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Black Ops 2: Activision "Aware" of Connectivity Issues with PS3 Version

GR - "Activision working on a resolution to fix Black Ops 2's PS3 matchmaking issues."

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Jinkies4170d ago

and like all the previous CODs on the PS3...they don't give a crap.

When will people learn

Lovable4170d ago

Actually they do give a crap.

Jinkies4170d ago

No they don't, all they care about is the 360 version, thats where most of there money comes from...360 gamers.

Look at the deals and good relationship it has with Microsoft.

Lovable4170d ago

Once again, people over reacts on launch day. It will get fixed just hold your horses. Now, if we're talking about Bethesda then I agree...

BlackTar1874170d ago

overreact on launch day? You mean they expect a $64 dollar item to function properly after it being the 4th release of this game on said system?

Wow what a crazy world man

DarthJay4170d ago

@BlackTar187 - the game works just fine. You can play the single player and localized games without a hitch. The servers are getting bombarded by a record number of people trying to get on all at the same time, all while they still have servers dedicated to Modern Warfare 3, Black Ops and even Modern Warfare 2, all of which still rank in the top 20 most played games on Xbox Live as of last week... very highly ranked I might add.

That's just Xbox 360. Add the PC and PS3, and there will absolutely be hiccups on launch WEEK. Then they will stabilize once things settle into a groove and they can start shuffling the deck of servers.

Yeah, people are excited and want to play. Yeah, it sucks that it has to be this way. But to react like this is Diablo 3 where you legitimately can not access any aspect of your game is absurd.

By the way, this is coming from someone that hates the game and the franchise. This is totally defensible. I can't even imagine the amount of servers they already have. They will sort it out and all will be fine.

guitarded774170d ago

I game on all consoles and have bought every CoD title this gen for PS3, but this time I bought BlOps 2 for the XBOX. I've learned over the years that PS3 is not their priority, and most of my PS3 friends don't even play CoD, so I just went ahead and switched up. It wasn't my preference, but if one has the option to switch up, I recommend it.

BattleAxe4170d ago

The same connectivity issues happened with World at War and Black ops 1, and they fixed within around 4 weeks each time. Its still a piss-off though, since they should have learned from the previous two games.

theEx1Le4170d ago

Whats even worse is, I've been playing since Saturday and had absolutely no problems at all until last night. All dem yanks clogging up the servers :D

Razmossis4169d ago

They've been aware for the past 5 years.

ziggurcat4169d ago

@ lovable:

if they actually cared, this issue wouldn't keep popping up in (apparently) every and/or a significant portion of the PS3 versions of CoD.

activision has had a hate-on for the PS3 for a long time now, and their devs have allegedly not used any of the tools that sony provides them to improve their games on the system then proceeded to s**t-talk the system because they're too idiotic to have learned how to properly optimize their code.

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Merrill4170d ago (Edited 4170d ago )

It's hard to not be aware of a problem that I am sure they most likely created as part of their allegiance with Microsoft.

You can't say it's better on Xbox live if it runs equally and we all know that the problem isn't on Sony's end, as their service runs fine on all first party developed games that I play online.

What ever happened to quality control? Why doesn't Sony step in and call Activision out on this? They continually ship broken games and quite frankly it makes the Sony brand name look bad when it plays fine on other platforms, even though we know it's not Sony's fault.

MikeMyers4170d ago (Edited 4170d ago )

You forgot to mention that Microsoft, not Activision, runs the servers for their games on Xbox Live. With few exceptions like Electronic Arts who refused to support Xbox live unless EA had full control of their own servers so as they can take their games down whenever they feel.

Call of Duty on the PS3 runs through Demonware. This could also be one of the reasons why Xbox Live comes with a fee.

jadenkorri4170d ago (Edited 4170d ago )

@ mikemyers

you should call MS and say you can't connect to Bops 2 and see if they will take care of it.They will confirm live is running then refer to activision/developer of said game. Discover what your really paying live/ms for.

miDnIghtEr20C_SfF4169d ago

I hope you were this vocal with EA's support of BF3 on PS3 over it's step child on 360.

Tough doo doo for PS3 only owners this generation getting the short end of the stick on most multi plats isn't it?

And you must not of played the new Starhawk, the new Twisted Metal and some Uncharted 3 at first as well as other only PS3 games. Those games all had problems with connections at one point or another when they launched.

Maybe the reason Sony doesn't step up and call them out is because they know too already. They know that the 360 is the king of COD. Sorry, that's the way it is this gen.

PS3 got BF3, 360 get's COD.

Sorry. (i'm sure something clever will be written... too bad juniors run the site, and my 1 bubble won't get a chance to respond.

