"Sony was running software that was badly out of date"
Name me a large Organisation who doesn't have that problem? Cisco?
Badenaries 3, go die in a fire.
CoD online? Wouldn't that just be CoD without a single player?
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Don't they? All the devs I've heard from completely want this gen to end. Maby 2013 or something it will actually happen (next xbox).
There's still no possible distribution platform for anyone other than Sony though, so whoever opts for download only games will probably lose billions (because people seem to have a problem with it, and they will probably force overpriced proprietary hard drives which will only make things worse. Oh also, samsung don't make HDDs...
everybody please downrate and disagree this guy because he mentioned (the cult of) scientology in a non negative way.
"I think what people are still failing to see is that Anonymous isn't really a group."
Apart from that bit. Basically the same as what I said in my comment below :O
Really... anon has members? Lol somebody is completely missing the point.
I signed up over a year ago...
somebody hasn't played CBFD
Yeah. The witcher 2 could work very nicely on consoles, gameplay wise. It would also earn CDPR some well-earned revenue, as long as they don't sell-out after that it's fine.
Some PC games certainly leand themselves very well to a successful port to consoles.
And? Farcry 2 was a pile of crap. We don't want it on PC... except maby for benchmarking.
And add more bugs!
It will still be far too buggy and broken and just generally bad. Oh btw, the same devs that got RTW closed by making this clump of shit have been employed on another multi million pound project that they can destroy by ignoring QA.
It will only work nicely if the game has been programmed to take in mouse input.
You can't emulate a controller thumbstick from mouse co-ord inputs, that is what some of the fuss about console ports to PC is about (because they emulate a controller from the mouse input which totally breaks it. bioshock, mass effect and bulletstorm in particular)
Anybody who says it works fine in a game which only has controller input programmed (so, 99.9% of console games...
Maby other gamers don't buy as many bad games? The previous operation flashpoint was only £18 on PC at launch and it was just a bad game in general, not worth £18.
All they have to run to keep a big game running online (like CoD) is a bunch of servers in a few farms in major regions. The running costs for such servers is probably something like $20000 a month. If the game uses P2P or dedicated servers they have no right to charge for the online as it isn't running game-intensive software on their systems. When they sell many millions of titles, they have plenty of cash to throw away at their matchmaking/high score servers.
Refuse to...
The fact that they had an Application server at all nearly proves that they use Microsoft servers (like 95% of large companies do).
So the hackers looked up some latest vulnerabilities for IIS. Pretty simple.
There is no IIS network in the entire world that is secure, none, not one, ever. Sony will be switching to a full Linux system right now. (except office workstations, so they are still vulnerable... lol)
Sounds like you have a problem with certain fps games, and not the genre itself.
If everybody could access the data then at least people could look for their own data and see exactly what info was leaked, that could put some concerns at rest - but then other people can also use it maliciously, particularly if the original hacker group didn't have the manpower to exploit much of it :(