Medal of Honor insists on PS3 firmware 3.42, blocks PSJailbreak

@Monkey D Luffy
*stab*

@AirIntake

I was under the impression that all PS3 games required a certain firmware version or above to run. It's just that that version is typically dependent on what firmware the game was developed on, so by the time the game hits the market, it's typically not the most recent. E.g. a game releases when 3.30 was the latest firmware, but it only requires 3.00.

@JoeJoeCastillo

Jailbroken PS3 and a JTAG Xbox 360... Pretty much covered.

sucks to be this game right now

@JoeJoeCastillo
I was in the multi-player beta, so I can only speak against that side of the game, but it was terrible. The frame rate was super low, the models did not look like they belonged in a AAA title, and there was an odd reticule drift when crouched - I tested on multiple controllers and on two different systems and the result was generally the same. I know the MP and SP parts of the game use different engines, but if you're buying this game for MP only and nothing's changed since the beta closed... save your money.

@JoeJoeCastillo - A jailbroken PS3, right now anyway. Until a game comes out (like The Last Guardian for instance) that I just have to play, and that is an exclusive, I see no reason to break the great thing I have going with faster load times for the games I already own (not to mention all my games in one place, now that I don't have to mess with discs).

@JoeJoeCastillo I love it when people say "Oh I just back up my games"
bull shit, you're downloading ISOs and playing free games.

@ytilanigiroon

single player was fun and didn't deserve the trashing some sites gave it. other sites loved the single player (i think this one did) and i have to agree with them, it was solid.

@Juri - When I say "I only back up my games", I mean "I only back up my games"

That might not be the case for everyone, but it is true for me. What other people do with their consoles is none of my business.

@BananaBoat.

Yeah yeah, you start off with just backing up your games and making them load faster. Until of course there's that game that's sort of good that you don't think is worth paying for. Ahh! You can just download it! Problem solved.

The game turns out to be great, but hey, it's already free, why pay for it. Besides, you're angry at Sony for XXX, so they deserve to be pirated anyway.

That's how most pirates end up anyway. Might not happen to you, but the temptation is there. Better to just not do it at all.

@PhilipJWitow - Believe me, you are preaching to the choir. I'm probably the most staunchly anti-piracy commenter on Joystiq (God knows I've written enough anti-piracy posts to fill a swimming pool if printed). Your argument is literally the same argument I've made on Joystiq a hundred times in the past for why the "I'll pirate it now, and buy it if I like it" argument is BS (mostly relating to anime, which is where I see this argument the most)

Having said that, I'm not sure what your argument is in this particular case. I shouldn't backup my own games for fear that the pull of piracy will just be too strong for me to resist at some point down the road? That is ridiculous. I've had a computer for decades, and I haven't pirated any games. Why would the PS3 be any different? If your argument is that this PS3 jailbreak should never have happened, all I can say is that it did, and ignoring it in hopes that it will go away isn't going to solve anything.

I'd much rather this exploit have never happened. Now that it has, there is no point in not using it.

@dxrebirth - You wouldn't be impressed. I only have eight or so PS3 games to speak of (MGS4, 3D Dot Game Heroes, Uncharted 2, Demon's Souls, Gundam, and a few others)

@copa
http://kotaku.com/5662749/ps3-pirates-cant-play-medal-of-honor-yet

@copa

The firmware are on the disc, you just need to install.

@Jawmuncher: I wish Trophies were around when I was a kid, I would have soooo many more Platinums

@Jawmuncher

I enjoy trophies as well...although I don't have very many plats....only 14 or so...

@Bumper

I hate them. Whenever I want to transfer a save to friend's house to play there, more often than not I get the "Sorry moron, this save is registered to another user and we can't have you stealing precious trophies now, can we? kthxbai".

@Ospov

Pretty sure they'd put the firmware on the disc itself.

@sammo21

Just remember that re-selling the games is worst than piracy... hey!!! don´t look at me, that´s what the developers said.

anyway just checking any warez news site will let you know that they are working on a way to fix this. So as always just a waste of time.....

@Copland

Nice way to lick $ony balls... lol

@MasterGouken

He's not licking anyone. He just doesn't like pirates.

@InkSix


I think he is talking of EA licking sony balls.....

@C1

Piracy is bigger than ever. Just look at all the businesses created for pirating.
Question: If a pirate is never buy a game anyway. Does it make sense to impliment a reason for them to profit from it?

@Mezstizo

this things are more looked as a challenge than anything else, as you said they don´t buy the game anyway..... so a protection only gives them more reasons to break it, we humans always want what we can´t get, and this always apply to copy protections, is more a robin hood-thing than real wishes to steal the game. And until this day all protections have been defeated....

@C1 - I couldn't agree more. When I sit down to play a game after a long day, I just want it to work. Right now, since there aren't any 3.42 games I care to play, I have no problem taking advantage of the convenience factor of all of my games (Note: Games I own) in one place, ready to be played at a moments notice. If Sony feels the need to banhammer me for doing so, I can live with that, having taken the risk in exchange for the rewards.

@others - Piracy is more of a day one problem in this business. A game is often either profitable or unprofitable based on the sales that occur on the first day. First day sales are even more important for something like Medal of Honor, where the review scores don't match the marketing hype, and the sales "tail" may be shorter than EA had hoped. If requiring a new firmware keeps the pirates at bay for a week, it has pretty much done its job for a game like MOH (it's looking like the new firmware is going to be very difficult to crack for a variety of reasons).

@BananaBoat

I disagree that pirating is really a "day one" problem at all for EA or the developers. (Other than the fact I believe the developers deserve to get paid for their work that is.)

IMO most people who pirate if they find they can't get a pirated version of a game on day one aren't going to run out to their favorite retailer and purchase it. They'll move on to the hundreds of other PS3/XBox 360 games they can pirate and play one of those. I also don't think that many people are going to figure out how to pirate their systems just for one specific game, with the exception of perhaps a game like MW2 last year. I don't think either MOH or Black Ops falls in to that category of "I must have this game even if I have to figure out how to hack/mod my system to do it" for most people, although I'm sure there are some people who feel that way.

To use an example in another industry, books that I can't buy for my Kindle I don't run out and buy the paper version. If the publisher thumbs their nose at me and doesn't give me the book in the format I want I just move on. The reason? There's thousands of other books available that I can read instead.

Economically I just don't buy the argument from publishers that piracy costs them as much money as they say it does and that EA will make more money by stopping piracy for a few days or a week. I don't buy it for the simple reason that most of the studies I've seen start off with the faulty premise that a single pirated copy is a lost sale. It's not that simple. Many games people don't want to spend $60 on and if they can't get it for free they'll just move on.

@GMUHistorian - The logic behind my argument is that pirates tend to skew younger, and young people tend to have poor impulse control. If they can't pirate it on day one, they might be tempted to go out and buy it. The same argument probably doesn't hold true for an adult that has the patience to wait until he or she can play a pirated version of the game.

Day one sales definitely do matter in this industry. High day one sales generate buzz (both on television news broadcasts, and among gamers) and buzz leads to further sales. If piracy is going to have a detrimental effect on the health of a game over the long term, it needs to suck the air out of the sales on day one. Obviously publishers would rather that their games were never pirated, but if they can stave off that initial rush and turn even a fraction of would be pirates into customers, they've done their job.