Sergio

@haz_kaj:

Just because MLB may be publishing it on Xbox, that doesn’t mean Sony is out of the loop. They’re the developers, and while the MLB was able to negotiate a deal to put the game on other platforms, I highly doubt they can put it on Game Pass without giving Sony their due. There is likely a floor of how much money Sony is getting out of the deal.

While the perception might be bad for Sony, they’re likely making the same amount of money, if not more, over this deal.

A while back, Vinny talked about how he accidentally got his daughter’s PSN account suspended. Outside of mentioning how he eventually got it unsuspended, I don’t recall him discussing this situation further. From personal experience, I can say that Vinny didn’t get his daughter’s account suspended. It was due to a terrible policy that Sony has.

I finally was able to get my nieces and nephew a PS5. Since my sister is completely tech illiterate, I had it delivered to me, so I can set it up for her. That was both a good and bad decision.

It’s already ridiculous that Sony requires an email address for each child. We went through the process of setting up a separate gmail account for 13-, 11-, and 8-year-old kids, since it seemed the parent+child@gmail.com format didn’t appear to work at first.

The first kid’s PSN account could be created, but then Sony requires you to put in a credit card to be charged 50 cents for other kids. I do that, create the other two accounts through their “family management“ portal. Then when I added them to the PS5, they were automatically suspended with no explanation, not even an email.

After a failed attempt using AskPlaystation’s Twitter account, their bad support bot, I managed to force a live chat and get a phone number to call. It turns out it’s their policy to automatically suspend additional child accounts on PS5. They claimed it was for security reasons, but digging around online, it looks like their real reason is to prevent people from sharing the PS+ collection PS5 owners get with others.

So far I’ve been waiting 20 days for them to unsuspend their accounts, so I can finish setting up this PS5.

@bigsocrates: The web store and App Store have “PS5 version included“ sections for the Black Friday sale, but no PS5 only.

I need to make one correction. It looks like I’m now able to refresh that features section (sometimes) by using L1/R1 to switch between tabs in the PS5 store. It doesn’t switch every time, so I was just extremely unlucky earlier.

Speaking of the app, the tiles on the phone version are ok, but the iPad version are huge.

I tried both an external HDD with a lot of games coming from my PS4, as well as a new external SDD where I was adding games. Both eventually had this issue. I tried one of the rear ports, as well as the front USB-C, and they both had this occur.

I did have a few disc-based games that wanted the disc inserted to complete the suspended download, that once inserted were removed from the queue without downloading or copying anything from the disc. So it may be completely dependent on the games themselves.

I didn’t notice this was happening until I got a lot of notifications for the digital copies being upgraded.

The PS5 also got confused with some of the games on the external storage. I had to deduce what they were by looking at the external storage’s tabs for what was listed under things you can delete that were missing from things you can move.

They implemented this stupid “Featured” panel that may show the sale if you’re lucky. It doesn’t automatically update while you’re looking at the store, nor is there a way to scroll features.

What you have to do is navigate out of the store and back, then you may get a different featured panel, one of which is the Black Friday sale. It may take one try, or 10+ tries, since it is completely random.

They need to implement a Deals tab.

I managed to preorder both from Best Buy. I’ve spent most of my time with the PS5.

The Dual Sense controller is great. The PS5 games I’ve played have been great.

That said, I think Sony should have delayed the PS5 release in order to fix a lot of the defects in the OS. I completely understand not being able to fix everything due to the pandemic, but this has resulted in releasing an unfinished, buggy OS.

If you were thinking of using your PS4’s external storage on your new PS5, I highly recommend holding off until Sony fixes a serious defect in their OS.

When you first connect an external storage with existing PS4 games, the PS5 will attempt to reinstall and update every game already on it. If you have games installed from disc, the PS5 will download some part of the game (possibly day one patches?), then suspend the download/copy, until you insert the disc for every game to copy. You are saved the trouble of inserting every disc for games that were downloaded from the PlayStation Store. However, they will all download automatically, possibly exceeding your monthly data cap.

The only option to ”cancel” all of these suspended downloads requires you to also delete the game.

It also looks like this isn’t a one time occurrence. Removing and reattaching the external storage, restarting the PS5, or coming back from suspend mode, all have a chance of causing this problem to reoccur.

The AskPlaystation Twitter account suggested booting into safe mode and rebuilding the database. This may result in the PS5 deleting all of the games on the external storage.

@princesstaco: Let me get back to you tomorrow.

@damaged6: I've surprisingly been busy, so here's the shortlist of my current duplicates.

• 113 Isabelle*
• 121 Tia
• 138 Sly
• 139 Blaire
• 150 Coco
• 171 Benedict x4
• 184 Anicotti x2
• 204 Pelly*
• 206 Pete*
• 214 Don* x2
• 224 Paula
• 227 Rodeo
• 255 Wolfgang
• 300 Chrissy
• 312 Shrunk*
• 338 Fang
• 342 Bones x2
• 352 Rory x2
• 372 Doc
• 376 Rizzo
• 382 Lobo

* Non-villagers that cannot be invited to campsite, and may not be available at Harvey's island.

I would have more, but I gave my actual duplicates to my nephew and nieces; these are my triplicates and above. Damn you, Benedict. I may have given all of my series one extras to them.

I'm going to close my gate, unless someone needs Flick.