Man, I feel old, I remember when Sony was The Brand Name in consumer electronics. Between rootkits and intrusive behavior and this sort of thing... I can't think of the last time I bought something with the Sony brand on it. (To be fair, it was probably either a DVD... or a DVD burner.)
Sony Shuts Down PlayStation Network Indefinitely
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#12I don't want to sound like a fan boy or anything but I can't recall a time when Xbox live was down for more than a few hours.
Here you go http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/techtracks/2008/01/xbo... The complaint describes the December outages -- chronicled on blogs and elsewhere -- that kept people from "accessing online play for several weeks. ... Xbox Live continues to deny subscribers access and has even issued apologies for their failure to correct server problems."
Know what the outcome of that lawsuit was? Press tends to follow the beginning, not the end, I'm having trouble finding anything :/
Re: Sony Shuts Down PlayStation Network Indefinitely
#13I don't want to sound like a fan boy or anything but I can't recall a time when Xbox live was down for more than a few hours.
Here you go http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/techtracks/2008/01/xbo... The complaint describes the December outages -- chronicled on blogs and elsewhere -- that kept people from "accessing online play for several weeks. ... Xbox Live continues to deny subscribers access and has even issued apologies for their failure to correct server problems."
Wasn't that just a 'local' outage? I have never experienced xbox live not working here in Norway. Guessing perhaps there has been problems with the US part of the network but Europe?
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#14Whether it be due to Anonymous or load from newly released hit games, PSN has been awfully flaky lately. Usually when PSN returns with a helpful integer error message, I hit Twitter and #psn to see if it's just me.
Frustrated with this, I took a few hours and wrote http://isthepsndown.com/. Obviously it's pretty useless at the moment, PSN being down wholesale, but I am hoping in the future it would save a few clicks whenever PSN barfs again.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Here you go http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/techtracks/2008/01/xbo... The complaint describes the December outages -- chronicled on blogs and elsewhere -- that kept people from "accessing online play for several weeks. ... Xbox Live continues to deny subscribers access and has even issued apologies for their failure to correct server problems."
Know what the outcome of that lawsuit was? Press tends to follow the beginning, not the end, I'm having trouble finding anything :/
I have no clue but I found this article http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2008/01/lawyer-explains/ in which the lawyer explains they don't want money, they just want Microsoft to fix the problem so I guess nothing came out of the lawsuit.
Here is the suit if you want to read it and do more research (PDF):
http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/files/library/xboxlive01...
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#16Whether it be due to Anonymous or load from newly released hit games, PSN has been awfully flaky lately. Usually when PSN returns with a helpful integer error message, I hit Twitter and #psn to see if it's just me. Frustrated with this, I took a few hours and wrote http://isthepsndown.com/ . Obviously it's pretty useless at the moment, PSN being down wholesale, but I am hoping in the future it would save a few clicks…
Why force a click to see the result? Seems like a good way to ensure you get bogus data.
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#17A moderator from PSX-Scene.com gave an interesting in-depth explanation as to what is going on with the PlayStation Network on a Reddit AMA recently: http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/gx6o4/im_a_moderator... His take (and he admits it is speculation but it sounds quite plausible) was that a custom PS3 firmware called Rebug gave Playstations Developer-level access to the network, which allowed you to do a whole…
As submitted here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2482679
Re: Sony Shuts Down PlayStation Network Indefinitely
#18A moderator from PSX-Scene.com gave an interesting in-depth explanation as to what is going on with the PlayStation Network on a Reddit AMA recently: http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/gx6o4/im_a_moderator... His take (and he admits it is speculation but it sounds quite plausible) was that a custom PS3 firmware called Rebug gave Playstations Developer-level access to the network, which allowed you to do a whole…
So, a non-Sony employee, on a non-Sony forum, admittedly "speculates" what appears to be a bunch of garbage nonsense, and that's newsworthy?
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#19"indefinitely" is linkbait more than anything. It's not "indefinitely" in terms of "forever", which is how it's usually used - it's "an un-specified amount of time". It's technically correct, but when you hear about something "shutting down indefinitely" you don't think "oh, that's all right, they'll be back up soon".
I've been following this news pretty closely and the wording of this article gave me that impression as well.
In the end, I think this is for the best, though. With the NGP releasing this year and with all the movement Sony's making towards Android + Playstation products, it just means more (potential) security risks as the network grows. Better to get it over with now before it becomes a bigger problem later.
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#20Whether it be due to Anonymous or load from newly released hit games, PSN has been awfully flaky lately. Usually when PSN returns with a helpful integer error message, I hit Twitter and #psn to see if it's just me. Frustrated with this, I took a few hours and wrote http://isthepsndown.com/ . Obviously it's pretty useless at the moment, PSN being down wholesale, but I am hoping in the future it would save a few clicks…
Why force a click to see the result? Seems like a good way to ensure you get bogus data.
Good question. That's why I threw in the Haven't Tried option, but you might be right.