Author Topic: PSN Back up in NA, Europe. Still down in Japan/Asian regions (Read 37613 times)

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #480 on:** April 29, 2011, 10:08:33 PM »

i love how all the xbots are the only ones talking in here about how its the end of the world for sony when no one really gives a shit and there still has yet to be a valid claim of someone losing their cc info

Bebpo · « **Reply #481 on:** April 29, 2011, 10:37:42 PM »

The truth is always somewhere in the middle

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #482 on:** April 29, 2011, 11:30:48 PM »

In Methodis's world, "xbots" = "US government, Canadian government, Chinese government, UK government, Australian government, and everyone involved in two class-action lawsuits"

Barry Egan · « **Reply #483 on:** April 30, 2011, 12:04:29 AM »

God this is so great.

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #484 on:** April 30, 2011, 12:07:07 AM »

"a sufficiently desperate troll is indistiguishable from an actual idiot fanboy"

pilonv1 · « **Reply #485 on:** April 30, 2011, 05:29:44 AM »

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #486 on:** April 30, 2011, 07:54:33 AM »

perhaps the ps4 will come with a cash slot like drink and snack vending machines, and once a month a sony rep will come around and collect when the till is full

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #487 on:** April 30, 2011, 07:55:09 AM »

wait, that was just silly, let's be realistic

once every couple of years

The Sceneman · « **Reply #488 on:** April 30, 2011, 08:20:48 AM »

Quote from: pilonv1 on April 30, 2011, 05:29:44 AM

old

Olivia Wilde Homo · « **Reply #489 on:** April 30, 2011, 08:23:15 AM »

Sfags like Bebpo definitely and desperately wish that once PSN goes up, everyone will cry in joy that it is up, and then everyone will forget this security breach almost right away.

Sfags will be sfags and they will try their hardest to downplay this massive fuckup once PSN is restored. Even as the fines and class action lawsuit legal fees pile up to amounts that can't be ignored by the media, rational people, and more importantly, stockholders. True to the Sony nature, I wonder if the new security will even be as good as what it was before the hack.

maxy · « **Reply #490 on:** April 30, 2011, 09:11:48 AM »

This will be very hard to sweep under the rug unlike MS RROD fiasco.ROOD was "just" another shitty kids toy breaking like shit,nothing to lose sleep over.Throw it into garbage and forget about it.

Personal data,CC details compromised,stolen?
That is serious business,people don't look kindly at that stuff and that is not something that you can throw out of the window and forget about it.

Politics will be very influential too.This is something that can potentially influence peoples credit ratings or make them spend less(not just on toys)...less money for governments=bad thing
There is also the need to punish someone as an example,confidential data is leaking everywhere.

If(when) PSN goes down again people will immediately blame hackers,criminals,data theft,etc no matter what the real reason is.Not fair,but that's life.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/30/us-sony-idUSTRE73R0Q320110430

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Hirai, in line to succeed CEO Howard Stringer, will hold a news conference in Tokyo at 2:00 p.m. (1 a.m. EDT) on Sony's investigation of the case, its information management system and the schedule to resume services, the firm said in a news release on Saturday.

I just wonder who will get the boot,someone will...at least silently in few months

Stinger is stepping down anyway,but who knows

pilonv1 · « **Reply #491 on:** April 30, 2011, 09:12:17 AM »

I didn't know it was old

Cindi Mayweather · « **Reply #492 on:** April 30, 2011, 09:32:19 AM »

kaz hirai as CEO of Sony? not sure if want...

He'll likely be better than stringer, though.

Diunx · « **Reply #493 on:** April 30, 2011, 09:47:51 AM »

lol people will stop giving a shit about this as soon as cod is back online, forum dwellers might be another thing but who cares about them?

maxy · « **Reply #494 on:** April 30, 2011, 11:32:47 AM »

Quote from: Stringer Bell on April 30, 2011, 09:32:19 AM

kaz hirai as CEO of Sony? not sure if want...

He'll likely be better than stringer, though.

Ken>>>>>>>>>>>Kaz

Hmm,we need a bigger boat

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A new survey has found that one-fifth of PlayStation 3 owners in the U.S. are considering a switch to the Xbox 360 in the wake of the Great PlayStation Network Security Breach.

Someday, the news will stop being bad for Sony. That day is not today, however. This probably won't come as much of a surprise to anyone with even a passing familiarity with the still-ongoing PSN train wreck but it turns out that a significant number of PS3 owners are giving thought to crossing the aisle to sit with the other side.

