Fushichou187
Member
Sweet. Custom backgrounds. Now all I need is something like this on my PS4.
Sony, please deliver!
Yup. I need that Corn Love parity between my PS3 and PS4!
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Yup. I need that Corn Love parity between my PS3 and PS4!
How's twitter handle image compression?
I think see what he means. Right now, if I share to facebook but to a limited group (say "family") and not public, a link is created on "what's new" for everyone on my PSN list but it's a blank video for anyone who is not on the limited Facebook list I shared with. And even people who on Facebook are on the Family list but have not linked their PSN accounts, they won't see the video in What's new. Presumably it will be the same if we upload to youtube but set it to private or share it in a limited fashion.
If we could privately "store" content in the cloud somewhere, whether youtube, facebook or whatever, and only selectively share to the what's new profiles of some of our PSN friends that would make a ton of sense.
But that requires a lot of things. It requires PSN friend groups, which we dont have, it requires cloud storage, which we don't have, and direct access to sharing with those PSN groups, which we don't have.
Pretty bad.
PSN never went down for any update, and there will be no increase in PSN server usage since Share Play is P2P tech.
bigbaldwolf86
Banned
In the UK PS Access youtube channel they go through the top 10 things you need to know about the update and he mentions that you will be able to create your own themes. Was this known?
Is that an actual Sony channel? Or is it a fan channel?
bigbaldwolf86
Banned
It's a Sony channel
I can't help but think he must be mistaken, as we haven't heard that anywhere else. I hope they're right, but we'll see.
Spectromixer
Member
Where did you see this?
YouTube allows you to Post videos as public, Unlisted or private. If 2.0 follows the API as they do with Facebook. Unlisted is the option that you want. It will be saved to your YouTube account and only be assessable with a direct link. This should be what you want.
CitizenCope
Member
Maybe just maybe in 2015 I'll be notified when a friend goes online.
Shit is breaking my heart
It's right in the OP.
CitizenCope
Member
Shit is breaking my heart
It is a lot to ask of them.
We actually can't be for sure that it's not in this update yet. Seems to be a lot of small things that we're just pulling from screen captures.
I fully agree. I know how to works as I use it extensively in conjunction with Google+'s circles feature. And it works wonders when you combine the whole thing of groups, contacts, easy selective sharing and channel subscriptions.
But please walk me through this: I save a video as unlisted on Youtube from the PS4. Now tell me how do I easily share it with a group of 15 friends on PSN who are fans of Driveclub. Say have it appear on their what's new. (Those 15 may or may not have linked their youtube/facebook/twitter accounts to the PS4, and if they have, I don't necessarily also have them as Facebook friends or Google+ contacts.)
If alongside Youtube we get Google+ contact sync and all those sharing abilities, that's something else, but we don't even have Facebook contact syncyet.
Well, considering they would have to rewrite the friends system to allow for categories, it is quite a bit. Otherwise, since the friend limit is so huge now, you would be seeing a constant flow of notifications every second or so.
Free themes don't look that interesting to me, hopefully we get some cool paid ones soon.
Those look pretty good to me!
MR ARCADE FOREVER
Member
Can we have the Antonio Banderas GIF as a custom background for the ps4!???
Spectromixer
Member
I must have missed it, thanks!
CitizenCope
Member
Then it wasn't thought out well. I'd rather have 100 friends that I feel connected to and know their status without having to leave my game than 2,000 friends where I have to leave what I'm playing to find out if they are online.
I feel more connected on my Vita and when I had a PS3.
HawksWinStanley
Member
Do people really have that many friends that this would be an issue? Nobody complained about it last gen. And for streamers or other people with a lot of followers, just give the option to toggle notifications off like they do for all the other notifications.
simplythebest
Banned
Want it now
ambar_hitman
Member
Can we pause background downloads i.e. the downloads after the game is installed?
For example, Sniper Elite is 20+ GB, but 3 GB install is required to play. So the game is there in Downloads section only till 3 GB, and once done, it gets removed from there and continues downloading in background. You can check the current size in Game information menu. There is no way to pause or stop that, no matter whatever you do. It hogs your bandwidth like anything, even affects your store browsing and MP gaming. This needs to be fixed on priority.
For example, Sniper Elite is 20+ GB, but 3 GB install is required to play. So the game is there in Downloads section only till 3 GB, and once done, it gets removed from there and continues downloading in background. You can check the current size in Game information menu. There is no way to pause or stop that, no matter whatever you do. It hogs your bandwidth like anything, even affects your store browsing and MP gaming. This needs to be fixed on priority.
RedAssedApe
Banned
probably gonna start trying to monetize those themes. 99 cents a pop hah
Why do you think that? Firmware updates are not hosted on PSN multiplayer servers, they don't require PSN authentication (you don't even need an account to get the update), and the streaming tech is p2p. So apart from maybe an increased number of users online tomorrow I'm not seeing where the extra load is coming from.
If you share to YouTube and they allow you to choose unlisted. It will show up in What's New for all your PSN friends. I doubt you'll be able to limit it to specific friends.
They way "unlisted" works with youtube(proper), you don't need an account to view. It simply makes it unsearchable on youtube. Unlike facebook where people can't view something that they are not given permission to view.
I'll be happy to buy some if they have some I like. Just limit them to around $2 US.
So, unless Sony does something completely wrong anyone on your PSN list should be able to watch it.
You don't have to buy them, you know.
RedAssedApe
Banned
i dont plan on it. just saying...there is a reason why they probably won't allow customs
serversurfer
Member
So, if I post something to Facebook, like a capture, purchase, or whatever, it shows up in everyone else's What's New? And then that links them to my FB page, which shows my real name? Is there any way to prevent that? That's why I didn't use my real name on PSN. =/
They sold a lot of themes on the PS3 and still allowed customs.
RedAssedApe
Banned
No. They can only see if if they are friends with you on Facebook and privacy option is sharing it with them.
they also had free online and now they don't. it wouldn't be unusual for them to not allow it. also hacking or something.
you act like i'm saying its bad or im against custome themes. i'm not. i just have a feeling they might not allow it this time around and it may or may not be due to nefarious/monetary reasons
SmoothRunningGun
Member
Why shouldn't we complain about missing features? Where the hell is suspend/resume?
I'm pretty sure that is possibly the fault of your PS4 (there was some OS whining thread where people complained about this same problem and others told how it could be fixed) and not PSN being so shitty it can't handle a few messages. Something is screwed up with your PS4 if messaging etc. takes that long, and maybe returning it to factory settings or something similar could fix it. My messages go through immediately & load really fast and I haven't had any problems with friend list stuff either, so it's not necessarily PSN's fault.
SmoothRunningGun
Member
Those are the only games in existence right?
Doctor_Thomas
Member
Flash is being phased out for HTML5, it's not a big deal and never has been. Adobe killed off development on other devices anyway, it's not happening.
There never will be. Flash is a dying format. Even Adobe knows this. The PS4 supports HTML5, which is the future of web browsing.
SerTapTap
Member
...start? There have been premium themes since PS3
No, It just embeds the video from the link.
do you think it works like magic? How can you share it with someone that you dont have as contact?
Yes, you can share easily but you have to setup it properly on facebook - create a group of friends you want to share it with and then later share to that group via PS4.
It is very simple and requires 2 minute effort from you.