I would suggest staying off his lawn.

For someone who seems to have such a distaste of Sony and the PS3, I don't see why you have one.

The trophy syncing is a safe way to make sure you don't lose trophies you've gained. Every trophy gets unlocked without connection to the PSN server. Then you update the server with your trophies.

Unlike with Xbox Live. If you're not care the achievements you unlock offline might get erased when you go online.

@Twesterm

You should know that everything that the ps3 does and does not do will always be seen in a positive light in these forums, but all hell breaks loose when you have to switch disks for a game on the 360...

and no one answered my question: what happens if I choose not to sync trophies, or can I avoid syncing all together if I dont care about them?

Nothing happens...syncing them makes it official as all it does is adds it to your "official" account.

I'm chalking this up with the Clock/controller power issue.

Sony made a mistake that was stupid and minor in the grand scheme of things and very easy to fix. Twesterm (and people like me) complain about them, and then the Sony peoples come into the thread bashing the thread creator, praise Sony, and tell you that you are too lazy. I mean heck, we had to work two jobs just to afford a PS3, pressing the sync button is a lot easier than a second job, so therefore we are lazy.

@twesterm

I almost think you can program the Harmony Remote to perform a set of button presses on power down that would sync your trophies. I'll have to check it out later tonight as I was configuring my remote this morning, but haven't gotten to programming it yet so I'll add a little test button.

I dont know where  you get your info on XBL but I have never heard of anyone losing their achievements this way. MS makes sure everything you earn is synced in several areas so there is no chance of this happening; and if for some reason it did, they would fix it. Plus, this discussion  is not  about XBL so leave that for another topic.

synching trophies takes so little time that it's meaningless to complain, just log in to the PSN and synch your trophies, what's so difficult about this?

I think what he meant to say was trophies unlocked offline might be lost when going online.

It happened with me. That's where I got my info.

I unlocked every achievement from Phantasy Star Universe and when I went online. Xbox Live erased them.

^ oh I see, never had this problem and I do spend alot of time offline. I don't see the need to complain about this if he doesn't really care for trophies anyway