Commissioned by CouponCodes4U "in order to assess gamer attitudes towards the affair," the survey encompassed 2132 people across the U.S., finding that 41 percent of them own PlayStation 3 consoles. 89 percent of those PS3 owners said they were concerned that their personal data may have been stolen in the breach; 65 percent said their trust in Sony and PSN had been "greatly affected"; and 21 percent claimed they were considering selling their PS3 units and switching to Microsoft's Xbox 360.

"As a video gamer myself, this data theft is especially worrying and I'm not altogether surprised that Sony are likely to see an exodus to console competitors," said CouponCodes4U Chairman Mark Pearson. "As hackers get more and more intelligent, companies simply have to keep up. Sony has a responsibility to its millions of customers to protect personal details and this data theft proves that they weren't capable of doing so. It's clear that gamers across the country have decided that this failing is enough to switch their allegiances to the console's closest rival."

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/109646-One-Fifth-of-PS3-Owners-Are-Eyeing-the-Exit

That article has like 500 comments
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Cindi Mayweather · « **Reply #495 on:** April 30, 2011, 03:48:48 PM »

Ken > Kaz no doubt

Ken was a visionary but still, wasn't his vision the reason ps3 was 600 bucks?

Shaka Khan · « **Reply #496 on:** April 30, 2011, 05:07:18 PM »

Quote from: The Experiment on April 30, 2011, 08:23:15 AM

Sfags like Bebpo

How desperate are we to fill that position now that Methodis broke character? lol.

Olivia Wilde Homo · « **Reply #497 on:** April 30, 2011, 05:11:39 PM »

There was nothing about the PS3 that could be considered visionary, unless you're talking about creating crippling debts, unnecessarily complicated hardware that produced inferior software to your cheaper competitor, slowly stripping away hardware features (which was already compromised to begin with) with software updates, and now massive security breaches: one that completely cracked open major disc media and one that caused tens of millions of people's identities to be compromised.

If that is the new definition, then yeah, I agree, Ken Kutaragi is a visionary.

Let's be honest, if the system said anything other than "Sony PlayStation" on the box, the system would have died in 2008.

Shaka Khan · « **Reply #498 on:** April 30, 2011, 05:17:58 PM »

I think it's obvious that he was considered a visionary by many people, up until he designed the PS3.

Cindi Mayweather · « **Reply #499 on:** April 30, 2011, 05:23:18 PM »

Ken was a visionary. His legacy has been stained by the ps3, but as the grand pappy of the psx, ps2 and psp I don't see how you can argue he wasn't

Olivia Wilde Homo · « **Reply #500 on:** April 30, 2011, 05:23:40 PM »

In the way people considered Ken Lay or Lloyd Blankfein to be visionaries, sure.

Sho Nuff · « **Reply #501 on:** April 30, 2011, 05:56:18 PM »

My favorite part was that Kutaragi would spend billions building his own crazy chips (EE+GS, CELL) instead of using off-the-shelf technology, because everyone would want to use them in hollywood and outside the game industry.

"Mr. Kutaragi tried to interest Mr. Jobs in adopting the Cell chip, which is being developed by I.B.M. for use in the coming PlayStation 3, in exchange for access to certain Sony technologies. Mr. Jobs rejected the idea, telling Mr. Kutaragi that he was disappointed with the Cell design, which he believes will be even less effective than the PowerPC." <-- CLASSIC KUTARAGI

Shaka Khan · « **Reply #502 on:** April 30, 2011, 06:02:10 PM »

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #503 on:** April 30, 2011, 06:04:07 PM »

Sony's importance to the game industry was never especially a technological one at least the way fanboys will portray it. What Sony did was give a mainstream legitimacy to gaming at a time when the dominant players were Nintendo & Sega and videogames were viewed as strictly a child's hobby. It gave regular people more confidence in the product when they saw SONY on the label. That's why at the time Sony entering and dominating the videogame scene was important particularily from a cultural perspective.

The fact that they had deeper pockets than their competitors at the time also helped along with embracing CD/DVD gaming and entertainment while their compeititors stuck with cartridges or other weird disc based formats.

