The end is nigh? The end is here!

Nuri Sahin

Magill wrote: »

Not gonna lie guis, black ops is fun !

Pfft, if you said COD4 I'd be pissed off, nice try though

Seems I'm one of few actually enjoying some downtime with single player.

Scody94

El LoCo Ade wrote: »

Pfft, if you said COD4 I'd be pissed off, nice try though

Seems I'm one of few actually enjoying some downtime with single player.

cod 4 is amazing Ade no hick-ups just smooth sailing Mwahhaha:P

Mr. Manager

I own 3 games. Modern Warfare, Modern Warfare 2 and Black Ops.

Can honestly say, I have never finished any of them. In fact, I never even played MW2 once. Played Ghillie in the Mist in a friends house and the first 2 missions of Black Ops while my internet was being fixed. Needless to say when I got the internet back I never touched the SP again.

Online raping is where it's at Ade!

Nuri Sahin

Scody94 wrote: »

cod 4 is amazing Ade no hick-ups just smooth sailing Mwahhaha:P

But sure I don't have any games on my(well brothers) 360 plus if PSN was up, I'd be mourning COD4 due to speed glitch.

Cereal Rapist wrote: »

I own 3 games. Modern Warfare, Modern Warfare 2 and Black Ops.

Can honestly say, I have never finished any of them. In fact, I never even played MW2 once. Played Ghillie in the Mist in a friends house and the first 2 missions of Black Ops while my internet was being fixed. Needless to say when I got the internet back I never touched the SP again.

Online raping is where it's at Ade!

Lol. I usually go through a spell from Sept to Nov on going trophy hunting(achievement hunting for you guys) mainly in single player, it's just come early

Quite annoyed at myself I didn't pick Uncharted 2 when I was in Tallaght on Friday though.

Nuri Sahin

Haha, stolen from Kells -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H4ky3ntzvg

Leeg17

See the post after

Nuri Sahin

Leeg17 wrote: »

See the post after

Yeah

matt-dublin

http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/gx6o4/im_a_moderator_over_at_psxscenecom_the_real/ wrote:

Ok, I've seen a bunch of speculation of why people think PSN is down, and I thought I should just post what the community knows in comparison to what Sony is telling everyone. The truth is, there was a new CFW (custom firmware) released known as Rebug (http://rebug.me). It essentially turns a retail console into a dev console (not fully, but gives you a lot of the same options that usually dev's only have access to). Anyway, this new CFW was quickly figured out to give CFW users access to the PSN network again via the dev networks. With a little manipulation of the URL's through a proxy server you could get your hacked console back online. Not that big of a deal, right? Well, it also turns out that some people over at NGU found out that you could provide fake CC# info and the authenticity of the information was never checked as you were on Sony's private developer PSN network (essentially a network that Sony trusted). What happened next was extreme piracy of PSN content. Sony realizing the issue here shut down the network. Now, before you go freaking out about the latest information posted about Kotaku, no ones personal information was accessible via this hack. Not to say they couldn't get it, but no one is admitting to it being available. Anyway, that's the real reason for the PSN downtime. Sony is now rebuilding all of it's PSN servers to be more secure and (hopefully) make sure the CFW users cannot get online anymore.

Edit #1: To those of you saying that this is speculation, you are correct. But, it is speculation based on a lot of facts and the outcome seems to make the most sense.
1. Rebug was released on 3/31/11.
2. First guides of how to use the dev network to get back on COD games on 4/3/11. 3. Word of "shady" sites finding a way to pirate PSN content via the dev networks on 4/7/11 (basing this on posts I had to delete on the website). 4. PSN goes down on 4/20/11

Now, you can believe Sony's PR team which has kept you completely in the dark, or you can see the list of events above and come to your own conclusion. Now, this isn't the first time Sony has fought back against the PS3 modders from getting on PSN. A couple of months ago we had a utility called f*ckPSN that changed the necessary header information that was being sent to Sony to allow modified consoles back online. We were able to use it for about a month. Then came the new TOS, the mass e-mail to PS3 customers, and software update 3.56 and 3.60. So, once again, yes this is all speculation, but it is speculation based on previous actions and known facts.

Edit #2: Mathieulh just mentioned that he has been in contact with someone that has official access to the SCE devnet servers and it was posted to them today that only 3.60+ debug firmwares will be allowed on the dev network anymore. All earlier versions will be cut. If you want to retain your access you need to contact Sony and upgrade to 3.60 debug firmware.

just spotted this

Leeg17

Speculation or not, it's more info than Sony has given us, thanks for the post Matt

Nuri Sahin

Ditto, much appreciated.

matt-dublin

I SEE A GREEN LIGHT!!!
I SEE A GREEN LIGHT!!!
I SEE A GREEN LIGHT!!!
I SEE A GREEN LIGHT!!!
I SEE A GREEN LIGHT!!!

http://blog.eu.playstation.com/

Balfie

matt-dublin wrote: »

I SEE A GREEN LIGHT!!!
I SEE A GREEN LIGHT!!!
I SEE A GREEN LIGHT!!!
I SEE A GREEN LIGHT!!!
I SEE A GREEN LIGHT!!!

http://blog.eu.playstation.com/

Its been like that for the past few days,

matt-dublin

nah it was red until half an hour ago!

its a false alarm

T-b0n3

Damn that god my hopes up! Its like Sony knew I was supposed to be studying for my finals. But its still not helping! Turn it back on already!

matt-dublin

i got excited too them b8st8rds

Balfie

Yeh so did I.. But I realised I'm gonna wait for official word before I believe that its back on..

An if this story of peoples accounts being deleted I will go mental..

matt-dublin

ITS BACK!!! IM LOGGED IN!!!

Leeg17

I hope you get banned

matt-dublin

i deserve it!

Balfie

I hope ya get YLOD :P

Leeg17

All I want for Christmas is an ETA, yea an ETA, all I want for Christmas is an ETA.

Leeg17

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2011/04/26/update-on-playstation-network-and-qriocity/

GEasy

matt-dublin wrote: »

ITS BACK!!! IM LOGGED IN!!!

You ****ing ********

iMuse

Lastest update from Sony, they hope to have services restored by this time next week and account information has been compromised :eek::eek:

Edit: Its even breaking news on Sky news.

oneshotfinch

iMuse wrote: »

Edit: Its even breaking news on Sky news.

wat

Kenno90

oneshotfinch wrote: »

wat

It was on Sky News

matt-dublin

bit late now!!

U4EA

According to rte news , Sony's 77 million customers have been compromised . They dont know how many Irish have been affected as Sony dont release how many sales they have had in this country.

Magill

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/299497/news/playstation-network-to-return-with-cross-game-chat-in-game-video-chat/

Would be awesome if true.

GEasy

Magill wrote: »

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/299497/news/playstation-network-to-return-with-cross-game-chat-in-game-video-chat/

Would be awesome if true.

Epic sauce