[QUOTE="WutTimeIsIt"][QUOTE="Rakuho"]AND.. we already can get some games over PSN (that are practical in size to store on your hdd), so making the whole "buy the disk so that you can extract data from it onto you hdd through a 1 time code" redundant. and also a waste of time, space and money, naturally. and that doesn't include the pirating/stealing/etc. the guys i quoted are talking about. Mr. hellyeah, America and Sir 233, danimal, if you will :P
Rakuho
ye but some people who pay 60 dollars for games like to have hard copies (like myself)I understand that,
Let me get back to your idea: don't you see the kind of problems that could arise from that? the idea itself works, in fact i like it. (even if that would mean buying a load of hdd space) but it would only function in a perfect, honest and crimeless world.
look at what's happneing to PSP games. people have homebrew programs which allow them to play PSP games in cso and iso formats without the umds (granted, sony is doing the same thing by selling psp games over psn, but i think that's more of an effect to the pirating). If PS3 games could be extracted easier thanks to code extraction function, hackers would easily be able to go around it and upload full games on the internet, which, through some other homebrew program, you'll be able to play on your ps3. i don't think that's so farfetched, do you? I only care that the gaming industry continues to earn profits, giving them the incentive to earn more by producing games. I understand things aren't so black and white, but i would still rather break my back changing disks than granting such technology to the public. the discovery of nuclear energy was great too, before people started using it blow **** up. call me conservative, if you will. Maybe we'll talk when the PS4 (did he just say PS4.., yeah, he did) comes out as of how the whole game format and transferability will go.
very good points, i was thinking there was ways around piracy, but i didnt realize that if sony produced a technology to easily copy their games onto a hard drive (even with a code that lets them do it once), hackers could reverse engineer this technology to figure it out and use it for pirating....then again, that is why i was saying that they could make a 1-time-use code (that resets itself with a proof of purchase or something), and that way games can only be installed once on a system. this can be done using the online functions so that a sony-specific site could authorize the use of these codes or something along those lines....i dunno maybe it is a stupid idea but it just bugs me when i want to play maybe only 20 mins of a game online, while im in the middle of a campaign on another game, and due to disc swapping, screen loading process, and then doing it again to get back to my campaign, i just skip those 20 mins...in the cartridge days this wasnt a big issue cuz it was *flip switch, insert cartridge, flip switch and 2 secs later ur in the middle of a game eating your first shroom to become supersized*..oh well
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