Anyone else hate creating user profiles and the new memory cards/how they work?

[Frostedone]

I love my 360, but one thing that I have always hated was the fact that you must create a user profile to play on the system. Also that when you save a game to a memory card, and want to take it to a friends house, you must log in with your profile. It takes time and is unnecessary.

Whatever happened to saving a game then putting the card into another console and loading that save instantly?

Also for multiplayer you often have to create an entire new profile for players 2-4...

Is the PS3 like this? Especially with the saves.

I miss the old PSX-PS2 memory cards.

 

[xenus87]

Whatever happened to saving a game then putting the card into another console and loading that save instantly?

This used to work, until people started mass trading saved games on the internet for boosting gamerscore.

On the PS3 you can download a save off the net, put it on a USB stick, and copy it over to the console and play straight away. Unless something has changed very recently and stopped that. I did it a few times with saved games for Gran Turismo to unlock all of the cars to play with friends.

 

[Frostedone]

Thanks. What I miss is being able to take my memory card to a friends house then just being able to load a saved game off of that rather then recreate/retrieve my user profile.

Would gamerpoints and such have anything to do with this? It seems like it is more of a hassle then anything.

 

[raankh]

This profile thing is horrible. Retarded, that's what it is. I just want to be able to save my games. If a friend is over and wants to start up a game, this profile hassle is just stupid. Many games only allow one save per profile. I'm trying to do one thing, but the console forces me to do a bunch of other things. Not good.

 

[Sion_Barzahd]

I don't see any reason to hate the gaming profile system, i mean it gives you an identity as a player which can be recognise on multiple different games.

 

[Pain_Inflictor]

I have all my PS3 data backed up on my friends PS3's. All I had to do was copy all my save data onto my flash drive and copy it from their onto their consoles. Flash drives are the new memory cards.