HDloader v HDadvance (FAO lufcfan)

[Warlock]

Originally Posted by lufcfan

It's still a stolen version - and should still be boycotted...

Yeah, I dont see how he gets away with it. Sony came down hard on the original HD loader as well as some modchip and game sites yet Z is allowed to rip off and sell the HD product all over the net and nothings said or done about it.

[lufcfan]

I think there's a bit of, shall we say, back-handing going on...

[CEOrko]

Originally Posted by Warlock

Yeah, I dont see how he gets away with it. Sony came down hard on the original HD loader as well as some modchip and game sites yet Z is allowed to rip off and sell the HD product all over the net and nothings said or done about it.

Meh, I stopped trusting Sony when they started pushing back the release of their PS2 HDD software. Then some months later, poof, they drop HDD support altogether and announce their accursed new slim PS2s. That just burnt. And one can only hope that the PS3 will be somehow compatable with FFXI or else the game will only last a few years after PS3 launches. That is, unless Sony continues manufacturing PS2 models with HDD bays. Otherwise the older PS2 models will slowly start to break down, the well kept ones lasting maybe several years longer, and people will turn to abandoning SE's MMORPG as opposed to continually repairing their PS2s. Damn you Sony! Damn you all to hell!!

...I suppose the threat of having people be able to pirate games without installing mod-chips and voiding their PS2's warranty was a risk Sony didn't want to take, so they acquitted themselves to destroying the company who developed the HDLoader as quickly as possible. Once they had done so, another person just picked up the pieces and put it all back together. So Sony felt that such a thing would merely happen again and again and again and decided to drop future support of the HDD so as to possibly prevent such piracy. When you have a Sony HDD that's mostly empty, I suppose you do question the ability to put entire games on it. Oh well, it can not be helped.

Anyway, thanks for all the feedback on my post, everyone, and sorry about my semi-conspiracy theory rant on Sony and their HDD. I kind of just got carried away.

[CEOrko]

I suppose that Sony is just keeping quiet because they know there's nothing they can ultimately do about videogame piracy that isn't in some way illegal other than building a situation where piracy isn't exactly easy to do, there still is no PS2 HDD only package retailing in a store in the US, and there's a good chance alot of people don't know that the PS2 can support (with the use of existing software) third-party HDDs.