Lost Planet demo on PSN not functional

Dont bother downloading the latest demo of Lost Planet: Extreme Condition just yet. Due to some kind of server error, the online "only demo" is not able to connect to any online server, not even ones you host yourself! Hopefully Capcom will respond asap and give the PS3 owners a decent working demo.

[lswanson1]

READ THE F'ING FORUM POSTS! Of course there has been no "official" response yet the the demo not working, it just was made available like 3 hours ago but hundreds of people cannot connect to play it, including myself, so that makes it a viable story and thats where I come from with my description

[Douchebaggery]

open a forum thread if you wanna put the word out but this submission is NOT viable

[Relcom]

This crap doesn't work.

[sonarus]

agreed. its bs tried for hrs dosent wrk. capcom...you suck lol

[Watkins]

They really haven't made much of an effort to get a decent port up and running on the PS3.

[mikeslemonade]

I downloaded the demo from the Japanese store and it works. I played about 15-20 matches within the past 2 days. It usually works for me when I hit the select button to refresh the lobby screen and then you join rooms that are 1/8. And I also hosted about 3 games. Within 2-3 minutes you get 8 people who joined and you just hit start to begin the game.

[incogneato]

It worked for me when I hosted my own game, tons of people joined and we played. But I should add this game is one of the worst games I've ever played. I deleted it right away.

[Megaton]

Yeah, I tried for about a half hour before deleting it. "Connection failed" or "Room is full" every time. Got into one game eventually, but it never started up (idle host?). Creating my own game never worked either, no one joined. Call me crazy, but I think that a major prerequisite for releasing a demo would be to make sure it's playable.

Catchy lobby song though...

[TheHater]

never mind

[TruthBTold]

with all the positive news regarding Lost Planet, surely capcom will sell lots of them. First you get an old lame port, then the demo that was made to convinve you to buy it doesnt even work. Great job!

[leon76]

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[The_Engineer]

PURE CRAP, right from the beginning. DMC:4 is more interesting than this lame game.

[freakyzeeky]

I'm having the same problem... :'(

[Rattles]

it will sell some ps3s in japan.

[power of Green]

The only thing that this game is good for is that it has heart pumping action in multi player all people, wemen, children and folks around the world play. It reaches many demgraphics. Its hiden tactical gameplay and team work forcing action was and is still almost unmatched. Sure more adult hardcore gamers like COD4 etc but this game is clasic and is the oldest game I own, I'll never get rid of it.

I do agree the Japanese will love it they're the only people really still playing it non casually.

[THUNDERMARE]

POG, this is really the oldest game you own???

[Genesis5]

I tried last night I couldn't get on.

[Xeikon]

I'm glad this got approved. So many people tried to bury the truth.

[Blackmoses]

What? that Capcom put out a buggy Demo!!! This problem has nothing to do with the PSN what so ever it's all in the Demo!!!

It's amazing how so many people want to blame everything on the PS3 and it's network, when in reality it has little to do with it at all.

[SUP3R]

This has nothing to do with the PSN.
This is another one of those "lazy Capcom moments"

I tried connecting last night, but it never connected.
I wasn't surprised cuz I knew who the developer was, so I jumped right back into COD4.

[wageslave]

@6.1 & 6.2

Can you tell us when you reviewed the design and code of this game?

Can you tell us how you know these things?

Perhaps you're reflexively trying to blame Capcom to protect Sony?

You -- NOR I -- know what the problem is. Perhaps the fault does lie with Sony, perhaps not. But you're UNINFORMED PRESUMPTIONS are baseless speculation.

Please stop pretending you know what is causing this problem.

[robbo918]

THEY are right its Capcom, if you bothered to check out the FACTS before slamming them, from the lips of CAPCOM:

The multiplayer demo for Lost Planet: Extreme Condition is temporarily being removed from the PlayStation Network in order to address issues that have come to light. We will be working overtime to correct the issue and expect to upload a new version to the PlayStation Network as soon as possible that accurately reflects the incredible online features of the game. For those of you who have already downloaded the demo, the servers are being taken down until the new version is ready to go. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience and your interest in Lost Planet! Keep an eye out here for more info…

http://blog.us.playstation....

