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Burnout Paradise gets Trophies, but they are not retroactive

The version 1.5 patch for Burnout Paradise has went live this morning, meaning that you can now get started on building your collection.

It was thought that the Trophies were to be retroactive, however it has been confirmed on Criterion's website that they are not as it states "Burnout Paradise saves are locked to your profile. We had hoped to use this to retroactively award trophies, but we discovered during testing that this is not possible. You will therefore require a fresh game-save to receive trophies in Burnout Paradise. If you're familiar with PS3 trophies already, you'll recognise that this works in the same way as all other games that have added trophy support post-release".

*Update*

The patch only seems to be live in Europe at the moment, however it has been confirmed it will hit everywhere later today.

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Xiphos - 463 days 10 hours ago

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I can confirm it's not live in America yet. Booted it up upon reading this.

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Ben1054 - 463 days 9 hours ago

1.1 - its live

in england,

im not going to bother with the trophies, i completes all f**king 200 races for no trophies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !1
OMG
and all the bike races WTF

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littlenuthead - 463 days 6 hours ago

1.2 - @ben

my m8 been playing it for weeks now and has 100% thinking he'll get the trophies, cant wait 2 get home 2 tell him he's got 2 do it all again =D

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OgTheClever - 463 days 6 hours ago

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Some people might disagree with me but I'm actually glad that the trophies aren't retroactive. I've been holding of playing the game fully until the trophy patch came out whilst my brother pretty much has 100%.

This means that I should be able to get them all before him now and have some real bragging rights!

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Mitchell - 463 days 5 hours ago

1.4 - I'm buying it today

So I'll be up into the early hours filling my Trophy Case!

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gaffyh - 463 days 5 hours ago

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OMG not retroactive!!! This is pissing me off, I've almost completed the game and the trophies are not retroactive.

That is taking the piss, the game is too long to play ALL over again

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whoelse - 463 days 2 hours ago

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That's so full of yay and.. OH SH*T WTF!!!

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nbsmatambo - 462 days 23 hours ago

1.7 - i knew it!@!

and im pissed!!

still a good game though =)

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Xiphos - 462 days 21 hours ago

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12 hours later... still no patch in America.

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Rama26285 - 463 days 10 hours ago

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Can anyone in the UK let me know some things about this update? Firstly, is it live yet? (thought that doesn't really matter to me since I'm working all day). And secondly, what trophies are retroactive? For some reason I'm not expecting them all to be.

Really looking forward to this update :)

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Rama26285 - 463 days 9 hours ago

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So they're not retroactive? Wonder why they didn't let us know before today, to avoid all this disappointment. So since the file is locked to your PSN account or whatever, I guess you need to go to the save game folder and delete the save game file to start collecting trophies??

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andron666 - 463 days 8 hours ago

2.2 - I don't think you need to delete your save...

Keep a copy if you do ;)

But you have to start a new save to get trophies. Too bad for those who have finished the game already...

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Mr Bun - 463 days 7 hours ago

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Who has time to redo all of the races in burnout and play the LBP beta?

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wotta - 463 days 10 hours ago

3 - The update is live

In the Uk & Europe at the moment, the trophies do not seem to be retroactive though?

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Genocide_General - 463 days 10 hours ago

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I hope its only a bug I really don't want to do it all over again.

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Xiphos - 463 days 10 hours ago

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European friend on my PSN list says they don't appear to be retro. Gonna be pretty pissed if I have to do everything all over again, seeing as how I have 101% in both cars and bikes.

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Foxx77 - 463 days 3 hours ago

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Have to agree with that... I got 101% done with the bike license over the weekend and have been done with the cars license for a long while now. I don't know if I want to go back into the game and play for another 40-60 hours to re-do everything I had already done. Really not looking forward to the fences, billboards, and jumps. Too many games coming out to spend time on these trophies I'm thinking. I'm just dissapointed that they said the trophies would be retroactive when trophies launched and now they're not. Oh well, at least they still did add them for those that will go back for them or just picking the game up today.

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PirateThom - 463 days 10 hours ago

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Patch is live, it's only for trophies.

They're not retroactive, but Criterion seem to be having a few problems. I'd wait until it's worldwide before saying the trophies aren't retroactive though.

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wotta - 463 days 9 hours ago

7 - Not Retroactive

It's been confirmed that the trophies are not retroactive.

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Marceles - 463 days 9 hours ago

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haha awww...I guess they want to make it fair to new people buying the PSN version? Oh well...

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Vistrix - 463 days 9 hours ago

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Wow... so I just wasted about 18 hours of playtime?

Why did they tell us this in the last few minutes of release?

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PS360OWNER - 463 days 9 hours ago

10 - SH!T

I Just got 100% now i have to erase it. Why did they wait till the last minute to tell us

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FAQS - 463 days 8 hours ago

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Q:...
A: I think if you make a backup of the save file on a external disc or memory device, you can delete your save file on the PS3 HDD, and keep your 100% file saved for a posterior use...I think this works!

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name - 463 days 9 hours ago

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Criterion said they were retroactive though..

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Silogon - 463 days 9 hours ago

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Who cares? I mean, what's so bad about playing your games again? I'd hate to have seen you all back in the nes days. Dying over and over on SMB or Ninja Gaiden and having to replay a level again and again. I bet none of you would've made it out alive. "ha"

anyways, this is a bummer I'm sure to a lot of you who did put many hours into and just wanna play for leassure now, but give it another go. It might even make the community that much stronger.???

