Last weekend, Sony told consumers that the PlayStation Network should be back up and running within a week. As you may have noticed, a week's gone by, and you still can't play Warhawk. Sony has therefore made a new announcement, stating that the PSN outage is back to "indefinite" status.
"When we held the press conference in Japan last week, based on what we knew, we expected to have the services online within a week," said Patrick Seybold. "We were unaware of the extent of the attack on Sony Online Entertainment servers, and we are taking this opportunity to conduct further testing of the incredibly complex system.
"We know many of you are wanting to play games online, chat with your friends and enjoy all of the services PlayStation Network and Qriocity services have to offer, and trust me when I say we’re doing everything we can to make it happen. We will update you with more information as soon as we have it. We apologize for the delay and inconvenience of this network outage."
This has gotten so miserable that I don't even have a snarky, annoying retort. I just want to give Howard Stringer five bucks and a cup of coffee, and tell him everything's going to be alright.
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8:00 AM on 05.07.2011
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I mean, REALLY?
Ah, it's at times like these I can gloat at every ps3boys misfortune while wanking off to steam.
You're right, everyone on the internet was totally sitting around talking about how Sony's old Apache server versions need to be updated for the last year or so.
You better hope Valve doesn't piss off any hackers...the Portal 2 ARG came dangerously close!
Also Adventure Time!
thanks sony
BUT NOOOOOOOOOOOO
fucking hackers :(
These butthorns really ought to reasses their lives if they think a company like Sony deserves INFINITE JUSTICE so much more than any of the other corporate monsters you hear about in the news. How about them Koch brothers, eh?
@D-roy
I'm looking for Mortal Kombat on Steam right now, meh, can't find it, I'm gonna go wank off to Kitana and Jade.
Cept 360 can do Singleplayer and 1080p.
So I don't get what you're getting at?
Cept 360 can do Singleplayer and 1080p.
So I don't get what you're getting at?
@D-roy
I'm looking for Mortal Kombat on Steam right now, meh, can't find it, I'm gonna go wank off to Kitana and Jade.
I feel sorry for people who depend on online .
And many, if not most PS3 games run in 720p.
I imagine Brink would be more popular on Xbox 360 anyway, as shooters tend to be. Not to mention the PC version. I don't think Brink will suffer quite as much as, say, SOCOM 4, which has had its predominant mode unplayable since launch.
That said, they may indeed lose some sales, and that's bullshit. I think the hackers need to realize at this point that what they do is affecting the entire industry, not just Sony.
This is the phase where patience is prudent.
I am actually starting to feel bad for PS3 gamers now. At first I was with Elsa that downtime is downtime, it happens on Live all the time, and everybody is making a big deal out of nothing. Then I thought "Okay, that took a bit but the status quo may return in reasonable time, situation considering." Now it's fucking ridiculous. If PSN stays down for one more week I will be both impressed and really damn pissed. And I don't own a PS3, much less play PSN. And this is another reason why I never will.
At least not until I need a blu-ray player. That's one thing the PS3 does oh so right 100% of the time.
But yeah, damn. This is insane. If it were Live or Steam it'd be equally maddening. Just as a service this is kind of abysmal.
Steam. Just saying. PC gaming isn't dead ya know.
You demand EXTRA free stuff from Sony!? Why not take it with force!
On top of that when PSN is actually ready to go up when will it? If they finish their work today will they activate it as soon as they finish or will it be "Good job everyone! Let's give everyone a surprise on Monday!"
After two weeks of outage, though, I do expect a marked decline, but hey, I said that about the first week. Still, "indefinite" does tend to make people reconsider.
The people really getting crushed here are little guys, the ones who depend on digital distribution and promotions. There the reasons I consider those who defend the hackers to be immature scum. Sony will recover, but some of the small developers might not.
*continues enjoying the copy of SSFIV3D he just got, and getting his ass whooped online*