No trophy support for GB yet?

I know they already mentioned that they were waiting for Sony to open up the service, but I was just wondering how exactly it was not "opened up" already?

I dont think there's a public way to see yours or anyone elses trophies.  It seems very closed and you need to login in to view your own.

I don't know specifics, but I'm 99% sure the problem is on Sony's end, not Giantbombs.

It's on Sony's end that's for sure.   Snide mentioned that he hoped Sony would open up trophy support so they could use it at GB. I do too.

I'm pretty sure it's Sony's fault too. I wonder what the chances are of them bothering to make it open to the world...

You can put it in sigs. but does gb not have sigs?

I dont think so.

The information needs to be made public in one way or another, so that the Trophy information and account info related to those users can be extracted and placed into Giant Bombs databases.

Sony, as far as I have understood it, has not yet provided the means to do this.

Microsoft as an API for third-parties that pulls gamercard and achievement information that can be licensed and used by anyone so long as it is for non-commercial purposes.  Sony does not.

Ah...

Xbox, Steam and WoW all have API's for sites like giant bomb to pull the data from. Sony does not have an API, and thus Giant bomb can't have tropies in their achievements system.

Sony should have something by the end of the year on this front.  Although I've heard July.

Sony's Gamer Card is just a generated .PNG (picture, not text) and also doesn't display everything. 

Giant Bomb could technically ask us all for our PSN ID Username and Password, then through Giant Bomb Automation could log-in to our PSN Accounts, and then pull the data (not sure if this gives away everything as much as Microsoft's API does though).  But I think this is against Sony's EULA.  Also, many people may not feel comfortable with inputting their PSN Username and Password into Giant Bomb, especially not over SSL. 

Hope this makes sense.

In a news post for Steam achievements, Dave said that they're hoping to integrate trophies and that it might happen by the end of this summer if Sony makes the info available.  I believe that was what I read. Anyway, being a PS3-only owner with 300-ish+ trophies, I can't wait. Its an awesome concept and just another great thing about Giant Bomb.  :)

Sony definitely needs to work harder toward giving trophies some sort of tangible value akin to points in the Xbox Live Achievement system... as long as they don't outright copy them.

It may be closer than we think guys. 
 
Later "this week" Sony is adding the ability to view anyone's Trophies Data on http://www.playstation.com and also upgrading their "GamerCards". 
 
Check-out what they put on the PlayStation Blog today: http://blog.us.playstation.com/2009/08/12/enhanced-playstation-network-trophies-online

" I don't know specifics, but I'm 99% sure the problem is on Sony's end, not Giantbombs. "

Giant Bomb can do the whole Trophy thing now with Sonys update this week right?

That'd be cool, I was thinking about picking up a PS3, this could be awesome for me! :D

Check-this-out!  http://www.us.playstation.com/go/trophies/?ILC-hpmarquee&FTTR=Trophy_trophy 
 
Finally, Sony is starting to catch-up :) 
 
EDIT:  I think this is one of Jeff's Accounts:  http://profiles.us.playstation.com/playstation/psn/profiles/Giantbombing  

" I dont think there's a public way to see yours or anyone elses trophies.  It seems very closed and you need to login in to view your own. "