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In response to "PS3 Network Outage Causes Resale Prices to Decline -- (link)" by Qale

I have to admit I thought this only affected purchases. I hadn't realized you cannot play anybody online right now.

Posted by David (aka David) May 12 '11, 19:43

If that happened with Halo, I'd curl up in the fetal position and cry myself into hibernation until it was fixed.

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I've been kind of lucky that the FF13 forum on GameFaqs has sprung to life as it's one of the big titles that is offline completely and it seems many - Qale May 12, 19:48 7
- Do you have to do the patch before you can play the game? -- nm - David May 12, 19:50 6
  - It doesn't appear so. I'd think it'd eventually kind of important perhaps though? -- nm - Qale May 12, 19:53 5
    - I don't know, but I asked because I frequently cannot start 360 games without doing an update. - David May 12, 19:59 4
      - I presume there is a seperate class of games that "phone home" DRM style that still could be called a patch loader. - Qale May 12, 20:04 1
        
        I think there are 2-3 games that do require the PSN for the DRM and are thus unplayable now. -- nm - Ender May 12, 20:07
      - You couldn't play online, that's for sure. If you're offline (I imagine there are still xboxes that have never been connected to the internet), you're - Tim May 12, 20:02
      - I would expect that if it couldn't connect to the patch server it would assume there was no new patch. - Ender May 12, 20:01
DC Comics must be PISSED with the launch of DCU Online recently. and charging $15 a month to play it -- nm - Remlik May 12, 19:47

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