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This network outage is not cool. Nobody's sure if their trophies or themes will survive, and there is general anarchy while PSN central has refused to peep on the matter in the last 12 hours, but that isn't what is really bugging the crap out of me now...

Now I've been a Playstation guy from day one almost, and if I want to go to my cabinet, dig out Jumping Flash and play it on my good ol' grey Playstation 1 I can. No questions asked.. just "bommmmm boooooom...." and I am off. Happy as can be. The trouble I am having now is I have a perfectly fine console that cost $499 and no connection to PSN. "No problem!", I declare, "I can still play my games offline!" Not so. Demon Souls and a few others would not even boot to the menu.

Now what the heck happens when PS5 comes out and SCEA-J decides to take their PS3 servers off line? Right now it seems like the entire investment gets flushed down the damn toilet. Even if they decide to run a charity for elderly consoles and keep these servers working... there is no guarantee that third parties, like Atlus (I love you guys I really do!) for instance, will continue to support the games they publish, or that Sony won't tie PS3 network access to PS4 or 5 ownership or some other wallet dig.

Now I am sure that patches could be devised for these games to make them able to run in an offline mode, or perhaps some forward thinking Sony tech left breadcrumbs in the firmware for a dummy PSN server to run from the PS3, sending fake signals to the games, but does this sound like something they would do? Ever since the dubious "decision" to ditch backward-compatibility in the first years of a new console's lifespan I haven't trusted them too much, and any chance to get us to pay out again for what we already own is just too tempting a prospect for these guys. Can anyone really say otherwise without taking out their fanboy card and stapling it to their forehead?



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Haha, he actually cares about trophies.
Beware of the Sony curse!
I agree that the lack of communication was unforgivable. The PSN/phat PS3 problems may not have been avoidable, but certainly the lack of information and updates was very avoidable. They should have been tweeting hourly updates... even if the tweet was simply "we're working on it". To go from last night till mid morning with no information was very poor customer service. It really couldn't have taken too much effort to update the tweets!

Hopefully they do get this resolved soon. It seems odd that only the phat PS3's are affected and people seem to be leaning towards a DRM date issue... however it seems very suspicious that these problems occurred at the same time that they are updating the entire Playstation.com website. This made the whole event even worse as access to Playstation.com was AWFUL. The site was in disarray, it was difficult to log in and the load times were horrendous for all pages on the site.

Ah well... in the end, hopefully this makes PSN better and they fix potential problems with the phat PS3 units.

(oh and this reinforces my call for an "opt out" ability for trophies. I don't want them. That's why I bought a PS3 and not an Xbox. I detest the whole gamer-score epenis trophy stuff and just want it off my PS3. They should have an "opt out" ability for those that don't want it.)
@elsa

So nice to see you again! At any rate Trophies were never my reason for gaming. I'm with you on that issue.
Even if trophies not opt-out from now on. They do need to make it so that if you fail to sync trophies at boot, it registers that you have the Trophy to your save, so if the servers are down, you can still play your god-damn games.

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