[SnakeShady]

what is kotuka?

[KnightwinG]

Tried it yesterday for a while, couldn't connect to any games... when i host no one joins... demo is bulls**t

[gEnKiE]

Good, i sure thought i was having network issues. Glad to know the demo just plain sucks right now.....Hopefully they fix this soon. I wanna try it out.

[gEnKiE]

I wonder this demo got approved when they didn't even have the servers working properly....

[-EvoAnubis-]

Works fine now. I just got done playing for about an hour.

[gaffyh]

Never let me join a room...kept saying...room is full...when there are naybe 1 or 2 people in the room...

[Bebedora]

Some dev must has to put a 'jts' or 'jsr' in the wrong place.

[TwissT]

Dling the demo was a waste of my damn time, capcom better fix this ASAP

[redwingsrock]

had a problem trying to play it this morning it would not connect i kept trying and trying and then when i did get on it it was so laggy and sluggish, i was actually thinking of picking up this game but now those chances have fallen dramatically unless Capcom fixes this demo, or at least releases a single player demo so i can actually get to play the damn thing

[Ru]

Even without Multi-Player it is still Great... Although, the multiplayer as always adds re-playability and a different experience.
I'm sure Capcom will have it fixed within weeks.

[Amagai Shuusuke]

Capcom needs it fixed in about a day or so.
This demo would be old news if we had to
wait weeks to play it. Well, I already
consider Lost Planet old news.

[JasonPC360PS3Wii]

PSN "so reliable" and clearly better than Live.

[redwingsrock]

hey you
shut it
PS3 Owns
do you need to be directed to where the door is?
thanks that's all for now

[proArchy]

Capcom needs to do some more debugging, and playtesting. 100,000 people trying to log on at once will crash a lot of servers, they probably just didn't figure on the demand.

[robbo918]

Try the fact its Capcom...

The multiplayer demo for Lost Planet: Extreme Condition is temporarily being removed from the PlayStation Network in order to address issues that have come to light. We will be working overtime to correct the issue and expect to upload a new version to the PlayStation Network as soon as possible that accurately reflects the incredible online features of the game. For those of you who have already downloaded the demo, the servers are being taken down until the new version is ready to go. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience and your interest in Lost Planet! Keep an eye out here for more info…

That is from CAPCOM check it out on the PSN blog

http://blog.us.playstation....

[SocietyOfCrows]

I played the demo an hour ago and it worked perfectly, however I quit after 5 minutes because idc about playing lost planet again

[Amagai Shuusuke]

Way to be mature and call everyone
stupid who can't get in a match.
Just cause you can get in one.
[takes his comment and kicks it]
Get that crap out of here, you're done.

[imageicb]

o well

[rushbd]

it's proven. LoL

[Vip3r]

It finally got it to work last night but Capcom should really improve the crap MP.

[XiaoSet]

Yeah, doesn't work, I keep getting "Full room, cannot join" or if by some chance I am able to join it says "Connection Failed" bull.

[ControlMagazine]

Really, you know, after trying like 20ish times and finally being in a game - you stop, walk over to your tv and check if there's really a PS3 underneath it.

It's a butt-ugly, less than 25 frames/second producing excuse for a 'game'.

[Spike47]

downloaded last night and I only saw 4 rooms open.

Could'nt get into one room or a match.

So i figured that this news would pop in n4g.com.

Most frustrating then I've ever dealt with. Sort of.

[lswanson1]

Dude, it has nothing to do with the PSN and everything to do with Capcoms buggy demo.

[Funky Town_TX]

a free demo that does not work.

[Doctor Strange]

So what does this say about the full game if the demo doesn't work? Capcom just lost a bunch of sales.

[Qbanboi]

I played for like 2 hour, yasterday but on the Japanes Server. I Don't like it at all.

[shysun]

See thats where I downloaded the game from(japanese account, I thought we all used the same server?I played for just over an hour yesterday.

[xionpunk]

Yeah when i brought up the server list, only 2 popped up. So i tried to create my own room and was stuck on that one damn screen. Ah well, at least I just bought warhawk, that'll keep me happy.

