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Fucking annoying, isn't it? I have a bad feeling it's another obnoxious, unavoidable OS feature, like the Players You May Know thing which irritated me so much I had to block and delete the real-name friend I had on my list, who, on realising he'd been blocked, blocked and deleted me back on PSN and Skype in a big sulk.

I got a message to say "Did you know you can turn comments on for broadcasts?" so I turned them on. Didn't like it, so turned it off. Now I get "Did you know you can turn comments on for broadcasts?" every time I stop a broadcast. Fuck off.

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Don't you just have to go into Notifications, and mark them all as read? I logged my girlfriend into my PS4 with her own account today, and all these pop-ups came up. I just marked them all, they've all gone.

Have you turned it off and on again since?

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Don't you just have to go into Notifications, and mark them all as read? I logged my girlfriend into my PS4 with her own account today, and all these pop-ups came up. I just marked them all, they've all gone.

Yeah, I never had them come back. I blame user error

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A friend of mine bought a new PS4 at the weekend (a new 1TB one.)

He's got a controller issue. Everything is fine, he controls the UI. When he then loads a game, the PS4 stops recognising the controller. He has to hold the PS4 button and disconnect/reconnect the controller to then play.

Any ideas?

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Me again. I've received a reply from GAME.

Hi,

Thank you for your email.

I am sorry to hear of the difficulties that you have been experiencing with your console.

The guarantee period on this console is 12 months from the date of purchase. Within this period, if your console develops a manufacturing fault we would be happy to either refund or exchange this for you (subject to product availability).

Outside of this period your console would be covered under the Sales of Goods Act 1979, dependent upon the nature of the fault, however, when considering the age of your machine we feel that it has performed within expectation and has proved to be durable with over 3 years usage.

If you do wish to send the console to us we will look to repair it, if it can not be repaired you will be provided with a voucher to the value of a pre-owned PS4 CONSOLE.

Game Retail Ltd

Unity House

Basingstoke

Hampshire

RG21 6YJ

Please include a cover note explaining the fault and proof of purchase.

To get in touch you can email us at customerservices@game.co.uk or call our customer services team on 0208 827 0099.

Alternatively please visit our website at http://www.game.co.uk/

Kind Regards,

Kerry

The team at GAME

They mentioned that my console is over 3yrs old whereas it's under 2yrs, but other than that I'm happy with the result thus far.

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I've just bought The Vanishing of Ethan Carter on PSN. Main game is 4.8 GB, update is 4.913 GB. Game was released on Wednesday.

Why does this keep happening with brand new games? The update file is clearly just the original game with a few tweaks, why do I have to download the full game just to them re download the same thing all over again, basically. Why can't they just put the updated version on the server for first time downloaders?

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Yeah for some reason I thought they'd changed it on PS4 but more and more it feels like they didn't because this definitely isn't the first time I've downloaded a patch as big as the base game from PSN. Really makes you appreciate the limits Microsoft put on game patches on 360 (I think it was 50MB). Probably too low nowadays but no limits at all just seems to mean ballooning overall game sizes.

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I've just bought The Vanishing of Ethan Carter on PSN. Main game is 4.8 GB, update is 4.913 GB. Game was released on Wednesday.

Why does this keep happening with brand new games? The update file is clearly just the original game with a few tweaks, why do I have to download the full game just to them re download the same thing all over again, basically. Why can't they just put the updated version on the server for first time downloaders?

Yeah that's happened to me once or twice. People with slow/capped internet accounts can be sensitive to this kind of thing.

Peggle 2: download 2.5GB, update file 2.6GB. Obviously just the whole download again in the update.

I think it's a choice by the developer/publisher how to implement their patch. If the entire download is "only" a few gigabytes, they may decide that issuing the full game code again in the patch is a better coding soultion for them. But you're right, Sony should have an implementation that instructs the PS4: "No need to download v1.00 if v1.01 is the entire game."

