PS3 Hacked (Again)

This news is pretty old. You do NOT need jailbreak to perform any downgrade anymore! They decrypted the firmware (first time) and changed the code to accept ANY version you want on that uber-undated-and-dead-PS3.

No need jailbreak at all!

Probably is time to get a ps3 now. :P

we could be discussing about reasons for piracy for years, that really doesn't matter, but you said it right, piracy can't be stopped, thats why i hate most of anti-piracy deals, they usually only hurt the legit consumers

instead of trying to fight against pirates they should be trying to give us reasons for not wanting to pirate something

i've been buying games on steam like crazy, some i don't even play, yet i don't feel bad at all for buying it, all of them were cheap due to steam promotions, i'm not suggesting every company should be turning into steam, only that it's possible to please everyone into buying their games

i'm the same anon you replied to

i hate drm too, i already passed 3 good deals on steam solely for the fact it had drm, one of those deals was a collection of crysis and crysis warhead at a very good price, another one was dark void: zero (a retro-like game), this one cost like 2 or 3 € and it seemed pretty good, but i still passed because it had drm... yes a 2 ou 3€ game had drm -_-

reasonable prices do NOT drive companies out of business. Any businessman who tells you otherwise is a lying sack of shit who deserves to be skullfucked.

I do love the devs, of corse, but in my opinion they're producing too much games nowaday. With so many games I want to play, there is just no time. nor money. Therefore I will pirate for as long as the quantity of games prevails over quality = forever.

And yeah, using my fresly soldered jailbreak right now and pirating the shit out of PS3.

@anon 11:19

"instead of trying to fight against pirates they should be trying to give us reasons for not wanting to pirate something"

^This. Or rather, reasons for us not wanting to buy pirated products. If I'm to say, developers need to decrease the prices of games down to the pirated games'. I don't know elsewhere but living in a less convenient situation those original prices are just over the top that only the richest can afford, and definitely not for casuals(how ironic seeing the family friendly casual games approach by devs lately).

Though, if they're that scared that such a 'reasonable' pricing would drive them out of business out of not making enough profit then the pricing itself is a fair defense mechanism in itself, whereas they can rely on their cash-wise available consumers to keep them going on. Because as everyone knows it people who could afford these stuffs without risking their budget would never buy a pirate anyways, similarly those who could never afford the original would never buy them anyways unless with said lowered price.

Just keep steady on the anti piracy mechanism just so mass piracy wouldn't occur soon the game's released and don't spend millions on a drm that troubles the paying players while the pirate consumers could walk the park with cracks they can get for free. Devs, go spend that money on actually making a good game. On a vaguely related note, stop spending so much money on ads either that certain games are even released incomplete and stop selling them as DLC when those incomplete parts came around.

Bond Travolta
01:43

i have no idea if you are being sarcastic or not in that comment, but ill reply this way.

with internet download games like those off steam, you pay the same as a retail release buy for less content than the retail release, and for that reason alone the game should be at the very least 20$ cheaper.

i believe walmart and others take a 7-14$ cut of a console game, i'm assume the same margin for any pc game. and without packaging or discs that need to be made, shipped and what not, games should easily be at least 20$ cheaper new online than they are in stores.

steam i know takes a cut, and we cant figure out where that cut is, but we are thinking between 10-25% thats anywhere from 5-12$ off a pc game, im guessing that its closer to the 10% range though.

games should be cheaper than they are.

Anonymous
11:19

ever have a piece of drm cripple your system forcing you to reinstall windows?

i have.

you know how i fixed that?

i pirated the game, because they stripped the need for that kind of drm.

you know what i found ironic, the viruses some game publishes have claimed are in pirated things, have fuck my computer less than there so called drm.

i buy off steam, but i read everything, and if i hear any kind of drm besides a code for the game is in it, i pirate the shit out of it.

At the Anonymous who made the comment about no online play.

You can play online with a jailbroken downgraded PS3. There's already 'hacks' which allow you to do this. Just look at Black Cops.