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mantlepiecek on 19 January 2011
huaxiong90 said:
mantlepiecek said:

If you are too early in the game, then the black phantoms won't be that much of a problem. But, they will once you reach the appropriate level/archstone. I have never faced any problems from black phantoms in the stonefag tunnel in my two playthroughs.

But if you stay in soul form, then there's nothing they can do. 

Those guys were easy.

But my worry is for super-experienced players to come in and take me down just like that.


Well there's a level limit to the black phantoms, but many are very experienced in becoming a black phantom that they start a new game and a character and build themselves to suit a black phantom. I had a guy defeat three of us random co-ops once.

Also, have you played the 4th and the 5th archstone yet? Shrine of storms and the valley of poison or whatever its called? 



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LivingMetal on 19 January 2011
LivingMetal said:
homer said:
AussieGecko said:
homer said:


short answer: neither


just putting a worse case scenario out there. If they are willing to risk cutting of servers of 9million people I am sure they are willing to risk loss of 9 million others.


worst case scenario: Meteor collides with earth killing all life.

best case scenario: Jesus comes back

most likely scenario: Life continues as it always has and CoD keeps its multiplayer.

So full of win.


"UPDATE: Titan Reviews got in contact with Activision through its customer services, and was told that Activision does not have any plans to shut down the PlayStation 3 servers for Black Ops. "We are sorry for any inconvenience or unnecessary worries this may have caused, but as of now, there are absolutely no plans for the servers to be taken down," the response read."

http://gamrfeed.vgchartz.com/story/83595/update-activision-might-be-shutting-down-black-ops-server-on-ps3/



huaxiong90 on 19 January 2011
mantlepiecek said:
huaxiong90 said:
mantlepiecek said:

If you are too early in the game, then the black phantoms won't be that much of a problem. But, they will once you reach the appropriate level/archstone. I have never faced any problems from black phantoms in the stonefag tunnel in my two playthroughs.

But if you stay in soul form, then there's nothing they can do. 

Those guys were easy.

But my worry is for super-experienced players to come in and take me down just like that.


Well there's a level limit to the black phantoms, but many are very experienced in becoming a black phantom that they start a new game and a character and build themselves to suit a black phantom. I had a guy defeat three of us random co-ops once.

Also, have you played the 4th and the 5th archstone yet? Shrine of storms and the valley of poison or whatever its called? 

No. I did play the third one, though.



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pizzahut451 on 19 January 2011
welshbloke said:

Very bad news for Sony if this even has a hint of becoming reality. This would send a huge message of lack of confidence if a developer was willing to take this form of hit. The obvious winners here are the PC and 360 platforms who will see a marked increase in sales.

Will this force an early exit of the PS3 and a new model? Will this force PSN to a paid model to placate Activision? Will they be able to fix this issue?

Whatever happens the loss of the master keys seems impossible to reverse. If this truly is impossible to reverse then I can only see this getting worse for Sony. At this moment in time this sounds like a rant but add notch to the end of Free PSN as Activision are coming and they want more money.


You are in deep delusion if you think this has even 0.001%  chance of happening. Oh, and funny you mention PC, where every online shooter gets hacked to death



Baalzamon on 19 January 2011
pizzahut451 said:
welshbloke said:

Very bad news for Sony if this even has a hint of becoming reality. This would send a huge message of lack of confidence if a developer was willing to take this form of hit. The obvious winners here are the PC and 360 platforms who will see a marked increase in sales.

Will this force an early exit of the PS3 and a new model? Will this force PSN to a paid model to placate Activision? Will they be able to fix this issue?

Whatever happens the loss of the master keys seems impossible to reverse. If this truly is impossible to reverse then I can only see this getting worse for Sony. At this moment in time this sounds like a rant but add notch to the end of Free PSN as Activision are coming and they want more money.


You are in deep delusion if you think this has even 0.001%  chance of happening. Oh, and funny you mention PC, where every online shooter gets hacked to death

I thought people hacked on 360 version too?  I hear people who play 360 complaining about aim bots and shit like that.  And I know for 100% certainty people cheat with their controllers as they have stuff allowing for a single shot gun to be fully automatic with no kick.



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IMU1808 on 19 January 2011
Mordred11 said:

It will never happen.BO is selling god-like on the PS3,and with the upcoming DLCs,I highly doubt they will throw that big potential amount of money out of the window.


They'll shut down servers 1 week after the dlc releases. Then still keep it in the PSn store, lol.



4k1x3r on 19 January 2011
AussieGecko said:

:O wow this hacking thing is reallllly bad for sonys image.

Wait what? What's the link between this and the hacking and Sony image? -_- (without even mentioning that Activision announced this was total bullshit)



Pristine20 on 19 January 2011

lol @ people who actually take the threat seriously.



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stopstopp on 19 January 2011

Wow there are some reactions

http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_874881&v=wXzp3Ru8VQY&feature=iv#t=11.6s



slowmo on 19 January 2011

It would never happen, loads of PC games of the year have been rife with hackers for months until updates have been released and then the cycle starts again of the hackers finding exploits.  The only problem with these hackers is the effect on the Cod community on PS3.  I've seen it on every PC shooter I've ever played online, once hacks hit a game the community turn on anyone under suspicion, this results in the great players getting insulted and accused even more than usual. 

This is as much Sony's problem as Activision's, at the end of the day Activision were reliant upon the security of PSN for hack prevention.  My guess is Actvision will tag on some anti cheat protection while Sony work to make PSN secure from the hackers.

Don't be under any illusions, this is a Sony problem first and foremost, Cod was just chosen as the primary target for hackers being the most popular game on the console.