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

[BahumatLord]

i wonder if sony can see homebrew like multiman being booted ect.

yes they can. It shows in the "now playing" area under your screen name

[krytonic]

damn I feel old. My idea of "the younger generation" is a bigger stretch than most, I'm sure

He just seems to think that 20 is a mature age. He is infact part of the younger generation.

yeah ur old...lol.

anyway i bet andeezy doesn't get banned either....maybe tho....we'll see....he seems really careless...i wonder if sony can see homebrew like multiman being booted ect.

If your friends can see what you're "playing" then of course Sony would be able to as well.

[ccfman2004]

I have a huge library of games that I play all the time. Some games I have purchased for multiple system if I really want to play it a lot. I have bought Borderlands for 360, PS3, PC and Mac. The only game that I continually buy DLC for is Rock Band if it's songs I want to play. The online pass stuff is crap. I've already had it where the stupid online pass wasn't printed correctly and I had to convince the publisher to give me another one.

If you are connected to PSN, anything you are currently doing is shown on playstation.com. I remember when CFW first got PSN access and people were using Multiman and it showed in their profile online that they were playing that. I always stay off PSN when playing homebrew. Also keep in mind that a lot of information is sent to Sony even when not connected to PSN. I can get game updates without being connected to PSN. Many things get logged while you play, connected to PSN or not.

Also, fastest way to get you banned is to cheat online especially in Black Ops 2. Cheaters should be banned. I don't mind cheating in single player mode to have some fun, but cheating online to gain an unfair advantage such as auto-aim, infinite health, seen through walls is just wrong. I remember when Datel was going to release Wii Action Replay, they made it so it would turn cheats off if you connected to the Nintendo WiFi Connection. Too bad Nintendo blocked it from working on the Wii.

I am curious to know what caused the people who have been banned to get banned. I have been online with CFW every time we had PSN access and so far haven't been banned. I mostly go online to download my purchased PSN content or to update my Trophies. Other than that, I could care less about PSN access.

For people who have been banned, is it the console itself that was banned or the account or both. Console ban, no so bad for me, but account ban, I don't want to loose everything I have ever bought on PSN over the years.

[morbidxkiller]

Hopefully this doesn't apply to things I have played online from like 3 years ago... lol

[megatoto]

Not banned yet Kmeaw 3.55 + spoof.

[CS67700]

I'm an old player too, and the "new generation" of players for me are the last two generations of consoles (PS2 - PS3/360).

The COD kiddies that jumped into the gaming world are fairly recent.

When I think of it, I started with much less "violent" games (Mario, Alex Kid, etc..), these days kids get to play GTA or COD. No wonder they're spoiled brats with trash mentality.

F*cked up world.

[ccfman2004]

I'm an old player too, and the "new generation" of players for me are the last two generations of consoles (PS2 - PS3/360).

The COD kiddies that jumped into the gaming world are fairly recent.

When I think of it, I started with much less "violent" games (Mario, Alex Kid, etc..), these days kids get to play GTA or COD. No wonder they're spoiled brats with trash mentality.

F*cked up world.

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.

[CS67700]

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.

Content is not restricted enough.
Back in the days we didn't need all these age restrictions since these games didn't exist.

There was Metal Gear and other shooting franchise, but it was just small sprites fighting each other, there was no blood or graphical kills.
I've been playing the COD's campaigns, they're fairly good, but certainly not adapted for 13 year olds. The language is crude and the killing is brutal.

It may sound stupid and harmless, but in a child's head these things mark and can create trauma.

I also avoid playing online on COD/BF3 on console, for the simple reason that you will be insulted for every kill you make.
What about PES/FIFA ? I had to stop playing PES online back in the days, because I would be insulted and racially discriminated when I won a game.

The mentality of the new generation of kids is scary.

When the first Playstation came out, my parents refused to buy one.
They saw footage of Tekken in action and thought it was too violent.

I secretly played it at my friends house without my parents knowing.
And god knows the first Tekken is miles away from COD and other gory games these days, that kiddies play in their rooms without their parents giving a damn.

Then they end up slaughtering peoples at school with guns, and we ask ourselves "why".

[ccfman2004]

Content is not restricted enough.
Back in the days we didn't need all these age restrictions since these games didn't exist.

There was Metal Gear and other shooting franchise, but it was just small sprites fighting each other, there was no blood or graphical kills.
I've been playing the COD's campaigns, they're fairly good, but certainly not adapted for 13 year olds. The language is crude and the killing is brutal.

It may sound stupid and harmless, but in a child's head these things mark and can create trauma.

I also avoid playing online on COD/BF3 on console, for the simple reason that you will be insulted for every kill you make.
What about PES/FIFA ? I had to stop playing PES online back in the days, because I would be insulted and racially discriminated when I won a game.

The mentality of the new generation of kids is scary.

When the first Playstation came out, my parents refused to buy one.
They saw footage of Tekken in action and thought it was too violent.

I secretly played it at my friends house without my parents knowing.
And god knows the first Tekken is miles away from COD and other gory games these days, that kiddies play in their rooms without their parents giving a damn.

Then they end up slaughtering peoples at school with guns, and we ask ourselves "why".

Look at Columbine. They took the violent game Doom and modded it to recreate their school.

Most kids simply don't understand the difference between fantasy and reality. They see a player on COD get killed and that player then respawns. They translate that into, if they shoot s real person with a gun, they will simply respawn. That has happened before where 2 kids were playing and one kids finds his dad's pistol and shoot the other kid not knowing that the pistol can and will kill and that we don't respwn.

My sister has played a little bit of Black Ops II on the 360 and almost every player camps in Team Death Match. I do wonder if everyone that supposedly has been banned from PSN cheated online in some way or is Sony simply randomly banning people to try and confuse us as to what is triggering the bannings. I would be curious if anyone on OFW gets the console ban and what Sony would do. I know Microsoft will refuse to do anything once a console is banned even if the console was wrongly banned (except for that one time when they had a software glitch that was banning legitimate consoles). I had a 360 that got the RRoD and I sent it in and they sent it back claiming it had physical damage (it didn't) so I fixed it myself and the second I tried to connect to Xbox LIVE it was banned. Of course MS refused to listen to me so I sold it on eBay as a banned console since it was an original Xenon and I was in the market for a new 360 anyway. Got $60 for the banned console which was nice.

So far the couple of people who are claiming to be banned don't have another console to see if it is simply their account that was banned.

The PS3 logs EVERYTHING. You should NEVER play homebrew while connected to PSN and you should run MultiMan with the settings that clear logs and stuff before even trying to on PSN. It's funny when you see a friend and it says they are playing MultiMan.

[krytonic]

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.

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.

Also reading the past comments, there is a couple of people who ere banned who were banned who say their main account is banned on their console, but their second account works fine. So obviously, it is the accounts and not the consoles getting banned.