The share business is catering to the recent wave in popular gaming videos. We could see a lot of nouveaux youtube poop once that happens, but obviously it's neat nonetheless.

Yeah but presuming the percentage of insufferable morons on the internet stays around the same, but the number of people with internet access rises, that's going to happen either way.

The sad thing is that oftentimes the good products of these types of features get buried in the tidal wave of ♥♥♥♥.

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Oh damn, I'm too late to argue with HKU.

...what TLB said. All of it.

Not really, but it's still stupid.

Why? You have yet to provide any rational argument as to why it'd be stupid. Is it because it's useless? Nope, that's not it. Would it hamper the rest of the controller? Unh-uh. Stupid because that's your personal opinion on it? Oh, excuse me, I didn't realize you have a doctorate in controller design and are a respected authority on such matters. The fact that you haven't ever tried the very similar predecessor of this controller, combined with the fact that you didn't know anything about its technical functions beyond what you assumed based on a single photo, makes the fact that you still cling to your original opinion ludicrous. Well, more like tenaciously childish.

tfw when arguments could be stopped by saying
"I think this"
instead of
"It is this"

Get distracted.

It's stupid because the entire social media integration concept on a gaming console is stupid, and this is literally the PHYSICAL MANIFESTATION of that stupidity.
I am still firmly of the belief that gaming consoles are for gaming. NOT this bull♥♥♥♥.
I have a computer and a smartphone for all that bull♥♥♥♥, and plenty of other bull♥♥♥♥ as well.
I use consoles for specific kinds of games and that's it.
That is why it's stupid. Now then.

Or you like to ignore what people say so you can call them dumb.
Never said it was useless. A dedicated "record" or "snapshot" button, while I think IS superfluous, is a decent idea. A "Share" button, tied to social media bull♥♥♥♥, well, see above.
Considering they literally got rid of a button in favor of it, by the strictest definition of "hamper", it DOES hamper it.
Internet fights are always about opinion, please keep up.
Oh you are right, I will defer to YOUR doctorate in Controller Design-ology now.
Please tell me why your opinion on this matter is so much more correct than mine, and why mine is invalidated.

I don't need to have studied something for ♥♥♥♥ years to have an opinion on it, especially when it isn't something that doesn't take years of study to do. And even if I did, as an end consumer, what I think about the product matters.
I've used Dualshock 1, Dualshock 2 a lot, and from what I've seen there are no major changes between it and 3. So, yeah.
It is a "Share" button. When you press it, and probably depending on how you press it, it activates either features designed to facilitate sharing of personal game achievements, or directly shares them.
IE, it takes screenshots, records video, and probably a few other miscellaneous knick-knacks related to showing your friends how cool you are at video games.
Really, it's not rocket science. If there is more to this button than meets the eye, then please. Inform me.
Oh, and it's really dumb to just assume I'm basing this off one singular photo.
The fact that I'm standing behind my perfectly valid opinion that the Share button is a waste of a button and appeases a growing trend of stupidity is ludicrous? I'm sorry, let me just start waffling between opinions then, that'll be MUCH less ludicrous.
I do my best to keep things professional until someone starts insulting me first.
Why is it that you are almost always the one to do this?

tl;dr: Stop being an ass and calling it argument, and stop saying that what I think doesn't matter. Two independent requests.

The share button is kind of dumb, but I hate the touchpad way more, because it will inevitably be used for some gimmicky functions that would work better assigned to a button.

oh my god is this still happening

So your rationale is, "A is dumb because it is related to B and B is dumb." And why is B dumb? It's your opinion that B is dumb.
Good job pointing out your rational arguments then, I've obviously missed all of them.
>a dedicated "record" or "snapshot" button
...this is exactly what Share is. It's not somehow directly tied to Facebook or Twitter or some bull♥♥♥♥ along those lines. This is your own false assumption.
Considering they combined a never-used button with the pause button, it retains all previous functions while adding new ones. Ie, by both the strictest and loosest definition- by every definition- it is not hampered. It is improved.
Opinions should be founded on facts. Your opinion on this seems to be, "it's dumb because I say so." I don't have a doctorate in controller design- I have some very simple and indisputable factual information on the subject and nothing more. There just isn't any logical way to twist it beyond what I've said.
See what I've said above.
Oh, by no means. It just takes a Google search and 3 minutes of reading an article on what the controller, or specifically, the Share button, actually does.
Yet earlier you talked about how bad wireless controllers are and why that means that the DS4's wireless will be bad; yet, having no experience with 3, you didn't know that Sony had wireless down pat already. Otherwise you would never have brought that up, no?
Hold that thought.So is your only problem with "Share" your assumption that it's directly connected to Facebook or something? Rest assured, as I said previously, it's not. It's a clientside function. You can take screenshots and record video and never share them with anybody but your own hard drive, for future memories. I even brought this up earlier- it's not like once you press Share, bam, Facebook pops up and you get to tag all your gamerbuddies and ♥♥♥♥. How could that possibly be feasible for any realtime multiplayer game?
Ah, but no, it's not a useless button. You even said so yourself. See?Because, again, that's what the Share button is. Regardless, even if it did "appease a growing trend" of social media integration, you have yet to explain why you find that stupid- the same fallacy as your first point.
Professional? You could've looked all of this up in 5 minutes, tops. For some reason, you saw "Share" and this triggered some sort of rage-aneurysm and had you going off about Facebook. Maybe you just have some kind of psychological reaction to five-letter words that start with S, it would explain why Sothe is able to anger you so easily.
I said what you thought didn't matter? If that was my opinion... why would I ever have responded to your posts at all? I would have ignored them, no? As for calling this an argument, it's not an argument. You misunderstood something and I am trying to correct your understanding about it. Really, I'm a philanthropic agent of enlightenment.
Look here chao, I am enlightening people. Your period-lacking all-lower-caps response of disdain cannot change that fact, enemy of truth!

Done yet, or will you now explain why anything remotely related to social media is a horrible, horrible thing, regardless of whether it is optional and simply available for those who'd like it?

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We usually only manage about 7-14 people so some of the gamemodes don't really work properly and everything is understaffed but it's pretty fun

I never knew enough people to get even a tiny private server going before so it is a nice experience

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I play SS13 like
all the time
We should play together