If your area has been hacked, too, be sure to stay warm! My town has most certainly been hacked. It was warm enough that I hiked (and sweated!) on Sunday, but today, there are tiny icicles on my house.
The Playstation 3 was cracked recently. Several games have had their online play unofficially altered, sometimes with disastrous results. The hackers are "playing" several games, but Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has suffered the worst, with people going so far as to insert tickers at the bottom of the screen, advertising their websites. Profiles are changed irrevocably, "players" disguise themselves as trees, and pieces of scenery are now usable objects. I keep using the quotation marks because there is no actual play value, here. Several titles are involved, but they've all been reduced to the same game with the same, single rule: ruin the fun for everyone else. I've never understood the point of playing a game if you're not actually going to play the game.
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i love the last panel. <3
The Playstation 3 was hacked so that people could put back the "install other OS" option (so people can put Linux on their machines if they want to). Apparently the judge on this one is a complete moron, as he's ordered the guy who did it to go on the internet and retrieve all of his code. Like that's possible.
The online gaming aspect sounds like something unrelated; it just happened at the same time. Someone has hacked the online network; obviously Sony needs to bump up security there.
If Sony had just left well enough alone and not taken away the "install other OS" option, this probably wouldn't have happened - or at least, not as quickly. I mean, seriously - you're taking away the ability for people to install Linux, when Linux users are the exact people who are going to be able to figure out how to crack it before anyone else?!?
I still think the judge is an idiot, though.
I think that if Sony had never had the option in the first place, this wouldn't even be an issue. But it sounds like they've not simply taken it off the new machines, they've taken it off the ones already out there, too. I'd be upset if I paid good money for a machine and gotten it all modded out the way I wanted it, using a feature that was already there, and then all my hard work disappeared in a software upgrade or something.
Edit: Oh, um, wanted to clarify that I don't think the hackers should be doing so. I just understand why they would do it.
Edited at 2011-02-02 06:53 pm (UTC)
All that matters to them is that they dominate the leaderboards. That they hold all the ranks, and they control the entire game.
It's part of the problem with the new generation of gamers. So many games removed the pain of losing and having to work to win a game that a lot of them feel they are entitled to win at every game they play. And if they can't win the easy way, it's time to hack the system to make it possible. They scoff having to do hard work to actually EARN a level and respect.
This is why I am avoiding Activision backed games. Activision sucks at policing their own gaming servers to stop hackers and glitchers. Electronic Arts is slightly better - I have yet to see any hackers or serious glitchers in Battlefield: Bad Company 2. People have tried - but EA immediately boots anyone they catch hacking and heavily glitching. It even boots people using lag to avoid getting killed.
It does seem some games are more secure than others. Some developers relied entirely on the encryption system built into the PS3, and those games are borked. Games like Black Ops have their own security layer, and they've been able to patch as needed.
Meanwhile these idiots have ruined games for everyone else. >:[
It's not like they all worked hard to do it.
It's also not hard to do compared to actually putting in a lot of play time to reach prestige level whatever. Why play the game seriously for more than an hour a day to get ahead on the leaderboards when I can put in one hour now and create a hack that gives me an advantage for the rest of my time playing the game?
Good grief, that's just wrong. Why do a select few decide to spoil it for everyone else? Mean people = fail.
...the cracker thing... sucks, simply put.
It gets worse, though; out of curiosity, and for more information (hoping to find a list of games affected, anyway), I typed "hacked PS3 games" into Google, and know what came up first? www.ps3-hacks.com
Seriously, what. Why can't they just play the game, like normal people. Idjits. -_-;
Regardless of that nonsense, I agree with tuuli_chan - 1, 2, 3, 4, someone declare a snow war! :D
This hacking news makes me sad though :( I was just starting to venture into the world of online gaming on my ps3, and was hoping to play MW2 online one of these days... guess that won't happen :p
Or maybe it's just because she's a My Little Pony. ;)