PlayStation Store starts the Player’s Choice promotion on the 8th of October with games that the players themselves have voted for on sale. Still, after the announcement of the promotion, gamers’ reaction has been from one extreme to the other, with a part being glad and another part feeling like neutrality and very less info plus repeat of a last almost similar sales event with missing data.
Sony’s tweet regarding the event has only got the date and the store link, combined in a very traditional “discover a new world” manner, while the list of games was impossible to find. This nonexistence of the game list had quite a big impact, as the players’ first reaction was to look for the demanded yet probably desired info through various social media channels. One of the users, @hextotems, very bluntly asked, “Were the games supposed to have been listed?” and @JU_JU_bee187, in a little sterner tonne, just said, “The link has no list.” But of course, such confusion all around after the fault PlayStation’s message have caused made a lot of people guess what was going to be up for sale.
An interest-vague conversation was leading us nowhere but was progressing on the same page since the senior PlayStation gamers figured out that they were still seeing the same games with the same discounts. @sister_wow conveyed the mood of the majority with “Same deals. Same games. Always 🤷🏽♂️,” while @Frankem80 said, “Same shit every sale.” The player who is @ExclusiveFlexer called the situation out as it is with “Same shit Different day 🥱”, and this agrees with the old players who have been showing irritation with generally the same discounted games being presented multiple times.
No one was shy about giving a piece of their mind on the pricing of specific titles, especially the old ones. Everyone was talking about the Returnal sale, then user Mixatli intervenes, “Returnal shouldn’t be $29.99 on sale anymore. It’s a 4-year-old game for goodness sake.”
That really does put the spotlight on the PlayStation crew and their way of pricing games after a few years’ time. Concurrently, @Furiosa_1 brings up the PC vs. console platforms uncomfortable topic, “Not as cheap as Steam,” and thus the rivalry between the two types of platforms is being emphasized.
Ok, now let’s get back to the main story I went off-topic about! Oh yes, some people are very nice, indeed! Actually, the notice happened to be the reason for a lot of very good conversations on the Black Ops Cold War sale being a hawk.
One guy, @1976link, put the game producer and seller, Grok, to a not so high but still pregnant with sense test by saying, “@PlayStation @grok give me 5 games from this list that are hidden gems.” It popped out that the Grok account did quite alright in the task with a good number of titles offer e.g. the time-traveling sci-fi 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim and “intricate sci-fi narrative with mechs and twists” best friends of anyone who plays Lost Odyssey; the stellar game Outer Wilds was known as a “time-loop mystery” and full of amazingness by being an “exploration masterpiece.”
Such community-based recommendations are the most efficient way to involve everybody and the end result is that the event is fun because you might even be lucky to find out about a title that you would have missed or were interested in by other means through the event itself.
