Ovinomancer
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Best as I can tell, no game has ever bricked a console, so this has the hallmarks of a hoax.
For the good of video games, Anthem needs to fail hard
Imaculata
Hero
That is factually not true. There's been a few videogames in videogame history that were a notorious liability, and one even that contained a virus.
Besides, it is a known fact that a PS4 doesn't like improper restarts. I've experienced a couple myself, and it can sometimes take quite a while to get the thing to restore its system integrity. If a Playstation 4 (this also goes for PS3 btw) runs out of memory, or encounters a serious error, it will hard crash (The Ghostbusters videogame on the PS3 for example, struggles with certain scenes in the library section, and can hard crash. Same with Red Dead Redemption on the PS3.). This wasn't an issue with earlier consoles, because they didn't require the sort of manual shut down procedure that a pc requires. But a hard crash on the PS4 without the proper shutdown, can hit the console hard.
When I played Red Dead Redemption online with friends on the PS3, we did a little quest where you have to escort a minecart. We failed to complete it, when dozens of bandits spawned. So we backtracked to the mine to try it again, when we heard an odd and loud banging sound. Throughout the mine we kept hearing this deafening BANGBANGBANGBANG, and we had no idea what it was. As we arrived in the room where the minecart was the first time, we now found the entire interior of the mine filled to the ceiling with minecarts, all with physics. Instant crash. Took us a while to get the PS3 running again. It wasn't a simple matter of just rebooting it. So I can see how a console like the PS4, which is even more strict with proper shutdown procedures, could be bricked by a severe crash.
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Ovinomancer
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Right, bunch of examples of non-brick crashes, a virus (are we saying Anthem has a virus?) and the result is that you're primed to believe that a game can brick (bricking means turned into a paperweight) a modern system?
jonesy
A Wicked Kendragon
Here's EA's own thread on the issue:
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues/PS4-Crashing-Info-Gathering/td-p/7625236
There are some there saying that their hard drive has been corrupted, and a lot of people reporting different kinds of crashes.
An example:
Ovinomancer
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Skimmed a few of those pages, didn't see the brick report, mostly hard crashing only.
Which is bad, but not console destroying.
jonesy
A Wicked Kendragon
You're joking, right? You "skimmed" a few pages from what is now 77 pages long (when it was only 71 when I posted about it), and you took that as evidence that I made it up? I'm sure if you'd found the post I quoted you would have assumed he or she made it up as well, right? Good grief.
Ovinomancer
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Who said you made it up? I didn't. Climb down, man!
My point is that the reports of bricking have the hallmark of being a hoax. A report in the trouble thread diesn't dispel this, and a marginally smart hoaxer would add that touch.
jonesy
A Wicked Kendragon
And just so you instantly took the stance that anyone there claiming their console being bricked must be part of a hoax. Pray tell, what is a "hallmark of a hoax" here?
Ovinomancer
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A drastic event that fits with the theme of the thread? You really think that there isn't a part of gamer culture that both wants Anthem to fail and would perpetrate a hoax to encourage that outcome?
I'm not discounting the possibility, but it seems a bit convenient that a major studio would rekease a game that breaks consoles and so neatly fits anti-studio themes. Need more than a trouble ticket and a reddit thread.
Ovinomancer
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Also, you really should take this less personally. I'm not attacking you.
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