Whoops, my bad.
Whoops, my bad.
On the plus side, it made me get around to getting PSN+ and I checked out two of the free games available to Plus members for this month. The wild west third-person shooter, Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Wild West, is pretty fun, but I was very disappointed with the horrible floaty controls on A Space Shooter for Two Bucks! (space shooters should NEVER have floating controls if you're going to emulate bulletcloud shooters at all, like it is trying to do).
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I'll probably get it. I bought it on the iPad. But it can go to hell on the iPad. I have no idea how people play that kinda game on there.
I did some looking around on gamesharing PS+ discounted games. Apparantly people are doing it, but you can't with the free games that people get, but anything you pay for you can.
Beatn, wasn't it you that stated that Sony said you can't gameshare PS+ stuff, or was that pertaining to the free things where you don't have the ability to do so anyways?
They accused me of it when I tried to activated my 4th PS3, but I told the snobby little customer service rep he was a retard and ended up speaking with a supervisor who helped me. But yeah, you're not supposed to do it. Sony sees it basically as stealing, which in a way, they're right, but oh well. A LOT of people do it and Sony is trying to put a stop to it. It used to be set up so you could have your PSN account activated on 5 PS3s, but they lowered it to 3 to help out with gamesharing. People would basically form groups of 5 and just take turns buying games and then downloading to their consoles, which as you can guess, loses Sony a LOT of money.
Yeah ... I read that in the beginning Sony was PROMOTING it
I just thought the gameshare thing with PS+ was a different animal. I actually had no problem what so ever with the Sony rep I dealt with to get my old system deactiviated, and then again not too long ago with the separate deactivation of media....I was just wondering if there was something separate with PS+. From what I read, the free games you can't share if you tried, but discounted titles are not any different....
oooooh
According to a recent report from Kotaku, unnamed sources in the game development community have received notifications from Sony telling of a feature which will be incorporated into PS3 firmware update 3.60: Cloud storage for saved games. According to the report, the feature (called "Online Saving") gives developers the opportunity to let players set up their save files on a remote server, preserving the precious, precious space on their own hard drives, and allowing players to access save data from multiple consoles.
These developers also reportedly explained that the feature will only be made available to PlayStation Plus subscribers, or, as they'll henceforth be called, the "Save File Insured." This report sounds fairly believable -- remote storage was one of the rumored features of PlayStation Plus before its reveal, and there was also that Sony trademark for "PS Cloud" back in 2009. We've contacted Sony for a comment on this report.
It'll be a useless feature. Half the games lock their save files, which means they can't be copied, so unless they change that...this will be useless. If they do change it, then it opens the game completely up to hackers.
It's good though in case your system fails.
Yeah, but even then, it only works on games that let you back the file up in the first place. A TON of games lock the save file so that it can't be copied to a computer, modified, and then copied back(this is how hacking was done before the recent jailbreaks). I don't have a list, but I do know that Killzone 2 didn't allow you to copy, and neither did a lot of other games I tried to transfer the one time my PS3 stopped reading discs. The only way I see this being useful is if they unlock the save files for all the games, which is just asking for hackers to take advantage of.
I wish they would use a save file system like 360 where it's tied to your gamertag and you don't have to do anything - if you switch consoles, it automatically detects the last position you completed and lets your start from there. Not all games use it, but most do and it's extremely useful.
Coming to PlayStation Plus: Free day one copy of Stacking plus Killzone 3 SP demo & Yakuza 4 demo: http://bit.ly/fO4vrz
Free Stacking...HOLY AWESOME. That saves me $15.
Yes! I'm stoked about that.....I probably wouldn't have bought it at $15.Originally Posted by I OU a Beatn
I was going to the day of, I was just waiting for release date info...but that's awesome.
Hmmm...I guess I just haven't looked into that much to get interested.
Man I have the this but I don't ever use it lol. About the only thing I have used it for is this cool looking theme I got...oh and an avatar. I mainly got it for the automatic update feature but I don't even use that.
What is this Stacking that you guys speak of?
LMAO and Skip's post here is why I haven't bit the bullet (so to speak) and paid for PS+. I'm worried I would buy the damn thing and then NEVER use it.
Shit I've used it quite a bit.
Well if I played more than 2-3 games then I probably would. I only play sports games and shooters really. I've downloaded some stuff but I haven't even installed it yet.
CLW it may be worth it to you because you play all types of games but I figured it would be worth it to me for the download feature and maybe a game or two a month.
I may get into eventually, I think it expires later this year
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