Month: August 2018

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SONY is scamming gamers on refunds!

From a customer point of view, downloadable content that is unusable for ANY reason should be refunded.  Sony USA customer support [+1 800  345 7999] declined my request to use The Division’s Survival DLC ($14.99) on my US account because I have a UK disk.

Fuck you Sony…..Regional lock is a total scam for global gamers.

So here is the consideration….do I go for the download version of Division 2 or a UK Disk?

Also, it shows that the motherfuckers track everything gamers are doing.  I made the same mistake a few months ago and actually got a refund.

My bad.

Tom Clancy’s The Division – Sony fucks you if you made a purchase mistake

On the plus side, I did actually get to speak to a human being and being a frugal gamer it didn’t break the budget just annoyed the hell out of me on principle.

So I accepted the loss and promptly purchased the DLC from my UK PSN account with the goal of actually using it on my US account…

How did that work out for ya?

2.758GB, 25 minutes and £11.99 later….it worked

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I will survive

After 20+ hours of grinding away and failing, I finally extracted from The Division’s Survival DLC today.   Good thing it was released for free but I’ll probably buy it in September ($14.99).

This mode has an excellent game cycle to keep you playing as well as the constant intensity of running around New York in a snowstorm scavenging for meds, food, water and guns….loot, loot, loot.

Of course, it meant hiding from real life stuff.  Tomorrow, just Global Event stuff, all part of the road to D2.

Tom Clancy’s The Division – Survived
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Hidden

Not feeling much about anything lately….

Hiding online is a task nowadays but achievable if you can bring yourself to the point of disabling your gadgets.  The problem is your connections’ social media ramblings.

Safer away from folk
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Budget tweeking

So are all games going to be survival, PvP and Battle Royal?  FallOut 76 goes online for the first time, FarCry 5 co-op was excellent but PvP was terrible.  Size, however, is everything as we will see in The Divison 2 with its 1:1 scale map of D.C.

We know some much but so little

FallOut 76 is tagged to be 4 times the size of FallOut 4 (took me a year to complete the main campaign).  The move to online gaming surely signals the end of single-player campaigns with offline physical media and puts even more critical pressure on the gamer to have a stable and fast dedicated Internet connection.

It’s time to adjust my budget opting to get the PS4 Plus in 2019 instead.  Thankfully, this keeps my annual budget way under $1000.

Software / Hardware  Notes  Cost
PS4 Plus  $60.00
Overkill’s The Walking Dead November 2018
FarCry 5
 Platinum completed  $60.00
Last of Us 2 No release date  $60.00
Death Stranding 2019 release  $60.00
Days Gone Feb 2019  $60.00
Detroit – Become Human Available now  $60.00
Indie titles x 5  $100.00
FallOut 76 November 2018  $60.00
Total  $520

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Finding the space to think

The time for winter planning is perfect as the European heatwave sends most of us into a flurry seeking shade and coolness.  It’s like trying to find the perfect Snipers nest in midst of a massive battle or trying to filter out the social media noise to find the data you actually need.

Important but not urgent

For me, these are the toughest things to work on

Last Will and and Testament
Winter preparation during the Summer
Summer preparation during the Winter
Credential management (passwords and log-ins)
Log reviews
Back-up testing
Blue Sky Thinking – 15 minutes from my house