Source: https://xcancel.com/dshiatt/status/1840822267737162237
Obviously just damage control but they do seem to be “fixing it”. They must’ve accidentally implemented a feature to get and show image from the newest news post (which is often an ad), accidentally tested and vetted that feature, and accidentally pushed it.
My shit-flinging catapult flinging shit onto your house is a bug, it was meant to stay still, peacefully targeting it with a huge load of shit and never firing.
lol lol we accidentally previewed the future now simmer down idiots
Don’t you hate it when there is a bug in your code that magically attracts ads? They just appear without warning or reason.
I hate when I accidently spend months developing an ad feature that gets turned on by accident in my ps5.
Good luck selling your $700 locked-down computer with no gaems but enshittified to hell and back.
Remember when mandatory Bethesda account in Doom64 was “just a bug” and then Doom Eternal had it for real?
It’s just a bug.Oh, I thought he was going hard on the trolling, implying the bug was that the ads are broken when offline.
Man I sure hate it when your dev teams spend all sprint developing a bug!
“It’s not a feature, it’s a bug”
I love when people say it was a bug.
Yeah bugs happen.
Bugs don’t program themselves to do a specific function, that’s just called a function (language depending.)
Ah, yes, just a “bug”.
Bullshit. This shit isn’t a bug. It was purposeful as a test to reception and to desensitize people
I don’t understand how giant corporations repeatedly get away with treating their customers like they’re completely fucking stupid.
Some manager purposefully ordered the engineers to put the ads there. That’s how they ended up there
Cause consumers let them.
Why do consumers let them? It’s just step one of enshittification : first, be nice to your customers until they become dependent on you and you’re the only game in town…
Mostly it’s the lack of competition.
On one hand, regulators allowed big companies to become monopolies, so we don’t have a choice. Imagine if instagram and whatsapp were not part of facebook, how different social media would be? Or if bumble and hinge were competing with tinder, not just all being a part of match.com.
And on the other hand, we have examples like the console “war”, where Xbox messed up this generation so hard, that Sony now can do whatever they want.
I don’t buy it. PC and Nintendo are more than enough competition. Sony has always been this way and they always will be. Company culture doesn’t change, Nintendo will always be letigious, Microsoft will always seek acquisitions and Sony will always be arrogant.
I disagree with the implication that users should “settle down” when faced with user-unfriendly experiences.
User silence is often taken as permission to continue shitty practices that build up overtime. Bloated games that are unoptimized, online subscription to play online, not even fully owning the games, not able to use your own bluetooth headset etc.
This tweet just perpetuates how consumer-hostile nature of these companies. It attempts to play down a potential revenue stream at the expense of UX, subtle gaslight users into thinking this is part of the “over-reactionary culture” when this a perfectly valid criticism, and makes no attempt to be sympathetic about these implications.
Honestly, this has made me swore off a PS5 and future sony consoles. It’s no longer affordable, convenient, or simply. I do love my DS4 controller tho.
Totally a bug to show ads, and not an attempt to see what they can get away with and then lie when there is a negative reaction.
Guys relax. It’s just a bug. This “feature” doesn’t drop until next month.