Cindi Mayweather · « **Reply #504 on:** April 30, 2011, 06:21:32 PM »

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/29/house-of-representatives-letter-questions-sony-over-attack/?ref=technology

holy fuck, congress is asking sony questions

Olivia Wilde Homo · « **Reply #505 on:** April 30, 2011, 06:39:50 PM »

Quote from: Stoney Mason on April 30, 2011, 06:04:07 PM

Sony's importance to the game industry was never especially a technological one at least the way fanboys will portray it. What Sony did was give a mainstream legitimacy to gaming at a time when the dominant players were Nintendo & Sega and videogames were viewed as strictly a child's hobby. It gave regular people more confidence in the product when they saw SONY on the label. That's why at the time Sony entering and dominating the videogame scene was important particularily from a cultural perspective.

The fact that they had deeper pockets than their competitors at the time also helped along with embracing CD/DVD gaming and entertainment while their compeititors stuck with cartridges or other weird disc based formats.

The PlayStation was also an easier to work with platform than the competition and generally stepped back to let third parties flourish vs. Nintendo's hostile attitude. The PlayStation visionary genius was more marketing than technology. If I recall, the PS2 was supposedly a nightmare to work for initially. The idea of PlayStation being synonymous with tech wizardry is essentially BS.

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #506 on:** April 30, 2011, 06:39:57 PM »

they asked microsoft questions about rood i dont see the xbot army rememberthing that

Cindi Mayweather · « **Reply #507 on:** April 30, 2011, 06:52:26 PM »

I'm just going to steal this post from SA: You know what isn't similar to an entire game system network's infrastructure being hacked resulting in millions of users' personal data being compromised? Mass system failure due to overheating.

Shut up already.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #508 on:** April 30, 2011, 09:07:24 PM »

Quote from: The Worst Poster Ever on April 30, 2011, 06:39:57 PM

they asked microsoft questions about rood i dont see the xbot army rememberthing that

Cindi Mayweather · « **Reply #509 on:** April 30, 2011, 09:18:47 PM »

Quote from: Oscar the Grouch on April 30, 2011, 08:44:50 PM

Kutaragi was completely up his ass crazy, but every industry needs people like that. The key with those people is that you have someone above them that can tell them "no buddy, that's too nuts". Ken didn't have anyone like that anymore.

see: george lucas

Wario64 · « **Reply #510 on:** April 30, 2011, 09:23:02 PM »

3 1/2 hours until kaz announces his resignment

Cindi Mayweather · « **Reply #511 on:** April 30, 2011, 09:27:45 PM »

wario64 that "when will psn be back up" bet idea on gaf is genius. gg

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #512 on:** April 30, 2011, 09:32:20 PM »

http://www.zeropaid.com/news/93298/psn-outage-day-10-fbi-congress-and-22-state-attorneys-general-get-involved/

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Meanwhile attorneys general from 22 states are demanding answers from Sony over the breach, asking why it took the company so long to alert customers to the attack.

That group of state attorneys general are sharing information with one another about their individual inquiries, Susan Kinsman, communications director for the Connecticut Office of the Attorney General told Kotaku.

The collection of attorneys general have also contacted the Federal Trade Commission to see if they have launched their own federal investigation, she said.

Cindi Mayweather · « **Reply #513 on:** April 30, 2011, 10:07:45 PM »

this E3 is going to be AMAZING.

Sho Nuff · « **Reply #514 on:** April 30, 2011, 10:30:14 PM »

Two hours left

Y'all ready for this dun dun dun

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #515 on:** April 30, 2011, 10:34:40 PM »

why are u xbots getting so excited for this? wow are u really that sad and not have enough games to play where the highlight ofu r week is a press conference?

NO POER GREATER THAN X

Cindi Mayweather · « **Reply #516 on:** April 30, 2011, 10:37:07 PM »

Quote from: The Worst Poster Ever on April 30, 2011, 10:34:40 PM

why are u xbots getting so excited for this? wow are u really that sad and not have enough games to play where the highlight ofu r week is a press conference?

NO POER GREATER THAN X

demi · « **Reply #517 on:** April 30, 2011, 10:46:25 PM »

oh my word... there gotta be a source vid on that

Shaka Khan · « **Reply #518 on:** April 30, 2011, 10:55:57 PM »

Beezy · « **Reply #519 on:** April 30, 2011, 11:06:08 PM »

naff · « **Reply #520 on:** April 30, 2011, 11:13:35 PM »

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #521 on:** April 30, 2011, 11:16:34 PM »

wow that dog mustve played the latest xbox 360 release

Olivia Wilde Homo · « **Reply #522 on:** April 30, 2011, 11:20:36 PM »

Quote from: Stringer Bell on April 30, 2011, 10:37:07 PM

Quote from: The Worst Poster Ever on April 30, 2011, 10:34:40 PM
why are u xbots getting so excited for this? wow are u really that sad and not have enough games to play where the highlight ofu r week is a press conference?

