Yeah, but it's notable they made the switch last time for 2014, didn't they? So it wouldn't be a new strategy if they did do it this way.
Furthermore to my previous post, it has no point to take so serious these PR guys, when they are on duty and to take personal everything they say. It is a just a job , like politics, all these “we are here for the fans and only them” , of course they are lies, but that’s the job. If the supervisor command them to tell us that the sun rises from west, they will tell us so.
Yup, I also replied to that thread after Chris shared it, and Asim "liked" a couple of things. Specifically both my tweet and the reply:
This PES series has long been dead. But we do not want to believe. The online policies and dictatorship of this Konami company resulted. The pes series will fall. The king has fallen. We must accept .Winter is Coming ................
Did he say it via his shoe colour?
I think this has been the biggest issue in recent years. They talk a lot about pleasing the fans, as though fans are just one homogeneous lump. And in the past we've heard about how they collate questionnaire results and choose the most popular things to change. The only justification for this is profit: more people pleased = more sales. It just shows that the series has been crying out for a solid vision and philosophy which is independent of what fans in particular or as an aggregate want. Konami need to say: this is our vision of football; this is how we think this game should be played. More than anything, that's what people remember the old PES editions had. Character, boldness, and vision.
I saw a rant on reddit weeks ago there are many this time of year, which ask fixes for 20. The most are MC oriented.
Aha, so this is the reason they never removed the random Zoom on broadcast camera, right?
Yeah, it's early access. Really don't see who or what that exploits. I'm likewise unclear on the weight of this egalitarian idea you're appealing to – that they ought to give access to all at the same time the content they've compiled and arranged. In this context, with small sums of money involved, and with website costs to manage, I'm really not seeing the force of that point. It's surely not scummy, as I think I've seen you call it before.
Can't speak for them precisely, but perhaps they're aware that a presupposition of your asking that question is a suspicion that they are devious actors in some way. If they've detected that, maybe they don't want to dignify it with a response. Or maybe, indeed, they've pocketed a bit. Who knows. But one of the kitmakers in that very Reddit thread linked above replied to the post, saying he's only ever personally seen a fiver of it, by way of a donation from PESEP or something.
I just think this is way too hard-line given what they actually do. If it set a trend, and then prices went up, or free versions never got released, then I'd consider it either initiating or becoming an exploitative practice. But we're clearly not there yet.
I think the mystery begins to defuse when you realise how PES Universe have grown: they use the popular platforms where people go to discuss, share, argue, and hype themselves up. Interest-group forums like the one we're on have largely been displaced over the last decade, as Reddit, Twitter, Twitch, and YouTube encroached on the space. It's now the natural place many will seek out news and discussion on what they like, instead of discrete forums which kids of the 80s/90s grew up with. So by operating on those platforms, they've had the most visible reach, and "the community" has naturally seemed to Konami to belong in those spaces.
Fair enough Chris
Read through the comments, guys...!
I hope so
A decent master league and better offline game play would be nice as well. Next week is e3, so we might get to hear what all this fuss is about. Not holding out much hope myself, but you never know. Pigs might fly!
It was just a wild guess, that's all. But, thinking about it, it could be about the dynamic time that was promised last year. Who knows? Anyway, game play is always the most important thing for me.
