Sony Offers Discount Coupons As Apology For PSN Outage

[JayRPG]

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I think you are grossly over-estimating how big of a company Sony is...

Microsoft's servers were up and down the same as Sony's were for at least 3 days.

Microsoft is a $343 billion dollar company, Sony is a $20 billion dollar company.

We have seen governments bested by DDoS attacks for christ sake, it is not easy to defend against, it wasn't just a regular DDoS attack either, because it fell on what is considered the busiest day of the year for the servers already, which were likely edging capacity without a DDoS attack.

You also act as if the PSN was down for a solid 5 days, which it wasn't, I was able to access the PSN on my Vita for most of those 5 days, and the servers did go up and down several times.

Again, why do you expect Sony to be DDoS proof when Microsoft isn't, despite being more than 17 times larger?

No, i am not. As i said - its much bigger than Steam, who is estimated to be around 3 billion dollars. and Steam did not go down by attack of same people. And yeah, Microsoft has also did the awful thing of centralizing all its online components making it easy to DDoS them.

Ech, governments are far easier to DDoS. most people making regulation dont know shit about IT and ITs working for government for most part are simply legally not able to have decent security. Also when it comes to online service capacity givernments for the most part are far far smaller than digital distribution networks.

I expect both to be DDoS proof when Steam - 7 times smaller - is.

uhhh.. lizard squad did not DDoS steam, at least not over christmas 2014, those reports go all the way back to September and early, early december.

If we look back a mere 1 year Steam, Battle.net, Origin, and League of legends were all taken down by DDoS attacks over christmas, outages lasted several days.

Almost nobody is immune to DDoS attacks, Steams servers were taken down for a short while in 2 different instances prior to christmas, and they experienced an outage last christmas just as bad as the PSN/Xbox live did this year.

Edit: Just to clarify, Steam is not DDoS proof, you also have no way of knowing how much Steam and Valve are worth because their finances are private and their company is not public, there are nothing but estimations between 2 and 4 billion dollars, which is probably worth the same amount (or more) than the gaming divisions of both Sony and Microsoft that would be responsible for keeping the servers online.