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Some PS3 games may have no trophy support in 09

February 18, 2009 in News comments 6

While reviewing the dismal first person shooter Shellshock 2: Blood Trails this week, PlayStation Universe discovered that the horror sequel didn't feature Trophy support, something that was promised to be mandatory in all games released in 2009.

To clear the issue up and get clarification on the matter, we contacted SCE who confirmed that Trophy support is only mandatory in titles that were submitted for certification after January 1, 2009. According to the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC,) Shellshock 2: Blood Trails was classified in June, 2008, so it was at the developer's discretion whether it included Trophy support or not. It's unlikely that this particular game will sell well, so it's also very improbable that it will ever receive the feature.
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    Slumpy monkey Feb 18, 09
    Maybe Sony meant it was mandatory on all FIRST PARTY games and not third part games.

    Or when sony made a contract with this developer mandatory trophy support wasn't in place then and so it wasn't in the contract.

    edit- huh lucky guess.

    So basically only games that are released in 10/ end of 09 will have mandatory trophies.

    Unless there arcade games or just riff raff
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    kik36 Feb 18, 09
    quote article
    we contacted SCE who confirmed that Trophy support is only mandatory in titles that were submitted for certification AFTER January 1, 2009.
    Makes sense.
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    Koloth Feb 18, 09
    I thought everyone already understood this? I know that I understood it. This was no surprise to me. I even said somewhere in one of the threads about it that we should expect some titles in 09 to ship with out trophies since they were in development prior to the mandatory addendum.

    No big deal though. I'm sure all triple A and first party titles will have them. And the lower teir games won't matter much in the long run. People that like them will play them those that don't well at least they won't be pulling some Avatar: The Last Airbender BS and buying them for easy trophies. I truly feel games like that ruined Achievements on the 360 because people were so hard after them they would buy or at least rent crap just to get the points.
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      GTA_Fanatic Feb 18, 09
      quote Koloth
      I thought everyone already understood this? I know that I understood it. This was no surprise to me. I even said somewhere in one of the threads about it that we should expect some titles in 09 to ship with out trophies since they were in development prior to the mandatory addendum.
      I knew about it. I assumed that everyone did.
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        HisServant77 Feb 19, 09
        No I'm sure many understood it. It's just that so many will jump the gun to be negative about certain companies/systems.
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    iLLmatic Feb 18, 09
    Exactly as Koloth said. It's not as if all games coming out this year (early this year in particular) have had proper development time. I think we all saw more games have trophy support at the end of last year than we expected, but it still wasn't mandatory at that point.

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