And people say paying for LIVE is a bad thing...

In reply to a post by FireFalcon:

Console gaming, peer to peer hosting, doesn't really matter about your connect at the end of the day as long as you arent lagging.

Rest is up to the netcode.

Really? I thought that matchmaking servers tested for the best connection to use as the host and then matched other peoples connections to that. The problem being the consistency of that unspecified connection acting as a server. The host migration in MW2 was attempting to address this problem, although how effective it was is debatable.

I thought that was the benefit of dedicated servers on PC platforms?

How does net code discriminate against individual players/connections? Or is that too simplistic a question?

In reply to a post by FireFalcon:

Yeah, change everything, might want to get your cards reissued etc, all your info is at risk, ALL of it.

Do you think that would include previous cards stored on the system, or would/should they have deleted that info when you changed the card of choice?

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They do but they can be cheated or inaccurate, some peoples connections suffer under the pressure of hosting.

Dedicateds on the PC work differently, its a straight up case what ping you see is generally what ping you maintain, less room for people with dodgy wifi or god knows what. If they lag up then they lag up, if it was P2P others would probably lag depending how the netcode is handled.

If the networking coding if done well means you won't really notice that much lag, there won't be any gears of war 1 style "host" ability where 1 guy (or with partys a few people) will run around 1 shot everyone from miles and when you try take him down he sponges it up.

Theres a video been linked here and else where about black ops and what the host sees and the bot records and its quite drastic difference.

ANY game which uses P2P networking can be subjected to [censored] networking, its just a matter of how good of a job the devs do.

I'd say they might be safe but it depends, what data sony keep hold of, word going around is they stored everything in plain text (aka just like this post)

If i may just add to this it would be prudent to cancel your credit card that you use for this account to be on the safe side
All passwords and email address should of course be changed in the meantime all passwords should of course be both upper and lower case wherever possible

Also if you have accounts with any business that you purchase from just make sure that you change the passwords on these accounts from time to time and also the credit /debit card not just let the account run in a dormant mode

If your not using it delete the account also try your best to use a different password for every account that you have irrespective of how complicated the password is

Better safe than sorry.

I've just been changing passwords :/
Luckily I never used a credit card with PSN I always bought the top up cards

THAT is very wise of you. It's the only way nowadays.

Yea I don't trust the internet and I there is no way I would give my details like age etc to a games console, so I don't use a CC

It seems you should be ok as long as you haven't been naughty and hacked your ps3

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