Is Sony quietly closing out PSN data slurpers?

LinuxGuru - 177 days 8 hours ago

And why would they take action? What could retrieving your PSN account info and displaying it for others too see like gamercards ever do to Sony?

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inbfour - 177 days 8 hours ago

Like any other company, Sony is interested in making a profit on whatever they can. Perhaps they will create their own version of a game card and just add that to the list of +'s on the PSN and could advertise that.

It's always for monetary interest(which I have no problem with).

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Seraphim - 177 days 6 hours ago

yeah, I honestly don't see what the holdup is. They have that stupid little gamercard but nothing in the lines of trophy cards. And all the other places really suck... Playfire isn't half bad but they take forever to get some games up and outside the EU region you have to manually update. Which I don't actually mind but then you get strokes listing every trophy available as if they actually obtained them all. I guess my biggest gripe is how slow they are to get games up there, and how often when they do trophies are missing...

Anyway, I don't know the exact specifics when in regards to obtaining trophy lists and whether or not it takes a hit on Sonys servers, bandwith, additional operating costs, etc... But I think the fact that PS3 Trophy Card is charging for automatic updates constantly throughout the day might peeve Sony a bit. While it's only $6 a day they are still charging for the option. On the other hand they do offer the free tag... I don't know. At one point I was angered at the idea of paying even that minimal fee and never did. Plus I really like Playfire despite their shortcomings. But at the same time if Sony doesn't want to provide us with trophy cards then someone will.

I can honestly say this though. Sony, again, needs to get on the ball. They need to get some fresh, and good avatars rolling our way and they need to get us a Trophy Card. Whether it working out a deal like the did in EU w/ Playfire.com for trophycards or they do themselves they really need to get something out there for us that's of decent quality...

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FreestyleBarnacle - 177 days 5 hours ago

It is a little off that you can get a trophy card in the EU but not the US but could it not be the case that there is a more benign reason for this? It has been reported on the EU blog that extra functionality is coming to the trophies in the form of leaderboards and comparisons. Is it not possible that in making these functions the code has had to be changed to a point where another system has to be used to get the trophy info? Playfire have worked with Sony in the EU to get the trophy info working for them and do not seem to be having any trouble. Maybe the problem with using your own method like PS3TrophyCard has is that there is no obligation for Sony to leave the chance for them to get the info open.

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Carl1412 - 177 days 3 hours ago

Pretty pissed off with that, as i paid the fee to have it updated automatically. *sigh*

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Double Toasted - 177 days 1 hour ago

What's $6 a day? I'm sure w/e it is its not worth it, pfft...thats $180/month.

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Captain Tuttle - 177 days 1 hour ago

I'm confused. What exactly do you get for $6/day? Or did you mean $6/month?

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pansenbaer - 177 days 1 hour ago

Its 6 dollars a year. 50 cents a month. This gets you automatic updates to the card every day. Whereas a non-premium account gets it like twice a week or something. Its not worth complaining about.

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Xiphos - 177 days ago

Seraphim is 7 shades of confused.

- PS3TrophyCard charges $6/year for numerous automatic updates per day. If you sign up at MMOS.com, you get 2 auto updates per week, free. You can also just put your ID in manually every 12 hours if you feel like you need an update right now.

- PlayFire automatic cards are not only available in EU. Your US PSNID is usable at SCEE's site, and you can make an official SCEE Trophy Card with it, which is what PlayFire's cards get their info from.

Anyways, I'm surprised they were this silent for this long. I emailed them months ago about why Rag Doll Kung Fu trophies weren't showing up. Staff messaged me back saying Sony changed their data encryption, and it'll be like that for new games until they crack it or figure out how to work around it. PlayFire doesn't get in trouble like this because they don't really have automatic cards. Their cards only update if you update your SCEE Trophy Card.

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Seraphim - 176 days 20 hours ago

my bad... that's what I get for trying to explain something that late. idk what was going through my mind :D Daily updates, yearly fee, what I was going to say next? :D Sorry bout that...

as already stated, the fee is $6 a year to have your card updated automatically several times a day from PS3TrophyCard.com. As I said, a minimal fee but a fee nonetheless...

