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The Playstation Network Outage: How, Or Will, Sony Recover?

Dealspwn writes: "The crash is a serious blow to Sony’s efforts to usurp Microsoft from the online stage, who’d argue their service is paid-for to avoid situations just like that. It begs the question, though; what can Sony do to recover?"

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Blad3star4770d ago

All the COD player on PSN must be pissed right now.

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metsgaming4769d ago

If a museum open to public had to close because their exhibits where broken and vandalized would you blame the museum? No way you would say thats unfortunate, hopefully they fix it so people can enjoy the museum again. No one would be demanding oh now we must be given something i want a t-shirt from the museum store for free or blaming the museum for something someone else did.

Brosy4769d ago

People bought PS3's with the understanding that PSN is part of the deal. Your logic is full of fail.

moparful994769d ago

Brosy you need to go back and read the EULA... Who's logic is full of fail? Exactly, move along...

colombiankilla014769d ago

I bet the xbox fanboys dont complain when they have to stop playing for like two weeks or more because their xbox got RoD!

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HolyOrangeCows4769d ago

"The crash is a serious blow to Sony’s efforts to usurp Microsoft from the online stage, who’d argue their service is paid-for to avoid situations just like that"

Right, like LIVE hasn't had worse *COUGH* Holiday 2007, 2 weeks of almost no functionality *COUGH*.

'You get what you paid for' nothing. Before a bunch of losers came along and attacked the network, PSN did a great job at being stable (Other than the "PS3pocalypse"....oh no! A day and a half down! Quick! Write FUD articles 10 times worse than our very lenient '07 articles!). Now Sony is REBUILDING the network.

Prototype4769d ago

Anymore I'm convinced some of the authors are either paid or that brainwashed to believe anything Sony related "must" be in a negative way or fashion; if this was live you MIGHT have 3 articles talkin about it, all the (3) single player games people will play offline, and people swappin live gamertags for when its back up again they can play together.

At this point I wish there was a way to limit the submissions about this unless its something directly from Sony with either an ETA or some type of update that will further explain what happend, not someone elses blog about how justified they feel paying for a service that's no more stable.

Like some people have been saying, the ones THAT broken up are the 360 fanboys, and knowin them they gonna blow the entire story out of proportion.

Aarix4769d ago

Okay a** that was almost 4 years ago, it was regionally not globally, and people got reinburshed.

xAlmostPro4769d ago

Exactly dude..

just like anything bad that goes sony's way it gets completely over exagerated and then you talk facts so you get called a sony fanboy lol.

Fact is as it stands XBL has suffered way more downtime..

Not only that but sony is currently rebuilding the network aka switching to new servers, ccreating a new security system, making sure all admins affected have new accounts.. that's alot of work and they're doing it for us.

If an admins accounts were accessed im pretty sure ours could have been also, so to the people complaining or making dumb articles like this would you still be complaining if sony left it up but you lost your card details?.. didn't think so.

Sony will recover fine, it'll go up and it'll spread like wildfire that it's back up so yeah.

Maddens Raiders4769d ago (Edited 4769d ago )

Time to make another account baldy. This one's going down bud.

Man In Black4769d ago

The amount of articles on this is hilarious. Seriously, just play some fucking games and quit whining. People seem to have forgotten about gaming in the PS1 and PS2 era. Bunch of fucking crybabies.

Anon19744769d ago (Edited 4769d ago )

I can't get over the whining I'm seeing in these articles. If you can't go a few days without the PSN - and bear in mind, this is just the PSN...it's not like you can't play regular, single player games or, god forbid, have someone over to play and interact with them in the same room....

if you can't go a few days without PSN without acting like it's the end of the world and you're owed something I seriously think it's time you need to take a step back and take a hard look at your life's priorities.

XBL has had many unscheduled outages - and was down spradically the entire month of Jan a couple of years back, and that's a service you pay for. Did that somehow deal a finishing blow to Xbox or XBL? Did Microsoft get sued? Did anyone really suffer for that? Of course not. They got the service fixed up, life went on. The idea that somehow this is a serious blow to Sony because that they needed to take down the PSN for a few days - it's pure fantasy. This article is ridiculous.

Aarix4769d ago

@ dark_charizard: HOLY S*** an xbox troll what a rare and remarkable speciment

showtimefolks4769d ago

wasn't it?

plus its not the end of the world i have bunch of single player game so enjoy your games or try your 2nd console xbox360,wii or pc.

hopefully by monday everything is back to normal

XRider4769d ago

I think Jesus is responsible for all this he can be a sneaky SOB somtimes. jk :)

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Hellsvacancy4770d ago (Edited 4770d ago )

Im startin to get pissed off, ive gone outside, spent time with my kids, even cooked dinner and tidied up all i wanna do now is chill out/unwind play abit of PS3 online, is that too much to ask for?

Im a self confessed PS3 fanboy so i can say this, Sony are the slowest bunch of mofos on the planet, they where late gettin there console on the market, GT5 and most other PS3 games seem to take FOREVER in gettin released, i know games take time to finish off but was GT5 really worth waitin 8 years for (or was it more) in my opinion it wasnt, "delayed delayed delayed" thats all we ever hear

Most of the features weve had on the PS3 (except maybe 3D) should of been on the console since launch, not that i care about cross game chat but is it not another feature that the PS3 should hav? but its cool, Sony will just make you wait for it

Now, the PSNs been down for FOUR days, what is Sony doin? are they all on holiday?

