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It seems that the PSN outage is beginning to have a damaging affect outside of the online realm, with retail beginning to suffer, as the patience of PS3 gamers wears increasingly thin. Sources have told Edge that there's a growing trend of PS3 consoles being traded in for cash or an Xbox 360, among other things, such as a steep decline in sales of PSN vouchers.
“In the first week of downtime we did not really see any major change in sales or trades,” states one source, an anonymous store manager for a major UK retailer. “However from the second week onwards we have seen an increase of over 200 per cent on PS3 consoles being traded in, split almost 50/50 between those trading for cash and those taking a 360 instead.”
This isn't the only testimony noting a “massive increase” in the volume of PS3s traded in over recent weeks, as another source for an independent retailer in the South West of the UK also claims that a lot of customers have been trading their PS3 in for an Xbox 360. Said source notes that it's primarily “the hardcore online shooter crowd” doing trades, just to get back online with Call of Duty: Black Ops or Modern Warfare 2.
Tom Mestdagh, of Belgian indie game store Gameswap also observed that "in every case it is because of Black Ops and or Modern Warfare 2." He also noted the sharp rise in PS3 trade-ins: “We’re just ten days into the month and already we have an increase of 200 per cent in PS3s coming into the store compared to all of March. Normally we sell them really fast, but not this time. We’ve only sold 30 to 40 per cent of our inventory right now.”
Xbox 360 versions of games are also being favoured over PS3 versions of the same game, with some consumers even cancelling PS3 pre-orders to switch to 360. For instance, for the week ending April 30th, Black Ops sales were divided 59/30 per cent in Xbox 360’s favour, whereas last week that margin grew to 66 percent of sales for the Xbox 360 version compared to a relatively paltry 24 percent for the PS3. A similar pattern also applies to sales of FIFA 11.
Customer satisfaction has also taken a massive hit due to the outage, with one such retailer claiming that “a lot of people have been phoning asking us about personal details on PSN as they are struggling to get a response from Sony themselves. Overall, people that have traded with us seem annoyed at how Sony has handled all of this, and say they would not trust them with details again in the future.”
Naturally, this only a small slice of the overall PS3 user base, consisting mainly of players craving an online fix, who have taken drastic steps to get reconnected to their favourite online games. The majority of PS3 owners remain loyal to their preferred console, and remain patient as Sony strives to restore its PlayStation Network services.
Stupid idea unless you had a dozen slots or so to hold the coinsCoin bag, the ability to put coins in your bag and take them out when needed.
Here is a very sloppy, and unfinished port. This isn't meant to be played and used for fun. All I have done is put everything in one .zip, and made a server.cs to execute the files.Only the zombies head's are shown, the apfinder needs to be executed differently.
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From using this, and comparing the scripts, I think I know why this lags less than Left 4 Block and ZAPT.
1. The zombies are spawned differently.
2. They aren't constantly execution functions, to wander around. Instead they directly go for the players in the server.
Like I said, this isn't to be used, and it is broken. Most of the script needs to be edited so it can work with v20. This is an awful, unfinished port, but at least it's some progress.
