Trophies Mandatory from 2009

[Nation]

UK, November 21, 2008 - Trophies will be a part of all new PlayStation 3 games from January 2009, with Sony making the feature mandatory.

To date, trophy support for PlayStation 3 titles has been sporadic, with only a select few titles including Sony's reward system since its introduction in July this year. From January they will be a required part of any game released on the console, with VideoGamer.com revealing the news last night.

This will put an end to post-release trophy patches, with big titles such as Uncharted implementing them well after the game has shipped.


Good it's bull that SD vs RAW 09 doesn't have trophies considering they would be the same as the achievements. Hopefully the first Resistance,MGS4 and a few other titles can get trophies. But it's nice that this will prevent developers from getting lazy.

 

[Solid Stinger the Big Boss]

Yay!!

 

[This Guy]

I have a question. Lets say I have Smackdown vs. Raw 09 of PS3 (I don't I have it for 360, but I'm curious and you two seem to be more knowlageble then I on PS3 related nitty gritty stuff) and I beat the game unlocking all the bonus characters, outfits, arenas etc, finish all the RTW's etc. Then after that they come out with the Trophies Patch for it. Do I automatically get all the trophies for that game or would I have to start all over again from scratch?

 

[Solid Stinger the Big Boss]

You'd have to start all over.


But I don't collect trophies nor achievements unless they're extremely challenging.

 

[J]

You can all shit your self when you read this. But I think Ps3 is smart for adding the trophies things. I think this is one of the things that one company may come up with but everyone should jump onto. Achievement/Trophies is something that helps to give a gamer more insintive to see the game all the way through and also do it without cheating. So Ps3 is smart to make it madatory.

 

[This Guy]

except someone said something on why there a bad idea way back when that holds true. Take Avatar for 360. It sucks. Yet its one of the most played games on 360. Because getting all 1000 points of achievements takes less then 5 minutes because of a glitch in the game. What did THQ learn from this? People will buy crappy games because there obsessed with Achievements and Gamerscores.


As for the starting all over, well in that case I wouldn't bother with the patch as would I assume neitehr would most...In which case I would think that patching in trophies after the fact is a giant waste of time, money and production.

 

[Solid Stinger the Big Boss]

I don't know man, lots of people replayed Uncharted once that got patched.

 

[Solid Stinger the Big Boss]

I know this off topic but HOME sucks, got invited into to beta today.

MOST BORING THING EVER

 

[This Guy]

perhaps. I know I wouldn't though. Then again, maybe it wouldn't bring people to play it again, but it might sell more copies then it already did to new players.

 

[Solid Stinger the Big Boss]

I never really caught the appeal of trophies/achievements.

 

[Kassidy]

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