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gorfias

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Dunno how the rest of you are doing, but my PS4 started working this morning. Huge relief. I got to try Destiny out. So far, pretty, a hoot hearing Peter Dinklidge. It has not yet allowed me to play any multi-player yet.
 

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Gorfias said:
It has not yet allowed me to play any multi-player yet.
If memory serves me correctly, you need to unlock competitive multiplayer. Level 6, I believe. Then you can talk to an NPC to unlock the Crucible.

(You might already know, but I thought I'd weigh in just in case.)
 

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Creator002 said:
Gorfias said:
It has not yet allowed me to play any multi-player yet.
If memory serves me correctly, you need to unlock competitive multiplayer. Level 6, I believe. Then you can talk to an NPC to unlock the Crucible.

(You might already know, but I thought I'd weigh in just in case.)
Nope! I did not know that, thank you! Level 6! It took me hours to get to that level in Titan Fall. I wonder if I'm in as much trouble with this one.

So far, 2 very different games. I look forward to experiencing those difference.
 

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So they got free stuff for punishing (or at least claiming to punish) paying customers of the "the man" they were trying to stick it to? Please tell me it's a trap Kim Dotcom set up to catch a few of these schmucks to make himself look better.
 

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Gorfias said:
Oh, it's on now!

http://betanews.com/2014/12/26/anonymous-declares-war-on-lizard-squad-after-ddos-attacks-on-game-networks/
War? War! It's war!


Popcorn at the ready, let's see just how good lizard squad really are.
 

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Still totally down for me. And playstation.com still lists psn as offline.
 
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Gorfias said:
Oh, it's on now!

http://betanews.com/2014/12/26/anonymous-declares-war-on-lizard-squad-after-ddos-attacks-on-game-networks/
Is it just me or is this incredibly remniscent of elementary school?

Lizard Squad taking your toy and holding it out of reach.

Anonymous hearing Lizard Squad tell everybody they're friends with the teacher and deciding they're going to knock it's lights out for it.

Personally I'm hoping the schoolyard hacker scuffle results in mutually assured destruction
 

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More lame attention-seeking and a total lack of common sense. If they think those accounts won't come without a price...and that nobody will pursue them ever...they're the greatest dumbasses since this past year's Darwin Awards winners.
 

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OK, I was able to play last night for a while. Go to try to play FF14: ARR some more...

"Connection to the server has been lost."

Jesus H. Fucknuggets Christ, is there any legal action one can take for this sort of thing? I am all sorts of pissed off right now and it makes me kinda...

 

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You know some of those errors may not be the lizard group, PS4's have been acting badly with their internet connections. I know mine has --- and it was a fixed system that I had to return back to Sony. Something about its wifi being weak.

Sad really, never could get connected so I wasn't really affected.
 

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The Almighty Aardvark said:
Gorfias said:
Oh, it's on now!

http://betanews.com/2014/12/26/anonymous-declares-war-on-lizard-squad-after-ddos-attacks-on-game-networks/
Is it just me or is this incredibly remniscent of elementary school?

Lizard Squad taking your toy and holding it out of reach.

Anonymous hearing Lizard Squad tell everybody they're friends with the teacher and deciding they're going to knock it's lights out for it.

Personally I'm hoping the schoolyard hacker scuffle results in mutually assured destruction
My first thought was that anonymous has a dog in this fight (uses PSN!). I have a dog in this fight. I hope Lizard Squad gets soundly spanked!

Hero in a half shell said:
War? War! It's war!


Popcorn at the ready, let's see just how good lizard squad really are.
Oh yeah!


Rats. I was up for a bit. Now this... http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/12/27/sony-issues-statement-as-psn-experiences-ongoing-outages
 

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Gorfias said:
My first thought was that anonymous has a dog in this fight (uses PSN!). I have a dog in this fight. I hope Lizard Squad gets soundly spanked!
A statement from Anonymous said they are going after Lizard Squad because they indicated if Anonymous ever did come after them they would need help from the FBI, apparently they take offense to that. Also I doubt they give a shit about PSN they did something themselves the day after, releasing thirteen thousand PSN/XBox live usernames and passwords, as well as credit card data, just for the LULZ.

https://twitter.com/AnonymousGlobo/status/548542162263343107
 

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Strelok said:
Gorfias said:
My first thought was that anonymous has a dog in this fight (uses PSN!). I have a dog in this fight. I hope Lizard Squad gets soundly spanked!
A statement from Anonymous said they are going after Lizard Squad because they indicated if Anonymous ever did come after them they would need help from the FBI, apparently they take offense to that. Also I doubt they give a shit about PSN they did something themselves the day after, releasing thirteen thousand PSN/XBox live usernames and passwords, as well as credit card data, just for the LULZ.

https://twitter.com/AnonymousGlobo/status/548542162263343107
Like Iran vs Iraq, "Isn't there some way they can both lose?"
 

