Sony has announced a number of measures that hacking the PlayStation 3 should go to. Are you going to still take measures themselves Killzone 3?
Of course we think about that. It is twofold. Firstly, the course super-annoying people your blood, sweat and tears crack and could not afford to pay. Regardless of what people in philosophical terms and find how fun hacking or not, here we have many very talented people are what we pay for and if we suddenly have to pay half earn less, we can no longer afford, and we can not make that kind of games.

Then we have a different tack and I have not very much. Incidentally, I think cracking the PS3 will never be such a great flight, but that aside.

The second aspect of online hacking. At this time you will notice that modern warfare online already pretty unplayable on consoles, and that's terrible.

Then you ruined it for many other people and to prevent that we must now spend a lot of work. But then you're really on a team of ten to fifteen men who throughout the later stages of the game must continue to control everything, and players to identify and possibly eliminated.

And that costs money, which is again to come from somewhere. So what do you get it hacked now, people should go back to enter serial numbers or perhaps going to take a subscription. I think there's nobody waiting. I would be sorry, because that does not belong to a console. At the same time, hacking is also pretty cool that I understand.

Everyone is so started, I have sometimes done things not acceptable. It's a fun way to get started with computers and under the master, but these things are frustrating. And I'm not just talking about us, but also the users.



Cat and Mouse

But Killzone 3 will no serial number. In this sense, the hack came just too late, right after you with the production of the game had finished, right?
Yes, the hack was announced late December, just before the factories were running for Killzone 3. I tried the factories to stop and wait for new firmware from Sony, but that still gave too many problems.

So we are now in a sort of cat and mouse game. They crack the game, scrapping all the videos out and places a file via a torrent of 12GB online.

Nice, what experience do you have?
If you want you can play the game that way. But if you go online, you're the hare, I can tell you.

Then they get around with a hack and again two weeks later, we turn a patch that goes against that. Microsoft is playing that game again a few years and that we do so.

So that is your response? Patch to patch release. But now the root key is free, each patch is still as easy to crack? There is still no answer to the leaking of the root key?

No, I did. That's the problem, the PlayStation is itself hacked more than the Xbox and we have no verification of executables. But there are ways to.

Look, if you never stop a network cable into your PlayStation, then we can do little to start, but if you go online is different. We connect with DLC, which delivers new functionality and delays for people with a hacked version. These should always wait for a pirated version is available from each download.

There are games where that is properly addressed. Look at Left 4 Dead, for example. They always have such fun doing new things, many players find it a shame there still two weeks to wait. So then the temptation to buy more.

If you two years ago had known of this hack, you would have made otherwise than Killzone 3?
Well, then we would have more attention paid to security, yes. Look, Sony is working with a key, but so can we. We can encrypt things better and eventually you can do so that it is quite tricky to crack at that. But of course, we relied on in developing the hardware has not cracked. We had might not have confidence and security to build. We have not done and we will now in some way still to do.

The solution must come from uncovering and then banning players with a cracked version. Will you do that or will Sony do?
Sony has just announced that they happen to players will eliminate. They have a great online team. It's in America and that has been around longer.

Who wander off games and forums to see whether there is any racist language is used. There's support built into our game. These people have got a ban.

But we also get the information. We receive telemetry within the played maps.
Example, to see if maps are in balance or to see if people outside the world know, or know places where they otherwise are not visible, but can snipe. We can then restore a patch.

Should in the future to succeed in this way to find out that people play a hacked version, we will forward that information to Sony. But actually we wait for the time being off.

I can budget to start worrying about the security of twenty people to bet, but perhaps it is not that bad.

The PlayStation is cracked, Killzone has been hacked, but how many people will soon play the cracked version?
It is still a download 50GB if you want the full version. In a country like Canada they still work with data limits and by all smaller than 50GB per month, so you have a problem.

I hope that it will fall and people just buy their version.