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Calendar Bug Disables Older PlayStation 3 Models

Posted by Soulskill on from the probably-just-ubisoft-drm-kicking-in dept.

JohnWilliams writes "The Sony PlayStation Network appears to be inaccessible to older ('phat') PS3 units. Players cannot play games that require a connection, even in single-player, offline mode, e.g. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Also, the system date resets to January 1, 2000. Sony is 'looking into it.' Speculation abounds that it is a bug related to 2010 being incorrectly flagged as a leap year. The newer PS3 Slim models seem to be working properly."

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  1. Re:HA! by ZDRuX · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I understand your explanation of the bug, I'm just arguing that a game shouldn't be crippled by a simple bug that should be trivial to game avaialability offline. I'm just saying a game shouldn't be crippled by the system date. And the only reason I can think of why someone would want the date sync'd or the game made non-working due to changed system date was because of some form of DRM.

    Maybe I'm wrong but this is the only reason I can think of. I just can't find it easy to accept their explanation for this, that's all.

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  2. Re:HA! by Jedi+Alec · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We talk to each other. We try to come to an agreement. If that fails a third party might get involved, especially if it's a disagreement between a company and an individual customer.

    And once all those options have been exhausted...then we might bring in an actual lawyer.

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