Warhawk Beta - May 24 (registration open!)

[Tap In]

Okay. I thought you meant two accounts for the same region. I suppose in this case you're main account is your local one with friend's and contacts, but you bought on an international one and now can't network with them. I guess the wisdom here is only use an international account for standalone, 'offline' downloads.

I guess what people are referring to (threads on other forums I've read) is that households with more than one user (brothers/family etc) who want to all play at different times online are having to use the original dl account for online play which includes rankings and whatnot.

so the family would need to share that accout for this one game (when they use their own accounts for their online play usually) and not have access to their own friend's lists and the points accrued would all be on that one account (shared).

that's how I understood it anyway.


also there's this

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6177766...stnews;title;3

Quote:
GameSpot: What's different about Warhawk's DRM?

Sony representative: The downloadable version of Warhawk, which is available from the PlayStation Store, will be directly tied to the registered PSN account that purchased the game. Only that registered PSN account will be authenticated for gameplay. You will still be able to download the game to up to five PS3 systems. However, if a user downloads Warhawk onto a different machine, he/she will only be able to play via the original PSN user account on that machine and could not play on a different machine for 24 hours. This does not affect the Blu-ray Disc version of the game available at retail.

 

[fallguy]

Who said that?

I thought the ps store said it in a banner yesterday.

 

[patsu]

Are you in Europe ? Someone in AVS were downloading the game yesterday (28th). It was delayed in UK. Is the Blu-ray version out now ?

EDIT:
Here you go...
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2007/08/28/warhawk-launch/

Well…after staying up way too late last night playing, I’m here to say that Warhawk is LIVE and available on the PlayStation Store AND at retailers across the country!

May be he had too much fun...

 

[Nesh]

WarHawk gets an 8.8 at IGN

Here is a press average so far 8.3
http://www.gamestats.com/objects/748/748468//articles.html

 

[MJP]

I bought it and downloaded it, and its a very good multiplayer game. Borrows a lot from the Battlefield games (vehicles, command-points, rankings, medals/badges), but with a solid fast-paced console feel throughout. The aircraft are a lot of fun to fly, especially on the one level that takes place on rooftops in the sky. Their use against ground units is a bit questionable unless perhaps you're very good with the bombs. Graphics-wise the game is pretty nice. Nothing mind-blowing, but the clouds are pretty and there's some nice FSAA in effect.

My one gripe right now would be that when playing CTF matches, it was too disorganized and chaotic. Most people didn't even seen to realize you could capture command points, and would routinely walk right past uncaptured points. I'm sure this will improve as people get more familiar with the game, but I would've appreciated some more organizational structure (a la Battlefield's squad system).

Anyway I'm pleasantly surprised, and its a good buy for the $40 price-tag.

 

[MJP]

Also I didn't see this posted here, but Sony has indeed changed their DRM policy for this game. You can still download on up to 5 PS3's, but only one PS3 can be "activated" in a 24-hour period. I'm not completely sure how this works, but I suspect I've run into it as I download the game on my father's PS3 last night and the game refuses to launch on my personal PS3 (it just gives a generic error message).

Anyway the article is from GameSpot:
http://www.gamespot.com/ps3/action/warhawk/news.html?sid=6177766

 

[xmu]

I use the US account to buy stuff from the US store, typical they will be released earlier there and often they are cheaper.

Besides the US and Danish account, i have a .JP .HK .AU and a .DE

Sorry to wonder a bit off-topic, how did you get the US account working properly? I mean I have one too, but I couldn't get it to accept my payment details (living in Finland) so I can just download demos etc from the US store.

 

[-tkf-]

Okay. I thought you meant two accounts for the same region. I suppose in this case you're main account is your local one with friend's and contacts, but you bought on an international one and now can't network with them. I guess the wisdom here is only use an international account for standalone, 'offline' downloads.

The other games i bought from the Shop isn´t limited like Warhawk. But i know it´s walking a thin line since i could make a "shared" account with 5 friends and could huddle up all our purchases in that one account.

Kind a like the old Steam Trick, one account, one game and a shared password, play your friends games in "offline" mode.

I would never risk sharing my Steam account though, it´s to expensive now

 

[djskribbles]

nm.

 

[Shifty Geezer]

so the family would need to share that accout for this one game (when they use their own accounts for their online play usually) and not have access to their own friend's lists and the points accrued would all be on that one account (shared).

That's a point. I guess if you have multiple accounts, you're better off with the disc. Perhaps Sony's reasoning for two different distributions had something along these lines in it? Expecting downloads to be single machines with single users? Or this is something overlooked. It's a major aspect to download distribution which perhaps no-one predicted? How do you handle download content so it can be played by anyone on one particular machine, or can be transported to a friend's PS3?

 

[betan]

That's a point. I guess if you have multiple accounts, you're better off with the disc.

It seems so.

Perhaps Sony's reasoning for two different distributions had something along these lines in it?

Perhaps, among other reasons like keeping retailers happy.

Expecting downloads to be single machines with single users? Or this is something overlooked. It's a major aspect to download distribution which perhaps no-one predicted? How do you handle download content so it can be played by anyone on one particular machine, or can be transported to a friend's PS3?

I doubt it is overlooked or a surprise to Sony.
It looks more like a limitation of their authentication method.
Blu-ray version is easy as there is only one disk and it can be used to authenticate, but PSN version is tied to the username only.
Either they have no way of uniquely differentiating different hardware, or they simply didn't want the trouble of all the database changes.

 

[wco81]

Does the Blu-Ray disc let you install the game to the HDD and play it from there?

Or do you have to have the disc in the drive in order to play?

 

[DJ12]

I thought you needed the disc in the drive to play games you've installed anyway. I'm sure that's the case with Ridge Racer anyway.

 

[betan]

Does the Blu-Ray disc let you install the game to the HDD and play it from there?

Or do you have to have the disc in the drive in order to play?

Both.
It installs to HDD but keeps the disc for authentication, except for LAN parties.

 

[wco81]

OK so the PN download is the only way you can play purely from the HDD.

Still like to have the disc so that you can sell it later if you get tired of the game.