mirumu

@Mmmmz
Actually both Sony and Nintendo restrict content beyond what the ESRB requires. Try publishing a visual novel on the PS3 in the US if you think they'll let you do anything. The difference is that these rejections happen before the game even gets off the ground whereas with Apple's model the game has been fully funded and developed by the time Apple review and potentially reject them. No surprise really that Apple's rejections get more publicity because no developer likes to spend time and money working on something they can't sell.

I don't see why "mature content" is a reason to reject a game. iTunes already maintains parental controls for those that care so why aren't Apple using them? If I simply download a dictionary app, the store pop-ups an age confirmation, completely ignoring the parental controls already set in iTunes. Even though they have this parental control system in place they still reject content that isn't suitable for "All ages". Why even bother having parental controls or age confirmations? At the very least it's a poor user experience.

I've been using Macs and iPods/iPhones for years and like Apple, but this is just absurd. When it comes to the app store Apple really needs to grow up and fix these problems.

This doesn't sound like a comment on the encryption key hacks at all. Sounds more like they're talking about actual hardware devices such as the ps3key, and they're right, the only real purpose of those is piracy. Sony's we within their rights to limit PSN access.

I expect most who genuinely wanted to use GeoHot's hack to get back OtherOS likely don't care about PSN access anyway.

Wow. You're so wrong it's hilarious. I'm a big fan of Final Fight. I bought the game on Amiga back in the day and re-bought it for the Gameboy Advance when they re-released it a few years back. My Amiga stuff is now long gone, but I could post a photo of the GBA cartridge if I had the time to go digging though my old stuff. I was really looking forward to this PSN version to get a more up-to-date copy of the game playable on a modern console. How many times have you bought this game now?

As for "not giving a shit" about the developers or "getting a job" I am a software developer myself and could afford to buy the game many times over out of my disposable income if I decided to do so. In a concept that's clearly alien to you messageboard trolling know-it-alls though I object to what they've done on principle. If my five year old nephew comes over to visit I let him use my PS3 with his own PS3 user account. He keeps his own scores, saves and trophies. At his age he's not going to buy any game, he has no income, but why shouldn't he be able to play games I've bought on my PS3 when he's at my house? Why do I want to support more games being made when doing so means they're all going to be restricted like this? Companies don't have a right to a profit, if they don't offer they product I want then I reserve the right not to buy it.

As a developer I don't tell our corporate customers they can't have the features they want. We'd be out of business in no time if we did that.

They've just lost a sale. I was going to buy this the other night, but ended up getting waylaid doing other non-gaming things. Very glad of that now.

Beautifully done. *golfclap*

That's the only reason I hacked mine. Yep, I'm a PAL Wii owner. I've no interest whatsoever in pirating Wii games, but legal imports are another matter entirely.

I can't even begin to put into words both how pleased the announcement of a sequel makes me, but equally how extremely disappointed I am to hear it's going to the PSP.