PSN Back up in NA, Europe. Still down in Japan/Asian regions

[ManaByte]

Uh, someone mentioned on twitter that only EU users would be getting the free games. That's not accurate, is it?

It was only announced for Europe. SCEA hasn't said anything except for free downloads, which will probably be a theme or some shit.

[Joe Molotov]

Uh, someone mentioned on twitter that only EU users would be getting the free games. That's not accurate, is it?

It was only announced for Europe. SCEA hasn't said anything except for free downloads, which will probably be a theme or some shit.

I hope the free theme is designed by m0dus, then.

Here it is, sneak peak at m0dus' hot new minimalist design:

[Bebpo]

I'm getting ready to bail on Sony.  They have the worst communication with the public.  This is just like how they don't release their NPD numbers because they think if they don't say anything, nobody will notice and it will all go away.

[MCD]

No.

This is something they needed to face for a long time, just a harsh wake up call for Sony to make their shitty PSN better.

[Eel O'Brian]

my bet is calling all cars

[Joe Molotov]

my bet is calling all cars

Turns out even Sony doesn't remember Calling All Cars.

[Himu]

Uh, someone mentioned on twitter that only EU users would be getting the free games. That's not accurate, is it?

It was only announced for Europe. SCEA hasn't said anything except for free downloads, which will probably be a theme or some shit.

I hope the free theme is designed by m0dus, then.

Here it is, sneak peak at m0dus' hot new minimalist design:

(Image removed from quote.)

not enough gray

[Stoney Mason]

When we held the press conference in Japan last week, based on what we knew, we expected to have the services online within a week. We were unaware of the extent of the attack on Sony Online Entertainment servers, and we are taking this opportunity to conduct further testing of the incredibly complex system.

lol.

Brink comes out next tuesday. Will they have it up in time for that almost strictly multiplayer game.

[Wario64]

i just want to play socom 4 online 

[pilonv1]

Did anyone really expect them to be up within a week?

[MCD]

Wait for E3.

[MyNameIsMethodis]

Microsoft is in a far worse position then Sony Currently. I would be questioning if they're even going to stick around past this gen into next.

[Great Rumbler]

How is MS in a bad position?

[Diunx]

They better give us four free games in america too!

[Eel O'Brian]

we will get jack and shit

[Himu]

I'm getting ready to bail on Sony.  They have the worst communication with the public.  This is just like how they don't release their NPD numbers because they think if they don't say anything, nobody will notice and it will all go away.

what do you mean by this

[Bebpo]

I mean stop buying Sony games and supporting them as a company with my $$$

Crazy Ken would've never let this situation play out the way it did.  Current Sony leadership has been shit for years now.  Everything they do makes me smh.

[Mrbob]

Sony's communication is beyond pathetic and this situation exposed them.  However no one is going to care about this 6 months from now as long as everything is working.  This down time might have killed Socom as a franchise though.

PSN better have some upgrades upon reboot.  Get it closer in functionality to Xbox Live and Steam.

[Himu]

I mean stop buying Sony games and supporting them as a company with my $$$

Crazy Ken would've never let this situation play out the way it did.  Current Sony leadership has been shit for years now.  Everything they do makes me smh.

I almost feel the same way.

I mean, it's not that they got hacked that does it for me. It's how they've handled every single part of this. It shows unparalleled ineptitude.

But would it be extreme to stop using their products over this? I'm not sure.

[The Sceneman]

wrong thread!

[Mr. Gundam]

What a massive fucking failure on Sony's part.

Oh wait, what was that, GAF still is sucking their cock. Oh, it's ok then.

[The Sceneman]

shit how long has it been now?

[naff]

I mean stop buying Sony games and supporting them as a company with my $$$

Crazy Ken would've never let this situation play out the way it did.  Current Sony leadership has been shit for years now.  Everything they do makes me smh.

I almost feel the same way.

I mean, it's not that they got hacked that does it for me. It's how they've handled every single part of this. It shows unparalleled ineptitude.

But would it be extreme to stop using their products over this? I'm not sure.

Wow are you guys serious? Lol, GAF may be sucking cock, but we sure have our drama queens

[naff]

God I hope it is down till December and devs start cancelling PS3/ PSN titles. The drama would be hy-lar-yous.

Yeah that would be so AWESOME, and you can keep posting about how FFXIII is omg incredible HD  like a Chris Nolan movie 

[naff]

Don't you have a 360? Play online there.

Yeah I do. The hilarity of this whole situation just kinda wore off for me, I feel bad for everyone involved and hope it gets resolved asap. Also I'm still an sfag on the inside

[maxy]

what is this,some fallen sfags gathering...bu bu bu  :'( :'( bu bu bu
bunch of crybabies

Go play in the sand outside,PSN will be back when it meets minimum requirements to go online.Cat is out of the bag now,better make sure that other cats don't escape when network is up again.Whole network security collapsed like a house of cards,what's done is done.
 

