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.
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.)
Good luck selling your $700 locked-down computer with no gaems but enshittified to hell and back.
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.
Remember when mandatory Bethesda account in Doom64 was “just a bug” and then Doom Eternal had it for real?
Ah yes totally a bug, something specifically developed to show a very specific kind of content in a very specific location. Totally a bug.
Funny, how all the bugs hurt the players not them.
Man I sure hate it when your dev teams spend all sprint developing a bug!
Someone made a typo in the code, ads show up… Happens all the time
Oh, good. I was about to give in to weakness and spend money on Space Marine 2.
Just a heads up, it’s fine. It’s a fine shooter. It’s not more than that, the story isn’t brilliant, the online is a bit tedious (and customisation is limited at best for loyalists and almost entirely non-existent for heretics). The gameplay is fun enough. I’ve got like 20 hours out of it, I would say 14 of those were fun. I gave in and bought it too early 😂
The bug was that it was rolled out prior to when they wanted to roll it out.
They’re definitely gonna try and put ads in there in the future. 😬 Was just comparing experiences with another user here last night about this (they had the ads but I did not) and seeing as they were across the pond from me and don’t even have the hub yet, it’s like they were just testing the waters in a specific region.
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.
Ah yes it’s always a bug after massive community backlash. If there wasn’t much, it’d have been a test, and if there wasn’t any, it was always intended.
ahhh, companies copying homework from bigots’ dogwhistling tactics? what a brave new world we live in
says something bigoted
receives backlash
“haha guys can’t you take a joke? everyone’s so sensitive nowadays”
Them damn wokies can’t take a joke!!!
The community backlash is the bug as far as Sony is concerned. They’re trying to work around it now…
Telling gamers to watch out for Hanlon’s razor would open them to too much harsh reflection of their own mistakes.
yes sure it could’ve been a bug, but can we really believe them that it was?
companies are on a quest to pollute our lives with ads, it’s not a stretch to think it’s bullshit when another attempt to do that is being denied with “whoopsie the new guy wrote the code wrong nothing to worry about here!”
Yeah, too fucking late. Already canceled PS Plus.
you don’t get entire functional UI elements accurately populated with appropriate data out of a “bug”. at best its a feature that was being tested internally and never would have made it past that, at worst its something that went live early.
Oh whoops I accidentally built an entire ad portal and placed it onto the main page and oh no I accidentally passed it through multiple levels of code review QA and approval, then crap I deployed it to the test environment then prod
I can see how that’s a bug that it got released if the intended purpose was to do a POC and gauge the reaction from some internal testers.
But even then they were POC-ing that, which is terrible
Yeah it is possible he’s accurately, but misleadingly, calling it a bug because it was not meant to be deployed to production (yet). I do not think that’s how he wants or expects people to take it when he calls it a “bug”, though.
Guys relax. It’s just a bug. This “feature” doesn’t drop until next month.
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.