We had a dedicated thread for grumbling about unnecessary downloads. The slow internet connection thread. I'm personally NOT A FAN of how this generation has merged bugfix patches and content patches. It sucks to download a 6GB update knowing that the bugfixes make up mere megabytes, and the other 5.9GB are "preparing the codebase for the next DLC", i.e. they're making you download all the DLC whether you choose to buy it or not.

I'm just about to start playing The Witcher 3. The update (to 1.5) was only 550MB, I felt lucky! Then today I learn that there's a new update... 7.3GB. Ffffuuuuuuuuu. It's a nice long list of bugfixes and improvments... Geralt turns faster, better inventory management, lovey... but surely that's just code. What the hell adds up to 7.3GB?

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I think I've downloaded 5gb worth of Ether One on three different occasions since it came out.

We had a dedicated thread for grumbling about unnecessary downloads. The slow internet connection thread. I'm personally NOT A FAN of how this generation has merged bugfix patches and content patches. It sucks to download a 6GB update knowing that the bugfixes make up mere megabytes, and the other 5.9GB are "preparing the codebase for the next DLC", i.e. they're making you download all the DLC whether you choose to buy it or not.

Even on the PS3 Battlefield 3 was pretty bad for this, every time new maps came out you'd have a massive download for it whether you had Premium or not. I could imagine it being kind of irritating if you didn't and were stuck on a slower connection.

On the 'power saving' thing, it's nothing to do with marking notifications as read. That's the first thing I did when it originally popped up and I still get it every time I power on. Obviously if you leave it in standby mode it's not an issue though. To be honest it's barely any sort of issue anyway since you don't have to do anything but wait two seconds for it to disappear, but it does seem a bit shonky.

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I've just bought The Vanishing of Ethan Carter on PSN. Main game is 4.8 GB, update is 4.913 GB. Game was released on Wednesday.

Why does this keep happening with brand new games? The update file is clearly just the original game with a few tweaks, why do I have to download the full game just to them re download the same thing all over again, basically. Why can't they just put the updated version on the server for first time downloaders?

I didn't actually bother with the update file and just finished the game as it was.

More about the patch here: http://www.theastronauts.com/2015/07/faq-about-ethan-carter-unreal-engine-4-playstation-4-and-more/

Doesn't seem like a necessary update either.

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That's how they used to do it on the PS3, I thought they changed to the sensible way on the PS4? Clearly not I guess

Some seem to incrementally update, but when you're downloading something entirely new to your ps4, it grabs the main game and the update simultaneously. It's shite. Almost hit my download cap this month, between Elder scrolls and downloading my PS+ library.

Edit- that said, just learned you can select in progress downloads and pause. I'll do that next time I grab a big new game.

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I've just bought The Vanishing of Ethan Carter on PSN. Main game is 4.8 GB, update is 4.913 GB. Game was released on Wednesday.

Why does this keep happening with brand new games? The update file is clearly just the original game with a few tweaks, why do I have to download the full game just to them re download the same thing all over again, basically. Why can't they just put the updated version on the server for first time downloaders?

I'm onto my third humongous download for the PS+ Driveclub. First was about 5GB, second 14GB, this is 18GB. Bloody hell. And PvZ is STILL downloading.

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TehStu

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People still have caps?

UK ISPs don't cap any more? Last ISP I had was adsl24, who gave 300gig/month.

For the 15 meg cable I currently get, they give 250gig. You can get up to 3TB, but that's crazy money for their 150meg.

I'm onto my third humongous download for the PS+ Driveclub. First was about 5GB, second 14GB, this is 18GB. Bloody hell. And PvZ is STILL downloading.

Driveclub doesn't work like that, it'll download the delta from what's installed to the new version.

Unless you're saying they made the PS+ version work differently.

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I forget the name of it, but I was with one of the better providers at one point. Someone bought them and introduced throttling. That's why I went to adsl24, as they had explicit caps. A cursory glance of the T&Cs of a few big UK ISPs shows they traffic manage heavy users.

I'll take a cap, it's hardly outrageous.

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