Could be game/location related. I tried it out today and i had 5 min queue in Germany. And I have seen also 10 minutes queue in the evening several times.Just tested Celeste, NFS unbound, dirt 5, Gears 5 and hivebusters. No queue in any of these. I am on 5g with three network in the uk, London. I am calling this fud.
I've been all digital for over a decade and have seen nothing but ease of access, fast loading, and no headaches. Please feel free to explain how this has made me or anyone else like me a sucker. So I can't play my old games when I am dead?
Just tested Celeste, NFS unbound, dirt 5, Gears 5 and hivebusters. No queue in any of these. I am on 5g with three network in the uk, London. I am calling this fud.
It's your choice of course, if you are fine with it then what I can say?
1. One of the first things people were advocating about digital distribution were lower prices, they don't have to manufacture anything and move stuff to stores so games will be cheaper! Bullshit, digital games have higher prices and publishers just make more money on them.
2. You can't sell anything any in many stores refund policy is dogshit so you're stuck with your purchases.
3. You don't know when and why console manufactures will ban your account/console. They can do that for whatever reason (legit or not) and when you don't agree with them they will say you agreed to EULA so STFU. You lose everything in that scenario
4. They can remove stuff you already purchased (games losing licenses etc.)
5. Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, Valve will shut down their services at some point, you lose everything again.
Every major publisher have their own store and many things I mentioned have already happened in at least one of them (Ubisoft, ea, Activision etc.). Sony and Microsoft (plus Valve) are the biggest players and are way more trustworthy but nothing is guaranteed in the digital world...
I agree with this, not cheaper. On sale at different times. I don't care if they make more or less money, as digital was way more convenient for me.
This is true, but mostly not an issue. I only buy games I am sure of or I wait u til they are cheap. Also the advent of ps premium and gamepass have made this point for me a lot less of an issue.
Extremely unlikely. I could also get hit by lightning tommorow but ill still go outside.
This is a non issue for 99.999999999999% of gamers.
Not very common. Dont care, game is 10+ years old.......
Sure they can shut them down well after I care, by that point I can easily emulate them.
Your console will break down too eventually.
Again a moot point for most gamers.
I'm not going to care that I can't play God of war ragnorok on my ps5 in 2040.
All those those things I mentioned are anti consumer, that's why I said consumers are the ultimate suckers in this "game". We all (I'm guilty too) abandoned physical media for convenience and in the end we all lose.
I know that at some point consoles will be digital only (like PC) and there won't be any choice, I'm not happy about this.
I think queue times happen the days when game pass quests go live, cause lots of people are trying to get in at the same time to complete them.
Nintendo says hiCan't wait to see console gaming without a competitor for Sony. It's going to be glorious.
Lol imagine waiting in queue to play a game.
Exactly. People assume that Sony works in a vacuum and that Nintendo is not a very successful console that constantly pushes Sony, or that there are no third-party game publishers out there that constantly competes with games that Sony produces.Nintendo says hi
GeForce Now already does this with a very premium tier. xCloud will also likely get a similar tier soon or, as you said, in-app "boost" purchases to get ahead of the queue.The next thing they will do will be to sell "Fast passes" like amusement parks to let you skip the line.