A few people who turned their PS3s on during the notorious ApocalyPS3 may have noticed that they're now missing Trophies. While I'm sure a few people would love to see the back of those bloody things now, Sony has issued a statement explaining how to easily get them back. At least, for some people.
"It is possible that some users who experienced the connection problems yesterday and tried unsuccessfully to access a game (online or offline) may find that trophy data for that title is no longer displayed," explains Sony. "To resolve this issue, the user will need to re-access the game to reinstall the trophies, then exit the game and sync their trophy collection to the server in order to regain previous achievements."
If there is one thing I've learned about PS3 fans, it's that they love to sit and watch installation screens and wait for Trophies to take longer than they should to sync with a server for no justifiable reason, so that ought to be a nice treat for everybody. Wonderful!
There are still reports of missing downloaded games and strange quirks with the Trophy data in which resyncing still doesn't make them appear, even though the PSN recognizes that the Trophies in question have been unlocked. In any case, it sounds like there's still a lot of nonsense that'll need to be weeded out in the wake of this mess, but at least games can be played now. I remember when videogame consoles just did that bit, without all the silly, f*cked up crap that seems to happen alongside it.
Sony: How to recover PS3 Trophies [CVG]
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7:00 AM on 03.02.2010
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RE5 new DLC did that for me, for whatever reason.
This was before the ApocalyPS3 and the resurrection of PS3sus.
Wait... did they say that only works for synched trophies, Jim?
amiright!?
oh... we're not doing that now?
shucks.
Really? Jim is a fanboy for reporting news on a situation that every single game site is also reporting? Seems to me he's just doing his job. If anything, he's helping those with affected PS3s by passing on information.
As a side note, it would suck if those with trophy corruption issues were required to put in a game they no longer had.
Hell we need to receive a trophy for enduring this.
Through fire and flamewars.
Survived the Apacolyps3.
And what's with the retarded fanclub?
i really can't tell apart which is worse
his ugliness, his obessity ,his fanboyism, his awfull journalism or his mindless fanclub.
I'm still buzzing from my lunch hour MAG, i love living so close to work, and that game is fucking fantastic.
I wonder how much Sony will sue the company that made/sold them those faulty time chips for?
Surely the Jim defense squad can smell the stink of fanboy on each and every word in this article? Right? Just saying, it's not what jim says, it's how he says it.
Taking bets now for total comments on this post by the end of the day, I'm going with 150.
What do you reckon?
I'm hoping. I'm not hopeful.
Oh god, trophies are missing NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. How will the gamers of the world cope w/o TROPHIES. I hate NES and SNES cause I never had trophies playing htose games
</sarcasm>
It would depend who was on top, I think. ;)
...Please tell me you're not serious?
But good news to clocks fixing themselves I guess.
O and @ Interlink: Jim is a fanboy. He's a fanboy of himself. He likes to antagonize people who he thinks will respond negatively.
This helps inflate his miniscule sense of self worth and it also takes his mind off the facts that he's 300 lbs and no woman will ever let him stick his cock in her.
The solution to the Jim problem is to just call him a fanboy and leave...he gets pissed at that and calls the offending people names. Of course he stops doing that when he realizes that you're not going back to read his comments after the fact.
When he realizes that you're just saying that to piss him off, he stops responding, which I guess makes him smarter than the same people who continue to hang on his every badmouthing of the PS3.
But oh yeah...he's a fanboy. Probably twice the fanboy you and I are. Literally.
nah, I don't get it either
You do realize he's married and has a kid right? Your worthless attempt at internet insults just fell flat on its face. I wish all these fucking tools would go back to their respective fanboy cave's now, come back when Jim rights another sarcastic article that you will more than likely take seriously because your an idiot.
Jim Sterling is a polarizing personality.
I am not wearing pants.
Anyone want a pudding cup?
Hows Instant Gratification treating you guys now?
Hows Instant Gratification treating you guys now?
Online capabilities: working
Saved data: OK
Throphies: Uncharted 2 trophies missing. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
Wait...Jim is a "fanboy of himself"? That's a new one.
Look, I don't agree with everything Jim writes, but I find no reason to toss angry insults his way. I mean, this is a video game site, right? It boggles my mind how some people can drum up so much anger about the hobby, defending their console as if it was their wheelchair bound little brother.
If Jim's writing stirs such resentment, then why read it? I think Fox News is a big fat joke, so well, I don't go there.
I just don't get it.
So fuck you, too, Quantic Dreams and EA for not allowing me to back up.
If you don't know how to run servers, get the fuck offline.
Love how each game that it did disappear were single player offline games.
Excuse my French, I just wanted to be sure Quantic could understand.
Mind you, Microsoft suckheads are just as lame as the Sony brain-dead sheep.
Then again, fanboys in general are lower-life forms :p
If Jim Sterling is a 'fanboy' then what does that make you? You're opinions would appear even more polar than his.
He has a defense group because of two reasons: people agree with him (*gasp*) and people attack him.
In other news, why does Jim insult PS3 fans so often? Is it just a general thing he does with Microsoft fans, too, or does he have a story behind it? For a professional journalist (sort of) to have a war with a fanboy faction, that's kind of .. eh.
Since news was pretty clear that "ApocalyPS3" effected games with trophies I only played The Darkness which has none, so no trophies missing, only a save file that says I last saved New Years Eve 1999
"I wonder how much Sony will sue the company that made/sold them those faulty time chips for?"
Yep. When Microsoft's hardware malfunctions, it's their fault. When Sony's hardware malfunctions, it's somebody else's fault.
Fanboy much?
Oh, who am I kidding? Why would I expect anything different after all this time?
...and since 1) my fatty never skipped a beat during all this "jolly ol' nonsense
and 2) this little tid-bit of info was revealed in an update of the initial news
you're just reiterating for the sake of a flame bait headline.
3) I only felt it fitting to point this out because of the image you used.
also, MYAAAAHHH!!!