[demi]

God I hope it is down till December and devs start cancelling PS3/ PSN titles. The drama would be hy-lar-yous.

Yeah that would be so AWESOME, and you can keep posting about how FFXIII is omg incredible HD  like a Chris Nolan movie 

LOL, you butthurt nerd. FF13

[Diunx]

I mean stop buying Sony games and supporting them as a company with my $$$

Crazy Ken would've never let this situation play out the way it did.  Current Sony leadership has been shit for years now.  Everything they do makes me smh.

I almost feel the same way.

I mean, it's not that they got hacked that does it for me. It's how they've handled every single part of this. It shows unparalleled ineptitude.

But would it be extreme to stop using their products over this? I'm not sure.

Wow are you guys serious? Lol, GAF may be sucking cock, but we sure have our drama queens

Seriously, stop buying sony products because their communication with the users suck and they don't post NPD numbers? give me a fucking break.

[Barry Egan]

yeah you guys

a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

anything worth doing is worth doing right

of what profit is it to a man if he should gain the world but lose his own soul

there once was a man from nantucket

 

[Stoney Mason]

I just remembered that Motorstorm 3 totally came out in America this week too. That's another bomb.

To be fair that was going to bomb whether PSN was down or not.

[Shaka Khan]

I'm buying Motorstorm tomorrow. I never cared about the online component of the first previous games, I won't start now.

[Bebpo]

They're saying even if the online goes back up this week, the store has NO DATE AT ALL.  Which could be a month, two months, three months. 

Publishers are going to kill them.  No DLC revenue, no online pass revenue, no PSN game revenue.  If I was a publisher I'd drop future PS3 versions of games unless Sony paid me a large amount of pure cash to make up for this.

[Shaka Khan]

Yeah, it's bad. Like, really bad.

[Sho Nuff]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/07/sony-idUSL3E7G701T20110507

Wait, haxors published a stolen list of sweepstakes entrants from 2001, was this one even reported before?

[Diunx]

They're saying even if the online goes back up this week, the store has NO DATE AT ALL.  Which could be a month, two months, three months. 

Publishers are going to kill them.  No DLC revenue, no online pass revenue, no PSN game revenue.  If I was a publisher I'd drop future PS3 versions of games unless Sony paid me a large amount of pure cash to make up for this.

Pretty sure they would lose more money by not releasing the games on ps3 than what they are going to lose with this fiasco.

[Himu]

I mean stop buying Sony games and supporting them as a company with my $$$

Crazy Ken would've never let this situation play out the way it did.  Current Sony leadership has been shit for years now.  Everything they do makes me smh.

I almost feel the same way.

I mean, it's not that they got hacked that does it for me. It's how they've handled every single part of this. It shows unparalleled ineptitude.

But would it be extreme to stop using their products over this? I'm not sure.

Wow are you guys serious? Lol, GAF may be sucking cock, but we sure have our drama queens

i don't see how it's being a drama queen. sony has handled this horribly. I'm not dropping ps3, because ps3 has a lot of great games and it's a great system. But honestly, Sony has to regain my trust and they're doing horribly at doing so. I'm more than likely to get a ngp, but this is a colossal fuck up, that much is true.

[Purple Filth]

what is this,some fallen sfags gathering...bu bu bu  :'( :'( bu bu bu
bunch of crybabies

Go play in the sand outside,PSN will be back when it meets minimum requirements to go online.Cat is out of the bag now,better make sure that other cats don't escape when network is up again.Whole network security collapsed like a house of cards,what's done is done.
 

Its funny since defenders was using this line of reasoning as well.

[maxy]

That's because the only thing left outside of that is to get rid of PS3.

[Shaka Khan]

what is this,some fallen sfags gathering...bu bu bu  :'( :'( bu bu bu
bunch of crybabies

Go play in the sand outside,PSN will be back when it meets minimum requirements to go online.Cat is out of the bag now,better make sure that other cats don't escape when network is up again.Whole network security collapsed like a house of cards,what's done is done.
 

Its funny since defenders was using this line of reasoning as well.

Saw this a while ago

[Stoney Mason]

The ultimate irony is to hear nerds who play videogames all day council other nerds to go outside and take a break. (not aimed at anyone in this thread. Just the general defense)

[Himu]

for real real

[Barry Egan]

Sony genuinely cares about it's customers and it's customers were looking a little pale and under nourished so they're keeping the network down so we can go outside and maybe grab a falafel with lots of veggies or something.  Friendly neighbor Sony!

