Dear SONY- FIX YOUR GOD DAMN SHIT ALREADY

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

Re: Dear SONY- FIX YOUR GOD DAMN SHIT ALREADY

I grant you all of the above, but what's odd about the situation with XBL right now is that the exact same method of payment delivery exists on PSN in FIFA '12 - and there are no reports of PSN users experiencing the same problems. This indicates that there's something different about what Microsoft is doing between XBL and Windows Live that doesn't exist for PSN, and the bad guys are exploiting it somehow. There are a non-insignificant number of people experiencing the exact same symptoms; someone compromises their account, logs into FIFA 12, uses up all their MSP (and dips into their credit for more if they have a linked payment method), then something happens to that premium content (I assume it gets traded away in-game, then resold by a sock puppet account).

Well there's also the fact EA likes to exist exempt of MS hosting their games. In many casts MS does the legwork for third parties on server support and payment, but this generation EA has always insisted upon being an exception and even going around PSN, Steam and XBL wallet systems for payment so they're paid directly. So it seems there's a problem between MS and EA and that is not just an MS problem.

Were it happening to other third party titles across XBL, then we could just peg it on MS.

[Icemage]

Re: Dear SONY- FIX YOUR GOD DAMN SHIT ALREADY

EA definitely is doing something smarmy with respect to how they're getting paid (see: lolOrigin, online passes, etc.), but the evidence is stacked against Microsoft here. As I pointed out, FIFA 12 on PS3 has the exact same features as the Xbox 360 version, including the almost Pokemon-like premium card trading feature, which is what's getting exploited for money here. If the problem were on EA's end, users on both platforms should be having problems, but the issue seems exclusive to Xbox Live. This indicates that the security hole is coming from Microsoft's side of the pipeline.


Icemage