Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaay

" Free PS Plus kinda sucks, I have absolutely no interest in that service. 

But still I'm worried that they'll just be hacked again after they get things up and running. They said the same things after Anon hacked them over a month ago and they were still hacked.

"

" Free PS+? Time to download as much of that stuff as I can. "

I guess it's lucky they were already building a new data centre!

Well to be honest I have not lost any sleep over the PSN outage, It just so happened that i was playing FF13 before it went out and when i finished i started playing Portal 2 on PC so really i would not have been using it anyway.

I had not bought anything on PSN for several months and my CC had expired and so i had a new security code and Ex date so i was not to worried about fraud, the lucky part was i never changed my email address as i was using a very old aol email for PSN and had recently thought about changing it to my most recent email just before the intrusion so there is no worthwhile info to see on that address and well i still have not checked it to see if it's been spammed.

My one concern is putting new CC info into PSN, I am sure Sony will have finally secured their data but some trust has been lost, if i can get the downloadable title on steam or XBL i will purchase it there from now on, but i am sure one day will come when there is something i want to buy off PSN and i will stick my details in then.

A free month of PSN+ plus is nice, I doubt they will do this but it would be a piss take if they did, Having to put our CC info into PSN to get the free month like 30 day free trials of Love Film and so on, where you have to put your details in and agree to be automatically charged after 30 days unless you cancel before hand, like i said i doubt they will do this.

I suppose we will also lose all the free stuff Sony give us in our free 30 days which leads me to believe they may throw in some very cool free stuff to get people to pay for plus as they wont want to lose it, thats cool though their is nothing wrong with offering very good incentives to get people to subscribe to a service.

all i want is for nothing like this to never happen again.  (ALSO, FASTER DOWNLOADS AND CROSS GAME CHAT PLZ)

And everyone will forget what happend after a few days. It does show the lack of security sony has and now there adressing it. And they knew about the all the holes and leakes in the system but never did anything about untill now. It really shows how Sony is dealing with your privacy information and they decide now is the moment to upgrade security and install a security person to look over the whole system from now on. I am sorry for the PS3 owners i do not have one. But the lack and lazy things going on at sony that they still lived in the 90's is just unbelievable. To be honest Microsoft has all ready got a great infrastructure since they made software so they do know what is happening. 

Sony could've done worse, I mean what if they hadn't taken down
their service and tried to ride on lady luck's shoulders. Hey that might be happening
right now with any other service - who knows?
Things could be worse indeed.

" i would have to assume by that weak offering that credit card info was indeed not taken. "

The really surprising thing about all of this is that they didn't already have a  Chief Information Security Officer. You'd think when managing 77 million accounts with sensitive information, that'd be pretty key.

Still with Sony 100%.

Perfect, I haven't bought Stacking yet!

" @kerse said:

" Free PS+? Time to download as much of that stuff as I can. "

Yea...the store will still be down :> "

I don't trust Sony anymore.  Just picked up a 360S and the Razer Onza.  Way better.

I still don't know what Qriocity is - and I just had to fix the spelling of that word, twice.

" Free PS+? Time to download as much of that stuff as I can. "

Just a reminder everyone, if  you use the same password from psn on anything change it. I forgot to change one of my cards and when I went to change it today It said I had failed to login too many times and it was locked. Thank god nothing was fucked with.

I have never used PSN for anything other than Netflix, which really doesn't count in my book. Thanks for putting me at risk for nothing, Sony.

Well, I'd be getting free stuff if I was willing to give them my information again. They pretty badly needed to detail that they were going to encrypt our information if they wanted me to give it back to them, and they didn't.

Sony doing all they can to make things right, I just want my PSN back , I got withdrawal symptoms.

Working on a Sunday Patrick, I feel your pain.

Wasn't expecting anything since I don't pay anything but I've been wanting to try PS+ so this will be awesome!

Emotions running wild!

Thank god, PlayStation home is coming back online.

Wow! this is actually a godsend for me cause I had forgotten my password and i lied originally about my birthdate (at the time I was 16) oh those days.... anyway keep it up sony good job!

Sony is not having a good generation....

I was wondering what happens to the content you get from PSN+, I think i remember reading on PS store that once you cancel or the montly subscription finishes you lose that free content, I suppose thats fair enough but what about the discounted content i am assuming you get to keep that.

It's nice to get a free month of plus as i have been meaning to pay for a short term package but was waiting till there was some content that i really wanted either free or discounted so far there has not been anything that made me want to subscribe.

Really it never affected me much and so i never expected anything for free, this is a nice little gift for the hassle, I have seen some comments that are just pure crazy talk like a free year of PSN+ and a free game, on the 1up podcast they suggested all users got the new motorstorm game which would be great but very doubtful, on the podcast they said Sony should do it because Motorstorm sales would have been affected due to its delay whether thats true or not i don't know just what they said and that if they could offer it up as a free download it would be cheap enough for them to do that, i liked the idea but thought it was crazy talk also the game only came out a few weeks ago and so giving everyone that game would mean nobody would buy any of the copies in store at the moment, I'm sure Sony can still make a little money back on that game even if it does not sell great.

Here's the thing, they are using this whole messed up situation  to try and sell us on PlayStation Plus? Oh, you like having your games and system auto update. You like access to the cloud? now you've had it for free you can start by paying us a $50 subscription fee.

How about this Sony, pay for my credit checks. That's a start.

" Sony is not having a good generation.... Maybe they won't be so smug next time round.....if there is a next time.
"

I love free stuff! Free stuff is my favorite kind of stuff!

" Thank god, PlayStation home is coming back online. "

" @CL60 said:

" One good thing that came out of this, is that it was very easy to spot the Sony fanboys. "

...and immature homophobic internet trolls who want to fight some non-existent console war with rumor, speculation and fear. "

I don't give a shit about PSN Plus, so I hope the other free shit is good.

A month of PSN Plus? I was thinking like a year.

" @CL60: I wasn't only talking about you don't throw such a tantrum "

Thanks for keeping us posted. Just heard Sony's News Conference. It was interesting to hear that Sony say that there are a total of 10 million credit card users on their service. 

" @CL60: Because I wasn't only talking about you being homophobic I was talking about the other "fanboy haters" out there who use homophobic speech. I mean do you feel guilty that you might be homophobic? Is something you and I need to work on? How often do you find yourself using homophobic language or having homophobic feelings? Do you identify with people who are homophobic? "

Finally

Let's hope the new security measures  secure every part of your information. Either way this freaked me out and i'm just going to buy PSN cards from now on. 

" @CL60: -Heavy Sigh-I posted this earlier but if you want to go back and look at the comments earlier in the thread you can find the specific users who said things like "nut hugging" or asked if i liked "how Sony's nuts taste?" You know homophobic things.On a side note not everything is strictly about you. I know, I know I just crushed your world. This is a good thing though that means that all the bad stuff that happens in the world. It's not your fault. It's not -get choked up- your fault. Be strong, be strong. "

" Why is it that they have their service back up before they can even tell you for sure if your info was taken or not?  Obviously they are more worried about getting their system back up and making money than finding out if peoples personal information was stolen.  Sony first order of business should be finding out for sure if information was accessed. "

" Sony is simply trying to cover up their failed security with a simple PR campaign, if the same team as the ones who set-up this disaster in the first place are just getting a second chance to rebuild the network's security infrastructure, then who would be fooled to thinking they would have the resources to- Wait i'm getting what for free? Sweet! "