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Gavin Thorne wrote:I rewarded my son with a PSN gift card this week for being a good kid and there was another in his Easter basket (in the hopes the network would come back up by Sunday) and he's been chomping at the bit for them to bring it back up.

Hits his mom and dad too - no Netflicks for us old folks!!!

That has to suck. However this may be the time to introduce him to the wonderful world of wargaming, where the servers are always up (Although GW much like sony loves to leave folks in the dark lol). I feel bad for one of my friends who subscribes to both DC Universe Online and Playstation plus as well as netflix.

happydude wrote:

Gavin Thorne wrote:I rewarded my son with a PSN gift card this week for being a good kid and there was another in his Easter basket (in the hopes the network would come back up by Sunday) and he's been chomping at the bit for them to bring it back up.

Hits his mom and dad too - no Netflicks for us old folks!!!

That has to suck. However this may be the time to introduce him to the wonderful world of wargaming, where the servers are always up (Although GW much like sony loves to leave folks in the dark lol). I feel bad for one of my friends who subscribes to both DC Universe Online and Playstation plus as well as netflix.

oh that would suck, and yeah, I like complaining on dakkadakka, gives me something to do, besides, all of my models are painted at the moment :(

For Gavin Thorne's son we must destroy those who caused SONY to take down their network! To arms brothers, to arms!

Actually as a PS3 owner, I'm kind of glad it's down. I've found this drive toward having to verify my single player games online to be a pain in the ass and server/network failure happens enough, maybe companies like EA will abandon this model in favor of putting out entire games, rather then making you download half the game after release.

BaronIveagh wrote:Actually as a PS3 owner, I'm kind of glad it's down. I've found this drive toward having to verify my single player games online to be a pain in the ass and server/network failure happens enough, maybe companies like EA will abandon this model in favor of putting out entire games, rather then making you download half the game after release.

But...but... Mortal Kombat?

happydude wrote:

BaronIveagh wrote:Actually as a PS3 owner, I'm kind of glad it's down. I've found this drive toward having to verify my single player games online to be a pain in the ass and server/network failure happens enough, maybe companies like EA will abandon this model in favor of putting out entire games, rather then making you download half the game after release.

But...but... Mortal Kombat?

Do what I do. Walk down the street to the Arcade. Or invite some friends over for two player one on one matches.

BaronIveagh wrote:

happydude wrote:

BaronIveagh wrote:Actually as a PS3 owner, I'm kind of glad it's down. I've found this drive toward having to verify my single player games online to be a pain in the ass and server/network failure happens enough, maybe companies like EA will abandon this model in favor of putting out entire games, rather then making you download half the game after release.

But...but... Mortal Kombat?

Do what I do. Walk down the street to the Arcade. Or invite some friends over for two player one on one matches.

They've killed all the arcades in Canada. There are only two alive in Toronto and even then Playdium sucks and Lovegetty is quite the ways away for an arcade romp afternoon. I have played friends in MK however it is not an everyday even and would be nice to smack em around when the mood struck.

happydude wrote:

BaronIveagh wrote:

happydude wrote:

BaronIveagh wrote:Actually as a PS3 owner, I'm kind of glad it's down. I've found this drive toward having to verify my single player games online to be a pain in the ass and server/network failure happens enough, maybe companies like EA will abandon this model in favor of putting out entire games, rather then making you download half the game after release.

But...but... Mortal Kombat?

Do what I do. Walk down the street to the Arcade. Or invite some friends over for two player one on one matches.

They've killed all the arcades in Canada. There are only two alive in Toronto and even then Playdium sucks and Lovegetty is quite the ways away for an arcade romp afternoon. I have played friends in MK however it is not an everyday even and would be nice to smack em around when the mood struck.

Yea, true enough, arcades don't exist in Canada anymore, and GW's are starting to dissapear as well

Col_Torsin wrote:

happydude wrote:

BaronIveagh wrote:

happydude wrote:

BaronIveagh wrote:Actually as a PS3 owner, I'm kind of glad it's down. I've found this drive toward having to verify my single player games online to be a pain in the ass and server/network failure happens enough, maybe companies like EA will abandon this model in favor of putting out entire games, rather then making you download half the game after release.

But...but... Mortal Kombat?

Do what I do. Walk down the street to the Arcade. Or invite some friends over for two player one on one matches.

They've killed all the arcades in Canada. There are only two alive in Toronto and even then Playdium sucks and Lovegetty is quite the ways away for an arcade romp afternoon. I have played friends in MK however it is not an everyday even and would be nice to smack em around when the mood struck.

Yea, true enough, arcades don't exist in Canada anymore, and GW's are starting to dissapear as well

I used to love the arcade on yonge near dundas, buddies and I would usually end downtown outings there.

Any idea on when its back?

No, but the longer it's off, the better companies that didn't do online activation look.

BaronIveagh wrote:No, but the longer it's off, the better companies that didn't do online activation look.

