Sony Denies May 31 Deadline For PSN Return
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That's the way I read it too. If Sony is uncertain on when the service will be (fully) up and running again, it could even be longer than May 31st. That, dear friends, is even more disheartening. And I don't even do online multiplayer too much. I just like having the option to buy DLC for my games :/Polaris19 said:
Im enjoying the outage. many people are going to sell their consoles and i'll pick one up for next to nothing 
So the May 31st thing was false?
Oh, lord. We back to square one, folks. Commence to waiting somemore with no OFFICIAL date.
Oh, lord. We back to square one, folks. Commence to waiting somemore with no OFFICIAL date.
I was a Nintendo fanatic before the Wii came out. After about a year of horse shit for games coming out I got an Xbox. I can't believe I'm saying this but I'm not going to get the next legend of Zelda because i don't care anymore...holy shit.comadorcrack said:
I don't know what sucks more, the company I love doing this to me or some random greedy assnut fucking over Sony which is in turn pile driving you. I feel for you.
I just really want PS store back. And my trophies... Damn those hackers, hope they get jailed eventually.
I'm wondering why Sony isn't simply bringing the multiplayer portion back online and just ignore the validation checks. Surely, letting a few pirates play online for awhile till they rebuild their network must "cost" them less than this mess? Even with that make.believe money they "lose" from piracy?
If they've been real clutzes in their design, perhaps achievments and the likes are tied to your private data in a non-modular way, and speaking from many years of experience in the software industry I can tell you that is certainly a possibility; but even then just playing the game without trophies, rankings, ladders and whatnot would have been alot better than this.
As a developer of distributed platforms in the telecommunications industry, I'm really scratching my head here, trying to understand what could possibly take down an entire network of services, applications and systems over such a long period of time. Since I started coding at age 5, I have something like 25 years of experience with programming, network/systems administration and hardware; more than 5 of them in R&D and my mind just comes up blank. Impossible, I say; this is corporate politics, not a technical issue.
As an example; when I was a sysadmin at the University, if an important (secure) service went down, we had unsecured backup nodes with limited content available within minutes. If we were hit by a particularily nasty DDoS (and believe me, a dorm full of "Networks and Security" majors is BAD NEWS for the sysadmins), we had agreements with fellow universities and redirected our services to them within half an hour -- again with unsecured, limited content. As long as the attack is on-going, that wouldn't be a good idea of course ....
Hacks, attacks and in particular virulent data (ie e-mail) have been a very real concerns for network operators for decades. I find it hard to believe Sony could be such n00bs in this matter-- something else must be at stake?
If they've been real clutzes in their design, perhaps achievments and the likes are tied to your private data in a non-modular way, and speaking from many years of experience in the software industry I can tell you that is certainly a possibility; but even then just playing the game without trophies, rankings, ladders and whatnot would have been alot better than this.
As a developer of distributed platforms in the telecommunications industry, I'm really scratching my head here, trying to understand what could possibly take down an entire network of services, applications and systems over such a long period of time. Since I started coding at age 5, I have something like 25 years of experience with programming, network/systems administration and hardware; more than 5 of them in R&D and my mind just comes up blank. Impossible, I say; this is corporate politics, not a technical issue.
As an example; when I was a sysadmin at the University, if an important (secure) service went down, we had unsecured backup nodes with limited content available within minutes. If we were hit by a particularily nasty DDoS (and believe me, a dorm full of "Networks and Security" majors is BAD NEWS for the sysadmins), we had agreements with fellow universities and redirected our services to them within half an hour -- again with unsecured, limited content. As long as the attack is on-going, that wouldn't be a good idea of course ....
Hacks, attacks and in particular virulent data (ie e-mail) have been a very real concerns for network operators for decades. I find it hard to believe Sony could be such n00bs in this matter-- something else must be at stake?
I got impatient with it and just ended up buying a gaming PC.
I'll use it for exclusives and for stuff for my PSP, but I think that's about it from now on.
Awesome that the day I wanted to buy Final Fantasy IX for my PSP was the day the network went down.
I'll use it for exclusives and for stuff for my PSP, but I think that's about it from now on.
Awesome that the day I wanted to buy Final Fantasy IX for my PSP was the day the network went down.
Has anyone else thought:
Last generation, a Sony internet service being down wouldn't have even caused a ripple of acknowledgment from fans?
I think I'm more concerned about the fact they we seem to NEED an internet service than I'm bothered that it's currently down.
Last generation, a Sony internet service being down wouldn't have even caused a ripple of acknowledgment from fans?
I think I'm more concerned about the fact they we seem to NEED an internet service than I'm bothered that it's currently down.
Im not hugging a crash or ticking off the days, but it would be nice to talk to my friends again, and play Brink online when it comes out. I hate these hackers. They should be hung for this.