Sony is reported to have said that Trophies patched into old games will not be awarded retrospectively.
The decision to not award Trophies in this way is due to the relative ease of save game sharing on PlayStation 3, according to this.
Had Trophies been retrospective, save game files with everything unlocked could have been easily traded, making it easy for people to cheat the system.
This means that should Naughty Dog patch Uncharted: Drake's Fortune with Trophies, you'll need to go through the game all over again in order to get the points up for grabs from it.
Who honestly gives a crap if people are going to cheat for a trophy? So they could do it but won't? F**k that I'm not replaying through games. Though i may put off starting MGS4 again until Wednesday now.
although im now half way through my 3rd play through of Uncharted (its that good ), and I dont mind playing it a 4th time, i can see why many would be angered by this, but as sony said, its for file swapping reasons.
But having to play through GTA IV again, a 30 hour game, no thanks.
as long as call of duty 4 gets it as well as rumble, then ill be a happy gamer.
also, does the in game xmb work whist watching a dvd or blu ray disc? I'd hope so.
I really don't see what the big deal is. There's already tons of people achievement whoring on XBL, so why punish thousands of honest gamers just because a few idiots place waaaay to much importance on a score that only the individual ultimately cares about?
For me achievements(or trophies) are a nice treat when I do something well in a game, so I'm not fussed if I don't get all of them, because I don't necessarily want to do every last tiny or boring thing in a game (like shooting all the pigeons in GTA4... yawn).
Let the people who want to cheat do so. There are people on XBL for example with the kinds of gamerscores I couldn't reach if I played my 360 24/7 and in no way does that effect my enjoyment or sense satisfaction when I win a new achievement. And if these people tried to blag a career in gaming off the back of their score, well... I think the their true ability would show up pretty quickly...
Great news, sony are actually making wise decisions lately This will give me an incentive to play through my older games again to get my moneys worth. Something which I enjoyed on the 360.
This is of cause assuming the old games get patched and I would imagine it would mean starting from scratch from the moment the game is patched not from when 2.4 becomes live.
If you don't want to play mgs4 twice I'd wait until it's updated.
News-flash. Cheating the system is going to be easy, regardless. Game saves ARE NOT tied to specific Sony Online accounts. Because a user can still download a gamesave, copy it to the PS3 HDD and load that game save, they can get trophies by simply beating the last bosses, etc. Load someone else's Fifa game save, play the last game of a championship and get an easy trophy.
A poorly thought out attempt at competing with achievements and Xbox Live gamerscores. Should have been designed in the OS from the get-go, like the 360.
Wait.. i haven't got this wrong have i? So every time a game gets patched, i lose my bastad trophies?
Yeah, you've got that completely wrong. You just need a patch for the Trophies to work. Not all games will get patched, as not all games will get trophies. Basically after the update when you enter a throphy compatible game, you'll need to download a patch first.
Still, i think they should've been retrospective. Still, something to do through the games drout through Summer.
Who honestly gives a crap if people are going to cheat for a trophy? So they could do it but won't? F**k that I'm not replaying through games. Though i may put off starting MGS4 again until Wednesday now.
Because unlike xboxlive psn are rumored to add points toawrd the psn store and rewards in that vein so this avoiding the cheats is 1 wise cause who likes cheats? and 2 you will feel good about your rewards. This will be true gaming.
Yes I can see the point in doing this because it is so easy to get saves off the internet but some games i enjoyed the first play through will just pis me off now. For example Resistance, i mean it was good the first time and i played it loads and loads when it had just came out but now iv played COD4 its gonna rouin what i thought of resistance if i have to play through it again... also mentioning COD4, will we have to restart our online accounts somehow to get trophies that we've already passed???
Who honestly gives a crap if people are going to cheat for a trophy? So they could do it but won't? F**k that I'm not replaying through games. Though i may put off starting MGS4 again until Wednesday now.
Uh...Have you ever heard of Konami before? Them patching something takes years...not months or weeks...unless they just release a game then its patched before release lol..
Don't expect this "Trophy" system to work with MGS of the bat...Also...Anyone think this Trophy system is too little too late? and just ripping the idea off the Xbox360?
Also...I ain't replaying through old tired games (the few on the ps3 i own) to get some Trophy... All this is, is a good excuse to replay our old games if we can be bothered...
Ahhh well...Looks like that 1000 I got on drakes won't be awarded...Selling PS3 anyways...
who cares about trophies -- without a gamerscore its pointless
Well actually you kind of do because the amount of trophys you get adds to your level. If anything its proberly more diverse because there's bronze, silver, gold and platinum so it's not as straight forward.
who cares about trophies -- without a gamerscore its pointless
Well actually you kind of do because the amount of trophys you get adds to your level. If anything its proberly more diverse because there's bronze, silver, gold and platinum so it's not as straight forward.
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I'm not replaying through games. Though i may put off starting MGS4 again until Wednesday now.
), and I dont mind playing it a 4th time, i can see why many would be angered by this, but as sony said, its for file swapping reasons.
This will give me an incentive to play through my older games again to get my moneys worth. Something which I enjoyed on the 360.