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You know who doesn't have these issues? That's right. The Master Race. The very same these hacker idiots probably belong to.
To be honest, nothing like this ever happens to Nintendo either as far as I'm aware. And Wii U is a nice system.

I'm totally in favor of punishing these guys for doing this. But most of them are probably too immature to realize the severity of what they're doing in the eyes of the businessmen running these companies. I don't want them to get more than a year in prison or a hefty fine, but the reality is that for this, they can get some serious jail time when they catch them.
Nintendo is the Apple of consoles, there aren't enough users out there to make hacking them worthwhile.
 

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snekadid said:
Adam Jensen said:
You know who doesn't have these issues? That's right. The Master Race. The very same these hacker idiots probably belong to.
To be honest, nothing like this ever happens to Nintendo either as far as I'm aware. And Wii U is a nice system.

I'm totally in favor of punishing these guys for doing this. But most of them are probably too immature to realize the severity of what they're doing in the eyes of the businessmen running these companies. I don't want them to get more than a year in prison or a hefty fine, but the reality is that for this, they can get some serious jail time when they catch them.
Nintendo is the Apple of consoles, there aren't enough users out there to make hacking them worthwhile.
It's more like you can't DDOS hamsters.
 

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Strelok said:
Gorfias said:
My first thought was that anonymous has a dog in this fight (uses PSN!). I have a dog in this fight. I hope Lizard Squad gets soundly spanked!
A statement from Anonymous said they are going after Lizard Squad because they indicated if Anonymous ever did come after them they would need help from the FBI, apparently they take offense to that. Also I doubt they give a shit about PSN they did something themselves the day after, releasing thirteen thousand PSN/XBox live usernames and passwords, as well as credit card data, just for the LULZ.

https://twitter.com/AnonymousGlobo/status/548542162263343107
Well, that's disappointing; Anonymous have generally been 'on our side', so to speak.

Their targets tend to deserve what they do..
 

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Well, that's disappointing; Anonymous have generally been 'on our side', so to speak.

Their targets tend to deserve what they do..
Their "targets" are corporations and others that have a poor track record with user/client private data. The users of these services are the collateral damage it appears. Though they as a group has been known to do some good, anyone can join it, so who knows if they all share the same agenda.
 

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Wait... doesn't this set a precedent for hackers to hold internet products hostage to get money? I'm happy to be able to play my games again but this makes pulling asshole shenanigans like this profitable. This could potentially have been the worst thing for us if these guys don't get busted hard and fast.

If Anonymous takes them down, I'll be quite pleased. At least Anonymous tries to champion worthwhile causes instead of just bullying around consumers and ruining the playground for everyone like Lizard Squad is doing here.

Shocksplicer said:
Fuck you Sony, 100% online my arse. Still can't connect. Fucking incompetent bastards.
Reset your console and try again.

Not sure Sony is the one to blame here. That's like bitching at a bank that just had half of their employees murdered in a robbery because the line isn't moving like you think it should. Not their fault. This group has been leaning particularly heavily on Sony. So I wouldn't be surprised if they hit them harder than Microsoft.

What amazes me is that they actually got Microsoft. Other groups have been trying that for years. If you can get Microsoft then you can kinda get any sort of online service that people have access to.
 

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If Anonymous takes them down, I'll be quite pleased. At least Anonymous tries to champion worthwhile causes instead of just bullying around consumers and ruining the playground for everyone like Lizard Squad is doing here.
Assuming that Anonymous has an identity whilst also assuming that a anonymity has an agenda...Of course. When it comes to online hackers, there's no lesser evil. They're all the same.

I'm willing to bet that these hackers have multiple names behind them.