Sony Apologizes for OtherOS Removal due to PS3 Piracy Concerns

(Sorry for long post, not exactly a simple issue though , er I guess I should say a simple solution)

I dunno... Because of the inadvertent trophy-whor3'ing that I personally have seen, the only way I forsee the trophy system actually being brought back into balance using the system in place now is, to have psn titles worth less than retail games. My reasoning behind that is this: If I buy a 60 dollar game, there's a 50/50 chance (Without really diving into stats) that I will plat it.

If I buy a psn title, while on average they may be harder (Though I have seen -some- psn titles that were pretty easy), I could buy 5 psn titles, now I have 5 chances to get a game that's plat'able. So let's say 1 of the 5s I'll plat, so now not only did I plat one, but I also have 4 other games to squeeze trophies out of, so I'm -really- ahead of the game (no pun intended). If most of the stuff I play is retail based, I have to work FAR harder to reach the same amount of trophies, or be far luckier with trophies that are really, in a practical sense, doable.

Granted that's a simplistic view of it, there's many other factors involved for both sides, but that's the way I see it; the lists I see are basically spammed with bronze and silver trophies. I think rentals should also fall into this category too for the same reason, I just don't know how rentals could be fixed, since those are basically just retails being played at a lower cost.

I think what speaks louder is a player buying a 60 dollar game and squeezing out as many trophies as they can. The solution proposed though is kinda defeats the true purpose of trophies being used as bragging rights though. Since now it's more about preventing trophy spamming via a financial avenue, rather than removing cost out of the whole picture (which I don't know could be done) and awarding based solely on talent.

Which I guess is the way it is now, except there's still that element of spending 50-60 bucks on 5+ psn titles vs. 50-60 bucks on a single title. Which is why I keep going back to the fundamentals of the whole trophy system is really screwed up imho. But I digress from the thread's topic. My apologies.

After reading most of the posts (and pardon me if someone already stated this) I am getting sick and tired of people complaining about how piracy killed the PSP. It's been gone over before in other threads, and will undoubtedly continue in this endless loop. Piracy did not kill the PSP, crap for games did. Argue all you want, it's a tired and never ending story that gets old really fast.

I disagree, PSN titles are harder than your average retail XD compare a lot of people's list and more often than not there will be more plats than 100%'s on PSN titles =P like trash panic im always shocked if someone has 3+ in that game...

but also its far cheaper/better to rent, family video for instance half off (10 usd a month) 3.50 cents for 5 days... and on average i can get 50%+ easily which is more than any PSN title

Also: A late apology like this IMHO has some undertone to it. To me it reads like: "Yea, we realized we messed up, but because we think turning back on something is a discgrace we'll just have to get through this."

piracy sells consoles, here in the arab world people get the 360 not the ps3.