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PSN-Login working again plus support for Facebook login

You may have noticed, that Sony closed their PSN login for external websites. No PS3 fanpage can currently log you in through that page to access your trophies.

I tried to contact Sony through mail, twitter, facebook and their forums but got no reply at all. So I decided to work around this and implement two different ways for you to give PS3Heroes access to that precious PSN sessionId....

The whole process for updating your trophies mainly stays the same. But you now can choose wether you enter the PSN login data on a secure PS3Heroes website so that the server can do the login in the background. Or you log in to the PSN manually and give PS3Heroes the sessionId by copy & paste. The whole process should be self-explaining. At least that's what I hope :)

Sony shut down the PSN login, while I was adding support for Facebook login. I now finished it and thus you're now able to use you Facebook login to access PS3Heroes. When you use it the first time, you will need to log in to PSN, so that the correct PSN-ID can be assigned.

And as a small addition, you now can add a Google+ account t o your PS3Heroes profile :)

Specify which games you own

Right now PS3Heroes compiles a list of your games based on the trophies you earned. This works pretty good and prevents ratings from people who don't actually own the game.

But what if you just played the game for an evening you will never again play it? From now on, you can hide those games from your list of games! You do this by selecting the appropriate option from the right sidebar on a game's detailed view.

Those trophies still count against your overall number of trophies, but the games simply do not show up on your profile or your dashboard.

On the same place, you now can tell, wether you still own a game, or would be willing to sell/swap/rent it. This feature is still a couple of weeks ago, but it should help you getting new games without paying to much, or anything at all.

New Feature: Email notifications in the forums

From now on, when you create a new topic in the forums or comment on an existing topic, you can choose to be notified by email if any other comment comes up for this topic.

The email you get will contain the complete message of that comment, a link to this comment and a quick-link to remove further notifications.

You can also manage your notifications at the E-Mail-Tab in your settings.

These notifications also work on the new PSP Heroes - Forums. Notifiations for other commentable parts of this site are likely to follow :)

New Trophy-Sync now live!

When logged in, you will now find a new link to Update my trophies! in the sidebar, where you manually can activate a synchronization of all your trophies. This will also retrieve those trophies that PS3Heroes previously could not get.

Right now every game of your account is examined on each sync. This is not really neccessary, but right now I wanted to make sure I get all the data, instead of starting with time optimization. But this will follow soon!

The old, automatically update is still in place, but will not show any hidden trophy, or those that are not on the public PSN pages - just like it is right now, with the hidden trophies being the exception.

Syncing will also automatically update the trophy images, so you can actively help PS3Heroes to become an even better place for PS3 trophies. Thank you a lot for that!

About accessing PSN accounts

As I tweeted last weekend, I was working on accessing the private PSN profile pages to get access to all those games that are yet not on the public profile pages and also to get more information about hidden trophies.

The good thing is: it is possible! The bad thing: Updates of those trophies cannot be made automatically. The time-to-live of the session is just too short, so that I cannot re-use it a few hours later to get your newly earned trophies.

I will continue to work on this, though, because being able to access this data is useful enough, although it would mean for you to go to PS3Heroes.com and re-authorize the PSN access all the time. But: your PSN login data would be perfectly save, as it's not me who asks for your login credentials, but Playstation.com themselves.

With this, I can also verify your account, so I actually know, that it is *you* who has access to this PSN account.

There is still some work to do, as I need to find a good way to match all those new games to already existing ones. The given IDs between the public and private PSN profile pages do not match, of course. So I need to write some extra code to match those games and trophies to the ones I already have on PS3Heroes.

Another odd thing is, that the private profile pages don't show the exact time when you earned a trophy, but rather something like "2 weeks ago". That makes it even harder for me to match existing ones - especially when it comes to hidden trophies.

So, it might take a couple of more weeks to complete this stuff, but maybe I will put something online in beta, so you guys can try it out.

At least you will find information about game's trophies much earlier and there will also be hints on what to do to get hidden trophies. All this alone is worth implementing it, I think.