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Asurastrike - 463 days 8 hours ago

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Replaying a 3 minute level in Mario is a bit different than replaying an entire game with hundreds of events.

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SilPho - 463 days 9 hours ago

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Confirmed not retroactive: http://www.criteriongames.c...

Even though I've been playing this game since launch, I will continue to play it again for my trophy goodness. That platinum trophy will be mine :D It will be nice to explore the city from a newbie's point of view again.

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Rama26285 - 463 days 8 hours ago

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Something interesting about that page is the quote:

"These trophies are awarded for the gameplay that shipped in the original Burnout Paradise disk version."

Does this mean there will be different trophies for the downloadable PSN version?

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kman1112 - 463 days 8 hours ago

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this is a joke if id have known they werent retro id have stopped playing the game till now and then started up thanks alot guys for f**k all was looking forward to geting my trophys like the others said why wait till the last min and u were doing so well with ur updates and then u let us down

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Jenzo - 463 days 8 hours ago

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I don't think there was anything Criterion could do about it. It probably has to do with Sony's implementation of the trophy system, and like Criterion said "If you're familiar with PS3 trophies already, you'll recognise that this works in the same way as all other games that have added trophy support post-release". I don't think retroactive trophies are possible, which is a shame for people who have spent hours and hours on some games.

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Mr Bun - 463 days 7 hours ago

14.2 - @Jenzo

I am pretty sure that some of the Warhawk trophies were retro...not 100% sure though.

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Ro11z - 463 days 7 hours ago

14.3 - Warhawks online only tho

meaning all your progress is stored on the server NOT your Ps3

kinda annoying tho

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Jenzo - 463 days 7 hours ago

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Like Ro11z said. Maybe there's a way to go around the problem by moving your gamesave to a server and updating it from there.

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SilPho - 463 days 8 hours ago

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I think it's weird that the platinum trophy is awarded for completing all of the trophies which were in the original and not the extra content. I would understand if the content wasn't free, but since you need to have internet access to download the trophy patch, you'll get the content packs as well, so the platinum might as well require those as well.

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Lord_Ash - 462 days 17 hours ago

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Maybe they'll ship the new discs with the trophy patch already on it, who knows (except for the devs).

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ShadowPliskin - 463 days 8 hours ago

16 - WHAT THE F!!!!!!

Criterion themselves said they were 100% retroactive, now there NOT!!
This is absolutely ridiculous, i'm sooo pissed!

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mephman - 463 days 8 hours ago

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Ugh, I know how you feel. I'm not sure I can really be bothered to start all over again.

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Drekken - 463 days 6 hours ago

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Yeah you know what... screw this game. I have 100% and it is a cool game, but not fun enough to make me play through again. RIDICULOUS LYING DEVS.

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kazuma - 463 days 8 hours ago

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yeah, i'm gonna play burnout paradise all over again and get 100% on cars and bikes again, great way to get our hopes up criterion....f*ck you

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No FanS Land - 463 days 8 hours ago

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I began playing like hell to get them from9 to 52 % in 8 days! Gotta start all over again...

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PirateThom - 463 days 8 hours ago

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I'm back up to 8%! Only another 18% to get back to where I was!

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NeonSkull - 463 days 8 hours ago

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its not that bad, not like the games sucks, looking foward to playing again for all the shiny trophies. I was 101%

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Peatris - 463 days 7 hours ago

21 - BULLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

Wow i would have sworn that i had read something saying that their trophies would be retroactive. I will not start a new game, I just heard that the trophies would be retroactive and kept playing thats the whole reason i kept the game.
Well i know a game thats going to Eb games

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mariusmal - 463 days 5 hours ago

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oh yes you have

http://www.criteriongames.c...

"The official Web site of Burnout Paradise's developer, EA-owned Criterion Games, also revealed the patch will be the first update to retroactively award trophies automatically. "Trophies will be awarded based on your progress in your existing save game," the developer said in a statement. "When the update arrives the trophies you have earned will reflect the progress you've made in the game at that time (so you won't have to replay the game again to earn trophies)."

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mariusmal - 463 days 7 hours ago

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i love trophies and achievements. but i'm not gonna make burnout ones. i already have the game completed in cars and bikes. not gonna do all again. i have a life.

BTW they said "they are retroactive... NO NEED TO STOP PLAYING IT"

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Rama26285 - 463 days 7 hours ago

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So I take it you don't ever play a game over more than once? Just curious...

Not trying to question your anger, cause I'm in the same boat as you. Just wondering whether it's out of principle that you wont play it again, or that you just don't do games more than once?

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Zanasea - 463 days 7 hours ago

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I don't play twice a game that I completed entirely, unless it has a story like any RPG.

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mariusmal - 463 days 5 hours ago

22.3 - @ Rama26285

good point there mate. i replay games ofter. i'm replaying mass effect after replayed bioshock :D
i'm just pissed because i bought paradise 1 month ago and i tought "screw it.. im gonna wait for trophies", then they came with the retroactive bla bla, don't stop playing bla bla. i believed in them and played.

and i dont replay a game that i cleared everything in it. i only replay story modes.

ps: bubbles for you mate

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loz85 - 463 days 7 hours ago

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It's a good thing I didn't bother doing too much before the patch. Criterion should have said trophies "might" be retroactive so people wouldn't spend hours playing for nothing.

Besides that I don't like the way that to get a platinum I have to buy a playstation eye, that really takes the p!ss.

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