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It's partisan, sure, and an obvious political play. But I can't disagree with anything in his letter.Quote:
Originally Posted by CLW
Especially about footing the cost for credit reporting. Sony better be planning on that or this is going to get even worse for them.
i'm not amused
just got the memo/email
I FREAKIN' DIDN'T. That proves it! Sony never sends me any emails except store purchase confirmations. Horse shit.
Patience, Grasshopper.Quote:
Originally Posted by I OU a Beatn
http://technology.gather.com/viewArt...81474979268196
PS3 PlayStation Network Down Update: Rebuild to Include Awesome Features?
April 27, 2011 10:35 AM EDT
With the PS3 PlayStation network down, a "massive update" from the rebuild may offer some added features for PSN co-op players online. Perhaps this will appease members whose accounts fell to hackers.
Making up is hard to do, right? Sony Corp. is banking on it not being that tough of a task as it attempts to rebuild its crippled network forced down following an "external intrusion."
The public now knows that is just corporate-speak, and is a fancy word for "hacked." You hear about this daily; it's the cost of doing business.
Detalle botones DualShock 3However, when a company like Sony conceals the data breach from the PS3 co-op players on the PSN, it sends ripples of anger and raises red flags.
Following the announcement on April 26 from Sony Corp. to the public that a data breach exposed their personal information to a hacker, the company is struggling to repair its torn image.
How will it manage that task?
According to CVG, after the PS3 PlayStation network down nightmare, Sony may dangle some carrots in the faces of co-op players affected by the "external intrusion."
What does this mean to members of the PSN subject to identity theft? According to a respected forum poster aka Sony insider, after the rebuild and update, features like video chat and cross-game chat is part of the "we're sorry" campaign.
"As we are rebuilding the network, we are taking into consideration in implementing features such as cross game chat and in-game video chat to name a few," the supposed employee said.
Not so fast PS3 players; this information has not been confirmed by Sony Corp. as part of the rebuild. Up to this point, the company only indicated the revamp includes added security features.
On the surface, with the PS3 PlayStation network down for over one week, it certainly makes sense for Sony to appease its 77 million subscribers lest risk loss of market share to Microsoft's Xbox LIVE.
So...after years and years and years of asking for party/cross game chat, it takes a system wide network meltdown for them to actually give them to us? That sounds extremely far fetched. I sincerely hope it is, because if that's true, I might have a little flip out.
Of course, on the other hand, if implementing that kind of technology on PSN meant a few days down time, why not do it when you had to take the Network down anyway?
Regardless, until I read an official statement from Sony, I find it very hard to believe. "Sorry to those tens of millions of people who potentially have to deal with identity theft, but here's this long awaited feature you've been waiting for." :D
It kind of makes since that they would do it that way.
I know when I take our network down for maintenance I do everything all at once while it is down, ie adding, removing or install security patches.
So I can see them saying "well hell while it is down we might as well put in these features even thought we were trying to hold off on it" lol
Knew it was comingQuote:
Originally Posted by JBHuskers
cross game chat ? what does that mean ?
you can already talk to the guy you are playing with a headset , so.. I dont get it ?
Only if you're playing the same game. On 360, you can talk to whoever, whenever regardless of whether they're doing the same thing as you or not.Quote:
Originally Posted by ram29jackson
This. I can be playing, NCAA Football, for example, while my friend is watching a movie or playing Tiger Woods or some other game, and we can be in a party chatting with each other the entire time. Or, on occasion, I'll be in a party with 5, 6+ friends, all of us in completely different games, just sitting there bullshitting the entire time while playing.Quote:
Originally Posted by I OU a Beatn
That or you could both be playing the same game, just not IN the same game so say you're playing an NCAA Football OD game against the CPU and your buddy is recruiting. You can bullshit back and forth with each other.
That too. I definitely couldn't think of playing and gaming without cross-game chatting. I can't believe PSN still doesn't have it.Quote:
Originally Posted by gschwendt
thats great but I dont have real friends I play with anyway....Quote:
Originally Posted by SmoothPancakes
and it takes from my concentration on the game haha.
psn never had it, but psn doesnt charge for online like xbox360 does...
at least I've never bought anything with a credit card on PSN, so I feel I have less to worry about ...?
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Originally Posted by JBHuskers
Indeed. The biggest surprise is that it took a week.Quote:
Originally Posted by skipwondah33
Precisely why 99% of my time is spent on 360 over PS3. That's what Sony doesn't get. People want to be able to chat with friends regardless of what they're doing. People want to easily be able to invite their friends into games and not have to go through some over complicating and slow system to do it. You can definitely tell that the PS3 was most definitely made with single player offline games in mind.Quote:
Originally Posted by SmoothPancakes
Of course, it has it's draw backs. I know for a fact I'd do 100x better on my games if I wasn't listening to girl problems in both of my ears. :D
Neither does Xbox 360, for me. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by ram29jackson
Nothing beats having your sister and her fiancé get you a 12 month gold card every year for Christmas. I've never had to spend a single cent on Xbox Live Gold over the past 2+ years, and I'm set clear through March 2012 so far.