Tiscali stops all Sony PS3 owners playing Call of Duty 4 (COD4) Online
Filed under: Gaming, Sony Playstation 3 | By: Daniel
Posted on: January 29, 2008 | 51 Comments
Its hard to know where to start with this issue, simply put Tiscali are stopping all Sony PS3 owners playing Call of Duty 4 Online at certain times (mostly the whole evening up to 12 midnight).
I first looked into this when I could not connect to games on my Playstation 3 and got “error 33” with Call of Duty 4, and also having many other connection problems in the game.
After a little research I found out I was not the only one with these problems and even more amazingly nearly everyone was a Tiscali or Pipex (owned by Tiscali) customer.
I have read all 41 pages on a Tiscali forum, which shows many of the ISP’s users moving away to another broadband provider and getting their Mac codes.
It looks like the issue is COD4 uses P2P to find games and Tiscali are blocking this at certain times…they are going to lose thousands of their customers over this if its not fixed fast.
The reason this has affected so many people is because COD4 is not the only game using P2P when gaming and lots of gamers playing other games are affected. You can read all 41+ pages here on Tiscali’s forum and there are many other sites with thousands of other gamers complaining.
Now we are left with the questions:
Are Tiscali legally allowed to block gamers from playing games online?
Will they ever bother to fix it if they are allowed?
Leave a comment below if you have been affected by this Tiscali problem, also tell us what games system you are using and what game.
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Would I be able to cancel my 12 month contract, as Pipex are not fulfilling thier part of the contract?
Cod4 is has terrible atmosphere for ps3 compared to xbox anyway. Why don’t you guys use headsets?????
I’ve been told by a mate who works for TalkTalk that they are going to crack down on P2P links
He says they may change things so that people have to change their contract and move onto a higher tariff. However, people who change their contract within the first 18 months of joining their broadband service will be hit with a large switch over penalty charge.
“Why don’t you guys use headsets?????”
Xbox Live is ridiculous, its full of American 12yr olds screaming racist abuse down the mic the whole time. Better off without it.
I really think anyone who made a law suit of this would win.
cod4 now works for me and i am on pipex it works all the time.
What a pathetic excuss rick……better off without it. If someone annoys you just block them and you’ll never hear from them again. Even better you can just have private games with all of your friends giving banter as you play. You guys paid for this console knowing that it had a shit network, so why do you act surprised when it doesn’t work? You get what you pay for.
Error 33 is back! Today (10/03/08) I tried to get online on COD4 on my PS3 and low and behold, Tiscali have decided to block it again - after a month and a half of un-interrupted online gaming. The problem seemed resolved after the end of January (2008), so why have Tiscali changed things again?!! W*****S!! Unfortunately, I am unable to change ISP as I am not the billpayer. Anyone else having this problem again?
I got a PS3 yesterday
Im on tiscali
seeing as though its half term atm i am able to play during the day alls fine and jolly then when i try and play at 8 o clock this eveing it wont let me play cod 4
i ask one of my other friends via msn who has tiscali can he play cod 4 same problem i then ask a non tiscali user and he can
this isnt the only game either
about a year ago for battlefield 2 on the PC i get cut off at peak hours because of tiscali
i would move instantly to another provider but my dad won’t let us as it is “cheap” and he doesnt like ps3
so i am stuck here playing single player on a majority based multiplayer gaem great..
well that what you all get by using consoles if you had a pc and playing cod 4 you would have no problems like this,and what on earth do you pay more for.My mate has a pc and cod 4 and is on tiscali broadband but he has no problems.
I HAVE BEEN HAVING TROUBLE WITH CALL OF DUTY ONLINE FOR NEARLY A WEEK. I HAVE CHECKED EVERYTHING WHICH SEEMS OK. I HAVE JUST READ ON THE INTERNET ABOUT ALL THE PROBLEMS PEOPLE ARE HAVING WITH C O D THAT ARE WITH TISCALI / PIPEX. I AM WITH PIPEX SO THIS IS OBVIOUSLY MY PROBLEM. WHAT A COMPLETE AND UTTER WASTE OF TIME I HAVE SPENT TRYING TO SORT OUT THE PROBLEM AND PLAY THE GAME WITH A POOR OR SOMETIMES NON EXISTANT CONNECTION. I WILL BE PHONING THEM TOMORROW TO CANCEL MY CONTRACT
Callum