MikeMyers4168d ago

jadenkorri, I don't have Bops on the Xbox 360. Nor did I say Live fees are warranted. Thanks for asking.

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GraveLord4170d ago

I actually didn't have problems with MW3 or Black Ops at launch.

After playing for a few hours, I finally couldn't connect to the servers. The number of online players was also incredibly low, a huge decrease from yesterday. Either that's due to connection issues, or people trading it in since it doesn't work.

jadenkorri4170d ago

Single player and Zombie mode seem to work fine for me, its just the online MP that don't. All my friends/clan members are affected and were all from different locations. Were all talking returning already. Very disappointed with Treyarch.

lilbrat234170d ago

I am actually playing this on the 360 and am having issues I keep getting errors cannot connect please try again. I'll be going back to MOH until they fix this or maybe just trade it very disappointing.

shutUpAndTakeMyMoney4169d ago

HA HA at ps3 owners who bought it. They never learn.

MRMagoo1234169d ago

hey nice one bubble there, i bought the game and i am far from disappointed because i didnt get it for online i got it to play against bots with my son because he loves it, so dont generalise i may not even try online once the whole time i own this game so it doesnt effect me at all.

BrianC62344169d ago

I haven't bought a COD game in years. They don't care about the PS3 so I don't care about their games. I bet this problem was intentional to try to get more PS3 gamers to switch to the 360. Then they can just worry about that version.

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Majin-vegeta4170d ago

As a PS3 player no offence to the rest of you PS3 players but you guys deserve it.You should know by now that Crapovision doesn't care about the PS3 players but like a bunch of blind Lemurs being led into a slaughterhouse you go out and buy it every year.

BlackTar1874170d ago

I bought soley for zombies and the zombies is extremely lack luster compared to all the rest. So i fail hard :(

Tetsujin4170d ago (Edited 4170d ago )

I'm having more fun playing Borderlands 2 than Call of Crack (and refuse to buy it even used); and I've already talked to someone who sold their copy of Black Ops 2, with 2 others actually thinking about it.

BlackTar1874170d ago (Edited 4170d ago )

yea i have already played and beat BL2 with 3 charcters and 2 of them thru the 2nd play through on TVHM. The DLC was beat a couple times as well going for the end of DLC treasure chests.

Also i got the BA glitch so it lost alot of love with me over that.

Love BL2 but i can't take anymore of it till new content is released.

I wonder if people are disagreeing because i actually bought BLOPS2 or that i think Zombie is weak compared to WaW and BLOPS2

AusRogo4170d ago

So people who just actually enjoy COD and only own a ps3, deserve it?

Tetsujin4170d ago (Edited 4170d ago )

His point is people buy into the hype of CoD, then bitch and complain because of how broken the online is. I'm one of the many who refuse to buy anything CoD related; one reason because the PS3 versions always get some sort of shaft at the end, and "if" they do fix it the damage has already been done.

kopicha4170d ago

I can't say that those who only own a PS3 deserve such treatment. But I am quite disappointed with the PS3 version of this game. The framerate and graphics are still on the poor side. I tried to give it a chance this time and got the PS3 version but quite disappointed with it's performance on PS3. I enjoyed the game for what it is, but I hate it as well for how it play in terms of performance and how it look on PS3. Getting motion sickness once awhile when playing it. I have then try playing it on 360 at my friend's place and I feel much more right at home and more enjoyable given that the game is already good for what it is. Now I am thinking about trading my PS3 copy for a 360 copy of the game. I feel sorry for those who only own PS3. But I still took the punishment to try to believe in them for once by buying the PS3 version. And it turns out that I should stick to my point with this game. Anything COD is always better on 360 even up to this release.

Britainz-Fin3st4169d ago

Tetsujin, there arent that many of you really... just those few of you on n4g and other fanboy fueled gaming sites.

Sharingan_no_Kakashi4170d ago

I coulda told you that.... And I don't even have the game. It happens every release.

SeekDev4170d ago

Yeah, Black Ops 1 didn't work properly for the first month, if not longer. After that, I decided not to get MW3. MW3 was received amazingly for the first two weeks, then the general rush of negativity occurred. This has happened with almost every release after MW1. I'm expecting it to happen with Black Ops 2, just gotta wait a while. If it doesn't, fantastic, a great game was made.

The_KELRaTH4170d ago

Problem is that it's not just Cod games that need lots of patches for it to work properly on the PS3 - over 6 months to get BF3 comms, lockups and lag fixed.
It seems if it's a multi-platform by the big publishers then the PS3 version just won't work properly.

