AOL Plans Console Gaming Ladder, PS2 Hookup

Posted by simoniker on Tuesday December 9, 2003 @08:01PM from the sharon-stone-and-ken-kutaragi-sitting-in-a-tree dept.

Thanks to Reuters for their story discussing AOL's announcement of the forthcoming 'AOL Ladders' console ranking service for PlayStation 2 and GameCube, as a partnership with the Case's Ladder ranking site. However, the free-to-AOL-subscribers ladder system isn't automatic in any way: "After finding an opponent, players play and then report their statistics [on the website]", making it a relative non-event, and seemingly unrelated to AOL's announcement of a Nintendo partnership earlier this year. Elsewhere in the article, it's mentioned that "AOL... and Sony's video game unit, Sony Computer Entertainment of America, are working on a version of the AOL service designed to run on the PS2", and that it may debut after Sony "releases a hard drive for the PS2", although this partnership has already been in progress for over two and half years.

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Honor system by MMaestro · 2003-12-10 04:31 · Score: 3, Insightful

The honor system never works over the internet. NEVER.
So long as players can get always by lying, play under different aliases, and/or not be tracked efficiently people will always be generally assholes and not abide by the honor system. At the very bottom, there will always be someone who 'forgets' or was 'just too lazy and THEN forgets' to input their loss/win/draw.