David Jaffe Talks PSN Game Sharing
God of War and Twisted Metal director, David Jaffe, is one of the most outspoken members of the videogame industry. He almost always voices his opinion on a recent issues affecting the development community. Sporadically, he has been teasing his newest game, but has not officially unveiled it. Taking a break from teasing gamers, Jaffe spoke about the PlayStation Network’s game sharing policy, which allows a downloaded game to be shared with 4 other accounts. Jaffe’s comments are certainly a read, and offer a perspective not coming from a gamer, but rather a developer, who loses sales due to this policy.
Posting on his Twitter account just yesterday, Jaffe had this to say about the policy:
“@zKAPOWz No, but I think game sharing on PSN is utter horse shit. Why is it ok to buy a game and give it to 2-5 peeps 4 free? Insane!”
Jaffe went on to say:
Of COURSE this is a great deal for gamers.But a shit deal for game makers.If I were ONLY a gamer then sure, I’d LOVE IT.It’s a great deal!
Jaffe’s perspective certainly puts things into place. By sharing a PSN game, the developer of the game potentially loses four sales. David Jaffe probably knows this best, as he released Calling all Cars! to the PSN Store, where he potentially lost a significant amount of sales. Should Sony continue to allow this practice? Or should they align themselves with the game developers and disallow it? Post your responses in the comments section below.
26 Responses to “David Jaffe Talks PSN Game Sharing”
Well its hard because what happens if your PS3 breaks? There would be pissed off people who would lose something that they did pay for.
first off im sad that PSLF is becoming ___ says ____.com… Who the fuck cares of David Jaffe, or anyone else says anything about anything? he also disowned his calling all cars game so its not like he even felt it was worth the money which he would have made from people buying it to share WHICH IS MORE LIKELY THAN NOT!
as far as gamesharing, it works well… a lot of games DO NOT get shared!
Anarchy rush hour
section 8
spelunker
spelunker black
fret nice
final fight
etc
these games ive yet to seen trade, also a lot of gamesharing also is cross region… Spelunker was announced for the US a YEAR ago, but still nothing… and to import a PSN card its like 50 usd, and guess what JP lacks a lot of games we got so trading is a good way to change this!
finally most games are ports or are not worth the money if we pay in full so that gets more to sell
braid
critter crunch
crystal defenders
etc
but to each their own… im sure next week ill read on here what this idiot says
No next week we get to hear the “important things” Bobby Kotick, Jack Thompson, Anna Diamond, The Daily Mail and Crytek have to say about the games industry. I heard the one on Crytek is how they think Crysis 2 is going to outsell Uncharted 2 and that they can shoot rainbows out of their butts which causes gold to rain from the sky.
@victorinox
What the developers have to say is pretty important to me actually. As one who is looking to work alongside this industry, knowing their thoughts and ideas on things is pretty important. As a gamer I enjoy listening to the creators of my hobby.
I can see and understand where Jaffe is coming from. It makes sense.
I’ve never game shared before but I had a PS3 that was stolen and a PS3 that YLOD on me which means I’m activated on 3 systems. Thats 3 out of 5 systems activated. Considering Sony says they can’t deactivate a system if it YLODs or if there stolen then 5 active accounts is needed.People who game share only get screwed in the end anyway. How many times have you heard of people getting there accounts robbed while sharing with people they met over PSN a few months prior
@ Jasx
This logic i can understand, but a lot of what they post/gets posted here is not the most useful of shit
This topic is the usual “I make the games, so i want the MAX money i can fundementally make”
and a lot of the others are like “bioware says Jrpg’s arnt changing” or “black creater says FPS games are rehashing of the same crap” etc these things dont really matter, and are hardly news worth
To put it in Jaffe’s words, his logic is full of SHIT!
We, the PSN users, by purchasing a game from PSN, we get the right to 4 more downloads on other consoles. It’s a written right we have. Before speaking, mr. Jaffe should have done his homework. If I share my game with 4 other people and then my console breaks, I won’t be able to re-download the game to a new PS3 so I’ll have to buy it again from PSN.
PSLS, ok, I understand, Jaffe directed GoW1 but enough with the Jaffe love. Sheeeeeeeesh, I’m expecting you guys to write about what he’s had for breakfast next.
@deisel your wrong because if your ps3 breaks you deactivate it from your account and will set you back to 4 activated consoles. there is a unlimited amount for actually downloading the item.
only the consoles in my own house get registered to my account.
I have never game shared. I spend my own money on my games. Other people can learn to do the same because you won’t be bumming games off of me.
Last time I checked, no one is making you read these articles…so why the complaints?
But most people share the money too…so you all pay like, 7$. and then share it.
if that didnt happen they wouldnt get a single sale…but instead they get an extra sale thats shared
I have 3 ps3′s and that davids high if he thinks I should pay again for each game. EA to for that matter, VIP my ass.
