[smf]

Originally Posted by malex You don't believe sony deserves it? if sony were a person I would want him/her to burn in hell, be sent to heaven for 2 weeks... then dragged back down to hell, but that's just me.

That says more about you than them. Sony are people, when games don't sell well then people lose their jobs. Most games aren't even made by Sony, so you're punishing the good with the bad.

[malex]

Originally Posted by smf That says more about you than them. Sony are people, when games don't sell well then people lose their jobs. Most games aren't even made by Sony, so you're punishing the good with the bad.

Of course that says more about me then it does about them. I did not give any reasons as to why I despise them so, but I'll just assume that other forum goers are smart enough to understand why, at this point in time, I as a gamer would have such disdain for sony. Whether they agree with me or not, anybody should understand why.

As far as punishing goes, I'm not doing anything to anybody. How exactly am I punishing anybody according to you? by pirating games? you'll find I don't pirate... merely because I don't want to. Maybe when I beat all the ps3 games I own (even the 4 that are still shrink wrapped) I'll start downloading games, or do you mean by showing support for other pirates? or do you mean by not buying games?

In any case, f*ck sony, sadly I know I won't have my way and have them disappear in the next 1 - 2 generations. Still I hope they do, and I'll rejoice anytime somebody does something shiesty to them.

On the bright side, I'll be an observer of any future d*uchebaggery on sony's part. The only reason I feel so strongly about it now, is because as a ps3 owner I feel duped. Next gen I'll just be limited to feeling sorry for those that ignored history.

[japsander]

Originally Posted by smf That says more about you than them. Sony are people, when games don't sell well then people lose their jobs. Most games aren't even made by Sony, so you're punishing the good with the bad.

SOPA and PIPA are people too. are you saddened that they failed? im pretty sure that people will have lost their roles when they didnt succeed

3rd party publishers generally multiplatform anyway so game sales are still pretty strong even if not on a single console

[oPolo]

Originally Posted by General Plot Actually with 8/16 bit gaming, I've always preferred the original machines. I still have my Sega CDX (which is a combo Genesis/Megadrive and SegaCD/MegaCD). To be honest though, I haven't touched a game from that era in almost a decade. The only emulators I ever got into were EPSXE, NullDC, Chankast, etc... And they all have the ability to use original games. I know. I hear myself saying it, and it makes me cringe, but we both know the only real development in the PS3 scene are new backup managers. Compare it to the 360 scene, which actually has more than piracy on it's side. It's why I took my 3.55 KMEAW and put it on OFW. There just wasn't anything there for people like me who weren't in it for the piracy aspect. I'm originally a New Yorker and only moved here a few years ago. That said, location has nothing to do with it. Only ones I've bought (ie: itunes). Believe it or not there are ethical users of emulators and hacked consoles. I jailbroke my iphone 5. And you know what's on it? I bought IntelliscreenX, put some of my own ringtones on it, got SBSettings and kill background. That's it. All my apps on it are paid for. It's one I can sincerely make.

What does the xbox 360 scene have in term of development that we don't have o0 speaking of anything else than backupmanagers.
I happened to end up with 2x ps3 instead of 2x xbox'es, as I find the multimedia app on the ps3 (showtime), far more superior to any xbox media center / playback app.
I don't want to bash you, I just want to know if there is something that I have completely missed lol.

[danguy2009]

I used to be a big pirater of Xbox games but as soon as AP2.5 and LT3.0 came out I felt like I may aswell wait it out for new games to become cheap and buy them secondhand instead of having to buy a specific burner and specific discs and possibly extra tools for future drives. I guess Ms won but the end result is still the same, the devs dont get any share of what I buy.

I thought of a way MS could possibly combat piracy, well online at least. If they somehow incorportated the CPUkey into the drive firmware so that the whole firmware cannot be decrypted. And to stop people hacking the system to get the CPUkey and reverse they could then hash the drive firmware like they do with keyvaults so that nothing could be changed. Of course piracy could still exist on a hardmodded RGH type system but then they could guarantee that nobody is pirating and going online if they kept their current system of stopping exploited consoles from logging in.

[malex]

Originally Posted by japsander SOPA and PIPA are people too. are you saddened that they failed? im pretty sure that people will have lost their roles when they didnt succeed

Cue the sad violin music LOL!

Originally Posted by japsander 3rd party publishers generally multiplatform anyway so game sales are still pretty strong even if not on a single console

Which is why I'm very happy with Namco for spreading out the Tales of and Ace Combat series. Also seeing Kojima not be a whiner when it comes to releasing his games non-sony consoles is awesome. Shame I'll definitely miss out on the God of War, Uncharted and a few other superb series that will stay with sony for the foreseeable future.

Originally Posted by danguy2009 I thought of a way MS could possibly combat piracy, well online at least. If they somehow incorportated the CPUkey into the drive firmware so that the whole firmware cannot be decrypted. And to stop people hacking the system to get the CPUkey and reverse they could then hash the drive firmware like they do with keyvaults so that nothing could be changed. Of course piracy could still exist on a hardmodded RGH type system but then they could guarantee that nobody is pirating and going online if they kept their current system of stopping exploited consoles from logging in.

That might work, but in the end any security measure implemented to fight piracy, is like putting a bandaid on an eternally bleeding wound. It may stop the bleeding for a bit of time, but you'll have to replace the bandaid sooner rather than later. That's why I think the best way to stop the piracy that should matter, by this I mean people who CAN buy games, but don't want to, is by making owning games worth their while. To that end, I see some merit in the online pass crap, but probably 1 time use codes for ingame items will be seen with more accepting eyes.

Also the prices for new games should come down. $60 is a bit steep, and while my parents dropped a pretty penny everytime they bought me an SNES or a NES game, now that I earn my own money all I can say is that I feel bad for being such a brat when it came to gaming. My remedy is quite simple though, waiting. Eventually all games drop, that's why I never payed more than $25 for any of my games.... except for Trinity Universe which I bought for like $50... USED, but I didn't have any choice since I couldn't find a copy anywhere else.