You sunk my Battleship Kevin Butler! - The PSN is down topic

[George]

A few things suck. Like you can use PSN or DLC when subscription ends. But most PSN games I beat 100% and don't play again. I own about 35 games on there...

Though avatars and themes are yours forever and some of those are like 4 a pop (themes).

[Sega Uranus]

I think Sony is handling it as good as any other big company would, but it is pretty much bullshit they never even hinted at anything for a full week. I realize they cannot just say watch your credit cards because people would have freaked out (and they did), but there was no news for a long time.

And if the thing we receive is three months of Plus, then that would just look like a dirty scheme and would probably hurt them more than anything (what would PS+ subscribers get, an extension?). Just give us a choice of a cheap PSN release (maybe a PlayStation Classic), even something like Crazy Birds on minis would be acceptable I think. Sony does not really owe the public anything, but if it is a few months of PS+ I will be really annoyed.

I do not think this outage is going to effect them much. In two years no one will care, just like the Red Ring of Death. Only fanboys will bring it up, and they are like .00004% of the market anyways.

Also,

[George]

That image was from reddit and I complained about it because they misinform their public. I think the company should be blamed for what they did wrong and posting credit card information in .xml was not one of them. It was encrypted. Now user data wasn't and they fucked up big time.

Sunday, Kaz is going to have a press conference regarding the whole thing. We shall see what he says.

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/04/30/hirai ... 1-a-m-edt/

I don't think free Playstation Plus is a bad deal. I have gotten 1 month of Xbox Live Gold each time I got a Red Ring of Death, for my troubles.

What I want happen:

1. Kaz walks in says he is sorry for what happen.
2. Tells users that we all get a choice of AAA PS3 games to pick from for our troubles.
3. Tells us they have Chuck Norris and Segata Shanshiro working the case.
4. They both walk on stage, bringing in the hacker half alive, riddled with punch marks over his face.
5. Say that PSN will be up .... RIGHT NOW!

What will happen:

1. Kaz will show charts and talk about how great the PSN brand is.
2. Talk about how sorry this happen.
3. Talk about how they have security experts on it and how they will protect user data in the future.
4. Give users a crappy PSN title like Undertow for their troubles.
5. Give a broad estimate for when PSN will be up.
6. Do something embarrassing that will stay on the internet for a long time. (RIIIIIDGE RACERRRRR)

Rumor has it that Sony will give out a choice... either 3 Months of PS+, a free PSN game or a free movie. I think its the best choice. I will take the 3 months of PS+ as I actually like the service.

[Autosaver]

Yeah. A free (limited time) game, cheap deals on current games, bonus features such as auto update and cross game chat, and more.

[George]

If you think there is going to be new features..... Sorry. No.

They are busy rebuilding the security for the network and won't even have PSN all the way up at first. I think that signing in, playing online will work.. then the store will come on last.

I doubt they are going to focus on adding auto updating... and Cross game chat that won't come due to Microsoft holding a patent on it.

[George]

Conference is going on right now.

Presidents at Sony apologizing and bowing to their public? Never thought I'd see this...
http://a.yfrog.com/img610/689/kbgwz.jpg

enjoy.

Consumers that come back get 30 days of Plus (if u have it, add it to your time), a downloadable game (more details later). More 'things' to be announced as PSN goes up.

Online gameplay up this week.

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2011/04/ ... this-week/

update:

Kaz has some fucking balls on him. "If I had an account on PSN I would be the first to cancel my account." - Kaz. Never going to hear a CEO do real talk like him.

[CosmicCastaway]

A month free of PlayStation Plus for everyone sounds like a really nice way of compensation.

[Autosaver]

A free game? Awesome

But its probably going to be a dumb/stupid game. :/

[Barry the Nomad]

A free game? Awesome

But its probably going to be a dumb/stupid game. :/

It'll be sort of like this:

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[Sega Uranus]

It will probably just be something like DLC for a game most people already own, like Uncharted 2.

I am annoyed with how they still have no set date for when it is coming back. Is it really so hard to just say something like "Friday for North America"? Even if it is a late estimate, then people would be more excited when it comes up "Early".

In other news, while unrelated to the PSN outage, Sony Online Entertainment was hacked and this time, for sure, all their members' credit card numbers were taken. Neat huh?

I originally said Sony was going to come away fine from this, but now I genuinely think they will have a hard time getting people to trust them again for at least two years, even if I think their upcoming new PSN hardware is going to be stronger than most others in the industry.

[George]

They basically said Sunday. LOL if that makes you feel better.

[SOUP]

All I want to do is sync up my Portal 2 save with steam. That's it

[tarpmortar]

All I want to do is sync up my Portal 2 save with steam. That's it

I wanna play All-Stars racing with you : (

[Happy Cat]

hackers planning another attack

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31021_3-20060227-260.html

[George]

Really? They are going to get caught. According to Sony they didn't detect the threat of someone hacking because Anonymous was DDOSing them. I assume its someone from ANON that used the attack to steal info.

New updates today:

- Sony is going to offer 1 million dollar, for one year free identity theft protection (US only)

- Sony says they are testing the new PSN server around the clock before the online gameplay/home or whatever launch


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