tomricci, i feel really bad for you.
I'll probably be playing GT5 for 2 or 3 years, after all i played GT4 till last october ^^. But i swear, if my PS3 YLODs and i loose my progress after 300 or 400 hundred hours, i'll never forgive this to Sony.
So just remove that stupid hardware based copy protection, and just lock it to the PSN account so we can back it up and/or play on different systems.
They should allow to copy the savegame to an usbstick. But then they should make the savefile linked to just one PSN account. Just this account gets access to the savedata...
What does that mean - fairly? Fair to whom and in what sense?
Why can't I pay someone to play and unlock everything for me? I go to work everyday and make lots of money but I do not have time to play GT5. Someone else is good at GT5 and wants some of my money.
I would pay $150 for an all gold, fully unlocked, good car collection, and tons of cash save.
This is the reason the saves are protected. People like you are causing legit players to lose their progress if their ps3 breaks or their save data gets corupted.
If you don't put the time in you don't deserve the rewards.
Although I agree that it would be more fair if everyone just played the game, I don't see why a lot of players want Sony to copy protect the data so this can't happen.
I don't care what people do with their playstation. I don't mind people having huge 'stolen' trophy lists. All I care about is what I am doing on my playstation and keeping whatever I've been doing safe from crashes.
Besides: The real GT5 competition is not about what players have achieved in gtlife, it's about what they have achieved online.
This is the reason the saves are protected. People like you are causing legit players to lose their progress if their ps3 breaks or their save data gets corupted.
If you don't put the time in you don't deserve the rewards.
Very true
The thing is though that the cheats will have cars that they would not normally have. These cars may give them an advantage online against players who have played legit and not unlocked/bought them yet.
Why can't I pay someone to play and unlock everything for me? I go to work everyday and make lots of money but I do not have time to play GT5. Someone else is good at GT5 and wants some of my money.
This is the reason the saves are protected. People like you are causing legit players to lose their progress if their ps3 breaks or their save data gets corupted.
The only reason that saves a locked to PS3 is Sony/PD making a bad decision.
There's no reason to bother with GT mode other than you are forced to do it. Downloading a 100% save is no less legit than wasting time winning credits to buy cars.
I've done it 5 times, and I'm sick of it 5 times over. I don't mind people like you getting your fun from playing a poorly designed mode of play (IMO). But I'd rather enjoy the game. If me getting my way hurt your fun in some way, I would understand the opposition. But it doesn't, so you have no reason to complain.
For the 100000000000000000000000000000000000th time. If someone goes and makes an online race with no restrictions when all they have is a Subaru 360, they deserve to lose. Stupid excuses do not justify stupid features.
I just had to respond, and bear in mind we are not asking for open saves just saves tied to a PSN ID account that can be backed up.
@elephant, nothing at all, and this is no big deal. Of course you would have to let them have your PSN ID and login (which might be considered not a good thing to do) or it would be the equivalent of friend coming around to your home to help you, which I am sure oftens happens in the gaming world.
@supersub. Utter rubbish.
Saves are protected because Polyphony have not thought about this/ do not care (when are people going to work out that it is not a Sony decision as other Sony-owned game developers do not tie saves to a single PS eg Evolution with Motorstorm).
Even with restrictions certain cars are better than others.