videogamer.com have reported that Sony will be forcing mandatory trophies on developers in January 2009.
What that means is that every new game published will have to support trophies or Sony won’t approve it. This is good news because it means no more trophy patches for games a couple of months after they’re released so no replaying games just for trophies. It also means nofi won’t be run ragged trying to keep the internet’s best PS3 trophy list up to date.
In an act of pure conjecture I’m going to predict that this might give the secondary market (pre-owned) a surge as people are no longer holding onto games for a few months waiting for trophies. Play, earn trophies, trade in. all within a week or two. This seems contrary to all other noises we’re hearing from the gaming world.
You can discuss this (and anything else you want to discuss) in our Forums. In fact, Ghost5 already is.
November 21st, 2008 at 12:51 pm
I’m glad they’re making trophies mandatory, it’s certainly taken a while but now we don’t have to put up with the crap the developers have been spouting about not putting trophies in PS3 versions of multi platform games.
Bethesda, I’m looking at you.
November 21st, 2008 at 12:54 pm
Let’s hope this doesn’t lead to more delays though.
Yeah Bethesda, we’re looking at ya!
November 21st, 2008 at 12:54 pm
bah, I beat you to it by 3 minutes by posting it in the forums…
anyway this is good news all though a good 90% of new games released now are supporting them. This should mean the new street fighter game due for release in Feb should support them as previously they said they weren’t
colossalblue Says:
November 21st, 2008 at 12:56 pm
We don’t always check the forums before posting news (and there’s too much to check!) but if you’d email us we can get the news out quicker and we credit you in the post.
November 21st, 2008 at 12:59 pm
About time. Is this in effect as of today?
colossalblue Says:
November 21st, 2008 at 1:01 pm
no, games submitted from the 1st January 2009.
Pixl1983 Says:
November 21st, 2008 at 2:13 pm
Thanks mate. Gotta learn to read.
“The letters make up words. The words tell you things. This is called reading.”
rothbury Says:
November 21st, 2008 at 1:01 pm
“Sony will be forcing mandatory trophies on developers in January 2009.”
Use your readers.
/late
ghost5 Says:
November 21st, 2008 at 1:04 pm
no, any games submitted for certification from 01/01/2009 will have to contain trophy support
colossalblue Says:
November 21st, 2008 at 1:06 pm
hah! beat you by 3 minutes, how the tables have turned mr ghost!
I updated the post to link to your forum post btw…
November 21st, 2008 at 1:10 pm
I remember there was something said about mandatory trophies in the exclusive TSA interview with the Novastrike developers. It’s good Sony finally does this step. The trophy patches some month later are pretty annoying.
colossalblue Says:
November 21st, 2008 at 1:12 pm
We ride the crest of the news wave here at TSA. Well, nofi does anyway…
nofi Says:
November 21st, 2008 at 1:13 pm
yeah, i was going to mention the Novastrike thing. i doubt videogamer are actually ‘confirming’ anything.
“received a tip from an anonymous source within the UK video game industry”
that was me! yes! redemption.
colossalblue Says:
November 21st, 2008 at 1:17 pm
Fair point, should I re-mark this as rumour then? I’ve found other sites now that are quoting it as news but there are no sources disclosed.
November 21st, 2008 at 1:17 pm
gooooooooooooooooood. This is what i like to hear.
but i think we can safely say that MGS4 wont be getting trophies…its so upsetting.
November 21st, 2008 at 1:21 pm
So this basically means that a shit-load of games will be coming out on the 31st December ;P
colossalblue Says:
November 21st, 2008 at 1:26 pm
It might mean that some developers rush to submit their games in December (which could presumably then be released in January or February without trophies, this deadline is apparently only for submission) but that would probably be discouraged.
November 21st, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Aweeesome!
November 21st, 2008 at 1:38 pm
What wonderful news for this dully rainy Friday ! ! !
Ooh… and Bethesda: You know what….!
November 21st, 2008 at 2:25 pm
Good news. I always thought it a little harsh that some people can never catch their mates on trophies just because they don’t like the right games!
I can’t imagine it’s very difficult to implement trophies anyway. I just hope devs keep the interesting challenges going like the Pixeljunk Monsters ones which are a genius extension to the game (though why the hell are they one player only!)
November 21st, 2008 at 4:05 pm
But if…….Forget it, “OFF TO THE FORUMS”
November 22nd, 2008 at 9:50 am
what i cant believe is i bought tomb raider underworld the day it came out again im from the us so that was the 18th and am 100%satisfied with the game other than the fact it has no trophies im like cumon