[Himu]

i'm not pale!

[Barry Egan]

SONY to Himu:  time for a walk in the park.

[Himu]

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

Sony's communication is beyond pathetic and this situation exposed them.  However no one is going to care about this 6 months from now as long as everything is working.  This down time might have killed Socom as a franchise though.

PSN better have some upgrades upon reboot.  Get it closer in functionality to Xbox Live and Steam.

I think Sony's communication is just fine.  They were not only virtually depantsed in front of everyone, they also had a Danny Bonaduce sized cock for the world to see.  The more Sony talked about it, the more word would spread.  They'd rather just deal with this quietly, pay out x number of millions to shut everyone up, and move on quickly.

I think it will be longer than six months until people forget.  It will be on the minds of parents when they're buying little Billy a PS3 this Christmas.  Maybe Christmas 2012 they will forget, sure, but I don't think Sony is going to get away with this massive bungling so easy, regardless of how many shitty Kevin Butler ads they shove down our throats.  I don't expect any upgrades for PSN either.  As soon as they can get it up, it will be up.  True to the Sony style, I wouldn't be surprised if they removed some features for legitimate users.

[Mrbob]

My issue is how Sony handled how long service would be down.  First they said PSN is down for two days.  Then they say another week after telling us of getting hax0red.  Then they see OH YES PSN WILL BE BACK UP THIS WEEK.  Well later this week has come and now Sony says MAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYBBBBBBBBEEEEEEEEEE next week.  For me this is getting more annoying than the service being down.  If it was going to be 3 to 4 weeks to get service back up tell us right away. 

Well whatever I play most of my games on PC anyway but I do like playing MLB The Show online on PS3.  Need my fix!

[Joe Molotov]

The ultimate irony is to hear nerds who play videogames all day council other nerds to go outside and take a break. (not aimed at anyone in this thread. Just the general defense)

At least the Wii/3DS has no games so nfans have no choice but to go outside. Nintendo flawless victory!

[The Sceneman]

They're saying even if the online goes back up this week, the store has NO DATE AT ALL.  Which could be a month, two months, three months. 

Publishers are going to kill them.  No DLC revenue, no online pass revenue, no PSN game revenue.  If I was a publisher I'd drop future PS3 versions of games unless Sony paid me a large amount of pure cash to make up for this.

meanwhile, on Xbox Live...


go outside? for what?!

[magus]

[youtube=560,345][/youtube]

[The Sceneman]

oh man, too good.

fyi this is the song he's riffing on:
[youtube=560,345]m9ZfWr_KKFQ[/youtube]

[maxy]

some funny quotes

I've lost my trust in them anyway now, they've done far too much damage. It's like when you look at Kratos and he's this big guy who you admire and think he wouldn't and couldn't be scared or defeated by anything but finding out that behind closed doors he secretly enjoys wearing women's panties or when he sees a spider he screams like a girl and hides behind a bush. Kind of ruins the image doesn't it?

I also find their attempts at trying to buy people's trust back with rubbish freebies insulting. Kind of like when a guy cheats on a girl and he buys her a diamond ring hoping she'll forgive him, only 4 weeks later he's cheating again and the girl was stupid for getting all starry eyed over the ring.

Sony PSN strategy...Look At This
[youtube=560,345]#at=99[/youtube]

[Corporal]

[maxy]

This whole PSN debacle is like a goldmine,GT5 is nothing compared to it
Forum threads are exploding

The most funniest are the ones about getting rid of PS3/getting 360,I can't live without online...enough is enough

responses

-keep PS3 for SP games
-you will be sorry
-xbot,liar
-can't you live without psn for few days,free games next week,what a loser...go outside

[MyNameIsMethodis]

What do people seriously expect Sony to do to "make it up? 

It's also true that most people complaining are xbots pretending they own a 360 who would rather Sony give them a full day with complete free acess to the PSN Store to get whatever they want. Giving us 4 free games is fucking amazing of Sony. But I guess in Xbot land the only proper way for Sony to apologize would be to fold so the "great" Xbox can live on forever in Mediocre Console heaven 

[Barry Egan]

Yea, there's really nothing you can do to make up for this much failure 

[Shaka Khan]

Poor Sony, they were finally pulling in some profits and then this happened. I don't think there was a worse money-sink the size of the PS3 in all of gaming's history. Scratch gaming, "all electronics"; it's easily in the top 10 or 5, I'm sure.

[Himu]

Forum threads are exploding

The most funniest are the ones about getting rid of PS3/getting 360,I can't live without online...enough is enough

link

[maxy]

internet,any place where sony fans gather,ps3 forums,gt,etc

[Sho Nuff]

Hay guys is PSN up yet, I want to do some seasonal races in GT5