subject: Medal Of Dignity Hindrances Jailbroken Ps3 Centers [print this page] Honor of Goodness, EA's latest primarily person shooter, will be first title to require PlayStation 3 users to upgrade their firmwareto able to have fun playing the game, effectively rendering jailbroken or PS3 Hacked useless.
For all those not know, the PlayStation 3, after years of withstanding hacking attempts, was finally broken, thanks to multiple exploits like PSGroove or PSFreedom, which rendered the console ready to play backups of original games.
Decided on way more, it was easily utilized by some gamers to pirate new and existing titles, so Sony was forced to do this so that the PS3s untarnished image.
Web site was the launch for the 3.42 firmware, which blocked the USB exploits, and then the 3.50 firmware, which blocked several other USB devices, including third-party controllers.
Now, this sort of protection been specifically a part of new Ps3 games, with Medal of Honor being lower your expenses to require the 3.42 firmware to become playable.
Therefore, people that have jailbroken or PS3 Hack (PS3 hacks)consoles can't operate a pirated copy of your game.
It will be expected for new PS3 games, manufactured by Sony or other companies, of having this sort of protection, effectively killing all the PS3 piracy problem.
Still, don't even think hackers may have this standing down, as there are already new tries to adapt the jailbreak exploit towards the newer firmwares, therefore it is only to do with time before they should work out how the bypass Sony's security measures.
Although this new Sony solution might stop PS3 pirates from playing new titles, the complete back catalog of games is still fully playable, and a lot of "backups" are downloaded for the web, on various dubious websites.
Since today, the PlayStation 3 is still the only home console of your current generation that's withstood hacking efforts, unlike the Xbox 360 system or Psp 3000.
