Sony Denies May 31 Deadline For PSN Return

[lozg1985]

there's been a lot of ps3's on ebay recently. i think sony's F##ked it! i seriously think in all honestly they may end up using the sega model and end up just developing games. and hey they always have tv's a blu ray players to fall back on should they hit hard times. And this is another reason too why a subscription model for online play although not appealing has it reasons, improved and dedicated security is definitely one of them, as well as notifications of maintenance.

 

[goldenheart323]

I've noticed there are a lot more PS3's for sale than usual on Craigslist lately.

I'm no tech head, but couldn't Sony do something like
bring their old, flawed PSN back online,
but do it without all the user profiles & info.
Make everyone create new profiles with zero personal info required.
Let everyone game with their new temporary profiles,
and if the network's hacked again, who cares because no one presently has sensitive info on it?

Sure, the store would still be closed, and your stats may not be kept track of or added onto your normal profile, but isn't being able to play w/o stats better than not playing at all???

... Also, if Sony's network isn't ready it isn't ready. Leave them be, we survived before online gameplay existed.

Yeah, but back then, every multiplayer game was multiplayer on the same console. No two player game required 2 consoles & 2 copies of the game. (Yes, I'm still really peeved at Crackdown for that little surprise. It was praised out the wazoo for awesome multiplayer, & then I find out I can't play it with my friend in my own home! Sure, every time they mentioned multiplayer it was with an XBL Gold account, but I just figured they were promoting Gold accounts, as in "it's ALSO multiplayer online," not as in "Gold is REQUIRED for multiplayer".)

 

[rmb1983]

*sigh* I really hope the hacker(s) responsible for this are found and punished heavily. At first I wasn't upset about PSN being down because I figured it would be down for only a week or two, but this is getting ridiculous. This isn't only affecting my online games either. I went to play Dragon Age Origins today thinking it would be fine since its single player, but I can't play because trophy information cannot load and it exits the game...

I have two things to say to the hacker(s): I hate you and go die in a fire.

Honestly, no matter anyone's stance on whether they like Sony or not, at this point, I find it hard to imagine anyone disagreeing with that statement (the portion I bolded, at least).

Odd about your situation with DA:O, though. Is it possible you haven't played it since the last time they've released DLC (since those add Trophies of their own)? Mine works just fine, but it's up-to-date circa DAII's launch. Oddly enough, Bionic Commando re-loads its Trophy data every time it fires up, but works just fine for some reason or another. In any case, I just hit Platinum on it last night, and hoped to give Borderlands a go in the meantime...I was a bit concerned because I haven't popped it in in a full year, but even though there was a game update, it downloaded it and started just fine, as well.
Seems almost situational, I guess. I AM playing an Ultimate Edition copy (and as I said, is fully patched, etc) of DA:O, though, so that may or may not have some impact on it; hence why I asked about the DLC situation.

Pretty discouraging that they think 3 weeks from NOW is unrealistic.

That was never said.

They only commented that they never made a claim of being up by May 31st. That could honestly go either way; it's extremely vague for a reason.

 

[Grey Walker]

Just going to throw this out there:

Is it a coincidence that it got hacked shortly after linking to Steam?

I'm working under the assumption that Sony would place as much attention on security as possible to avoid situations like this, and the impending lawsuits/bad PR.

The massive scale of the hacks is disturbing though.

And to the Xbox people who aren't showing sympathy:

http://www.securitynewsdaily.com/disgruntled-gamer-hacks-xbox-security-chiefs-account-0662/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2011/apr/27/xbox-live-security-alert-playstation-network-hack

This is a lot bigger than console preference.

As for Sony "deserving it"... I can't say. I think that screwing a portion of your customers=losing those customers is fair. This seems too over the top.

That being said, it would be hilariously ironic if it was a modded PS3 that was responsible for all this.

 

[Kyte]

Ok hackers, if we pretend what you're doing is 'LOLSOFUNNY FIGHT THE POWERRRRRRR' will you let us play our games online..?

 

[LakuNoce]

Did you try to disable the internet connection? It may work. These games 'should' work without online. Worth a try.

