PS4 gets early beta access is only turning me away (Destiny)

by Korny , Dalton, Ga. US. Earth, Sol System, Thursday, March 23, 2017, 16:23 (2583 days ago) @ MacAddictXIV

These kinda practices are just turning me away rather than drawing me to buy a PS4. I was even considering buying one for some other games. But now? Way to go Sony, you might have had a new customer. Either way, I wouldn't have switched consoles just for Destiny 2 :D

Funny how Sony gets the blame instead of Activision.

"Sony offered more money than Microsoft for this deal? THANKS SONY, YOU MIGHT HAVE HAD A NEW CUSTOMER!"
It's kind of dumb, and I doubt you'd say "Xbox is getting the exclusives this time? LATER MICROSOFT, HELLO SONY!"

Shouldn't let publisher deals for exclusive content sway you when flat-out exclusive games don't have you decrying the companies.

I know that it's Sony, Activision and Bungie's doing. However, I also know that Activision/Bungie didn't propose this deal, it was Sony. I also know that Activision/Bungie still agreed to it. I also know that It's always greener on the other side and that if Microsoft was doing this it might feel differently.

Do you have a source for Sony proposing this deal? The poster just leaked, where are you getting this info?

But the fact of the matter is, Sony is making these sort of things happen to sway XBox owners to get a PS4 and I'm saying that it's not working at all, in fact it's making it worse.

Microsoft has done the exact same thing. Heck, they've made entire games exclusive for a year. Why are we nitpicking who does what? It's a business practice. Sure would be sunshine and rainbows if neither company did this, but you are choosing to villify just one company for having some exclusive content or an early beta?

If you think that this is meant to do something else, I'm all ears. But as a potential customer, this is what I'm getting from it, and what I see about this situation is all that should really matter to Sony.

I'm a customer. I would rather be seen as a gamer, or even a consumer to them. In this case, I don't feel that way.

All I know is that Sony has never forced me to buy their peripherals, or forced me to sit on the sidelines why they catered to the sports and TV crowd. In that sense, Microsoft has actively failed to see their customers are gamers, and more as wallets and possible subscribers (remember that they even required you to have Gold in order to watch Netflix on their console).
I dunno. Paying more money to snag some exclusive content is obviously a smart business move to appeal to potential customers (although some clearly see it as a personal affront, but whatevs), but it also shows that they are willing to actively cater to the existing base as well (sales-wise, Xbox has been thoroughly beaten this generation, so they don't really neeeeed to be paying for exclusive content, it wouldn't hurt them to let Xbox get the stuff this time, but clearly they think that Destiny 2 continuing to be the complete Destiny experience is worth missing out on one guy who takes business decisions personally).