You want me to start going down to list of how many things are wrong with that feeble attempt at sarcasm? If you do, we'll be here all day!
This is not news, or in any way a direct result of CFW! This sort of thing has been going on for years, and it's a waste of time to try to stop it because so many will replace what you take down.
And look what the jailbreak of the iPhone did for it. It got us an OFFICIAL Verizon iPhone! See how that works? And no identity thieves that want to try to take your stuff from it yet or pirate pay-for apps! Possibility is there. Are we bitching about THAT, though?
And don't tell me the iPhone case has nothing to do with this one, because it does. Please stop with the attempts to dislodge something that we've countered numerous times.
Actually, you'd think that MS fanboys on this site were the same the second you dared criticize Kinect.
This site is special, though. The fanboys on THIS site seem to band together and refuse to have a different opinion about ANYTHING. If it threatens their favorite console's rep in ANY way, they attack it. If you have a different opinion than them, they attack it and you. If you call them out on their behavior in expressing their opinion, they attack you and say that...
Be prepared for ten million disagrees with that. Not that you're wrong or anything. It's just that you can never reason with ANY fanboy on N4G. It's like the fanboys on this site hold stock in the company.
It's either
A) People who are trolling for the sake of it
B) To paranoid to realize the truth about anything
C) Wanting to defend their console of choice to the bitter end.
We've heard EVERY circle jerk, EVERY excuse, and EVERY insult in the book.
For three YEARS, I've been on Sony's side on this site. The people on here that are attacking me NOW for my position on the CFW should know this.
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Let's not confuse "mod" with "hack". A mod is just that: something that you add to something that would benefit anyone that you give it to without it damaging the integrity of the system. Like, if I were to use the CFW to add Firefox to my PS3, then I would be modding a console. Or if I add the ability to play imported region-locked games that I bought from a Japanese company (can't remember if PS3 games are region locked or not, but I'm just trying to get a po...
How dare you invoke common sense here?! That shouldn't be allowed!
How did I "chastise and mar" other opinions? Because I said we could get our point across without going into the vitriol and wishing that Geohot would die? So you're condoning THAT kind of talk? Why? You just want to have a blank check to say whatever you want and not be held responsible? You want to be able to say that Geohot should be shot or hung?
"The possibilities of the PS3 should be realized in legitimate titles offered by studios not by the bullshit...
All of you that are saying that "I'm all for homebrew but the piracy/cheating/hacking/etc. is what makes this wrong" don't realize that perhaps Sony is not wanting you to do ANY of that stuff? Seriously, you just came out for something that the CFW was advertised to do.
Are we ever going to stop slamming the disagree button for five seconds at someone who has a different POV than "get 'em, Sony" or "burn their families" or whatnot? Th...
I agree that games need to be more challenging and engaging.
However, what you may not have gotten is that there is a such thing as genuine challenge, in that the challenge fits the environment and is balanced in such a way that it puts your knowledge of the game's mechanics to the test, and cheap difficulty, in which the game is padded with difficult things that leave you with no way to deal with the dangers and the risk being too high for the reward. Cheap difficulty i...
Above, people are also giving the same arguments to everything, so let's not pretend that there's an answer for everything I say. How would I feel if someone cheated on a game I was playing in, too? How would I feel if someone stole confidential info of mine due to that? I never once condoned the former, and the latter they would have to do more than just do a jailbreak. You see, I keep saying these things, and they keep doing a circle jerk because they really don't have an answer...
"For a gaming console, the revenue is the same product that can be directly stolen."
Or a medium that can be made by the same person who is completely independent of Sony and that Sony does not have a say about that would know the coding the PS3 uses to make their own game or app work for the system.
What I mean here (and I could get across if the discussion about the CFW here on N4G were any more mature than it is right now, as in, if we could stop...
Umm...they DID! That's actually how we got the change to the DMCA to allow you to jailbreak the iPhone and other smartphones. Yeah, it could lead to piracy, but we haven't had that, have we?
The idea is why should that only be applied to smartphones. Why not put the intended idea to other things like game consoles?
Wow! Just wow!
Some of you people are just hypocrites!
Let's reverse the iPhone decision, too, then! That obviously causes piracy, and cheating, and whatever other kind of excuses you can come up with!
Hey, that and this case have nothing in common...unless they support your view, right?
NO one is condoning piracy here. But that isn't the only thing we're talking about here (and there isn't a mass outbreak o...
1. "Idiot"! Against the rules here! I got banned for using it a few years ago! People do not learn.
2. How is he justifying piracy? He's asking Sony to stop trying to stop wasting time on something they will never really be able to stop (something that, if you would just go on the net and do some Google searches, you'd see that Geohot was trying to find a way to have the homebrew apps on the PS3 without having the piracy issues when Sony did their lawsuit) and focus ...
How can you steal a number that you cannot officially own? There has been no one who has told anyone how that is possible. There's really no way you can claim ownership of a number, no matter HOW many ways you try to say that you can. And Sony could just as easily change those protocols.
This is what I cannot understand from these people. How can you stick up for Sony when you really don't know even a fourth of what this whole thing is ABOUT? I just don't underst...
Who is doing that? All I have been seeing about this story out of the general N4G community is to have Geohot burned alive without any care for consumer rights and before doing any research about anything (seriously, people, doing research is not that hard to do, but we act like we've just discovered the internet or something).
Should it be illegal to be able to have homemade games on your PS3? Ignore that there isn't any known HB games available for it yet. If there ...
"Granted it allowed custom firmware and piracy of course."
You realize that line is all some of these posters need to say that the iPhone jailbreak shouldn't have been allowed, right? They won't ever just hear you out. I wonder how they think this Sony case is any different. Sure, what he actually did is a bit more severe, but as much as you can say he blackmailed Sony, you could also make the point that Sony might've tried to instigate a fight they knew...
There's a major problem with your post, which is NOT "the best one here".
For one thing, you assume that's why Sony added the OtherOS feature on the PS3 to begin with. How do you know that was the reason? Remember what else the PS3 had when it first launched: full backwards compatibility that was powered by a chip inside the older PS3 before it became software emulated, and far more USB slots. Was did this do with the price of the launch PS3? The extra USB s...
You mean the job system. That first got its major induction in FF5, which, while not the best FF out there, is clearly underrated because of how much customization you can get out of the characters. You had it again in a way in FF8 where you could junction your magic depending on what you wanted a specific character to be and/or do. Of course, FF11 we all know about.
FFX-2, as you said, had it, too. But I have to disagree with you that it was lame. It had some cool cinematics...