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PSN users not allowed to sue Sony? is this legal or what?

[www.maximumpc.com] New Sony Online ToS Prohibit Class Action Lawsuits

Hearing some of the BGMs in SRWJ brings back some memories. Haven't seen some of these shows in ages.

totally disgusted with the Call Of Duty: Black-Ops rezurrection zombie maps, cost me 1200 ms points only one new map, the rest are from World At War. Unacceptable

I "bought" Red Dead Redemption GOTY. It's not released yet, but even with that it's completely sold out where I bought it. The best thing is the price: 21,99€ S&P included

Call Of Duty: Black-Ops...Unacceptable

Fixed.

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Is that Twilight?

Augh, I'd forgotten how long it took to get through a mission in SRW.

2400 ms points for Gears Of War 3 season pass...disgusting!!!

I'm really looking forward to SWTOR.

I am a stupid, stupid consumer.

I'm really looking forward to SWTOR.

I am a stupid, stupid consumer.

If it weren't a disgusting MMO, I would be all over that shit like, well, shit on a pig.

But being able to play as a Female Twi'lek Sith Warrior!

OH MY GOD I HAVE A SEMEN SALIVATING ERECTION!

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You wouldn't be able to tell if I hadn't said anything even if you were to be staring right at my crotch.

What? No, FFVI or Chrono Trigger for the PSN?

"I miss video games..."

What? No, FFVI or Chrono Trigger for the PSN?

Because they're not available anywhere else, right?

Possible reasons some game companies never release SDK for gamers to create mods:

- believe mods are the source of hacks, cheats, cracks and exploits.
- hinder their abilities to sell map packs & DLC.
- or they simply don't like sharing their games' source codes.

This post has been edited by hujan86: Sep 22 2011, 11:42

They don't have time and money to bring the SDKs to any shape in which those could be used without weeks of on-site training. And to hire people to give any kind of support to users using them to mod.

Technology used by game companies is usually created to make a specific game. If something is not in the game, the tech doesn't support it. It's almost always a mess of ugly hacks, full of comments to straighten them out when there's time, and legacy code written by people who no longer work at the company which no one knows how it works anymore.

In rare cases the entire source code of the tech can be released on the Internet for anyone to try to make sense of it. This way there's no guarantees and no support from developers necessary. In 99% of cases though the tech is using some middleware like Havok, PhysX, FMOD, Scaleform, Gamespy, Vivox, Speedtree etc, which is licensed to use by that company only, and either is protected from developers so that the game can be compiled only on a PC with special security measures installed, or releasing it would cause the developers to be sued to the ground.

I love my girlfriend. She brought me her Super Nintendo. I'm going to go play it now.

PSN users not allowed to sue Sony? is this legal or what?

[www.maximumpc.com] New Sony Online ToS Prohibit Class Action Lawsuits

Can't say I disagree with this move. Legal or not. It sure is a dick move no doubt though.

As long as people are aware that its happening if the waiver is enforceable.

Gotta be afraid when odd documentation or legislation like that is made. Its a red flag that says "We knew we were going to fuck you up so we are going to disable your ability to retaliate in advance"

Various states in the USA have been banning the filming and photography of police officers both on duty and off duty. (We'll probably get on that in the "serious debates" section eventually) Its suspicious for similar reasons to Sony's episode here.

This post has been edited by 3dpd_lover: Sep 24 2011, 06:30

Various states in the USA have been banning the filming and photography of police officers both on duty and off duty.

I don't think that's going to stick. Police officers on duty are public officials. That is, they're employed by the public, and filming them on duty is just public making sure they're doing their job. Besides, with everybody having cellphones these days, the best they can do is get themselves a portable camera, attach it to each uniform and film each intervention by default. That would also make a lot of court cases a lot more clear. Else, behaviour like this officer's goes unnoticed:
[www.ajc.com] http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/woman-i-wa...ed-1181947.html

Also, First Amendment violations rulings:
[www.rcfp.org] http://www.rcfp.org/newsitems/index.php?i=12153
[www.citmedialaw.org] http://www.citmedialaw.org/blog/2011/victo...ecording-public ( hmm, had to use [www.proxybuddy.com] http://www.proxybuddy.com to access this one this time ).

[www.ajc.com] http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/woman-i-wa...ed-1181947.html

Wtf? And here I thought that only the police in Cyprus (greek side) were ridiculous XD