[Marceles]

*pauses DMC4 for a sec, looks at story title*

Not functional? hmm...oh well...*unpause*

[lswanson1]

Thats just the thing. Everyone I have talked to or read about (in the US) cannot connect to any server nor create one of their own! I just tried again and its still not functioning

[avacadosnorkel]

they were too busy commenting on the Brits and forgot to do their job.

CAPCOM is lazy and doesn't want to pay taxes

[Skater_Ricky]

True I left my Created game open up for at least over 2 hours to see if I could at least get one person to come in the room and join..

Got nothing in return.. some ppl just don't know about the PSN

If the PSN was down we all wouldn't be able to sign-in.. its a totaly separate deal man!

Get your fax straight! is there server or there demo that has a bug in it not SONY's PSN.

My point said:

[shysun]

I played it for 1hour yesterday, I deleted the demo and I'm buying the game.Are you guys realy locked out of the game?I'll DL it again just to see.

[moujahed]

This is false, the demo does work... I thought something was wrong also, when I kept getting " Game Full" and Connection Time out, here's the trick...

Once you go to quick game, immediately scroll tot he bottom, and select that room as soon as it updates. This works for me everytime.

Sadly I wont be getting this, the multiplayer... or the game itself is ass to me.

[Kenshin_BATT0USAI]

Thank god I didn't waste my time downloading this demo.

[Trick Nolte]

Yeah. It was a mess. Even though I was able to get in and spent some time playing online, I walked away feeling unimpressed. Ok for some at a low price of $40 I guess.

[AngryTypingGuy]

...then a bunch of Sonytards would be crucifying it saying how worthless and defective the service is. See, nothing works perfectly all of the time. At least Live had an excuse for going down - it's more popular than MS realized.

[redwingsrock]

dude its not PSN's fault, its capcon's faulty demo

[akaFullMetal]

what are you talking about, all my other online games work, psn is not broken, are you an idiot???

[AngryTypingGuy]

I think you guys missed my point. I was simply pointing out that no service is perfect.

[moparful99]

What you dont realize is that because of the design of the 360 the system itself acts as the server, the game companies dont set up servers. This is different with the ps3, the developer is given the freedom to set up their own servers or use p2p setups for their servers. Now regardles of these facts the PSN has nothing to do with this game if you can still be logged on to psn and the game fails to function then its clearly the devs server that is the problem. Besides they even admitted it was their own fault.

[moparful99]

Your comment generalized sony fans and put a stereotype on us and thats not cool, Microsoft new damn well that with more consoles comes greater demand and all servers are set up with expansion in mind. Microsoft had no excuse for the crash of live and you know it. Its time people stop giving microsoft a free pass on their f*ck ups. Ohh and the reason we call XBL live out is because I dont know how many times I hear 360 fans saying "yea so we pay but you get what you pay for, XBL owns psn hands down" but as soon as the service crashes or something happens they're quick on the trigger making excuses for microsoft and trying to wipe the egg of their face. Its ironic that ms make so much revenue off of their subscriptions to xbl but they cant create enough bandwith to handle heavy loads and knowing that christmas is the busy season for video games. It just shows you how little they actually care until their attitude bites them in the ass..

[AngryTypingGuy]

That's why I said "a bunch of" and not all. Sorry if you feel stereotyped. Stereotypes aren't true for everyone, but they exist for a reason. My comment is true. If this had happened on Live, no matter whose fault, a bunch of Sonytards would crucify it.

As far as the new wave of customers over the Christmas season, maybe they thought they had enough bandwidth. I'm sure they added some before the holidays. Not everything that goes wrong is their fault.

Why doesn't anyone hold Sony accountable for blatantly lying to its customers..."Toy Story-like graphics", etc., etc.

[LJWooly]

Well... you get what you pay for, I guess...

[UltramanJ]

Glad to hear it was the demo that was busted.

[jorellpogi]

Glad for the heads up. I won't download this game.

[ASSASSYN 36o]

LOL!

[NexGen76]

Really people who is shocked...Its Capcom