Seraphemz4170d ago

Crazy thought, but any else think that this might be done on purpose to push more people towards getting the 360 version?

DarthJay4170d ago

You are absolutely right. It was a crazy thought.

Britainz-Fin3st4169d ago

Fuck with the ps3 version, to sell less copies, to make less profit, looks like you hit the nail on the head seraphemz

Seraphemz4169d ago

Thanks!!! I knew i was on to something....

Mr-Zex4170d ago

It's a fustrating issues I'll give everyone who has the issue credit for not snapping their disc in half, but c'mon people it's only been two days since release, the majority of most games have multiplayer issues on release day, even though it virtually is the same system over and over again in CoD and they probably should have worked the kinks out by now, it's still the same with most games, so just sit back for a little and I'm pretty damn confident this issue should be resolved soon, if not, I'm returning the game straight up.

BrianC62344169d ago

Does the 360 version have the same problem or does Activision just not spend the time needed to get good on the PS3?

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shadowT245d ago

Xbox $70 billion bet paid out

fr0sty245d ago

Guess that's what happens when there's no good new games to play...

4Sh0w245d ago (Edited 245d ago )

Well regardless of exclusives, or whatever else there is to play on Xbox or ps, CoD has has still been the top selling game on ps platform since forever also.....so no surprise that the most popular game franchise on any console could easily have a revival due to servers coming back online...this is just credit to xbox backwards compatibility & thats good thing for Xbox gamers.

wiz7191245d ago

@Frosty orrrr maybe it’s a breath of fresh air to be able to go back to the peak of the series .. and it’s beem great lol

mkis007245d ago

It's going to take 10 years for xbox to generate that much profit...

Rhythmattic244d ago

Why worry when they have OS, Server and Background Data in their hands...
Gaming is just the small piece, at the top left in a few K piece jigsaw.

EasilyTheBest244d ago

If you buy a house with cash for 1 million dollars you still own the house. Microsoft don't need to make the money back.

Rhythmattic242d ago

But its not money back, its about how it goes missing.

jznrpg245d ago

Shooters is what Xbox people play most of the time and that’s about it by the numbers and sales of games.

shinoff2183245d ago

Atkeast older gamers nostalgia is good. Jeez.

Jin_Sakai245d ago

Mostly because the new CoD games are garbage. The old games were much better.

Rutaprkl244d ago

Agree 100%. Cod 4, WaW, Black ops 1 & 2, those were the days.

Rhythmattic244d ago

For MP, Unreal tournament , QIII Arena (loved the UT mod) FTW!

RaidenBlack244d ago

Unreal Tournament and Quake III were simply amazing ... CoD's and CoD-likes' rise killed the arena shooter popularity ...
Unreal Tournament 2004 is my favorite in the series.
Didn't enjoy Unreal Tournament III, Quake Champions that much.
Too bad Epic cancelled Unreal Tournament 2014 becoz of Fortnite

Rhythmattic244d ago (Edited 244d ago )

I got hooked on the QIII Urban Terror mod (and my work colleagues I introduced them to)... LAN Sessions at the closing of the doors at work, into the night , sinking beers and eating pizza..... Good times.

thesoftware730245d ago

Wow, good games never get old I guess.

CoD will always be a beast of a franchise, and how awesome is it that you can just boot it up or pop it into your Xbox and play, MS BC is really a neat feature.

CrimsonWing69245d ago

Shows you that backwards compatibility is a worthwhile feature.

1Victor244d ago

@crimson:” Shows you that backwards compatibility is a worthwhile feature.”
I agree it’s worthy at the start of the generation when there’s few new generation games but halfway through the generation it’s not a feature.
Now it’s good that this game is finding a renewed life for its fan but it shows a mayor flaw in new games release when a close decade old game is toppling the charts

CrimsonWing69244d ago

I don't know if I understand what you mean. It's a feature regardless of the time into the generation.

Let's take Armored Core 6 for example. Let's say I'm interested in checking out the previous Armored Core games, sure would be nice if I could play them on my current-gen console.

We're about 3 years into current-gen and old games are hitting in the top 5 for sales charts in the month.

I do get where you're coming from with older games possibly being better than the newer games, but the feature stays the feature. I can only speak for myself, but when there's a lull in game releases or nothing great is out, I like to go back to old titles. It's just nice to not have to have a bunch of consoles out to do so.

I think moving forward it'll be less and less of an issue as like with the PS5 you can access most all of the PS4 games, but I like going back to PS1 and PS2. Would be awesome to kind of make backwards compatibility a prioritized feature moving forward. Hell, Sony was the first to implement it.

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