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7:02 PM on 02.28.2010

As I posted on the forum...

"So it would seem that there's a huge problem with PlayStation Network. I was playing Heavy Rain about twenty minutes ago, and my game froze and crashed. "Oh well," I figure, "I have an old PS3, I'll just let it cool down and try again."

Tried it again, and I notice that I can't sign into PSN. Restart the router; still can't get in. "Oh well," I figure, "I don't need PSN to play Heavy Rain."

I boot up Heavy Rain, and get an XMB message saying trophy information cannot be downloaded, and that "the game will now quit," before being taken back to the main XMB screen.

On one hand I'm relieved that I'm not alone in experiencing this, but on the other hand it's pretty alarming that an error in PSN like this can effectively brick our system...."

Apparently this is disabling not just PS3 games like Heavy Rain, but I'm reading reports that PSN Games and even PS1 and PS2 games can't be played right now.

HOWEVER, what alarms me most is that right now I'm reading that Slim PS3s are not affected, and complaints are coming from Fat model owners. Perhaps Sony just made a server update without testing how it would affect old models?



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If you think it sucks now, you should see it when it's live!

HEEEEY OOOOOOOH
Why would Trophy support even be needed to play the game?
Really? I’m glad I got all my downloading done on Friday then. Although lately when I play games my screen will freeze or the colour will go mad and my TV will make a horrible high pitched screeching sound, but I think that problem is with my telly itself because once I switch it off and back on again the game is still running fine, still it only happens when I’m playing games though.
For or Slim is bullshit. People are making up such weird conclusions. I can't play online with my Slim right now. Because it gets randomly kicked off the PSN.

Try to disable internet access completely on your PS3 for a bit. Pull the cable out or disable your wireless access. Then you should be able to play games that don't need online. It checks stuff online for some games. If the servers are fucked it will give you an error yes. If you don't have a connection at all, it won't check online.
For = Fat. Messed that up.
Sony is full of weird shit.

Forcing me to be online to play an offline game? Christ, half the reasons I don't touch PC gaming is to avoid crap like this.
Exact same thing happened to me. Luckily I don't appear to be missing any trophies like some people are.
Interesting things on this subject are being posted on the frontpage article. I was wrong. It is only affecting the Fat PS3's. The issues with my Slim were probably only happening because Sony was working on the PSN to find a fix.
Yep. I was busy playing Uncharted 2 on Crushing tonight... trying to get that last Gold trophy and the last 25 or so treasures I needed to unlock my Platinum! However, about two hours ago is when I first noticed something was up - when I found my 70th treasure, I got the in-game award, but the trophy never unlocked. When I found the 80th and 90th treasures, the same problem. Then, when I got to the area where you fight the army and the guardians at the same time before the final confrontation with Harry, my entire PS3 froze, and I hadn' saved for over three hours... I did a hard reset, and came back to find my last save was dated '12/31/1999". I loaded it up, and thankfully I was back where I was... but then I looked at my trophies, and EVERY SINGLE ONE OF MY UNCHARTED 2 TROPHIES HAD BEEN DELETED!!!!

Whatever the deal is here, Sony really dropped the ball on it, big time. Until tonight, the PlayStation Network has been exceptionally awesome for me. This just seriously, seriously pisses me off. If the problem isn't patched by sometime tomorrow, then I'm definitely going to focus on Mass Effect 2, finally...
my 40GB fatty got 8001050F :,( . Get ur shit together Sony!
yup. its definitely something to do with the time/leap year and effecting the drm to make certain checks invalid. that's why we get booted, because one check is checking the date of purchase but the machine's reset date has told it its nots valid and won't boot it past a certain part. almost any game that has trophies, dlc, or bought themes have that purchase date i imagine are effected if trying to load them. the ps3 is just confused and doing what's its programmed to do in a time like this. i can't boot any psn games but my free wipeout hd dynamic theme works.

this is purely human error on programming.

this also could be one of the security flaws that made sony remove the otheros feature from the slims.

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