NO POER GREATER THAN X

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OMG, make that an emoticon and name it :methodis

Sho Nuff · « **Reply #523 on:** April 30, 2011, 11:33:03 PM »

Kaz will go up there and make it all right

Free download of Warhawk for everyone!!!!! $20 value * 77 million accounts = UNPARALLELED SHOW OF MONETARY SUPPORT

naff · « **Reply #524 on:** April 30, 2011, 11:39:23 PM »

Quote from: Sho Nuff on April 30, 2011, 11:33:03 PM

Free download of Warhawk for everyone!!!!! $20 value * 77 million accounts = UNPARALLELED SHOW OF MONETARY SUPPORT

Fresh scrubs to pwn

Sho Nuff · « **Reply #525 on:** April 30, 2011, 11:46:06 PM »

So who thinks it'll be a decent apology and roadmap for getting out of the hole, and who thinks it'll be douchey, vague, nonsense in the vein of the most clueless Japanese companies?

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #526 on:** May 01, 2011, 12:03:30 AM »

[video][/video]

Trent Dole · « **Reply #527 on:** May 01, 2011, 12:14:11 AM »

lol PS3

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #528 on:** May 01, 2011, 12:21:26 AM »

Quote from: Stringer Bell on April 30, 2011, 10:37:07 PM

Quote from: The Worst Poster Ever on April 30, 2011, 10:34:40 PM
why are u xbots getting so excited for this? wow are u really that sad and not have enough games to play where the highlight ofu r week is a press conference?

NO POER GREATER THAN X

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The latest hyped PS3 exclusive being "released".

Shaka Khan · « **Reply #529 on:** May 01, 2011, 12:30:04 AM »

The woman is basically Sony, and the dog is Kazunori Yamauchi.

Wario64 · « **Reply #530 on:** May 01, 2011, 12:31:32 AM »

30 more minutes till meltdown

http://www.irwebcasting.com/live/110501/02/index.html

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #531 on:** May 01, 2011, 12:32:10 AM »

The dog is basically PSN, with the woman being hackers [collectively]. The poo is user information.

Shaka Khan · « **Reply #532 on:** May 01, 2011, 12:34:02 AM »

Quote from: Wario64 on May 01, 2011, 12:31:32 AM

30 more minutes till meltdown

http://www.irwebcasting.com/live/110501/02/index.html

Oh shit, it's being streamed live? Crossing my fingers for a bloody seppuku demonstration.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #533 on:** May 01, 2011, 12:36:52 AM »

Quote from: Shah Rukh Khan on May 01, 2011, 12:34:02 AM

Quote from: Wario64 on May 01, 2011, 12:31:32 AM
30 more minutes till meltdown

http://www.irwebcasting.com/live/110501/02/index.html

Oh shit, it's being streamed live? Crossing my fingers for a bloody seppuku demonstration.

Sho Nuff · « **Reply #534 on:** May 01, 2011, 12:51:35 AM »

All conference attendees receive a free beta code for the new SOCOM

Or maybe they get 3D glasses because the press conference Powerpoints will be in 3D

maxy · « **Reply #535 on:** May 01, 2011, 01:59:02 AM »

summary,please

cool breeze · « **Reply #536 on:** May 01, 2011, 02:04:22 AM »

wait the store won't be up right away even when PSN comes back up, isn't tha

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All existing PlayStation Network customers will be provided with 30 days free membership in the PlayStation Plus premium service. Current members of PlayStation Plus will receive 30 days free service.

OMG FUCKIN REDEEMED

that's like, $2 ~~I wouldn't have pai~~d saved

maxy · « **Reply #537 on:** May 01, 2011, 02:08:41 AM »

thx,Oscar

naff · « **Reply #538 on:** May 01, 2011, 02:14:41 AM »

Yeah they were using old versions of Red Hat Linux and Apache on their servers, hadn't been upgraded for quite a while from what I hear. Old = flaws become known. Who woulda thought you should upgrade occasionally?

maxy · « **Reply #539 on:** May 01, 2011, 02:18:00 AM »

News:

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