However, some of the more hard-to-get treasures called Bounties are randomly dropped by enemies during the campaign, some of which are incredibly rare. To help players overcome this barrier, Bend has established the Black Market, an in-game NEAR application.
Players can put out requests for a Bounty they are missing. If someone who has the required Bounty responds then a copy of that particular treasure is passed on, Bend also promising rewards for those who aren’t lucky enough to receive a response.
It’s an interesting system, and if you happen to be one of the many trophy hunters out there, using the Black Market is a definitely a shortcut on the road to platinum. Hopefully Bounties won’t be too taxing on those who lack a local Vita player-base with which to trade items.
You can read our full review of Uncharted Golden Abyss here.
Source: PlayStation Blog
jikomanzoku
Interesting way of building a community around an SP experience, develop this right and it could be a great thing for devco and customer alike.
uncleniccius
Sadly though, without using the black market; you can’t get all of the collectible’s, or the platinum. I do love the idea though.
uncharted86
That’s not true. Using the Black Market will only make you able to get the platinum quicker.
uncleniccius
No, their is a set of collectibles that require the use of this; it said so on PS blog.
SpikeyMikey23
Can I interest you guys in an avatar? ;)
http://www.thesixthaxis.com/forum/welcome-to-the-tsa-forums/help-avatars-signatures-images-and-tsa-twitter-theme/
uncleniccius
How do you put an avatar on here?
SpikeyMikey23
:D
TheDeathAvenger
Yeah, seems like there is a set of collectables that you can only get by using NEAR. It sounded like you would have to put out a request (on the Black Market), not have the request fulfilled, then automatically get sent an item that is not found in game, so you’re not left empty handed.
jikomanzoku
You can Mikey, cheers, been wondering about that for a while but was a little too sheepish to ask, so thanks and I’ll get on the case shortly :)
uncleniccius
Thanks by the way, it took a while to work :D
shaqnosis
Really neat idea. Would suck if you lived out in the wops, or if your the only one in the area with a vita though. But there is mention of rewards for non responses, so perhaps you will be covered either way!
uncleniccius
Yeah, if they hadn’t rewarded people who didn’t get responses it would be so mean! I also just found out (slightly OT) that 3g vita buyers in the US get Super Stardust, whereas we get Wipeout! :D
Youles
I doubt I’ll be near anyone (depending on radius), so looks like I’d need many playthrough to obtain all 300! Sounds kind of annoying if you want all the trophies :(
lotrek
Like the idea of this just enough people in my area buy a Vita.
Smallville2106
Sounds great. Something different at least.