PlayStation Network Down 5 Days with No End in Sight
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Apr 26, 2011 05:39 JST
- Tags: Announcements, Bugs, Hackers, Internet, PS3, PSP, Sony, Technology
The ongoing global outage of Sony’s PlayStation Network, now at 5 days, may be in danger of continuing even further – in its latest update Sony refused to provide any information on what is going on or when it will be fixed.
Despite predicting “it may be a full day or two before we’re able to get the service completely back up and running” on the 21st, since then Sony has stopped providing a timeframe and in its latest missive only offers a lame acknowledgement of the disaster:
I know you are waiting for additional information on when PlayStation Network and Qriocity services will be online. Unfortunately, I don’t have an update or timeframe to share at this point in time.
As we previously noted, this is a time intensive process and we’re working to get them back online quickly. We’ll keep you updated with information as it becomes available. We once again thank you for your patience.
Rumours now suggest Sony may be nearing a point where it can restore service, although there is next to no official information from Sony itself about any progress.
In fact, all Sony has revealed is that an “external intrusion” prompted them to turn off the entire PSN service, rather suggesting they may be downplaying the severity of the trouble.
Microsoft for its part has graciously called the outage “regretful” whilst crowing that it expects to see “an increase of traffic.”
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Dang this sucks! And just as I was about to play Mortal Kombat online and upload my Ninja Gaiden Sigma and NGS2 scores, this happened!
The network downtime is negligible in comparison to the possibility that users credit card information may be compromised. That should be Sony's top priority to get to the bottom of so people can cancel their cards if need be.
Might be the reason why they shut off the system due to external intrusion.
I expected Sony's ability to execute code remotely on PS3's to have caused a massive security problem.
The only fix is to remove the possible rootkit from the PS3's which will mean accepting a certian level of piracy.
http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/02/01/new.ps3.firmware.may.let.sony.run.remote.code/
Im happy. I downloaded Arcana Hearts 3 only hours before the PSN went down. Untill the network comes back I have my hot anime girls to keep me company.
You do not know just how lucky you are, my friend.
It's Microsoft's doing.
Remember how Microsoft tries to eliminate competition?
Oh.. that's why my firefox sometimes goes "not responding" on my Windows computer...
Microsoft? Given recent events (ie. George Hotz) it is far more likely to be Anonymous.
http://www.anonnews.org/?p=press&a=item&i=848 [http://www.anonnews.org/?p=press&a=item&i=848]
they say "For Once We Didn't Do It".
Microsoft most likely bribed them to close down with sweet $$$.
I totally blame Microsoft for probably 'farming out' a internet Mercinary to "Level the Playing field" over Easter weekend with 3 Long awaited games just launched.
Even if it's NOT Microsofts doing it's gotta be a Xbox360 sympathizer intent on giving SONY a 'black eye' before E3 in June.
DOESN'T change the fact that Microsoft is STILL a second rate gaming company, it's Kinnect sucks ass, and it's Console never really measured up to PS3.
Even OFFLINE my PS3 kicks Xbox's ass in all the ways that matter to me. Just mean Mays is gonna be a monster month for the PS Network. Sony will become even STRONGER because of this in the long term
OMG Sony will become stronger :o
So do you get money from Sony or why are you embarrassing yourself here?
I don't understand why people defend a big corporation like that. It's not like Sony needs your protection, and they won't thank you for it.
You have your PS3 and you're happy with it. Why do you have to bash the Xbox360 and worship Sony like a god?
Just go and play your games and stop harassing other people.
Cry me a river and go have a ========D
You don't really believe what you're saying, right?
I don't think they're foolish enough to do something like that.
REMEMBER..... MICROSOFT IS NOT OUR FRIEND..
REMEMBER..... MICROSOFT IS NOT OUR FRIEND...
AND NEITHER IS SONY~~~!!
Triti
Thats what you get for having free online.
Can't believe that the entire psn got hacked lulz. Thats just pathetic programming.
Or awesome hacking. Depending on who you're siding with.
And believe it or not, Sony's not the first to get their network service down for repairs...
Awesome hacking requires a legitimate target. All this has caused is Sony to look embarrassed, and people to play their favorite games less.
It's the equivalent of calling in an airstrike on a chinchilla farm. Hardly the best use of your ordinance.
Right... So how would you have implemented it differently? And how, for that matter, did they implement it in the first place?
Internet tough guys, lol...
NOOOOO I needed to download some DLC!!!
remember same shit happened to MS and lasted 17 days
[citation needed]
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/01/05/microsoft-faces-class-action-lawsuit-due-to-xbox-live-outages/
outage was for about two weeks over the holiday season and all people got from microsoft to make up for it was a really crappy dino xbl arcade game.
doesent say anywhere about 17 days, bad troll is bad. That downtime they where sude for was the 17h downtime.
This was for one game and was over as soon as they added more servers.
PSN is down because Sony can't build a reliable network. PSN always felt tacked on anyway and this just goes to show you that you get what you pay for. After this I know I'm not trusting Sony with my CC info anymore. Everything will be prepay from now on.
sensitive fanboy is sensitive
The Xbox Live issues weren't nearly as bad. Their service didn't go completely offline, but was just being slow during that time, with some people having difficulty connecting. It was supposedly just due to not having enough server capacity to handle the large number of people connecting during the Holiday season, but their service didn't go offline.
