Platinum Night Idea

Count me in then. Looks like this Christmas I will get a game or two – or 3 . So i'm all into this then. BTW is 100% on PSN game count as plat ???

Its a good idea , but how many games can we actually buy/rent ? If this was to start January , i can get all my games up to one trophy till platinum , and everyday platinum it to stay in the game, this having an unfair advantage . I wont be participating , but ill deffinately join the chat room if there is one to just enjoy the competition and keep up to date on the race .

xxKnightmarExx said:

Lol, @ barkie, who would really care if you got RE5 early?

I'd get fired, and we'd lose our contract with the company that sells us the games….so quite a few people would care. 

The way it works is that the devs make the games, and then distribution companies (lets call ours GAMESELL) buy 'em up and sell them to the retailers. We have a contract with GAMESELL promising that we will not break street date. If any of the games are sold early we get a hefty fine and GAMESELL is forced to not sell to us anymore.

Anyways…WAY off topic. I was just saying the clock can be changed LOL. Just try it 🙂

when will platinum night be d4h?

So – just a few things.

First, trophies are publicly listed on the Sony site, and display the time earned in PST time.  This is the time recorded as when you SYNCED your trophies, and doesn't go by your system clock.  Therefore, it would make sense to use this as the official record for when the trophy was earned. (check it, go to your trophy list and notice how many were “earned” at the exact same time.  Many of them it is impossible for that to actually be the case, but they were all synced at the same time)

Second, since the trophies go by PST time, it would make sense to say you have until midnight PST time, since we are all from different regions of the world.  Seems like a good way to standardize things and not discriminate towards any particular region. 

Third, I think a date should be set before we all say we're in.  At this point I could say I'm in, and then the date you set is one for which I'm unavailable.  If you set the date, I can say right off the bat whether or not I'm available to try this.

And some questions to clarify – are there any games that are off limits?  Do we all have to be working towards the plat in the same game?  I ask because I've been one trophy away from the platinum in Burnout Paradise for over a year now (anyone got a webcam I can borrow?), and I'd like to use that for my first one if I'm in.  I'm sure I can find a webcam if I really try.

Yea so, i'm in. Just please start this in January… when i will have some new games. 

And make the day like January 30th or 31st or something near the end of the month. 

czesionyo said:

Hope that Sony will fix the sync issue before that as it can be annoying to get the plat but not able to sync

I was under the impression that they did with firmware 3.15.  I don't think its a required update, so you might want to check for it if you haven't already.  I haven't had an issue since I downloaded it.  I think it fixed a few other things as well, but I forget what exactly. 

Anyway, I'm in, assuming that I'm free on whatever day is chosen.  Let me know if Burnout is ok, if thats too cheap or lame, I have quite a few others, and I'm sure I'll have new ones after the holiday.  At the moment I'll submit I could plat Dead Space, MW2, AC2, Borderlands, Trine, Batman AA, and I think a few others, if I was really determined.