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F3NIX DX - 176 days 15 hours ago

reported as SPAM for being an idiot

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Max Power - 177 days 8 hours ago

you never know what they might include in a firmware update.

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rpgenius420 - 177 days 1 hour ago

Go to www.eu.playstation.com and just use their card service. You just need to sign in with you PSN ID and get the trophy card code its super simple. The only thing is you have to go to your trophy card and click update for it to update your trophies.

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RememberThe357 - 177 days 8 hours ago

Says the MS fanboy.

Business is money, and money is power. Therefor, if your in business your, at least to a certain extent, power hungry.

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thereapersson - 177 days 7 hours ago

You're really pathetic, Popinsky.

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ultimolu - 177 days 5 hours ago

*sighs and shakes head*

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Soda Popinsky - 177 days 3 hours ago

"Business is money, and money is power. Therefor, if your in business your, at least to a certain extent, power hungry."

That's not what it sounds like when MS pays for exclusive content. Hypocrite much? ;)

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YogiBear - 177 days 1 hour ago

There is a difference between power hungry and throwing money at every problem your company has.

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Soda Popinsky - 176 days 23 hours ago

Or you could call it strategic investing.

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YoMeViet - 176 days 22 hours ago

I thought those were called brides?

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YogiBear - 176 days 21 hours ago

Make up whatever titles you want.

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z-hayden - 176 days 15 hours ago

no, strategic investing would be buying studios not buying one game in a series...

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Narutone66 - 176 days 11 hours ago

use arguing with a MS employee.

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dorron - 177 days 8 hours ago

I know, but I prefer the ps3trophycard ...

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PLAYINB3YOND - 177 days 7 hours ago

I've noticed my Rock Band drums default to number 7 on my PS3, I have to keep reassigning it.

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Jdoki - 177 days 6 hours ago

@Playinb3yond

Yeah, same here. It's a little annoying, especially the first time it happened and I had no clue.

Definitely started happening after the 2.80 firmware update.

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PirateThom - 177 days 4 hours ago

I believe it was intentional.

Rock Band/Guitar Hero/Buzz peripherals used to default to 1, meaning every other game would need to have the controller reassigned.

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Jdoki - 177 days 7 hours ago

Maybe Sony are being @assholes.

But there are a few Trophy websites, and this is the only one complaining (at the moment).

I use the Playfire service, and at the moment it's working fine. If Sony have an issue with sites creating Trophy Cards I would imagine they would block all of them. Perhaps we shall see over the next few days.

However, if Sony are just about to launch a service of their own, then I can understand why they are doing this.

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Jdoki - 177 days 6 hours ago

I'm in the opposite camp.

I think Trophies and Achievements add loads to games.

A tricky to obtain Trophy may make the gamer think of different ways of playing a game.

I played Crackdown a lot, and loved the game for what it was. But the Achievements made the game even better, and most importantly they were fun. Achievements compliment a game.

Same for inFamous. The Trophies gained for pulling off some of the more outlandish stunts/kills, had the knock on effect of changing how I played the main game as well.

I don't care for the points allocated or colour of the Trophy, I just like having these additional goals and objectives.

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Soda Popinsky - 177 days 3 hours ago

I just love poking fun at Sony fanboys cause they are so serious =)

I bet my avatar made you pee a little the first time you noticed it.

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ArcticWolfUK - 177 days ago

the official cards need more veriety tbh

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siyrobbo - 177 days 5 hours ago

theres really no reason why you cant have both

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Revvin - 177 days 2 hours ago

If I was paying for the service then perhaps but the PSN is free, they run a large number of dedicated servers for games and you don't get bombarded with adverts. Someone has to pay for the bandwidth being used for each query sent by these kinds of trophy card sites and you can be sure those sites make money from advertising so why should they be able to use up bandwidth from Sony?

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dem0n - 176 days 18 hours ago

^^^

Another stupid fanboy account.

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Jack Klugman - 176 days 19 hours ago

i didnt realise how lame gamer cards actually are. you tellin me they don't even automatically update all the time? and some people even pay for that? and then they want to cry to people about xbox live fees.what a bunch of chodes

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