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Didn't see anybody talking about it but the PSN is still down. We're now in the 5th day of the outage. It is beginning to be ridiculous. Hope they can fix it soon. Me wants compensation !!
Netflix is still working though... Dave Mustaine :"God created whammy bars for people who don't know how to solo." |
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Join Date: Apr 2005
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I have a PS3 but have never used the PSN. I thought it was free?
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It's confirmed to be an "external intrusion," probably related to Anonymous' attack on the network earlier this month. Anonymous supposedly called it off after Sony made nice with George Hotz, but they're not exactly organized, and a lot of people were apparently calling for the attack to continue. I wish these people would realize they're not "taking down the man" or "teaching Sony a lesson" or anything like that. They're just annoying a lot of regular people who just want to play their PlayStations. But I'm guessing the timing of the Sony-Hotz settlement made many Anonymous feel that they've got t3h pow3r, or something. Note to self: don't ever piss of hackers. and i guess i've known it all along / the truth is, you have to be soft to be strong |
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It is. But you can also pay for the PlayStation Plus service. I was kidding for the compensation. Still, some people bought some games to play online and they can't. Some games require a monthly fee but they won't be able to play...
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Meh. Let's see how the Xbox Live react if it get attacked. I guess more money is involved so...
But I don't think Sony like it very much right now. There's no games being bought on the store and no movies rented... Dave Mustaine :"God created whammy bars for people who don't know how to solo." |
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I don't doubt that they have engineers working around-the-clock to fix it. The whole thing is pretty embarrassing. I wouldn't want to be a Sony rep right now, especially in the PNW (where a lot of people, most notably Gabe and Tycho, are already fairly loyal to the homegrown Xbox).
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I'm annoyed, but only slightly, because a copy of Portal 2 won't activate the Steam (free) version without being activated on the PSN first. It's one reason I've held off buying the game. I wonder if this is affecting Portal's sales.
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If you read the comments on any article about the outage, at least half the comments are from Portal 2 owners longing to register their copy to Steam. Pretty bad timing — the launch week of one of the most anticipated games of the year, which happens to include such a significant PS3-exclusive component, which requires PSN...
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Speaking of bad timing. Xbox had a free weekend for Xbox Live Gold. Was it planned or they did it on purpose ?
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Yeah I remember hearing about it now. Bad timing indeed
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Some are speculating that Sony shut down the servers themself due to a custom firmware. It allowed hackers to download everything they wanted on the PSN... Interesting idea. But I think that the "nobody is buying anything" cost a lot more than the "x games have been stolen"... I still think it's Anonymus
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Yup. Also, the PS3 version supports Steamworks, or whatever it's called, so trophies earned are synced to both your PSN and Steam account, you can see and message your Steam buddy list, Steam Cloud is supported, &c.
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Good to know. This may get me to buy my first non-exclusive PS3 title.
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Isn't progress on the game saved, too? So if you play some on your Mac and then go back to your PS3, aren't you where you left off on the Mac?
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What about playing the game on 2 different PS3 ? Wold it resume too ? It's kinda bypassing PSN+ cloud storage... awesome.
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I shot the sherrif.
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I ran into this issue the other night when trying to use Netflix on my PS3. It just wouldn't connect, but it did work the next day and so I haven't really been paying attention since then.
Pretty embarrassing fot this to be happening to Sony. No more Twitter. It's Mastodon now. |
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To use netflix, you just have to press X to try to signin (and get the error). If you're pressing O to cancel the signin, it won't work.
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Yeah, it worked after I tried to sign in again, but it was having connection issues.
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Not sure if anyone has linked to this yet, but it now seems like personal information was stolen as well!
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2011/...-and-qriocity/ Great. Nice of Sony to tell us 5 days (or more) after the event! I mean i guess it is misfortunate for the system to get hacked, but it would be helpful for them to spell out the worst case first so people know the risk they have been put at! So this is what they have taken: Your name Your address (city, state, and zip) Country E-mail address Birthday PSN password and login name and they are not sure if they have your credit card details. But since the security has been breached so badly it would hazard a guess at yes. Last edited by nikstar101 : 2011-04-26 at 16:08. |
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yeah, pertinent paragraph from the page nikstar101 linked.
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Wow, way to go Sony... maybe I should move back to Microsoft. Well the good part is I don't use the same password everywhere, the bad part is I'm not sure if they had my CC information saved, but I reckon I'll be calling to have a new CC sent my way...
It really makes you think twice though, I'm not even sure if I should let Amazon have my CC number anymore. User formally known as Sh0eWax |
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