Playstation 3 busted wide open.
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I gave MW2 another go last night and now its beyond redemption, not only do the hackers open and close your challenges at will, they now have the ability to make all your hard work disappears by messing with your stats.....i had something like 6888 off kills and 5777 odd deaths, so i was doing quite well, but a quick check last night and i see i now have 56888 kills and 5777 deaths....so that's it, my actual stats are gone.
Now I'm at a crossroads with this game, keep it just in case they do manage to sort it all out or trade it in and be done with it as their or no going back.....and that's the thing, their has been rumblings that Sony and IW are working on something big to take back this game from the hackers, but unless IW has all our game data sitting on some secret untouchable server i don't think it possible to get all the legit players back to their official stats before the game was blown apart.
I think i will keep it till the end of the month and then trade it and, before it goes down in values any more.
I gave MW2 another go last night and now its beyond redemption, not only do the hackers open and close your challenges at will, they now have the ability to make all your hard work disappears by messing with your stats.....i had something like 6888 off kills and 5777 odd deaths, so i was doing quite well, but a quick check last night and i see i now have 56888 kills and 5777 deaths....so that's it, my actual stats are gone.
Now I'm at a crossroads with this game, keep it just in case they do manage to sort it all out or trade it in and be done with it as their or no going back.....and that's the thing, their has been rumblings that Sony and IW are working on something big to take back this game from the hackers, but unless IW has all our game data sitting on some secret untouchable server i don't think it possible to get all the legit players back to their official stats before the game was blown apart.
I think i will keep it till the end of the month and then trade it and, before it goes down in values any more.
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I gave MW2 another go last night and now its beyond redemption, not only do the hackers open and close your challenges at will, they now have the ability to make all your hard work disappears by messing with your stats.....i had something like 6888 off kills and 5777 odd deaths, so i was doing quite well, but a quick check last night and i see i now have 56888 kills and 5777 deaths....so that's it, my actual stats are gone.
Now I'm at a crossroads with this game, keep it just in case they do manage to sort it all out or trade it in and be done with it as their or no going back.....and that's the thing, their has been rumblings that Sony and IW are working on something big to take back this game from the hackers, but unless IW has all our game data sitting on some secret untouchable server i don't think it possible to get all the legit players back to their official stats before the game was blown apart.
I think i will keep it till the end of the month and then trade it and, before it goes down in values any more.
It's mindboggling that MW2 is so badly designed it would allow such a thing. Why the hell would the client ever be authoritative in terms of stats? The server and the server alone should be tracking that. Infinity Ward seriously screwed the pooch in their implementation here.
Recently IW admitted(Blamed the PS3), that they had handed the security for the MW2 game totally to the system hardware, so when that got hacked the whole game was open to abuse, as we see now, and i know COD4 has also starting to suffer online with the same hacks that hit and affect people game personally, removing their rewards, resetting their prestige and the likes.
I wonder how many other games are sitting waiting to be abused due to this method of security.
Oh and just a heads up, Sony released a minor update, 3.56....two hours later it was hacked.
Firmware 3.65 hacked
Of course who know whats this patch does, but it seems quite a minor update for such a big issue, could it be a trojan horse of some sort.
I wonder how many other games are sitting waiting to be abused due to this method of security.
Oh and just a heads up, Sony released a minor update, 3.56....two hours later it was hacked.
Firmware 3.65 hacked
Of course who know whats this patch does, but it seems quite a minor update for such a big issue, could it be a trojan horse of some sort.
Well, Sony can't change the master encryption key, otherwise no games would work, so the system is fatally compromised. There's been talk of using serial numbers like PC games use.
Well I'm not about to consign the PS3 to the bin just yet, i like everybody else have no idea what Sony can and cant do on their end, so i can afford to give them some slack to see what they do...after all it only took the hackers 4 years and that was only because somebody slipped up somewhere.......Silly beggars.
Suppose I had a company that made games consoles. Suppose I'm developing a new product, and in five years or so I'll be developing another. Because my products are so good, I'm concerned that people will continue playing on the current one and be less interested in buying my next one.
I know that if someone sabotaged the online experience for my players at just the right time, that would make the console undesirable, and help to retire it when I'm getting ready to sell a new one.
I could choose to have a master key as the basis of all security, and insist (against common sense) that game developers rely fully upon that, with full knowledge of what would happen if it should be cracked.
I know that if someone sabotaged the online experience for my players at just the right time, that would make the console undesirable, and help to retire it when I'm getting ready to sell a new one.
I could choose to have a master key as the basis of all security, and insist (against common sense) that game developers rely fully upon that, with full knowledge of what would happen if it should be cracked.
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Pretty weak conspiracy theory. Sony sees the PS3 as having a 10-year lifecycle, and they have to because of the obscene amount of money they sunk into the R&D for the PS3. They can't really afford to start building the "PS4" now. The PS3 install base hasn't plateaued yet. For Sony to do this deliberately would be to shoot themselves in the foot. Planned obsolescence isn't something you have to deliberately put into something like the PS3 because by its very nature it has a pretty limited lifespan--all optical media devices do, especially with Sony's notoriously shitty QA.
(In all fairness, Microsoft's is worse.)
Funnily enough Sony as of last June were actually making a profit from the whole PS3 division.
I didn't know they wanted it to last that long. So we're only about half way through the seventh generation? Previous generations have been born approximately every five years.
Is that change of strategy due to high research and development costs? Or that games take so much longer to create? Or that the platform is ahead of it's time? Or that graphical improvements are less noticeable now, so there's less reason to bring out a successor after 5 years (2012/2013)?
Looks like that little minor update had more in it that was first thought, as a lot of hackers are finding out to their cost.
Ban hammer hits BO hackers
Ban hammer hits BO hackers
Yeah, I don't have any sympathy for the cheaters getting banned.
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Stone_Cold_Sisko
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Does it ban people who have actually cheated/hacked the game, or anybody at all who have cracked the PS3's security system even if they've done nothing (or just installed linux or whatever)?
From what I've read they're doing it to any account found to be used on a PS3 with non-stock firmware.
Interesting. Hmm. What happens to the poor soul who unwittingly buys one of these permabanned PS3 consoles used, only to discover it's compromised when they attempt to go online with it?
Gatekeeper
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^^^One of the reasons i would never touch the second hand 360 market....it's just to easy for the hackers to trade in their old banned 360s towards a nice new unbanned 360, and start the whole cycle all over again.....now we can firmly put the second hand PS3 market into that equation now.
Yeah, that's actually a known problem with the used console market. A lot of the second-hand 360s being sold are banned from XBL, which is why they're being sold in the first place. I believe Microsoft bans the console itself, whereas with the Black Ops issue in particular Sony is only banning accounts. This has one nasty side effect: if you ever use your account on a friend's hacked console, then go home, you'll find that you are nevertheless banned even though your own console hasn't been jailbroken. I think it should be tied to whether or not the hardware you're currently using is compromised, but perhaps this was easier to implement.
Well, it's entirely possible, but them's the breaks. Wanna play online? Don't hack your console or associate with anyone that does. You can't have it both ways.
Wanna play online? Don't hack your console or associate with anyone that does. You can't have it both ways.
As far as I'm aware so far its only PS3s with CFW that's being banned from the PSN, you wont get your legit console banned for running your account on a modded console, but you will get your account banned from the games you played and hacked via said console....as is happening with BO......No doubt MW2 is about to be hit with the same bans.
This is the very thing i was hoping for, account bans and console bans.....hit them were it hurts, in their pocket.
OK they can buy a new console but anything they had on that banned account is gone, say goodbye to all that DLC.
I may purchase BO back again, now these idiots are gone.