Or you could revisit some of the games toting multiplayer and find all of the secrets in the campaign.

I'm actually replaying Vanguard Bandits while this is off.

On my 2nd play through of Mass Effect 2 on insanity, should keep me busy until they fix things! Quality, quality game.

Here's another possible explanation for the outage.

You know besides people shouting “Anon, ANOOOOOOOONNN!!!!1!1!!111!” and flinging their PS3’s at little children.

http://venturebeat.com/2011/04/25/playstation-network-outage-piracy/

Also I hear that they are having to rebuild the service from the ground up to prevent another incident like this.

I bet Sony will deny that anything happened ever, whatever the reason it took place.

Its just gotten way worse.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/109568-Sony-Admits-Private-PSN-Info-Has-Been-Stolen-All-Of-It

The "hackers" got everything you every typed into a sony form.

Ma55ter_fett wrote:Its just gotten way worse.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/109568-Sony-Admits-Private-PSN-Info-Has-Been-Stolen-All-Of-It

The "hackers" got everything you every typed into a sony form.

It's starting to sound less like a hack and more like an inside job by the IT department.

Ma55ter_fett wrote:Its just gotten way worse.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/109568-Sony-Admits-Private-PSN-Info-Has-Been-Stolen-All-Of-It

The "hackers" got everything you every typed into a sony form.

SON OF A NUTCRACKER!

Of course, what no one is mentioning is that another thing Sony is hurriedly doing is creating a patch so that you can't hook your PS into any emulated PSN nets that might spring up out of this.

Honestly, as an Xbox/PC gamer, I feel bad for you guys. I personally think it was an inside job, granting they are taking everything in form quality.

Ma55ter_fett wrote:Its just gotten way worse.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/109568-Sony-Admits-Private-PSN-Info-Has-Been-Stolen-All-Of-It

The "hackers" got everything you every typed into a sony form.

What the ?

And that's why I always put half fake information on private information sign ups. But still. What the ?!

This is a serious mess Sony have got on their hands. Having purchased things on the PSN before I'm going to have to keep a constant eye on my credit card statement for the next few months. Seriously dissappointing work from such a powerful company.

Oh, and if that Finnish troll is still reading: I own both a gaming PC and a PS3 because I'm a big boy grown up and don't feel the need to draw arbitrary lines in the sand between the-only-platform-that-my-parents-bought-for-me and others. I play games a lot, it accounts for a lot of my free time, on both platforms. Do I consider myself a gamer? No. I consider myself a person. Grow up.

This just keeps getting better. Sony's famous last words: "oops". Seriously though the system Sony built was doomed from the beginning. I'm actually quite impressed that psn stood this long. It's quite funny that this happened after they removed the-only-way-to-get-viruses-linux.

And htj if you aren't a gamer then why are you acting like one?

- troll

illuknisaa wrote:This just keeps getting better. Sony's famous last words: "oops". Seriously though the system Sony built was doomed from the beginning. I'm actually quite impressed that psn stood this long. It's quite funny that this happened after they removed the-only-way-to-get-viruses-linux.

And htj if you aren't a gamer then why are you acting like one?

- troll

You know what's quite funny, the fact that they added Steam to the PSN right before it was hacked.

By playing games? I actually said that I don't call myself a gamer. If you want to, go for it. Or is that some kind of 'I know you are, but what am I' comment?

My response is to your comments about this issue's effect on console owners. You don't like people for playing on consoles? You think they deserve to suffer? What the hell is that about?

He's an elitist PC gamer who thinks he's better than anyone playing on the console because he feels the need to validate his constant driver and video card purchases for his PC. Sure he probably spent a staggering $1,000 on his PC and will spend much more to upgrade to newer games, but he's better than console gamers who spend $300 or so and wait until a newer console comes out.

Sure he has to have an internet connection to play with others unlike console users who can play splitscreen, but his PC has Directx 11 and that's all he needs.

Plus hackers changing the game with aimbot and god mode online make the game interesting as opposed to the boring monotony of console owners who face less in game hacking.

Thanks, halonachos. I think you just prevented me from getting into an extremely pointless argument.

Peace, illuknisaa. I hope your opinions bring you happiness.

This entire thing was started because Anonymous didn't like that Sony took down Geohot (another group of hackers). So they started a series of hack attacks, now it's getting out of hand. Immature pricks are depriving millions of gamers of online gaming and services they have paid for.

I hope Sony shakes this off within the month, and the children that hack for anonymous are bitch-slapped into the apocalypse.

samrtk wrote:This entire thing was started because Anonymous didn't like that Sony took down Geohot (another group of hackers). So they started a series of hack attacks, now it's getting out of hand. Immature pricks are depriving millions of gamers of online gaming and services they have paid for.

I hope Sony shakes this off within the month, and the children that hack for anonymous are bitch-slapped into the apocalypse.

Like I said, let SONY have death squads.