The producer for PS3 launch title Full Auto 2: Battlelines has discussed PS3's still-mysterious online network, noting that Full Auto 2 will not be supporting achievements or stat-tracking over Sony's "I Can't Believe it's Notź¦” Xbox Live!"-style service.
Producer Mike Gallo revealed during an Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine that stat tracking will be handled by Gamespy - which he seems to be more familiar with than the ę¾³ę“²å¹øčæ5å¼å„å·ē åå²ę„čÆ¢:PlayStation Network itself.
"We use Gamespy as part of our back end. And we do support your user profile, or whatever the final name for that's gonna be... You have a user ID and an online profile that's set up through the PlayStation, we don't have anything to do with that. That's all done through the ę¾³ę“²å¹øčæ5å¼å„å·ē åå²ę„čÆ¢:PlayStation Network."
And while Full Auto 2 will at least still featureš online play on PS3, you won't be getting any Achievement-like awards to race-and-gun for. "It's a feature we had to, regrettably, not support," Gallo says, though he claims it's due to the quick development timeā of a launch title, rather than Sony simply not providing enough information about the PlayStation Network, as some other developers have stated.
We hope Sony still has a last-minute announcement of āa stable, secure online environment up its sleeve - but it's looking incršeasingly like the first wave of titles will suffer in comparison to Xbox 360's flawless Live launch.
October 9, 2006
