@cgoodno: This is the second time that I've heard this discussed, yet I've yet to even see this anywhere, at least in an official form that I could download like I can with the XBL dev tools. Maybe if Sony made this a bit more public (assuming it actually exists), maybe we wouldn't be debating this as much. And if people would quite trying to confuse homebrew with piracy, we would get somewhere, as well, but we will never see that, will we?
@Istanbull: So you want...
Yeah, we get all that.
The question was if, one, homebrew equates to piracy, and two, if we are able to separate the bad from the good.
You completely ignored the point and said something we already went over.
Don't know much about GAME in particular (I'm American), but this author's argument against that statement reeks of ass kissing and "oh, this MUST be the reason" type of thing without any real data or reason behind why he thinks that way.
New Dirt 3 DLC "to make up for used game sales"? What proof does he have to suggest this?
Used game sales the reason for constant CoD games instead of new IPs? Again, where's the hard data...
You don't get the point of why I even said that!
You take the time to comment, which in turn drives up the temp on the article. It doesn't matter what the comment IS, just that you commented at all. In other words, you clicked the front page link to get this far, then felt compelled to comment. That's all they need.
If you keep commenting on them to bitch about why we have them...then you will see a lot MORE of them!
Thing is, people will never learn how this site's systems work. Probably still don't realize that that's how HipHopGamer got so popular.
You know something, though?:
I would bite on that offer just for that gold DS3 controller. That looks pretty sweet (if it's as real as it looks).
"ads that hurt the industry ( piracy for example ) shouldn't be on here"
I need to respond to this because it shows that you think that piracy is the only issue that the game industry has at the moment. The high prices and lack of innovation are far greater of issues right now (and some publishers war with the used game market over things they were never worried about before), and piracy, as I've read, doesn't hurt the industry as much as we think it doe...
I got Ad-Block Plus installed on Firefox, so I don't see any of the ads.
But you should complain to the ad supplier, not to N4G, since they have no immediate control over what ads are being shown.
And I wouldn't worry too much about the morality of the ads. I'd worry more if the ads were taking up more of the screen than they should rather than if they were showing something that interferes with our beliefs.
And folks, comments like the ones above about an article trying to satirize the knee-jerk reactions that people have are exactly WHY N4G is seen as a fanboy cesspool!
How is it that people never seem to learn that the first part of not getting caught is not taking the fucking bait?
How many times do we have to point out that if you don't want people like HHG to get popular, then don't click on it and bitch because that's WHY his articles are so p...
Yet, though it all, you clicked on the story.
So much for not caring about it.
PS: I am a Sony fan (as well as a gaming fan), and I thought it was amusing. So what do you have to say about that?
WOOOOW!!
Some people just can't have a few laughs over the whole thing!
Sadly, this is the overreaction over everything about this. Can't even joke about it without the masses bitching about it!
"Anyone who thinks different needs to grow the hell up and get a life."
A little insecure that you were able to back up your opinion, are you?
I love when articles and people who never read the complaints try to generalize a situation that's a lot more specific than they want you to think it is.
It's not the free games. It's the selection. If you're a hardcore PSN/PS3 gamer, you've probably have played most of the games already (though you could do much worse than that list; those are all great games. Infamous was one of the best games of 2009, and if you have LBP2 and didn't get everything f...
Good letter. About what I thought about things. While we blame the cyber criminals (be careful who you label that, though: Hotz wasn't a criminal; the guys who brought down PSN WERE), we cannot just go "poor Sony" because they fucked up big with making sure it couldn't happen and, regardless of WHAT was "out of date", that they did enough to make sure that it was as secure as it could've been.
We should add, though, that Sony cannot forget abou...
It's a few things:
1. That damn online pass that THQ has been doing anymore (and that THQ seems to have every intention of telling the critics of that to go fuck themselves...either that or that they are already pirates; see why now I use the "piracy is a crime" thing rather cautiously?). Stop using that, and THQ will see it go up some. Some are just boycotting that.
2. The whole "yearly game that doesn't improve anything" laziness...
And if IGN wasn't "bashing" Sony about it and saying the same thing people like you probably say when viewing articles like this...?
Belongs on Bad Joystick (does that even still exist?), but other than that...pretty good writing!
"Why do people continuously ignore the hackers for causing this mess in the first place and *still* attack Sony?"
Because they're NOT! We "ignore" it because it's already been said several times over that we blame the hackers for bringing it down. Just because we blamed Bush for ignoring the warning signs that an attack on the US from al Quedia was imminent doesn't mean we stopped blaming them for committing the 9/11 tragedy! I don't unders...
While I can see why some people are getting tired of immature brats that whine all the time, that happens on both sides. Don't need to say that it's just one side of the coin that does that.
Thing is, though, there are people, like me, that have become genuinely sick of the whole thing because they see that Sony is pissing around with the whole thing and just want them to give us something concrete. No matter how much blame the hacker(s) will have for bringing the sys...
You can't, however, blame one for the other, which is what is going on here. Everything can be used for bad things. Hell, I can use a knife to cut a steak in order to make it easier for me to eat. I can also use that very same knife to stab you in the heart. Because it's possible to do the latter, should I be disallowed from using it for the former?
What about web design? I can make a child pornography site if I really wanted to. Does that mean I shouldn't be allo...