So now that the site is back up we can start discussing the stuff that happened in the world of video games this past week, the biggest thing being the fact that PSN is down and has been so for several days.

Sony should probably do a little something for the paid users. They probably won't, though. I don't think they should do anything for all of the other users because people can complain all they want about not having access to their free service, but they're not entitled to it.

Yeah. With PSN and Whiskey Media being down, I was a lot more bored than I usually am. At least we have this site back :)

It's ridiculous. You'd think that Sony would be able to just fix this by now, it's going on 3 days.

It feels like Conspiracy Theory Week as Whiskey Media has its outage, PSN is still down with no end in sight, and ustream completely wrecks their chat client with no sign of acknowledging the feedback all starting around the same time.

Sony is reporting they had some outside intrusion that forced them to take psn and qriocity offline.

" It's ridiculous. You'd think that Sony would be able to just fix this by now, it's going on 3 days.

I've heard a theory that it's not even an external attack, that whole thing was made up to create a scapegoat to make Sony seem more "competent" and that the real reason it went down was problems with Steam support with Portal 2. The timing is there, after all.

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" @Management: You really should have just bought it on PC and saved yourself $20-$25/£10-£15. And got to play it all weekend. "

When XBL went down for a day or so a few years ago Microsoft gave everyone a free copy of Undertow. I'm hoping Sony does something similar. Something simple like that can win a lot of people over.

" @xyzygy said:

" It's ridiculous. You'd think that Sony would be able to just fix this by now, it's going on 3 days.

I've heard a theory that it's not even an external attack, that whole thing was made up to create a scapegoat to make Sony seem more "competent" and that the real reason it went down was problems with Steam support with Portal 2. The timing is there, after all.

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I don't see how Sony getting attacked by some hacker group would make them look competent. "

Just got a ps3 and I can't use PSN :(

The thing with that is, XBL is a paid service, PSN is not. PS+ members are also unaffected as it's a stuff service and optional.

Also, there is no theory. PSN was hacked and no one knows by who but it could be that people's CC info is out there which is why Sony decided to shut it down.

I'm of the opinion that hackers hacked into PSN and/or DDOS'd it and Sony has taken it down to rework the security protocols.

I mean... It's just a thought; but doesn't seem totally unreasonable to me, haha.

Either way, I'm in the Portal 2 boat as well... I got it on PS3 as my gf likes gamepads for fps (type) games, so we'd do that for co-op; but single-player on pc for me haha.

If someone breaks into your systems and hoses them from the inside, apart from wondering, what it any DR plans they have in place, I can't really moan about PSN being off-line.

Just wish they were not so reticent. It  broke we know that just give us some updates, after all I'm sure their top men and having to keep their bosses up to date just pass the message on. And yeah sure that might me in Japanese, thats fine just shove it up somewhere you have 70 million users some of them will translate it. Just keep informed, it isn't that hard to do.

Compare what Sony have put out to what Amazon have put out in terms of information. The PSN status 'updates' have been:

Compared to all the detailed stuff at:

http://status.aws.amazon.com/ click the more button under Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud () for  what was effecting GB.

Like Jeff said it is troubling if it is indeed an outside attack. There is sensitive info like credit cards in there. 

I went ahead and got P2 and MK on the same day. Rushed back home like a giddy school kid, low and behold PSN was up shit creak.

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If the end result of this debacle is that PSN is made more hack proof then this downtime is acceptable, but if the problems are dealt with how long until they flare up again. Imagine if this happened the week COD comes out. The world would actively fold in on itself.

 

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" Like Jeff said it is troubling if it is indeed an outside attack. There is sensitive info like credit cards in there.  "