Sony Gearing Up To Issue The Ban Hammer - CFW Users Beware!

[sakibsultan308]

@BahumatLord- are you able to play online with 1.03 update? At hax people are saying cfw users are no longer able to connect to BO2 after this update. Most likely they are banned for good this time. Apparently creating new accounts are not working either. Can you please confirm if you are still able to play?

[CS67700]

My friends and I still do meet up to play games.

I disagree with CS67700 about games this violent never being around in the past. I remember playing Mortal Kombat on the Mega Drive, ripping people apart.

Mortal Combat was the start of it all.
But I was talking about the Master System / Nes era, Mega Drive came later.

And even during the Mega Drive period, I can't think of many games that were as violent as average games in 2012.

@ ccfman2004 : Exactly, a young child doesn't have the ability to discern correctly fiction from reality.
If he is soaked in violent games/movies during majority of his childhood, he will adopt a violent behavior and will probably be more prone to murder someone in cold blood.

Simply because he is so used to see peoples die and pull the trigger.

[ccfman2004]

I am wondering if the people who had their accounts banned played Black Ops 2 before official release and that's why they got banned not because they played it on CFW. I never play games before release as I don't download console games at all. I'll buy the game.

Also Microsoft has done it in the past where they leaked a "must have" game to see who would take the bait. They will probably deny it though. It wouldn't surprise me if Sony did the same thing.

The only salvation for playing early is if the retailer screwed up and sold the game beforehand. I remember a guy who bought a retail copy of Forza 4 getting banned for playing it early. He then had to mail a copy of the receipt showing he did indeed buy the game and so Microsoft could fine the store for breaking street date.

The only backups I play are ones I've ripped myself.

[Greg0u812]

My friend was playing MW2 when it first came out and a 6 year old told him f you when my friend killed him. The problem is that parents don't police their children in what game they play. I don't play online for either PS3 or 360 due to the racial comments I always hear.

Some parents just don't care what game their kids play. I grew up with non violent games like Super Mario Bros. I didn't even watch violent cartoons like Dragonball Z. Years ago my 5 year sister watched power rangers once and she would imitate them on me which our mother didn't like so we were banned from watching that show.

I may only be 26 now but the kids of this generation don't know what it was like when we were kids. If we wanted to play with our friends, we went over to their house for a play date. There was no Playstation or Xbox.

I am glad you wrote " I may only be 26". It shows that you are realizing how young you actually are.
I was playing Pong when it first came out. I was also plugging quarters into the Pacman machine before anyone knew yet that it had a pattern.
The level of violence in some of the games disturbs me because your first paragraph is SOOOOO true!.
It's one of the main reasons I don't do much online gaming.


With that said (and to crawl back on topic ), I had AC brotherhood logged in for 2 days straight (didn't realize I had forgotten to turn off the PS3 when I turned off the tube). I wasn't actively playing but it was still logged into the network at the game choosing screen. I had it shut off for about 24 hours and logged back in last night. It did online just fine.

I may try a few other titles tomorrow and see what happens.
Since my CFW PS3 is primarily my traveling console, it won't hurt my feeling if it gets the hammer dropped on it.

[BahumatLord]

@BahumatLord- are you able to play online with 1.03 update?

Yes I can

At hax people are saying cfw users are no longer able to connect to BO2 after this update

A lot of things are said there that just aren't true. I don't follow anything over there and have no interest in the day to day ramblings of the inexperienced or imbalanced

[ccfman2004]

It is obvious that only a few people have had their accounts banned and not their console and the people reporting it are so few that Sony may simply be banning them for playing a game early. I have heard reports of the actual console being banned since they are able to create a second account get online fine.

[jakenastysnake]

A lot of things are said there that just aren't true. I don't follow anything over there and have no interest in the day to day ramblings of the inexperienced or imbalanced

Absolute best comment ever posted to the internet

[corpse101]

I bet Sony doesn't give a crap who gets online to PSN, they just do what they have to to secure the system so that Game Devs know their hard work wont just get raped. Ive heard of people getting banned for cheating and playing games before they are released, (everyone I have heard about being banned for other reasons fesses up later that they were doing one of the two)

Sony seems to act mostly about PSN bans when it affect other players (people who complain to them or to publishers) or obviously affects publishers (when people are playing before they should be able to)

[ANDEEZY]

To all saying I'm careless, it's not that I'm careless. I'm just proving a point whether I'll be banned or not. Honestly I should be banned lol. Online should only be allowed on my OFW system and not my CFW system. I'm not going to bitch and moan about my CFW getting banned if it does. I'm already happy to run all the new games. Like Dean said, you can't eat all the cake. So all of you who think I'm careless should be happy to see someone willing to sacrifice their system for the greater good to prove if Sony will ban. I'm going deep into the danger zone where none of you will dare venture by going online with multiman and playing unreleased games to prove to you all that it's safe. So far tho
And it's funny how people think logging out to use multiman will be adequate enough to evade Sony. Hello! They made this system and software. I'm pretty damn sure they send every bit of info of your system back to them. Sony isn't stupid so stop taking them as one.

[Icezkube]

How is Sony really cracking down on people from all this Cfw or homebrew? Are there really thousands of sony employees watching ps3 network accounts for such unauthorized software activity? I think its more of a word of mouth like peeps reporting other peeps for using illegal software...or more importantly one of the keywords Sony used was "FAIR,online environment" meaning to me, people that are cheaters making it Unfair.. thus getting reported. I would think those would get caught the most as others have stated. But besides that the only other thing I think they could have in place is maybe an automated system that detects anything out the ordinary and then might ban that account or whatever.

