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Rockstar Delays May 6 Event Due to PSN Downtime. Signs of Even Longer PSN Outage?

Rockstar Games has delayed their Social Club Multiplayer Events scheduled to take place on May 6... Could this be another sign of a longer than anticipated delay to PSN service being restored?

leogets5372d ago

this article is full of shit.it tells you nothing apart from not being member and to log in. wtf

fr0sty5372d ago

The article wasn't published... it's been fixed.

rabidpancakeburglar5372d ago

No. If it was sony delaying some sort of press conference then maybe but it's most likely just a sign that rockstar are unsure

InfiniteJustice5372d ago

Yeah it's most likely that R* are just doing this to make sure their event definitely goes ahead.

I mean R* won't even know if the relaunch of PSN was delayed

fr0sty5372d ago

I seriously doubt that Sony is keeping their publishing partners in the dark as to exactly when PSN's service will be restored... those guys are losing millions by the day due to this whole outage.

InfiniteJustice5372d ago (Edited 5372d ago )

@ fr0sty

I don't know, a few third party developers/ publishers have already issued statements that sounded like they were more or less in the dark about what had happened to PSN.

fr0sty5372d ago (Edited 5372d ago )

Given how Sony left us in the dark about the intrusion initially, I don't doubt they didn't say much to them at first either. Now however, since all has been revealed, those developers and publishers will be wanting answers as to when they can resume selling their games and DLC, so it's doubtful that Sony is still remaining quiet to them about it. they probably are being told not to talk about it with the public though, and for good reason. if something else goes wrong, or if it takes longer than expected (as this article hints at), Sony won't be made to look even worse to their customers because some of the devs were saying "it'll be "x" days!".

I imagine those guys have a much better idea of what's going on behind the scenes than we do, even if they do not know every detail of exactly when it'll be back online.

KwietStorm_BLM5372d ago

I would say signs of a delayed social club event, but that's just me.

fr0sty5372d ago (Edited 5372d ago )

that much is pretty obvious... no need to say 'signs' of that. that said, WHY did they push it back that far? Our forum members speculate it could be that is when the psn store will be back online, since they are pretty much using these events as a way of pimping their DLC (many times they use modes/maps from dlc in these events). That said, recent reports of Japan possibly holding up psn going back online until their inquiry is finished aren't reassuring.

I hope as much as any of you that this is just R* being cautious, I want my Warhawk and MAG back!

KwietStorm_BLM5371d ago

Yea, I thought I was being overly sarcastic. Are many people still playing Warhawk?

fr0sty5370d ago

I never have trouble finding a good match.

LoneWanderer095372d ago

Am not interested in playing with Rockstar, what i like about the events is the Triple XP

taco_tom2375372d ago

i hope not....im sick of playing my 360 -_-

B-Real2065372d ago

I'm pretty close to renewing my Live membership, running out of 48 hour cards!! lol!!

Prototype5372d ago

And the exact second you re-active it, PSN is back up

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Rockstar launches official marketplace for mods

Rockstar has launched an official marketplace for "every server and every player" to buy mods: Cfx Marketplace.

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Christopher2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

I wonder how much of this isn't just taken work of others who have modded for free.

Edit: Also, great way for R* to take popular ideas and build them into GTAVI based on demand.

fr0sty8h ago

What I see happening here is, R* is going to ban mods in GTA6 UNLESS you buy them from the marketplace and R* then gets a cut of that sale.

ActualWhiteMan11h ago

Ah, perfect timing with them taking down the Bully online fan mod. Greedy a$$ company.

Christopher8h ago

It's okay as long as they get a cut of the money.

fr0sty8h ago

Expect R* to force it on you.

Snookies122h ago

Yep, right there with you. I'll happily donate to a mod creator if it looks really cool, or if I enjoy it. But expecting payment up front? Nope, not touching it.

IanTH7h ago(Edited 7h ago)

I'm not entirely sure how to read this, as it doesn't seem exactly like an exact parallel to Bethesda's paid mods shenanigans.

Rather than single player stuff, this appears to be aimed solely on Cfx Servers. From what I've gleaned, apparently Rockstar bought the Cfx mod team several years ago, coming a few years after weird contentions led them to ban a few of their members. Ultimately, the question is if they plan to keep this contained to only online/servers.

I have to guess to a degree yes. It'd be pretty hard to "force" paid mods for single player when modding files locally on your own machine, but much easier for servers they'll control. So perhaps this is their soft launch ahead of GTA6 online and they'll clamp down more tightly on non-official servers going forward? Ever since they've become a 1 or 2 property studio, I haven't really cared much for Rockstar stuff, so I'm not entirely up on everything surrounding this. Sounds like it has the potential to be problematic further down the line, but right now fairly easy to ignore...I think lol.

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Discord Messages Reviewed By Rockstar Before Firing Union Members Have Reportedly Been Revealed

Discord messages Rockstar Games management reviewed before firing union members have reportedly been revealed.

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Shikoku52d ago (Edited 52d ago )

They were involved in protected Union activities and Rockstar will be in trouble with the NLRB.

DarXyde52d ago

You think this NLRB will lift a finger?

Ps5conehead51d ago

Watch the video this is in England

gerbintosh52d ago

Basically this is Rockstar vs the Union members word. These employees could be cherry picking or spoofing the chat logs.Rockstar could be lying. I will withhold judgment until Discord is subpoened and releases the chat group text from their servers.

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Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser explains why open world spy game Agent never worked out

A rare interview from the former GTA and Red Dead Redemption writer and executive producer.

dveio75d ago

Interesting to know.

Among MGS4, Agent was the reason I wanted and bought a PS3. (Who knew we would get other gems like Killzone 2 and TLoU.)

I always assumed it got cancelled due to hardware restrictions even at that time.

Deeeeznuuuts75d ago

Such a shame, I remember first reading about it in official playstation magazine, Agent and The Getaway are the two cancelled games I wish I could play 😩

Christopher74d ago

Because it had to be open world, of course. Couldn't change that and make the Agent game work otherwise. Totally buying it.

Redgrave74d ago

I used to laugh whenever I'd see someone cite Agent as a game to look forward to, because it was never officially canceled (at least, as far as I've seen.)

"It's still real to me, dammit!"