Situation Critical

[frosty]

A new editorial from yours truly. Discuss!!!

http://psinsider.e-mpire.com/index.p...articleid=1015

[woundingchaney]

Well I agree Socom is horrible.

[LiquidEagle]

Good read and good points, I guess I should be glad I haven't picked up SOCOM yet, I may not get it until like early next year

[AC!D]

Agree 100%. In my part of the world none of my friends have online connections for PSN because our fastest internet speeds are expensive and we are capped and charged per gig of download. In other words some of my friends purchased a broken Assassins creed and it remains broken for them till today.

[Gegenki]

This sort of thing would have been inexcusable last gen when patches were pretty much non-existant.

Thats what I'm not understanding. Why is it that all of a sudden, now that patches are viable, games are coming along broken when they weren't before

[Kiwi]

Because they can patch it later. I knew this would happen as soon as patches on consoles were a possibility.

They now have the excuse to leave in bugs in their games, because they can go along and fix it at their leisure, rather than have to worry about meeting a release. I'm not saying that this is what is happening, but that's how it looks to me.

[frosty]

spread this editorial around the net... maybe if it gets enough attention Sony might actually bother to do something about it.

[HighOnSunoco]

i agree too frosty....

[OmniStalgic]

Tell em like it is Frosty! lol...Good stuff, tis is why the only thing I'm buying this year is LBP and PSN stuff

hopefully they get the online ok for that title

[curryking1]

Because they can patch it later. I knew this would happen as soon as patches on consoles were a possibility.

I was worried about that too going into this generation... and hey look what we have here...

"Let's just patch it!"

Ok... maybe some issues are ok considering the PS3 has to output on multiple resolutions and audio sets over multiple connections to a much broader range of devices, but at some point it's too many problems too often and some very glaring issues not being fixed over so long is really terrible.

SOCOM will go down in history as the definitive icon of these problems. To have that coming from Sony to me is just embarrassing and tarnishes the view I have of Playstation.

I personally would not be so annoyed by the issue until SOCOM decided to make this a big deal for me. I've never even planned to buy the game but just knowing that an event like it happened is just mind boggling.

[Lucent Beam]

Wow, frosty, you're harsh.
If I argued that even those the problems are surely occurring, that they are only specific problems to specific games and not the PS3 library as a whole so it's not a big deal, how would you refute that?

[AC!D]

Wow, frosty, you're harsh.
If I argued that even those the problems are surely occurring, that they are only specific problems to specific games and not the PS3 library as a whole so it's not a big deal, how would you refute that?

Its not just the games though some Firmware updates every now and again are breaking ppl's consoles.

The second problem is that games like GTA 4 and Assassins Creed have to go through quality testing at Sony HQ before they get given the green light and yet still these games managed to pass right through these channels.

Thirdly Sony has this new thing where they release half a game like the upcoming Killzone which they said will be released without online Co-op but it will be added later with a patch. Thats harsh dont you think how do the guys withtout internet connections get the Co-op download then?

[Hrama]

Thumbs up from me Frosty, I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. I love harsh criticism. Give me perfection or give me death... that type of stuff.

[GTAce]

Ouch....


But i agree.

[LaLiLuLeLo]

Wipeout damn near broke my console in the last couple weeks. I'm pretty sure I can't save photos anymore without wipeout freezing during the process. So I take my console hard drive's life in my hands and reboot the whole console or quit the game.
Or, I downloaded the demo for that super wacky bumper cars or whatever the fuck it's called. Trying to install it froze my system, I had to reboot it twice, then a 3rd time and reset the factory settings just to get everything working properly again?!?!

So I sure as hell ain't curious enough about the game to try downloading and installing it again.

[GTAce]

Wipeout damn near broke my console in the last couple weeks. I'm pretty sure I can't save photos anymore without wipeout freezing during the process. So I take my console hard drive's life in my hands and reboot the whole console or quit the game.

People with over 50 people on the friends list had that issue, they patched it but you have to either delete some of your friends or make a new savegame, that should solve it. I was lucky, never had that issue, only the "Press select to..." bug, which is now gone.

[LaLiLuLeLo]

How would I go about making a new save game without losing my progress?

[GTAce]

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Not possible sorry. 8/

EDIT: Online rekords are account bound, you will loose your carrer progress and the loyality though.

[jaxmkii]

you guys are spoiled!

the PS3 is not some simple single use machine like the ps2/Wii. you don't know what a headache is untill your a PC gamer. there's way to much going on in todays modern consoles to make everything work right 100% of the time. thats why patching is here to stay bitching about it will get you noware.

go get a 360 its the same there too, or PC than you'll have something to complain about

and you know what?... as multplatform gets more popular its going to get much worse as everygame trying to apease the PC PS3 and 360.

If you stop expecting the moon you'll notice that the halfbroken pebble is actually a gemstone.

I for one would like to say THANKYOU Sony.

[OmniStalgic]

you guys are spoiled!

the PS3 is not some simple single use machine like the ps2/Wii. you don't know what a headache is untill your a PC gamer. there's way to much going on in todays modern consoles to make everything work right 100% of the time. thats why patching is here to stay bitching about it will get you noware.

go get a 360 its the same there too, or PC than you'll have something to complain about

and you know what?... as multplatform gets more popular its going to get much worse as everygame trying to apease the PC PS3 and 360.

If you stop expecting the moon you'll notice that the halfbroken pebble is actually a gemstone.

I for one would like to say THANKYOU Sony.

I appreciate that point of view, but with things like Socom, I don't think there's an excuse....as well as co-op mode for Killzone as a patch Just don't release it...

Overall though, I think gamers do expect perfection, even when there's ways of getting your games cheaper, used, rented, etc etc..