Second hand purchases don’t support developers any more than pirating the game does. And I don’t accept the premise that the technology is inferior, given that it surpasses the technology that the games were originally designed to run on, gives me the trophies and sharing capabilities on PSN that I want, and is available digitally.

A better question is why are you so interested in what I do? No one is stopping you from making your own choices, and I frankly don’t care why you do what you do.

Or are you more interested in perpetuating the argument than proving your point?

The problem isn’t Sony trying to sell these PS2 games. That’s completely understandable.

The problem is Sony not supporting existing copies of these PS2 games despite the fact that they very damn well could. That’s just greedy.

But protip: PS2 emulation on PC does pretty much everything the official emulator does (higher resolution, framerates). And if somebody wanted to make a PS2 emulator that could have unofficial Trophies, they very damn well could… there are already retro 8 & 16 bit emulators that allow people to implement achievements for retro titles.

Implementing achievements might not be as easy as snapping your fingers, but you seriously think a Sony employee wouldn’t have an agenda with this PR bit hyping up the difficulty of adding trophies? To me, it’s clear that it’s a bunch of BS trying to get more people to become accepting of these cashgrabs.

Adding achievements/trophies isn’t some massively difficult feat of programming. It’s just about monitoring values stored in memory. The same way things like Gamesharks and emulator cheats work, but instead of modifying values in memory to achieve different effects in game, you just monitor them to see if a certain thing has happened in game.

Certainly, some achievements might require monitoring multiple values in conjunction with one another and some associated logic to deduce if something has happened, since these games weren’t programmed for these trophies and won’t be handling that stuff themselves. But it’s still nowhere near difficult.

Don’t beleive me? Look up Retro Achievements, a site all about adding custom achievements to old games via emulation. You can even find YouTube tutorials walking you through the entire process of creating an achievement. Spoiler alert: Creating one achievement takes about an hour, though that’s while also taking your time and explaining every step of the process tutuorial-style.

so brush your teeth and stop going down on your mom.

you forgot to mention the stench of shrimp…

PCSX2 supports disc emulation so you can buy games second hand and play them legally while PS4 does not.

Why are you supporting inferior technology?

Emulation is 1292×896 on PS4. 1080P on PC. Discs work on PC not on PS4

You fail again xtreme derp 🙂

and before you call me some Star Citizen nut job is also backed this on Kickstarter and it looks AMAZING UE4 is a very good looking engine. SC going for realism in its art work… but this will be an amazing break and fun arcade shooter and by the looks of it, it should support VR because of the cockpit view… its PC but MS got it xbox to and think this will be one of there smartest moves, this will sell ALOT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE0crTqvt6A&feature=youtu.be

you see you said “A SHIP” for $400… how do you know it was only 1 ship or 1 transaction… thats my rough estimate i pay in £ well back then the best value was pay in $ then let the bank convert it, but of course now in europe every country has to pay by its tax rate by country by the infinite wisdom of EU i have to pay in £ with a 20% VAT rate.

So yeah i havnt got a genesis starliner (didnt even know it cost that much) i know there ships way above it and below BUT you basically said 1 ship for $400… only because thats what i ESTIMATED a while ago and the last transaction i spent was about 1 year ago for a F7C upgrade to super hornet for i think it was £50. So basically i spent about £280 over the course of about 1 year so not much money really… (considering 12,800 gold on Fable legends is £46 for something even more useless)

but yeah i aint spending any more cus saving up for a beast new rig. Well i will buy the physical release of SQ42/SC because the case is going to be EPIC, weve seen the art even the packaging it comes in will blow everything away also to support the game more

A game this special only happens like once a decade or so… well worth getting into