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Sony's SOCOM II Gets Cheat Patches

Posted by simoniker on from the evilness-decrease dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to an email reprinted on the GameBattles.com forums, it seems that Sony has released the first mandatory downloadable patches for the Playstation 2 online game SOCOM II: U.S. Navy SEALs. This is nothing new in the PC gaming world, but is relatively novel for PlayStation 2 gamers - there's no official word on what changed, but there's a list of perceived changes on the official SOCOM II boards." 1UP also notes that the patch "occupies some space on your memory card in the blocks already used by the game", but doesn't need the forthcoming PS2 hard drive in any way.

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  1. Re:Sounds Cool by StocDred · · Score: 1, Troll
    Increasingly more complex? I don't think that's the problem. What's more complex, your average Final Fantasy game or your average PC FPS? I think that it's the usual rush-to-market syndrome, coupled with the relative inexperience of console developers when it comes to online games (and online cheaters.)

    Patching in games is rarely a good thing, so I wouldn't make it sound like PC games are better because they can be patched. Console games (prior to this generation) required stricter quality control because they couldn't be patched. (Yes, yes, buggy console games ship, but the overwhelming majority of console games are far more stable and polished than PC games. That's not always an indictment on PC games, just points to the endless ways the user can alter/upgrade/fuck up their personal system.)

    What's that saying... if you're so smart, why aren't you rich? Well, if PC games are so amazingly better, why aren't more people buying them? For most casual users, it's not worth the effort to get PC games to work. Consoles just work. It doesn't matter how much more techpower is behind your shiny new Windows machine, if it's beyond what most people can stomach in terms of money and time commitment and engineering, it's not going to win compared to a $100 Nintendo. Why do you think Microsoft started up the Xbox?