Bulletstorm dev: PS3Other OS removal is just an excuse for PS3 hackers

Adrian Chmielarz is the founder of Bulletstorm developer People can Fly. Speaking in the latest issue of PSM 3, the developer responded to a question regarding thoughts on the hacking of the PS3. Adrian hit back by noting 'hacker always need an excuse for hacking'. He claimed that the removal of OtherOS is just an 'excuse' from hackers and noted that the biggest concern is hacks that are used for cheating online. Concluding his thoughts, Adrian noted that hackers can ruin something like 100 families (of game developers) through their actions and noted that a kid can ruin their lives.

[JimmyHACK]

As Lana Kane says - "Yyyup!"

[farhad2k8]

Exactly what I was thinking, it's just an excuse. Half of these new breed of hackers never even used the 'OtherOS' feature.

I just wish each and every one of them get arrested or fined. It's ludacris.

It's as if a person has saved up for their house for years, and once they finally had the money, they bought this gorgeous house. Then.. all of a sudden.. neighbours started to break the windows etc.

[TronEOL]

Word. But of course there will be a slew of hackers to attempt to defend themselves. I'm pretty much giving up on the argument since I can tell Sony has themselves defended and they'll easily win this battle. Especially with Developers and many, MANY gamers behind them.

So continue being stubborn, hackers, but you'll be the only loser in this battle while I play my hack-free PS3 online and continue to support the industry that gave me over thousands of hours of gaming entertainment.

[Petro]

I also think that hackers should use their time into something better that provides them a better future. And of course they use removal of Other OS as a excuse for hacking.

Same as politicians now use nuclear power plant crisis in Japan as a leaver to stop governments from giving more building permissions for nuclear power plants.

[beavis4play]

yea - i have a strong suspicion that the hackers of today are hobos living off relatives in 25 years.....of course - most are probably leeching off someone at this moment.

[TheTruth89]

nuff said

[RememberThe357]

Yeah, he pretty much nailed it.

[Redempteur]

it was obvious .

[outwar6010]

what a load of bs people feel cheated so they provide a solution for themselves sony dont like it and start sueing for modifying something they paid for

[saumer]

This is beyond modifying something they bought. They are giving millions of people the keys to Sony's house.

[RememberThe357]

Really? So what was the excuse before Sony removed Other OS? Because we all know people were trying to hack the PS3 before Other Os was removed. And what was the excuse for hacking the 360? Or Wii? How did MS and Nintendo "cheat" you guys?

[fishd]

You can't modify something just because you " paid " for it .There are rules . Go buy a house , see if you can " modify " it into a skyscraper without any kind of permission .

[redDevil87]

I'd love to see someone try to modify their house into a skyscraper lol. It'd end up looking even more messed up then the stairway to heaven Stan, Kyle and Cartman built in Southpark.

[Perkel]

both are looking for exscuses.

And both sides of conflict are bad.

Sony removing feature that we bought

Geohot looking for ps3 hack.

There are no good sides in this conflict.

[Baka-akaB]

@outwar6010

Then why is OtherOS' return the last thing that came with the ps3 hack ?

I mean really the last thing . All they did so far was mostly piracy and emu related (so piracy mostly again) .

Where are the so called interesting homebrew ? And why was the object of their holy crusade , the return of Linux , the last thing on everyone's mind ?

Because truth be told , almost no one care .

Those among us who used linux and cared , got it removed on our fat ps3 , because some pricky kids couldnt stand the idea of a slim without it .

Great job so far guys !

[RememberThe357]

I remember all these comments talking about how cracking the PS3 was going to open it up to all this great homebrew. Where is he now? Where is all this great homebrew?

It was always about piracy and it has always been about piracy. I don't know if they're trying to fool us or themselves with these claims of homebrew and other os, but it's obvious the rest of us don't buy it.

All they seem to have been able to do is create and perpetuate cheating and pirating on the platform that was better of with out it.

[ReBurn]

Hacking in and of itself isn't the problem in my opinion. People have always been naturally curious, and people have been reverse-engineering technology as long as there has been technology. Why do they need an excuse?

The excuse is used to defend themselves when the hackers release their findings looking to get credit or gain reputation for what they've done. And it's just that, an excuse.

[Legion]

'hacker always need an excuse for hacking'- this is a false statement. Hackers have never needed an excuse to hack, they hack because of the challenge of testing their skills and meeting a challenge of doing something that others can't... as well said by ReBurn above.

