Comments on: Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit on the PS3

By: Dean

Dean — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 03:46:51 +0000

I rented it from blockbuster and took it back and demanded a refund after i told them it was worthless since someone else had allready rented it.

i dont think the kid understood what i was talking about, but i think its a scam to stop game rentals…

and those theiving bastards at game Stop.

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 23:57:15 +0000

@Zeno: Yeah, it’s dumb that the game requires one minimum firmware, and playing online requires another.

Everybody who has posted here so far is someone I know who loves video games. Sony, are you listening? You are alienating people who love video games!!

By: Zeno

Zeno — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 15:20:56 +0000

I like (not really) how you’ve got to patch the firmware to 3.5 before you can update to 3.51. That’s so dodgy…

By: Kris

Kris — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 13:21:11 +0000

I bought the game for my PC via Steam during the big holiday sale a couple of weeks back and, trust me, the online experience isn’t any better on the PC. I’ve yet to get the damn thing to talk to its proprietary online service and their support is no help, insisting it’s my router configs. Listen, kid, I’m running a custom DD-WRT based router, I know more than enough about how packets fly around to be dangerous, and I’ve Wire-Sharked the connection. It’s not me, it’s you. Sigh.

Rant aside, a lot of games now are making their online codes one time only and require you to purchase a new one when using a used game. I’ve run into it on the xbox 360 as well.

By: oobgarm

oobgarm — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 13:12:33 +0000

I got the same thing on the 360. “Hey, you’re not a gold subscriber. You need to be otherwise you can play these cool parts of the game”.

I hate online stuff-everything about it rubs me the wrong way. What ever happened to letting people play games on their own?

By: ladyjaye

ladyjaye — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 12:21:31 +0000

Wow! That’s insane!

I don’t understand why updates always take so long on the PS3. For comparison, updates only take a moment on the 360.

And it really sucks that the supposedly free online component is no longer free if you buy the game used from somene who used that code already. Meh.