Good morning everyone!
I am sure everyone by now has dealt with the PSN outage (or knows about it.)
Let me start by resting your mind and saying, this is NOT a rant.
This is more a way of looking at the events of what has happened to PSN.
On Wed. Psn went down, at first there was some panic, but rest assured, Sony let us know it would be back up shortly.
Days go by, with nothing to be said or updated, until we are notified that there has been a breach into the PSN network, and that it would be another day or 2 until it was up and running.
Yesterday reading, I see that they are beefing up their security, and this will further delay our access to PSN as we are now awaiting a "rebuild" of PSN to be implemented.
Sigh....
Okay to begin with, This could probably not have happened at a worst time for Sony.
Socom 4, Portal 2 (both of which I have purchased) and MK coming out to PS3, and players looking for online play.
While I understand this outage (I do networking for a living) and I can relate to the pain and frustration that can be caused by these hack attempts, I appreciate sony rebuilding to ensure the continued growth and safety of their members.
Here is my question, that has yet to be answered. I am a PSN Plus member,(compensation for the outage would be really, REALLY nice, but I am not pushy for it at this time), and I have a LOT of credit card information on my account.
Has my account been compromised? Should I call up and have my Card number changed? What about my PSN acount, is it safe?
There has been no update as to what this (or these) hackers obtained, and with days going by without any word from Sony, it has beginning to show that Sony lacks the proper public relations response.
I hope that Sony can learn from this unfortunate travesty and begin new chapter for PSN and its members.
If I was a free PSN user, I would not have much to complain about, as I strongly believe, you get what you pay for (I pay for WOW, and Xbox Live as well, and the money is well spent as their services remain up, and when there is an outage, I have been rewarded back a free month of service, or more.)
Who else is affected by PSN outage? What have you done to pass the time?
I have beaten SOCOM 4, and Portal 2, and now await the online portion of the games.
Tuesday looks to be the day when the switch is flipped back on, hopefully this will be the end of Sony's troubled online services.
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http://m.kotaku.com/5795349/sony-doesnt-know-yet-if-your-credit-card-number-was-stolen
I know that doesn't put your mind at rest but at least you know Sony are looking into it.
In terms of being a PSN Plus subscriber, you're still not paying for the online service, it's still free - what you're paying for is early access to betas and demos, for reduced prices and for the occasional free game given to Plus subscribers - you still get all that, and it will all be waiting and available when PSN goes back online.
I don't think Sony "owes" anyone anything for the downtime. As I've said before, if people feel they are entitled to compensation, they would have to track down the hackers and sue them for those losses. Sony has lost a lot more, as I can't imagine that this 24 hour round the clock work is probably costing them a bundle!
I do hope that the system comes back up... but in the meantime it's actually been nice to play some older offline games for a change. I lost my gamesave for Borderlands so I started a solo campaign from the beginning again - it's been fun! :)
I agree that Sony doesn't owe anyone anything here, but it would be a STELLAR PR move if they did offer some sort of compensation (free Mini or something) when all's said and done.
What I am paying for is the "rights" to play some of these games they allow me access to when I am paying for it.
When the internet goes down, it is unable to verify that I sitll have the "rights" to play it (requires an online connection). So PSone games like Crash, or the dragon one, I cannot play due to this. Thus they are taking away my ability to use what I am paying time for.
From that I do have to disagree with your statement that sony doesnt owe anyone.
Though I can see where your point lies with that. And I do agree for the most part.
But it is really nice to be able to play some offline games (for me this brings me to Demon's Souls lol.
@Bakewell
This is a relief to a point, at least they have stated something, I have not seen anything concerning that until you pointed it out, so this is good to hear.
As I said I do not expect anything, nor do I care if I do get anything being a plus member, it would be an awesome move on their part, my main concern is getting PSN back, and the point of the article was about people ranting, its good they are improving, it sucks but at least they are heading in the right direction! :)
But yeah, Portal 2 and Demon's Souls were the perfect games over the weekend.