As with Facebook connectivity with the PlayStation Store, all updates will be optional, giving players the choice of whether to publish these items to their walls. Don't go too crazy with that big red button on the Buzz! controller.
As with Facebook connectivity with the PlayStation Store, all updates will be optional, giving players the choice of whether to publish these items to their walls. Don't go too crazy with that big red button on the Buzz! controller.
Reader Comments (21)
Posted: Mar 23rd 2010 12:02AM Shadowbender said
My dear Watson, that's some buzzin' good news. Ho ho!
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Posted: Mar 23rd 2010 12:08AM Revving Injuns said
Awesome now I can tell when my mom and dad are playing games. LET THE FACEBOOK BACKLASH BEGIN!
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Posted: Mar 23rd 2010 12:42AM MarkezJM said
Hahaha, right. First thing I thought when noticing the title of the post was all the gd Farmville and other facebook game posts/notifications that line my ma's page from top to bottom. Problem is they wouldn't understand or get annoyed by the 'backlash', instead you'd probably get something like 'My, honey, it's nice to see you won that race in Blur and had the best lap speed.'
That said, I hate this trend that games are starting to appear that want to tweet what you're doing, or post it to facebook. I already see too many mind-numbingly stupid status updates as it is. Many botha-er brain cells died... Digesting that information...
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That said, I hate this trend that games are starting to appear that want to tweet what you're doing, or post it to facebook. I already see too many mind-numbingly stupid status updates as it is. Many botha-er brain cells died... Digesting that information...
Posted: Mar 23rd 2010 1:32AM Baron Milton Von Crompton said
Why would anyone want to follow what their parents are up to on Facebook to begin with, anyway? I for one don't even want to go there; seeing them flirt and act all.... er... Just eeeeew.
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Posted: Mar 23rd 2010 1:46AM Ballistic H said
I just don't understand people having parents "friended" on Facebook.
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Posted: Mar 23rd 2010 7:48AM Revving Injuns said
Well to be honest it is my father and mother in law that have recently befriended me on FaceBook. What am I going to do? Deny their request? I have noticed that tons of old people are getting on FB. Why is that so hard to understand unless you are twelve?
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Posted: Mar 23rd 2010 12:27AM Baron Milton Von Crompton said
Hah, I recall Microsoft making such a huuuuge deal about integrating facebook into the NXE dashboard.
Sony just did it, now there's this. :D
Ah well, be as it may, I don't use facebook on either of my consoles.
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Sony just did it, now there's this. :D
Ah well, be as it may, I don't use facebook on either of my consoles.
Posted: Mar 23rd 2010 12:42AM (Unverified) said
Oh joy, more useless information to be shown to people who don't really give a toss anyway.
Seriously, what is the point of this? Do you really think the world, or even your (fake) friends, care one bit that you had a new high score?
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Seriously, what is the point of this? Do you really think the world, or even your (fake) friends, care one bit that you had a new high score?
Posted: Mar 23rd 2010 12:49AM (Unverified) said
Do you think your fake friends care about your posts?
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Posted: Mar 23rd 2010 1:05AM DWilson8504 said
this is actually pretty damn cool. I love the Buzz games, they are very underrated and maybe this will get some exposure for them. Good job Sony.
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Posted: Mar 23rd 2010 1:19AM (Unverified) said
Wait a minute, this is not a "cool feature" for the consumers... it's free advertisement for Sony across all your friends. I see what you did there Sony.
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Posted: Mar 23rd 2010 1:24AM Ryan P said
I have my trophy acquisition posted to Facebook, and sometimes I wonder just how many of my friends have taken the liberty of blocking the posts. All my close friends and gamer friends haven't, since they usually comment about how hard that "Rainbow Team" trophy in Pixeljunk Monsters is going to be, or some such comment, but all the others... I wonder...
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Posted: Mar 23rd 2010 1:39AM Baron Milton Von Crompton said
That's why I don't integrate my Facebook account with either of my consoles, they just don't give it too much thought...
One of my friend is an aerospace engineer working for the army defenses, and to be frank, what I achieve on my gaming terms is of little regard or consequence to what he and his team are doing for the better of the country's defenses.
Also, not many of my friends are gamers... so that's the other reason for me, I guess. Besides, it's just not my thang to use the virtual keyboard to type, and I'm just not too keen to grab or connect a keyboard just so I can type, when I could do it on the PC more naturally.
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One of my friend is an aerospace engineer working for the army defenses, and to be frank, what I achieve on my gaming terms is of little regard or consequence to what he and his team are doing for the better of the country's defenses.
Also, not many of my friends are gamers... so that's the other reason for me, I guess. Besides, it's just not my thang to use the virtual keyboard to type, and I'm just not too keen to grab or connect a keyboard just so I can type, when I could do it on the PC more naturally.
Posted: Mar 23rd 2010 2:05AM (Unverified) said
Sony would be smart to support Facebook's new Custom Privacy feature with their app, if possible, so that these posts would only be visible to a select few (without pissing others off, and blocking the app for everyone).
They'd also do well to get their framework out to more developers to avoid the dreaded "??? (???) ???" trophy detail.
But then Sony and the web have never been great friends.
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They'd also do well to get their framework out to more developers to avoid the dreaded "??? (???) ???" trophy detail.
But then Sony and the web have never been great friends.
Posted: Mar 23rd 2010 2:56AM CrimsonRyan said
@G
The whole question mark thing is to block someone from reading spoilers.
I mean who wants to see "Found out that Dumbledore was The Origami Killer", instead it is marked as question marks.
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The whole question mark thing is to block someone from reading spoilers.
I mean who wants to see "Found out that Dumbledore was The Origami Killer", instead it is marked as question marks.
Posted: Mar 23rd 2010 11:29AM WickedCobra03 said
I don't use facebook as it is more than once a week. Now why would I want log into my facebok account many times a week and then only to spam my friends with the same kind of thing they are already doing to me?
"So-and-so lost a moosezebracow from their farm...please help them find it". Hell no.
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"So-and-so lost a moosezebracow from their farm...please help them find it". Hell no.
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