 

[n03s]

Really this shit is very annoying..
Fuck Sony..
Fuck the hackers..
and fuck all the fanboys.. in the ass..
In this precise order..

 

[erztez]

Really this shit is very annoying..
Fuck Sony..
Fuck the hackers..
and fuck all the fanboys.. in the ass..
In this precise order..

Nah, I think you could move the order around a bit, as long as you keep the core concept viable.

 

[BabyRaptor]

/checks date

Not by the 31st? Christ, they're killing themselves!

 

[VonBrewskie]

Nearly 3 weeks!?! I CAN'T TAKE MUCH MORE OF THIS!!!

*sigh* I hear yah buddy. I'm not even eyeing an Xbox. I have borrowed my cousin's on a few occasions to rock some of that sweet, sweet Gears of War, and I have to say, the Xbox Live community is shit, for the most part. Being a dickhead is like their main obsession, it seems. I prefer the PSN, where there are fewer people using mics in general, and those that do seem to understand,(in greater numbers), why people acting like dicks on the mic should just switch off. Like I said, I'm not even eyeing an Xbox. If the PSN pulls a Dreamcast on me, I'm going back to PCs.

 

[Sabinfrost]

I'm getting frustrated and feeling sorry for the great devs at Sony like Naughty Dog who are going to feel this... They don't deserve this.

 

[rickthetrick]

I'm amazed at how many morons in this thread are blaming Sony for this and NOT the hackers who brought this network down in the first place. If someone firebombed your favourite Gamestore would you blame the store for not having adequate security? Or would you blame the retard who threw a molotov cocktail through the window?

Seriously.

If that game store was in an area where arson was prevalent, and they had done things to piss off said arsonists, then yes, yes I would.

 

[Tiswas]

Doesn't make any diffe.....OH DEAR GOD. DOES THIS MEAN BACK TO THE FUTURE THE GAME part 3 WILL BE DELAYED EVEN FURTHER!

That's about as much as I care about PSN really.

 

[Dogstile]

This just makes me scared.....I'm going to college soon and I plan to have a career in network security. It's now I realize just how much responsibility is going to be on my shoulders, and how much shit I'm going to take if something goes wrong. And yet, when everything goes right, no one notices.

Hey, me too! Its a thankless job, you work long hours and generally the pay is shitty unless you work for a big organization.

Good luck to you sir, you'll need it Just remember to kick the company you work for in the balls if they don't have a BRILLIANT encryption policy. At the very least then if the data gets stolen it gives people time to change their info around.

 

[KefkaCultist]

*sigh* I really hope the hacker(s) responsible for this are found and punished heavily. At first I wasn't upset about PSN being down because I figured it would be down for only a week or two, but this is getting ridiculous. This isn't only affecting my online games either. I went to play Dragon Age Origins today thinking it would be fine since its single player, but I can't play because trophy information cannot load and it exits the game...

I have two things to say to the hacker(s): I hate you and go die in a fire.

Honestly, no matter anyone's stance on whether they like Sony or not, at this point, I find it hard to imagine anyone disagreeing with that statement (the portion I bolded, at least).

Odd about your situation with DA:O, though. Is it possible you haven't played it since the last time they've released DLC (since those add Trophies of their own)? Mine works just fine, but it's up-to-date circa DAII's launch. Oddly enough, Bionic Commando re-loads its Trophy data every time it fires up, but works just fine for some reason or another. In any case, I just hit Platinum on it last night, and hoped to give Borderlands a go in the meantime...I was a bit concerned because I haven't popped it in in a full year, but even though there was a game update, it downloaded it and started just fine, as well.
Seems almost situational, I guess. I AM playing an Ultimate Edition copy (and as I said, is fully patched, etc) of DA:O, though, so that may or may not have some impact on it; hence why I asked about the DLC situation.

Yeah thats probably the reason. I haven't used my ps3 for much more than a BluRay player for a while now so I've missed a bunch of updates for pretty much everything I own.

 

[p3t3r]

normally i would be pissed but a few days before psn went down i got sc2 and have been playing that ever since instead of my playstation. good timing or what