If I remember correctly Genki Sudo won via triangle choke in the first round and then retired.

It is absolutely the fault of the hackers and they should be held responsible for this. However there is a lot of culpability to Sony for having awful security. I think your analogies aren't really specific enough. I would compare it to you keeping your valuables in a bank vault, and the vault is broken into and you…

@confusedpublic: I'm not exactly sure how they're doing it, but it would seem to me that they're changing the algorithms for arithmetic functions. For example when you add 5+3 in a computer, the software doesn't know how to add 5+3. It's one of the things that is built into the ALU on the chip. As in the electrical…

@Nick Edge: No, because the requests still come in. Pretty much they're just flooding the server. Its not hack bots running instances of the game its just computers being used to make requests of the server until the server can't handle anymore.

I completely agree with the lack of evolution comment. I mean every Final Fantasy is just the same story except replace brooding main character's clothing and back story. A good deal of Square Enix can be played by using a turbo controller to hit the attack button and taping it down and running around. I do feel like…

I remember I was 3-4 years old and had the nastiest cold/flu and my dad going out and picking up an NES and Super Mario Bros. and hooking it up. It has been a slippery slope ever since.