D'oh! MGS: Portable Ops pulled, missing UK rating on UMD

LOL

Can't SONY get anything right? At least once? Just for a change?

Ricardo: Uh, this was actually Konami.

lulz... Ricardo got pwned

I wouldn't want to be the guy in charge of the stamps. That's a lot of money Konami's having to eat.

I work at Choices UK and this happens more than you think, The Godfather on Xbox, Reservoir Dogs on PS2, The Godfather on PS3 all had the same issue.

If that's the case then maybe they factor in some contingency in the MSRP of the game.

Damn Sony, it's all thir fault. I am
never buying a Sony product ever again, what with this issue and RootKits, and forcing Blu-Ray on me.Screw you Sony...(end Xbot
pretend rant)

@Mark

C'mon, you're blind if you don't think Sony is forcing Blu-Ray down your throat. Same thing they did with UMDs and look where that got them.

The rest is true, however.

dont compare blu ray to umd's. Apples and oranges. I know it was "pretend", but it did remind me of people complaining about rootkits which it just funny as hell. How many of those people complaing about rootkits even buy cd's. They probably are the ones downloading all their (and I use that word lightly)music for free anyway. It just another bullet point in which to hate sony...

@C. Grant
Totally off topic, but Chris I really appreciate that you actually take the time to leave comments and respond to people about your blog posts, unlike some of your other blogging comrads. More bloggers should comment. Oh yeah nice podcast.

BBFC's jurisdiction only covers Britain, not Europe.

"(think ESRB rating, but with an accent)"

Well, fair enough. I do think "AYE ES AAAR BEE YUH-HUH" every time I see ESRB. Oh wait, no I don't. Shut up Joystiq.

If its on the freakin' box, why does it HAVE to be on the UMD???

Thats almost as stupid as trying to talk sense into people like Ricardo...

This is not all Europe! Its only in the UK. I live in Italy and I received my copy of Portable Ops today (even if it was sent on Friday) and the disc has the stamp on and works with no problem... so MG: PO is delayed only in UK... or all Europe except for Italy

@Phranctoast

OH yeah you're right! I forgot about the rootkits they install on your computer when you put one of their CDs in your CD-ROM drive.

See.. thanks for reminding me!

Blasted SONY! They already (literally) make everything! Now they're going for MY computer!

"OH yeah you're right! I forgot about the rootkits they install on your computer when you put one of their CDs in your CD-ROM drive."

If you didn't know, here's the deal. Starforce is more common than the rootkits on CDs. Sony snuck em on, got caught, never used em again.

And before you go "well, how do I know if I'm inflicted by the DRM root kits," ask yourself these this question.

Did I buy any of these CDs?
12 Songs by Neil Diamond
At This Time by Burt Bacharach
The Best of Shel Silverstein by Shel Silverstein
B in the Mix: The Remixes by Britney Spears
Bob Brookmeyer & Friends by Bob Brookmeyer
The Body Acoustic by Cyndi Lauper
Broken Valley by Life of Agony
Cautivo by Chayanne
Complicated by Nivea
The Dead 60s by The Dead 60s
Dreamin' My Dreams by Patty Loveless
Drum Suite by Art Blakey
The Essential Dion by Dion
The Essential Pete Seeger by Pete Seeger
Faso Latido by A Static Lullaby
Foggy Mountain Jamboree by Flatt & Scruggs
Friendship by Ray Charles
Get Right With the Man by Van Zant
Goldon by Elkland
The Great American Songbook by Billie Holiday
The Great American Songbook by Frank Sinatra
The Great American Songbook by Louis Armstrong
Healthy in Paranoid Times by Our Lady Peace
I Saw The Light With Some Help From My Friends by Earl Scruggs
Interiors by Rosanne Cash
The Invisible Invasion by The Coral
Jeru by Gerry Mulligan
King's Record Shop by Rosanne Cash
Live In Tokyo by G3
Manhattan Symphonie by Dexter Gordon
Mary Mary by Mary Mary
My Very Special Guests by George Jones
Nothing Is Sound by Switchfoot
On ne Change Pas by Celine Dion
Phantoms by Acceptance
Rebirth by Jennifer Lopez
Ride by Shelly Fairchild
Robbery by Teena Marie
The Season by Jane Monheit
Seven Year Ache by Rosanne Cash
Shine by Trey Anastasio
Silver's Blue by Horace Silver Quintet
Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook by Bette Midler
Something To Be Proud Of: The Best of 1999-2005 by Montgomery Gentry
Susie Suh by Susie Suh
Suspicious Activity? by The Bad Plus
This Is Me... Then by Jennifer Lopez
This Is Niecy by Deniece Williams
Times Like These by Buddy Jewell
To Love Again by Chris Botti
Touch by Amerie
Unfabulous and More: Emma Roberts by Emma Roberts
Unwritten by Natasha Bedingfield
Vivian by Vivian Green
Walking Among The Living by Jon Randall
Who We Are by Hope Partlow

That is the complete list of XCP affected CD releases. Personally, I narrowly dodged the bullet on Our Lady Peace and Cyndi Lauper. By there are only so many Lauper compilations you can buy before they overlap (read: 1 compilation) and OLP has sucked for a while now.

nice list sheppy!!!!


I'm not sure if I have shine by trey anastasio. I havent bought a cd it such a long time. I just use rhapsody to go. covers just about everything I could want....

Its not the poor designers fault.

- where was their account manager?
- did the client not proof their own product?
- did they not supply the correct brief?
- did no one at the umd production place notice?

mistakes happen often, and mostly its the clients fault for not checking their own product.

FO SHAME ON THEM!!

Well I ordered my copy from Play.com and they didn't say anything...actually they sent it out the day I ordered it on 4th May.

It's kind of sad that a giant fuss like this is made over a rating stamp that for all intents and purposes is completely redundant and will never ever need to be referenced in the real world.

Nitpick: The ability to snap necks was removed in MPO. About all you can do in a CQC chokehold is interrogate and choke into unconciousness.