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

[BahumatLord]

I think there was a new update recently and I haven't tried it yet but yeah, my first account was banned from CODBOII but my second user account wasn't

Edit: That's the price you pay for trying to play a pre-release copy. I don't play online anyway but I actually tried to give it a shot on this one since everybody's so worked up about it. It spawned me in a 3 foot hallway and as soon as I came out into the battle area I was sniped by a camper. I lasted all of 5 seconds

Now I can see why this was the "must have" online game of the season /end sarcasm

[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.