cynical remarks, even if they weren't wholehearted.

I'm sure there were plenty of people who actually did pay again as they didn't have the patience to wait, but lucky for me, it was fixed by the time I needed to download it. Equilibrium restored! ;)
 
for those of you more familiar with twitter:
Can anyone explain why this individual felt the need to do this ? So someone actually curates and creates tags before it can be used ?
Anyone can make a tag. Just type whatever you want and boom, #done.

I'm guessing they want to unify knowledge under specific tags so that it's more easily accessed. People could be sharing tech/info and using a generic # like #SCVI or #Soulcalibur, which ends up getting swamped under the thousands of posts sharing those hashtags. Having something more specific like #SCVI_CER means that it's less likely to be commonly used and thus works more effectively as a search term.
 
Anyone can make a tag. Just type whatever you want and boom, #done.

I'm guessing they want to unify knowledge under specific tags so that it's more easily accessed. People could be sharing tech/info and using a generic # like #SCVI or #Soulcalibur, which ends up getting swamped under the thousands of posts sharing those hashtags. Having something more specific like #SCVI_CER means that it's less likely to be commonly used and thus works more effectively as a search term.
I don't like how the dude is like "I updated the character tags" as if he was some system admin, when in reality, its just an open suggestion for the sake of consistency. I usually assume the worse of people who post on twitter.

Thats all
 
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