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GAF Votes FOTY 2011 Thread Fail Of The Year

Skyrim, by far

gutterboy44 said:
The main reason I gave Skyrim PS3 over PSN is because the PSN was a malicious attack. Sure Sony could have had better security and handled it better but at the end of the day someone committed a crime against Sony and in turn their customers.

On the other hand, Bethesda has an established track record with PS3 issues and knowingly deceived the public to cover up the PS3 issues. Reviewers who specifically aske for PS3 copies were given x360 copies. They still don't even admit to the issue as of today.

Sony lost a fuck ton of money and PR face while Bethesda is raking in the money and awards and no one gives a fuck but nerds. I was irked with Sony, I am fucking livid with Bethesda.
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Exactly

Garcia el Gringo said:
Well in the PSN hack people also had their emails and passwords leaked in addition to lost game time, but yeah I agree. I guess people just don't care about the unauthorized access on Xbox Live accounts until it happens to them. If it happened to them they'd realize that it's much, much worse than the PSN outage. With the PSN outage people just had to sit back, maybe cancel a credit card and wait for Sony to shower them with compensation. With the Xbox hacking/phishing you have to call up support (and sometimes fight) for there to be any fix. You'll wait much longer than the PSN outage and there entire time you'll be in the dark about the status of your account. It just seems like your account is in limbo for weeks. And Microsoft isn't offering you any compensation, they don't even promise refunds. No games journalists are going to fight for you besides Patrick Klepek. During the PSN outage, everything about PSN was halted so gamers weren't really missing out on anything besides maybe play Brink online at launch, but if you're a victim of UA on Xbox Live you're going to miss 2+ months of new games that your friends are playing, game events, deals of the week and etc. And when/if you do get your account back, it's violated with changed info and scarred forever with Fifa 12 achievements and maybe some other games you don't want on your games played list. Nobody's PSN accounts was looted and vandalized. People really don't seem to understand or care.
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Microsoft fans seem to just like to ignore the problems, just look at the RROD debacle, we had many people completely ignore the fact that consoles were breaking. So yeah, Im not surprised that this issue hasn't been given much attention from either (360) gamers or the press.

MisterNoisy said:
I don't know if I'd equivocate social engineering cases (even a lot of them) with letting everything you know about your customers be accessed in one fell swoop, but MS could have more aggressively dealt with the FIFA situation.
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I don't think social engineering has even been confirmed as the cause.

Hell, iirc, you don't even have to play FIFA for it to happen.
 
DA2 responses are interesting. It's a very disappointing game and, sure, under the title "Disappointment of the Year," I could see that. But fail? Fail of the year? Despite it being very inferior to the original and disappointing in general, I still thought it was a decent game.
 
Noshino said:
Microsoft fans seem to just like to ignore the problems, just look at the RROD debacle, we had many people completely ignore the fact that consoles were breaking. So yeah, Im not surprised that this issue hasn't been given much attention from either (360) gamers or the press.
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If it was a hack, and MS said nothing about it, it would be a major MAJOR fuck up, one that I don't think even MS would make. When everyone else gets hacked they always release a statement. It's pretty much 100% certain that the breaches are a result of social engineering.

I would FUCKING LOVE for XBL to be hacked just cause I love seeing major companies freak out.
 
Socom 4. What a god awful game. Why can't they at least make it seem like they've updated the series at all in the past decade?
 
MML:3 cancelled and Capcom blaming it on the fans. I've never even played a MML game and I was offended at what a dick move that was.

Hudsonsoft dying was the saddest thing to happen this year, though. No more Bomberman...
 
There's been a lot of fail this year, but the winner has to be the PSN Outage.

Skyrim PS3 may be a broken game, but it at least didn't expose your credit card details and shut down the PS3 online service for 3 months! (4 if you live in Japan!)
 
Since all the obvious answers have already been given, I'll go with Capcom and Marvel vs. Capcom 3. Charging me €60 for a game with barely any features and a barely functional online mode, and then releasing the "real" version of the game just a few months later with a €40 price tag. Never again.
 
Nuclear Muffin said:
There's been a lot of fail this year, but the winner has to be the PSN Outage.

Skyrim PS3 may be a broken game, but it at least didn't expose your credit card details and shut down the PS3 online service for 3 months! (4 if you live in Japan!)
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IIRC it was a month or more for it being down..

The rest was the store not being up
 
FateBreaker said:
DA2 responses are interesting. It's a very disappointing game and, sure, under the title "Disappointment of the Year," I could see that. But fail? Fail of the year? Despite it being very inferior to the original and disappointing in general, I still thought it was a decent game.
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The fail comes from BioWare playing damage control, I think. At one point, they associated people who disliked the game to trolls from 4chan. You don't do that!
 
XBL: 360 fifa packs. Reason: No solution in over a month and consequences that directly affect the consumer.

cant vote the psn hack because they clearly acted quickly and it was just the media that turned it into a doomsday scenario.

and if we talk about games only, skyrim ps3.
 
Salacious Crumb said:
If it was a hack, and MS said nothing about it, it would be a major MAJOR fuck up, one that I don't think even MS would make. When everyone else gets hacked they always release a statement. It's pretty much 100% certain that the breaches are a result of social engineering.

I would FUCKING LOVE for XBL to be hacked just cause I love seeing major companies freak out.
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I hope you're joking. With peoples' personal info at risk, that's a slightly assy thing to say.
 
Looks like PSN outage/hack is winning this by a mile. At least the majority of the users remember more than the last three months of his life xD
 
Noshino said:
Microsoft fans seem to just like to ignore the problems, just look at the RROD debacle, we had many people completely ignore the fact that consoles were breaking. So yeah, Im not surprised that this issue hasn't been given much attention from either (360) gamers or the press.



I don't think social engineering has even been confirmed as the cause.

Hell, iirc, you don't even have to play FIFA for it to happen.
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I think it's social engineering cause if Xbox live was hacked then windows live logins as a whole would be fucked.

sorry for dp. I'm on my phone.
 
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