Thats all us PS3 owners ever do when it comes to Sony, wait and be patient

Edit: XtremeGamerage, i know what your sayin dude, if i had a singleplayer game worth playin i would, FF13 is as much fun as lickin and Arabs armpit, i platinum trophied Borderands last week so i aint got too much to play, other than Shooter 2, Worms Armageddon and a couple other PSN games, aint even got any movies to watch, bored bored bored :-(

news4geeks4769d ago (Edited 4769d ago )

well said dude(good to see some sony fans aren't blind), but I think you should be cooking dinner for your wife more often. If you're bored you can workout at the gym and ditch the video games for a while.

Urrakia344769d ago

Shouldn't you do all of these activities whether PSN is down or not? It's lazy slobbish misanthropes like you that give the gaming culture a bad image......

Blad3star4769d ago

You can always beat the hug.

squallheart4769d ago

What im doing is mastering pro guitar on rockband 3 which is rather entertaining. I am a plus subscriber and am dissapointed that i finally get a weekend off and cant go online but i still have yakuza, demons souls to keep me entertained..

Tr10wn4769d ago

good good enjoy yakuza lol

Der_Kommandant4769d ago (Edited 4769d ago )

@Hellsvacancy

If you're a self confessed ps3 fanboy like you said, you will support sony in the good and bad times

DelbertGrady4769d ago

And never question their actions and authority.

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xtremegamerage4770d ago

I think sony is fixing the issues.

Sony gives devs alot of time for games, sometimes maybe too long.

But GT5 is an excellent game, as are most exclusives.

But hell, you've gone outside spent time with your kids, that's a good thing!, as for the dinner, More blokes should:)

Maybe it's just me, i love a good singleplayer game.

I'd prefer Sony completely sort it out, other then after a few days it goes down again.

moparful994769d ago

This is exactly the kind of mentality that most gamers lack anymore.. People think that because they can't get what they want when they want it that they are suddenly entitled to something... I love love love single player experiences... There's nothing better then dissapearing into a game for hours and the world fades away, more people should try this.. When this all blows over and psn is more improved then the world can return to normal and everyone will be happy again...

Tru_Blu4769d ago

Not just you, I'm sick of tacked on multiplayer crap. Some games should have multi.. killzone, uncharted, battlefield ect. But quit tacking on some half ass multi on games that SHOULDN'T have it.. Bioshock, assassins creed, dead space and taking resources away from the single player. God help me if the next fallout is multiplayer I will burn the internet down.

TheDeadMetalhead4769d ago (Edited 4769d ago )

"Or Will,"

Just...lol

macky3014769d ago (Edited 4769d ago )

I think they did the right thing to shut it down, if they found a security risk to our accounts and personal information,..

I really have to many awesome games to play, to be dependent on multiplayer at the moment,.. Might even actually finish a game or two :).

Hope they sort it out soon and that network is secure,..

shoddy4769d ago

they make sure things done right.

KeiserSosay47884769d ago

Yes, because GT5 and confrontation were perfect on release day...lol
I got 2 copies of socom 4 yesterday to play coop with my bro. I figured, it can't be down too much longer...now I'm borrowing his Xbox for the Gears 3 beta...dammit Sony

SKullDugger4769d ago

I agree it needs to be more secure.

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Rolling the Dice: Do Modern RPGs Miss the Point of Team-Based Play?

It seems it was long time ago. A bunch of friends spending hours on end playing RPG games, sitting around the table with the box of cold pizza. Excited about the story, listening to the Game Master, they were completely engaged in the worlds only visible to them and their imaginations.

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Takwin2644d ago

The GM is the programmer, and in MMOs and co-ops, you can play with others. If you want to ONLY use your imagination for the visuals, read a book.

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Record of Agarest War 2 announced for PS3

Scrawl: "Looks like we know how that new Compile Heart countdown is going to end. The latest issue of Famitsu has confirmed that Agarest Senki 2, known as Record of Agarest War 2 in the US, is Compile Heart’s newest title."

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Godmars2905089d ago

1) Hope they put it on disc this time.
2) Hope this is a positive for Neptune coming over as well.

Demons Souls5089d ago

If so, that's being developed & published by Idea Factory. Compile Heart has nothing to do with it (Thank God for that).

Godmars2905089d ago (Edited 5089d ago )

Thought Compile Heart was one of the companies lending characters.

Was also speaking in general as in regards to a US of Neptune. If these guys are offing a second game, NIS or Atlus, both of whom offer quirkier titles, will put that one out.

@kagon01:
My issue isn't - wholly - with the DL-only option, but the price. The first game should be $30. Maybe $40, and by that I mean $39.99. The only reason its $45 is the 360 disc version which has extras. Nevermind that by all rights its a PS2 game. Something that proabbly could have been done if the devs had the GOW2 engine or tools.

ClownBelt5089d ago

I approve of this god damn message.

Could have gotten my 60 bucks if they just put it on a disc.

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Tripl3seis5089d ago

Another exclusive damnn the ps3 keeps on rollin wit games awesome ;)

Jack-Pyro5089d ago

Is this a half decent SRPG, porn aside, cause if it is, i might just decide to go and buy it for the 360.

Anon73495089d ago

There's no porn just some sexual innuendos but that's it.

Also it is a great game by itself, maybe not graphically but everything else is top tier.

RedDevils5089d ago

so it had some kind of "top tier" porn story jk

ThanatosDMC5089d ago

Yup, it's a decent game. I just hate that a move has to go first before any attack options.

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Bless Online Korean MMORPG Gets Server Merge

This is not the first time that Bless Online receives a server merge in Korea. An announcement was made on the official Korean site.

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Bismarn2680d ago

Bless must be an amazing game to be on all these platforms (according to the tags): iPad iPhone Nintendo DS PC PS Vita PS2 PS3 PS4 PSP Wii Wii U Xbox Xbox 360 Xbox One