Comment on New Marvel's Spider-Man 2 Update Includes Several Bug Fixes, Increased Stability, And More

• AtmaJnana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What I think of as the “homescreen” (no idea what Sony calls it) is the place where my active games show up. The first place I see when I log in. If I put a new game disk in, it shows up there. Whatever that is called. They added a first-class object there that showed “Spider-Man 2”, so it looked as if I had installed a new game. My kids got excited because they thought I had installed a Spider-Man game on their PS4. No idea whether it was a demo or a trailer or what, because I don’t click on ads if I can avoid it.

  You may have missed it, or you may be in a demographic where you didn’t get it. I have had the other Spider-Man titles installed on both devices, now that I think about it. So perhaps they only advertised it to previous purchasers of Spider-Man titles. It was present on a PS4 as recently as this morning and a PS5 earlier in the week. I’m not sure when it went away, but it’s not on either PS5 now.

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  • dlpkl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s so sneaky. I don’t see that stuff since I opted out of most marketing and ads but I’m pretty annoyed to hear they’d do something like that.

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    • AtmaJnana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This must be a setting they added in an update, since I’d never opt-in. I hate ads with a passion.

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  • nave@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You can disable that by going to settings > system > automatic downloads and unchecking “Featured Content”.

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    • AtmaJnana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Thanks! I’ll go do that. “Featured Content” sure tries hard to pretend it’s not an advertisement. I shouldn’t have to opt out to avoid homescreen ads on a platform I paid for and pay to subscribe to as well. It’s way too intrusive.

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