Caphead
if your PS3 wont turn on, power failure or YLOD etc theres no way to deactivate the account.. Sony only deactivates them all once you’ve reached the thresh hold of 4 … i had 2 system die and there held against me (even tho they were fixed by Sony). I only use 1 PS3 but for others who own 2-3 must be headache
Gator fan ??? lmao that explains everything
puts on Nosferatus King Persona who *Puts on Sony Fangirl goggles*
Oh, haha, I LOVE Jaffe! He’s so outspoken and creative! I love him! he just shoots the s*** whenever he feels like it ! I love him even though I hate Cliffy B and the Crytek guys because I’m a raging hypicrite and Sony fangirl.
Hey steel…has nothing to do with me being a gator fan. I go to uf, hence where I got my name. Good job on commenting on things you know nothing about. Lol. What school do you/did you go to?
i’ve game shared, i have a share group. we all take turns buying games from psn. there is no way, with the amount of games we have bought, that any one of us would have bought alone. my ps3 ylod’d this past january, i lost quite alot of content i did pay for and will have to repay for if i want again. thats the risk you take, one i was willing. as for sony fixing your ps3, HA, never happens. they only do replacements. period. my 1st ps3 had issues 2 weeks after purchase, didn’t ylod and was a simple enough fix i could have done it, but it was under warranty and if anything else went bad i couldn’t fix, i would be screwed since i would have had to void my warranty. sent it tio sony, got a different system back. in january, same deal, only this time, i had to pay and got a refurb. how do i know, it had a save game for cod4, i don’t own cod4 and the save was from 2009 january. but i digress, as stated before me, we have upto 5 reuses for our accounts, we should be able to use them as we see fit. then face the consequences of our actions as such.
one last thing, you can call sony and have them deactivate your account, all 5 of them will be reset. they will only do it once, they did it for me in january on my main account. one that wasn’t shared yet wouldn’t activate on my 3rd refurb? and calling all cars was given out for free to every qore subscriber not to long before they ditched the servers, so screw off jaffeeeee.
I think that PSN and Sony in general could make game sharing part of the premium service so that when you game share you would have to pay the Premium fee and part of that fee would then be paid back to the dev’s to offset the lack of a complete sale.
diesel and vesra said it best.
wtGp said it best
hello …
wow! another flame war, LOL .. OK sorry enough!
I buy PSN games (a lot) from different accounts, if i loose them because my PS3 die, i’ll be sad & for sure i won’t be buying same again.
i think this feature is good when you change console or have more than 1 indeed, but let’s not be hypocrite to say that this isn’t hurting anyone, specially those who share their accounts (& expenses) with friends!
i don’t share, don’t want to ever, but will certainly be sad loosing any game. in a developer’s point of view i would like some limitations, maybe a transfer, not a share! or share ONLY with 1 other console (yours!)
cheers!
actually, the worst thing about game sharing is that you wind up paying for everything and the one or two friends you trusted enough to not steal from you dont bother to buy games and/or DLC on their own to share with you.
@Vesra
YLOD should actually be called YLOI (Inconvenience) it is 100% fixable and you can do it one your own with no help from Sony whatsoever. I got it on my original 80 gig, went out and bought a new PS3 writing the old one off. I found a video on Youtube showing how the fix is done and tried it for myself a couple days ago. Long story short… I now am the proud owner of TWO PS3s because unlike the RROD the YLOD is just a minor burden.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_Ic1_TY-GU&feature=related
id b happy if jaffe went n licked a sweaty nut… i love game sharing…the ppl i share with always buy things so i get most of the stuff offered on the PSN… i buy the majority of rockband songs and some games…. for ex : i bought the gta lost and damned and my boy bought the ballad of gay tony…works out perfect
I dont gameshare never will its stealing plain and simple. I am lucky to have my PS3 for 3 years with no problems whatsoever. If it ever broke I have 4 activations left. I think Sony should just do what Nintendo does with the Wii have your account tied to one system if you sell or it breaks down you lose your games. Would make PS3 owners mad. Or have DRM built into the games like Final Fight HD Double Impact that locks out the game if you put it on another system.
David Jaffe is a fag. I respect him for the things he has done for the gaming industry but I think he is a homo on a personal level. Yeah he made a few good games but that doesn’t mean he’s God, even though he likes to think he is. In reality he’s just another nerdy homosexual. He is one of my brothers best friends and I’ve known him for a few years. All of this so called fame has went to his head and he acts like a total douche bag now. He forgot where he came from. I can’t even stand being in the same room as him anymore. Everybody needs to get off his nuts and see him for who he really is, a fagot. I’m not trying to be a hater and if you don’t believe me then get to know him and you’ll know exactly what i’m talking about.
I game shared Final Fantasy VII, but that was only because I bought it specifically FOR my friend, who lives across the street. I still have yet to play it. They didn’t lose a sale on that one.