Sony Officially Warns of Viewtiful Joe 2 Glitch 22
jZnat writes "Gamespot reports that Sony has made an official announcement warning gamers that the Holiday 2004 Demo disk, which includes the Viewtiful Joe 2 demo, will erase all memory cards in the system at that time. This was originally publicized by Playstation Underground, and now Sony has bit the bullet and confirmed it." Update: 11/27 22:38 GMT by T : Curt Feldman of Gamespot pointed out that his site's name had been garbled as "Gamepost"; no longer.
Odd (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:recall (Score:2, Interesting)
Kind of like the Jampack demo discs you could buy in EB, except for free.
So it's not a matter of recalling bad copies off the shelves... these are being shipped directly to the customer. Granted, yes, Sony could recall them all, but it's probably easier for them, both operations-wise and financially, to just say 'hey, don't leave your memory cards in your PS2 when you play this demo' to all the people getting this disc.
Of course, I got the "You'll soon be receiving the Holiday Demo Disc" email like two weeks ago, but not demo, so I don't know if I should be angry, or relieved.
It kicked my ass. (Score:4, Interesting)
A friend came over to show me Burnout 3, but we couldn't get my PS2 online. I realized that I had left it on overnight, and left it on the hardware screen that allows you to pick the memory cards. I assumed that my 3 year-old son had probably button-mashed the thing. When I checked, everything on the card -- 3 years of saved games -- was gone. I was sooo pissed at my kid. I didn't punish him, as he's not old enough to really know what losing 3 years of play-time means. But he probably wondered why I was sooo curt and grumpy all day. And then the next day I got the card in my mail, realized that I had played that demo disk the night before, and felt like a jerk for blaming my boy.
Awww shit. I just realized, I lost the saved games for Baldur's Gate. I was stuck on that stupid stone-jumping area for WEEKS. I suck at platformers. I will never be able to get past that again. Damn!
My 6 year-old daughter and I had been playing Gauntlet together since she was 4. We were on the 2nd-to-last world. Damn damn!
You know what? I don't care what demos are on that disk. I'm going to go crack it in half. #(&$@#%!!!!