154w ago - As if there weren't enough
class action lawsuits filed recently for the removal of OtherOS on PS3, IGN reports that yet another
lawsuit (PDF) is brewing against Sony and Square Enix over Final Fantasy XIII freezing and in some cases breaking the user's PlayStation 3 entertainment system.
To quote: "The lawsuit, filed on June 2, 2010 by
Daniel Wolf of San Diego, Calif., alleges Final Fantasy XIII has caused 'severe and widespread damage' to Sony PS3 gaming systems since its release on March 9, 2010.
The lawsuit states that, for many consumers playing Final Fantasy XIII, has 'caused their PS3 consoles to freeze and become totally and permanently inoperable.'
Wolf said he purchased a copy of Final Fantasy XIII the day it was released, and when attempting to save his game, his PS3 became unresponsive and would no longer play any other media after restarting it.
The suit also alleges that both Sony and Square Enix blamed the issue on one another. Square Enix said the issue resulted from Sony's console, and Sony blamed the issue on a faulty Final Fantasy XIII game disc. Neither company allegedly offered to cover the cost of repairing PS3 consoles.
The class seeks more than $5 million in damages and other financial relief."
Well this is no good. I tried installing Rebug D-Rex 4.30.2 but kept getting an error that it's corrupt from the main update screen and from the recov...
3 completly different game companies and all are making the same mistakte that the console gets inoparable? i don't think so.
Sony should fix this bugs or insert sub routines for prevending those problems instead of blaming other companies for their dumb programmers...
Also - without proper evaluation of each of the damaged PS3s as well as the condition they were used into (were they for example properly ventilated or were they upgraded with 7.200 RPM hard drives etc. etc.) it's almost impossible to specifically point out the exact cause of the failure (as it's almost never only just one element).
So - while there could be a bit of "help" from FFXIII in killing those machines ("last straw" situation), proving so above any doubts would be practically impossible and my guess would be that the lawyer(s) in this case is/are playing on the fact that one or other company will offer / accept settlement out of court to avoid the "bad" publicity ...
1. How the hell will he prove that only that specific disk (FF13) caused this damages? Not Killzone, LittleBigPlanet, Uncharted or he damaged it as well accidentaly or on purpose, but the damage was caused only by FF13? He need to call some few-hundred dollars expert group to make conclusion.
2. And yeah, how can the sum brought to the court (5 millions) exceed sum of damages (nearly 700$ at best, not to think that his console surely wasn't new, so it should be labeled as "used" this way, if gurantee perios is over he should get restorations as for the "used" console), is 4 999 300$ a sum of moral damages? LMAO
No matter how hard I tried... the Console frozed up on me when trying to boot up...
had to re insert the 60 GB drive... But still 5 million dollars... C'mon man..