In the case of the current PSN outage, the entire service has been completely out for everyone, for the better part of a week already. It's also supposedly due to a security breach, and I've heard Sony has been unable to confirm whether or not people's credit card information may have been compromised. I'd say that certainly sounds more severe than what happened with Microsoft's service.
I've used xbox live for 5 years; at no point have I had longer than 12 hours of down time which was scheduled and notice was given prior too, I spent about 15 minutes browsing google for the longest downtime; the longest time I could see was 12 hours.
Back in 2007 some people had connection issues at Christmas for 3 days on halo 3 although nothing was ever down, Microsoft apologizing and gave the game undertow free too all users for 2 weeks; what do you think Sony's going to do? can you prove your claim in anyway that is down for 17 days, or even a full day? or are you just a sad troll?
I don't care about online play although I enjoy the psn store...
It's ok guys now you'll have time to get laid, instead of watching "distrubingly sexualized young girls massacred by censors"
LOL, remember they didnt get taken down by anonymous, then said it wasn't anonymous... then didn't get taken down again for an unknown amount of time because they were being conceded.
God I love that I have both a ps3 and xbox otherwise my netflix would almost be useless
A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
if you have a playstation and have netflix on it. you can bypass the need to be logged into the PSN to view it. just press X on the netflix app. it'll ask you to sign in. attempt to sign in. it'll fail. press O to go back one time. netflix will continue to load. it'll ask you a second time. attempt again. it'll fail. press O one time. after that, the interface will load and you will have access to your netflix. there will be no more interruptions once the app is running. it took me 3 days to figure that out. so i offer it here free. peace guys.
Play single player games:
Problem solved.
AT:Qoga should be more than enough with tits on your PS3, I'm fine as is. xP
i absolutely love AT Qoga! Gonna start second playthrough soon so don't care about PSN much.
For many gamers, it's all about online rank and accumulating Achievements/Trophies for online boasting. Read Xbox forums and you'll quickly find people who admit to playing some games just to get easy Gamerscore points, and Trophies were the most important thing on Playstation forums. I suspect that many gamers wouldn't see the point to playing a single player game for fun.
I play FFXI and this mentality exists there as well.
There's a specific expansion on XI called "Chains of Promathia" that many XI gamers agree would probably be the best storyline SE had to offer. Cue in one elitist who just finished the last boss in the expansion, cue the AWESOME cutscene with a vocal soundtrack ending, which they havn't done since, and man you got one kick ass ending scene... but all he cares about is "ok this is fine and all, but how do i fast forward this to get my prize."
Tis' sad...
Gone are the days when a random person would just play for fun, because back then, ALL games were played this way offline. Sure invite a few friends over for some Goldeneye and kick ass or get ass kicked, so what, it was all fun.
Now we got Trophies and Gamerscore getting in the way of good clean fun. Nothing wrong with achievements mind you, but some people treat it as a way of life and brag about their "second prestige and platinum trophies."
I agree those trophies and crap are bullshit because they ruin the fun of gaming.
what server? I'm on leviathan
I'm with you ! I'm still playing AT Qoga and enjoy every minutes of it !
CFW for total WIN!
My lolis and DFC agree!
Your Deadly Flat Chest?
Well it's not a big deal for me. Hope it comes back up soon.
Hackers are hating on Sony with a passion.... sigh and it ruins the experience for the rest of us. And some people actually support this?! They are taking your fun away because they want to be pricks trying to take on a large corporation for their twisted fun. Remember that hackers only do it to make themselves look good because they can do this stuff, they dont care about your fun and enjoyment.
And do you care about the hackers' fun and enjoyment?
Sony has some shady business practices going on, like you not even actually owning the PS3.
I for one don't mind if someone is actually hacking the PSN, DDOSing it, whatever they did.
No not hackers Sony is lying to cover it own ass!
Hackers? Really?? Pretty much every high-profile online service gets hacked. Constantly. MSFT and Google in past were publishing materials on the topic. Every online service gets hacked constantly.
Port scans, services probes, brute force password attacks, attempts to dumbly send malware - is the sad reality of modern internet.
If you have decent ISP, you can ask them to give you a static IP without any protection on their side. Then plug a vanilla empty Linux box into the Internet - and watch the log files grow by minute with reports from firewall about compromise attempts.
The fact remains that Sony has slacked - at basics. And users suffer now, not because of some hackers, but because Sony had slacked.
Any high profile network is a target.
Though I suspect Sony dropped the ball and is using hackers as an excuse to cover their own ass.
If they did add the ability to execute remote code on login with the PSN then they just opened up every PS3 to become an easy target for hackers or more correctly crackers.
The only real fix would be to remove said feature as the ability to execute code not in a sand box remotely without user consent is inherently insecure there is no way to fix it permanently.
I say this is a hoax. Sony probably decided to take down PSN for a week or so and claim an attack to place false blame.
I heard they put 1 cent in George Hotz's paypal just so they could claim that he does take donations for hacking their console.
Because moral indignation is better than customer satisfaction.
Riiiiiight...
And I heard that your an idiot but I'm just saying I heard it so why don't people stop making false accusations. When one person makes one it spreads like wild fire and everyone believes it, people like you who spread them piss me off!