The legal document provided by ICO is heavily redacted, but list failings by the data controller as reasons for the fine’s severity, such as not using the latest security measures. “The data controller knew, or ought to have known, that there was a risk that the contravention would occur unless reasonable steps were taken”. Additionally, ICO complain that, because of Anonymous’ DDoS attacks prior to the hack, Sony should have taken steps to beef up security measures – although, in their defense, Anonymous had no plans to hack the PSN and openly said as much, but Sony certainly should have prepared.
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Sony has recently published a new patent that wants to dynamically handle the games' difficulty and gameplay based on the player's emotions.
Sony has recruited Bungie's head of revenue Jaremy Rich to head up its live-service gaming division, Rich has announced on social media.
Please do not put Destiny’s monetization into Sony’s first party games. The monetization is what’s driving players away from Destiny.
I mean, this person made some pretty bad decisions at Bungie. I hope they've learned from them because I definitely don't see those type of ideas as good for PlaySation in general.
Ps5 gamers in 2023 seemed to play more live service types of games, so regardless to how people feel about them, numbers don’t lie and Sony is going where the money is. I mean look at the excitement around Helldivers2, people are showing that they want live service games.
How do you kill a franchise that already been killed?
Destiny’s grind, cash-in-on-playbass-cha-Ching, and pop-culture-insertion mainstream-me-too bs totally killed any rep Bungie had. Sony/Bungie, if you are doing this to ward-off players, it’s already working.
Sony has patented to add multiple dialogue modes to let players switch between how many conversations with NPCs they want in the game.
Sony is like the only ones outta the 3 that has atuff like like this pop up changing thing in ways.
Worrying if true, but I think Sony were too busy concentrating on the DDoS attacks to focus on the PSN side at the time
"ICO admits that “there is no evidence that the encrypted payment card details were accessed” and says they have received no complaints or reports of harm from the personal data lost and don’t think it was used by the hackers. "
Then I am unsure how they can fine and says what they said. I mean they admit themselves there is no evidence of details stolen. Also the fine is only half a million
If I was Sony I would appeal. I am not sure how ICO can say details were compromised if they admit there is no evidence to support this
Probably outsourced to India. They never read the code and had no idea it was garbage.
Good to see action over this. Hopefully it sends a clear message that any risk to security details is totally unacceptable!
I thought this was going to be about ICO the game, like as in, the one by the guys that did Shadow of the Colossus. :(