Hackers are drawn to devices that allow them open freedom to manipulate data and PS3 was that when it was open for operating systems... BUT Sony took that away from their customers that might have originaly shown interest in the system due to their promoting it as as such an open system. Taking away from those that seek to challenge themselves. Just opening a can of worms... the hacking community is large and relatively an unharnassed force. It can be weak if used by someone with less skills... and dangerous by those with harmful intentions.

[a_bro]

"Hackers have never needed an excuse to hack, they hack because of the challenge of testing their skills and meeting a challenge of doing something that others can't... as well said by ReBurn above."

i didnt know that the challange was to actually hack and give out the information of the hack so that people can rape and pillage the hell out of the system, like you know, cheating and pirating.

[Legion]

That wouldn't be the challenge part... that would fall into the vindictive aspect of people in general.

Give someone a game to play with and then take it away... they are going to find away to play it and then show you how much you pissed them off. Now give them that game to play with and let them enjoy it and they become a fan and support you till the end. What did Sony do here...?

[Krakn3Dfx]

Wow, an article from Max Console that isn't bagging on the 3DS.

Seems like they're branching out.

[Darkseeker]

And piracy is nothing but an excuse for developpers to sell games at such a high prices when they could still profit at 39.99$.

[Eamon]

Generally, it's the money's worth that seems to encourage piracy.

Games with multiplayer are less likely to be downloaded than single player games.

However I do agree that games are being sold at extremely high prices these days.

[AssassinHD]

Fun fact: If you factor in the rate of inflation you will see that games are no more expensive today than they were 20 years ago.

[Baka-akaB]

actually i used to pay games twice of today's costs .

And pc didnt have great outlets like steam and so many deals .

I also see many people pirate game that cost 2 dollars max , on mobiles , or xbl/psn games .

Some people are cost motivated sure , but let's not pretend it wouldnt still widely happens with games at 1 cent .

[hatchimatchi]

seriously, people forget how expensive games were. I bought turok for the n64 for around 80 dollars.

[a_bro]

i remembered paying $80 for Ocarina of Time back in 98. and that was just the regular edition, not the one with the golden cartridge.

[jetlian]

the hell you live? Games back then cost so much because you were buying cartriges.

Say if sony sold uncharted 3 on a 32 gb memory stick they would charge you the cost of the game + 32gb stick!!!

Old games were actual chips and the better a game looked a more expensive chip was used.

[AssassinHD]

Cartridges vs. disc media is irrelevant. Games also didn't cost as much to develop back then. My point is that games in the NES era released at $30, which is the equivalent of $60 games in 2011. Development costs have increased exponentially, but the price of games has remained constant (with inflation). Also, as noted above, some games back in the day released at upwards of $80 even back then.

[Baka-akaB]

I used to buy snes games at 800 francs (basically 176 dollars) , granted that's because i live on a island with import taxes and retail stores with the best theft perks , but still ... It's a far cry from today's 120 dollars .

Inland france ? It was still 400-450 francs the game at least .. now its commonly 58-60 euros , roughly 86 dollars .

And dont tell me it was just europe then ...
I've always massively imported japanese and us games via family , friends , and later on online store , as a direct result of pricing and gaming preferences .
It was still easily more expensive .

[jetlian]

told you why they cost what they did. the value of a dollar hasn't increased 100 percent since nes days.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

"The game industry has constantly increased and expanded. The industry revenue has increased at least fivefold since the 1990s"

what you talking about

[Baka-akaB]

NES game originally sold between 40-70 dollars when they were first released. Later prices dropped to around $30ish. Final Fantasy III was $80 at release, due supposedly to its size

The SNES games went as high as 70-80 dollars depending on the title. Even the N64 games were really expensive at first. The reason the PS2 era games lowered a bit was that PS1 standardized the disc,which is cheaper to manufacture than cartridge , just like jetlian said .

[rwarner174]

Darkseeker, games are not food and water. You can live without them, so who cares what they charge. If they want to charge 5000$/game that is their right. Either learn to live with it or get a degree in computer engineering/electrical engieering/physics/computer science/manufacturing engineering/chemical engineering .... etc.... and learn how to build game systems and develop games for them yourself.

[yewles1]

Holy hell, are the idiots in that comments section selective in their memory...

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[Emilio_Estevez]

He's right

[BIGBOSS08]

other os...a feature 99% of ps3 users didnt even know existed on the console. now its the biggest feature the console had! theres only 1 thing a hacker is looking for. a way to play games for free. if you say or think otherwise, your lying to yourself. humans have this thing known as greed.