Topic: PSN = Privacy? Security? Never!

[broodwars]

My, what a shock: the same person that always mass-smites me whenever I state an opinion against hackers is mass-smiting me again.   

[Stogi]

If I were to rob a bank, you better believe one of the steps would be to cause a major distraction on the opposite side of town.

[Chozo Ghost]

My, what a shock: the same person that always mass-smites me whenever I state an opinion against hackers is mass-smiting me again.   

I hear you... I used to be in positive territory but someone (I don't know who and I'm not going to make accusations without proof) got me to where I am now. Rules should be in place where you can only smite the same person once a day, instead of once every hour. In theory, someone could log in every hour and smite someone over and over again 24 times in a day. If the smiting were limited to just once a day then maybe after a few days the smiter would realize how childish they are about the whole thing and knock it off. But even if they don't, at least that way it would basically take them a month to do the mass smiting which they can now pull off in a single day.

[lolmonade]

If someone would be so kind, I'll gladly take some smiting!

[NWR_insanolord]

Thank you to whomever changed broodwars' title. As soon as I saw him whining about smites I went to change it, but I saw some kind person I would assume UncleBob did it for me.

Remember, if you complain about something as pointless and stupid as the karma system, your title will be changed, and, just to rub it in, I will smite you.

[Oblivion]

Waahhhh! Someone keeps smiting me!!!!11!1!!!1*one* I deserve to have 1000000000+ karma!!!!

[broodwars]

Thank you to whomever changed broodwars' title. As soon as I saw him whining about smites I went to change it, but I saw some kind person I would assume UncleBob did it for me.

Remember, if you complain about something as pointless and stupid as the karma system, your title will be changed, and, just to rub it in, I will smite you.

Yes, by all means enforce your inane caste system.  Whatever.      The forums were far better before the karma system, IMO.

[NWR_insanolord]

You would have a point if the karma system meant anything at all. Nobody takes it seriously except people like you and Chozo Ghost, who keep bitching about it for some stupid reason. I agree with you that the karma system doesn't have any benefits, and I've argued in the past that we should scrap it, but it really isn't hurting anything, and getting all pissed about a popularity contest on an internet forum is really childish.

[broodwars]

You would have a point if the karma system meant anything at all. Nobody takes it seriously except people like you and Chozo Ghost, who keep bitching about it for some stupid reason. I agree with you that the karma system doesn't have any benefits, and I've argued in the past that we should scrap it, but it really isn't hurting anything, and getting all pissed about a popularity contest on an internet forum is really childish.

Sorry, but I get enough of stupid popularity contests in real life without having them in my internet entertainment as well.  I'm just really curious what benefit there is in giving people on the internet even more of a way to be a jerk.

[Morari]

You would have a point if the karma system meant anything at all. Nobody takes it seriously except people like you and Chozo Ghost, who keep bitching about it for some stupid reason. I agree with you that the karma system doesn't have any benefits, and I've argued in the past that we should scrap it, but it really isn't hurting anything, and getting all pissed about a popularity contest on an internet forum is really childish.

Sorry, but I get enough of stupid popularity contests in real life without having them in my internet entertainment as well. 

You must be losing a lot of those contests to be so sore about this one...

[Stogi]

Is being funny a benefit?

[lolmonade]

You would have a point if the karma system meant anything at all. Nobody takes it seriously except people like you and Chozo Ghost, who keep bitching about it for some stupid reason. I agree with you that the karma system doesn't have any benefits, and I've argued in the past that we should scrap it, but it really isn't hurting anything, and getting all pissed about a popularity contest on an internet forum is really childish.

Sorry, but I get enough of stupid popularity contests in real life without having them in my internet entertainment as well.  I'm just really curious what benefit there is in giving people on the internet even more of a way to be a jerk.

All kidding aside, I do think a ridiculous outlier of positive or negative ratings (+-200 or more) can make it easier to point out people that might make more objectionable statements.  Granted, overall this community has been pretty positive, and despite his rating and extreme PC bias, I haven't experienced much negativity from Morari.

[Oblivion]

I think I'm the exception. In the small amount of time I've been here, I think I've said the craziest things.

[broodwars]

You would have a point if the karma system meant anything at all. Nobody takes it seriously except people like you and Chozo Ghost, who keep bitching about it for some stupid reason. I agree with you that the karma system doesn't have any benefits, and I've argued in the past that we should scrap it, but it really isn't hurting anything, and getting all pissed about a popularity contest on an internet forum is really childish.

Sorry, but I get enough of stupid popularity contests in real life without having them in my internet entertainment as well. 

You must be losing a lot of those contests to be so sore about this one...

That reminds me, how is being a PC gamer these days knowing that there's no reason for any developer outside of Valve to ever support the platform due to piracy?  : : : :

The karma system really bugs me because it detracts from what used to be my favorite website.  There was generally decent discussion and good gaming all around.  Then for some reason, the site administrators decided it would be great to instate a system that enables the worst of the posters here to do what they do best: be a jerk, because you know...the internet really needed another way to facilitate that.  I protest the system in my own way by not applauding or smiting anyone, but it's really getting tiresome having my numerical internet reputation defaced every time someone doesn't like that I don't toe the line.