Although, I'm sure there's always a way around there methods and most likely someone will find a way even if they get banned.

[sakibsultan308]

Yes I can



A lot of things are said there that just aren't true. I don't follow anything over there and have no interest in the day to day ramblings of the inexperienced or imbalanced

Lol. Ya true shit. All cursing and ramblings between members and mods and no real talks.

[krytonic]

To all saying I'm careless, it's not that I'm careless. I'm just proving a point whether I'll be banned or not. Honestly I should be banned lol. Online should only be allowed on my OFW system and not my CFW system. I'm not going to bitch and moan about my CFW getting banned if it does. I'm already happy to run all the new games. Like Dean said, you can't eat all the cake. So all of you who think I'm careless should be happy to see someone willing to sacrifice their system for the greater good to prove if Sony will ban. I'm going deep into the danger zone where none of you will dare venture by going online with multiman and playing unreleased games to prove to you all that it's safe. So far tho
And it's funny how people think logging out to use multiman will be adequate enough to evade Sony. Hello! They made this system and software. I'm pretty damn sure they send every bit of info of your system back to them. Sony isn't stupid so stop taking them as one.

You completely ignore the fact that, the bit of info showing you ran Multiman, gets erased when you choose a game in Multiman.

[krytonic]

I think I am banned from Black Ops 2. I loaded the game, attempted to connect online but when I selected multiplayer, about 10 seconds later the game kept saying "The Call of Duty Black Ops II server is not available blah blah blah". This was last night before I went to bed, just tried it now and still doing it didn't even get to play a game o.o

[owen420]

I have 2 slim consoles in my home (one is mine, one is roomates)

both running rogero 4.30

took original BOP2 disc, was playing online... got kicked in about 25 mins

fired it up on my other console, kicked in 1 min lol

they can deff spot us running modified firmware and don't like it, and I don't blame them.

but it would be nice to be able to dual boot easyer.

[krytonic]

I have 2 slim consoles in my home (one is mine, one is roomates)

both running rogero 4.30

took original BOP2 disc, was playing online... got kicked in about 25 mins

fired it up on my other console, kicked in 1 min lol

they can deff spot us running modified firmware and don't like it, and I don't blame them.

but it would be nice to be able to dual boot easyer.

The weird thing is connecting to PSN, and other games, all works fine. Only booted on Black Ops 2 servers specifically.

Why do you guys think they aren't banning us from PSN like Microsoft do?

[ANDEEZY]

You completely ignore the fact that, the bit of info showing you ran Multiman, gets erased when you choose a game in Multiman.

And you completely believe that is foolproof to evade Sony? Lol. What makes you think they can't detect unwanted programs within the system? A simple wipe of the history doesn't just make your system structure appear normal. I've been using multiman logged into PSN as far as I can remember ever using multiman. And guess what? Nothing. So far Sony has only dealt with cheaters. You can keep believing you're being ninja and evading Sony with a simple history wipe but I'm telling you all that it's pretty safe as long as you don't cheat.

[krytonic]

And you completely believe that is foolproof to evade Sony? Lol. What makes you think they can't detect unwanted programs within the system? A simple wipe of the history doesn't just make your system structure appear normal. I've been using multiman logged into PSN as far as I can remember ever using multiman. And guess what? Nothing. So far Sony has only dealt with cheaters. You can keep believing you're being ninja and evading Sony with a simple history wipe but I'm telling you all that it's pretty safe as long as you don't cheat.

Show me one comment where I said it is fullproof or that Sony can't detect us.

[ANDEEZY]

Show me one comment where I said it is fullproof or that Sony can't detect us.

Then why argue about multimans history wipe? From the looks of it you act like its so effective against Sony.

[Elmo111]

ive been banned!!!

i tried to sign in to my PSN account and i was greeted with a nice message stating my account had been banned :/

also, the console has been banned too, as i can log in with another account on my OFW PS3 but not on my CFW 3.55 PS3. Is there any way to unban the console, i dont want this PS3 being tainted with a ban hammer, its a collectors item!!

I really didnt think i'd get caught as this type of stuff never happens to me really!

I dont cheat online or any of that stuff, just ran BLOPS 2 a few times and BAM, turned my ps3 on tonight and its game over :'(

Im more annoyed at the fact its still a fully working 60gb PS3 from 2007, now the console + my 5 year account are tainted with the Sony ban hammer :'(

Ive e-mailed them questioning what its about :/ but really i never ever expected to be caught with the ban hammer...I logged in with a legit console when my PS3 3.55 CFW was no use to me without PSN...but 1 login with PSN on that PS3 and as said above, game over. :/

[ANDEEZY]

ive been banned!!!

i tried to sign in to my PSN account and i was greeted with a nice message stating my account had been banned :/

also, the console has been banned too, as i can log in with another account on my OFW PS3 but not on my CFW 3.55 PS3. Is there any way to unban the console, i dont want this PS3 being tainted with a ban hammer, its a collectors item!!!

I really didnt think i'd get caught as this type of stuff never happens to me really!

I dont cheat online or any of that stuff, just ran BLOPS 2 a few times and BAM, turned my ps3 on tonight and its game over :'(

Im more annoyed at the fact its still a fully working 60gb PS3 from 2007, now the console + my 5 year account are tainted with the Sony ban hammer :'(

Ive e-mailed them questioning what its about :/ but really i never ever expected to be caught with the ban hammer...I logged in with a legit console when my PS3 3.55 CFW was no use to me without PSN...but 1 login with PSN on that PS3 and as said above, game over. :/

Can you replicate and take a photo of that message?