[Morari]

That reminds me, how is being a PC gamer these days knowing that there's no reason for any developer outside of Valve to ever support the platform due to piracy?  : :

Come on now... It's going great, outside of the lack of fighting games. Of course, you know as well as I do that piracy is only a scapegoat. It's a heck of lot easier to mod and pirate console games in most cases.

Granted, overall this community has been pretty positive, and despite his rating and extreme PC bias, I haven't experienced much negativity from Morari.

To be fair, most of those negatives aren't legit. Unlike broodwars however, I don't much care either way.

[lolmonade]

That reminds me, how is being a PC gamer these days knowing that there's no reason for any developer outside of Valve to ever support the platform due to piracy?  : : :

Come on now... It's going great, outside of the lack of fighting games. Of course, you know as well as I do that piracy is only a scapegoat. It's a heck of lot easier to mod and pirate console games in most cases.

Isn't Super Street Fighter 4: Arcade Edition or whatever coming out for PC?

[oohhboy]

It's coming out based on GFWL. It might as well not come out at all.

[Morari]

It's coming out next month. I'm looking forward to it, GFW or not. The original SFIV only used GFW to manage save files, which wasn't too inconvenient. Of course, this time it's a 24/7 internet connection. I'll just get a crack for my copy pronto and not worry about it ever again.

[Enner]

It's coming out based on GFWL. It might as well not come out at all.

Also, always-on DRM similar to Assassin's Creed II (PC)
I thought PC gaming was through with this. Alas, no. As for GFWL, it seems to be okay nowadays unless you find matchmaking despicable due to latency. The few PC games I have that are Live-enabled haven't had anything objectionable that was outside the norm of other PC games. Then again, most of those Live-enabled games are single player only.

[NWR_insanolord]

You would have a point if the karma system meant anything at all. Nobody takes it seriously except people like you and Chozo Ghost, who keep bitching about it for some stupid reason. I agree with you that the karma system doesn't have any benefits, and I've argued in the past that we should scrap it, but it really isn't hurting anything, and getting all pissed about a popularity contest on an internet forum is really childish.

Sorry, but I get enough of stupid popularity contests in real life without having them in my internet entertainment as well. 

You must be losing a lot of those contests to be so sore about this one...

That reminds me, how is being a PC gamer these days knowing that there's no reason for any developer outside of Valve to ever support the platform due to piracy?  : : : :

The karma system really bugs me because it detracts from what used to be my favorite website.  There was generally decent discussion and good gaming all around.  Then for some reason, the site administrators decided it would be great to instate a system that enables the worst of the posters here to do what they do best: be a jerk, because you know...the internet really needed another way to facilitate that.  I protest the system in my own way by not applauding or smiting anyone, but it's really getting tiresome having my numerical internet reputation defaced every time someone doesn't like that I don't toe the line.

Give me one example of anyone here ever bringing up your score as a way of deriding you. Like I said, nobody takes it at all seriously, except for the people who bitch about it. I don't think it offers any benefit, but I also don't think it has any significant downside, apart from all the pointless bitching.

IGNORE IT. Nobody cares about the score, and they'd care about the score even less if people like you stopped complaining about it and bringing it to the forefront of discussion.


Also, get this back on the topic of Sony, and keep it civil. If I have to lock another one of these I'll be taking more action than just closing the thread. If you go far off-topic or get nasty, you do so at your own risk.

[Stogi]

[Chozo Ghost]

Can I request to have my negative karma set to whatever the maximum allowable negative value is? That way there will no longer be any point to anyone smiting me because it is already as low as it can be.

BTW, isn't the karma thing the reason TJ Spyke is no longer an active posting member? So saying it doesn't do any harm is false, because its already caused one formerly active member to stop posting. Saying it doesn't matter is like saying verbal bullying doesn't matter, but there have been people who have committed suicide because of verbal bullying.

[Stogi]

Darwinism is a bitch. No one ever said it wasn't it.

[broodwars]

BTW, isn't the karma thing the reason TJ Spyke is no longer an active posting member?

Wow, really?  I had been wondering what had happened to him.

To get things back on track, Sony recently reaffirmed in yesterday's earnings briefing that PSN was expected to be "fully restored" (i.e. the Shop) by the end of the month.  What disturbs me is this quote:

The company said that its target of full service restoration for both PSN and Qriocity by the end of this month remains unchanged.  Even if it does end up missing the target, the delay would be by just a few days.

Well doesn't that make me feel all nice, warm, and fuzzy?  After a month of vague "just a few more days/one more week" promises, Sony's promising that even if they miss their promised May 31st relaunch date, they'll only be late "just a few more days".  That's a promise you can certainly take to the bank with this company.      So, anyone think we'll have the Store back up by E3?   

[Chozo Ghost]

Wow, really?  I had been wondering what had happened to him.

I honestly don't know the reason why he left, but I do remember he wasn't happy about how often he was smited on here so that's a possible reason.