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The Great 2011 PSN Outage Megathread *Post 1 updated*

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    #1502
    Daemos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,645 ✭✭✭Daemos


    It just dawned on me that this feels exactly like Die Hard 4. Especially with the wonky traffic lights outside my house. Quick, someone call Bruce Willis.


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    #1503
    Daemos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,645 ✭✭✭Daemos


    Motley Crue wrote: »
    and if you're a PS3 owner you get your choice of 3 games from 5 (undisclosed currently) to download once you're back online
    2 from 5, not 3 :)


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    #1504
    Leeg17
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,127 ✭✭✭✭Leeg17


    2 from 5 yea


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    #1505
    donalg1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,513 ✭✭✭donalg1


    Motley Crue wrote: »
    No



    Fair enough, did you jump ship when it happened or are you just a Microsoft man from day one?



    Playstation Plus for a month, a year's free personal protection security software, an update, an apology email/statement and if you're a PS3 owner you get your choice of 3 games from 5 (undisclosed currently) to download once you're back online. PSP is the same, expect it's 2 games from 4 (again nothing about the title selection yet)

    Soon is not the word.

    Feels like waiting for Chinese Democracy to be released:D

    No i have been with Xbox from day one, but jeez its nearly worth not playing COD for a couple of months to get all that free stuff


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    #1506
    Benzino
    Registered Users Posts: 3,803 ✭✭✭Benzino


    Azure_sky wrote: »
    I appreciate that it takes time to do it right but it is really annoying when they give out these deadlines and keep on missing them. I just want log into PSN so I can activate my other account.

    Giving accurate deadlines for when a new system is ready is very difficult to do, if not impossible (in my experience anyway). Even more so in this case. Sony are no doubt running lots and lots of tests on their new software (if that is even finished yet). If one of those tests fails, they have to fix the problem and do all the tests again (tests can take an age, days in some cases).

    So it really is difficult for them to give us an exact date. I feel sorry for the guys working on this :( I hope they are getting good overtime!


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    #1507
    AIR-AUSSIE
    Registered Users Posts: 1,596 ✭✭✭AIR-AUSSIE


    Benzino wrote: »
    Giving accurate deadlines for when a new system is ready is very difficult to do, if not impossible (in my experience anyway). Even more so in this case. Sony are no doubt running lots and lots of tests on their new software (if that it even finished yet). If one of those tests fails, they are to fix the problem and do all the tests again (tests can take an age, days in some cases).

    So it really is difficult for them to give us an exact date. I feel sorry for the guys working on this :( I hope they are getting good overtime!

    Then don't give deadlines! Simple as. Sony should stop giving their customers the run around, like they have from the outset.


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    #1508
    Benzino
    Registered Users Posts: 3,803 ✭✭✭Benzino


    AIR-AUSSIE wrote: »
    Then don't give deadlines! Simple as. Sony should stop giving their customers the run around, like they have from the outset.

    But then people will be complaining about not giving any indication as to when the system will be live.

    They are damned if they do and damned if they don't to be honest.


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    #1509
    Beefy78
    Registered Users Posts: 8,163 ✭✭✭Beefy78


    Varik wrote: »
    PCI is industry self-regulation.

    You only need to be PCI compliant if you want to do business with these card companies, but large companies who would be doing large amounts of business can ignore it as the banks would loose out if they weren't able to sell stuff.

    It's industry self-regulation but on the part of the card schemes themselves rather than the individual banks. It's also industry regulation backed up by the potential for substantial fines. All of the card schemes are members of the PCI Council meaning that the power is in their court as opposed to a big company being above the industry self regulation. A huge company can threaten to move banks but they need to be able to take one card type or other.

    From the information I've had, Sony were (to their understanding) fully PCI Compliant and had had their independent QSA had signed off on their most recent review.


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    #1510
    SeanQCitizen
    Registered Users Posts: 87 ✭✭SeanQCitizen


    Azure_sky wrote: »
    Still no services back yet? This is turning into a total farce. Bill Gates and Shigeru Miyamoto must be having multiple orgasms by now.


    Turning?! It "turned into" weeks ago. Now it's just laughable.


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    #1511
    SeanQCitizen
    Registered Users Posts: 87 ✭✭SeanQCitizen


    AIR-AUSSIE wrote: »
    They're are some advantages to having your email freely available... I'm getting all these great business propositions from African business men..


    Reminds me of an old but great story. It is not a short story so only bother if you are bored and have nothing else to do. You know, like a global meltdown of all multiplayer on one system for a prolonged period of time.

    http://www.zug.com/pranks/powerbook/


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    #1512
    brian plank
    Registered Users Posts: 1,091 ✭✭✭brian plank


    donalg1 wrote: »
    No i have been with Xbox from day one

    i love when people say things like this or 'im moving to xbox'. stop thinking your employed by microsoft some how, you haven't 'been' anywhere or 'moved' anywhere. you bought a console and your playing it.


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    #1513
    SeanQCitizen
    Registered Users Posts: 87 ✭✭SeanQCitizen


    donalg1 wrote: »
    No i have been with Xbox from day one, but jeez its nearly worth not playing COD for a couple of months to get all that free stuff


    No. it's not.:mad:


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    #1514
    Grayditch
    Registered Users Posts: 14,347 ✭✭✭✭Grayditch


    I'd be wary of entertaining donalg1's questions after his troll attack a few days ago.


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    #1515
    kin9pin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 959 ✭✭✭kin9pin


    SeanQCitizen wrote: »
    Reminds me of an old but great story. It is not a short story so only bother if you are bored and have nothing else to do. You know, like a global meltdown of all multiplayer on one system for a prolonged period of time.

    http://www.zug.com/pranks/powerbook/

    I was bored and it was a great story. Gonna tell my mate about it tonight while we play Battlefi.......................oh bugger!


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    #1516
    jimbob86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 307 ✭✭jimbob86


    MarkY91 wrote: »
    you do know you can play it offline im sure


    Yea but whats the point its crap if ur not online...unless your a ten year old


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    #1517
    keithc83
    Registered Users Posts: 460 ✭✭keithc83


    Benzino wrote: »
    But then people will be complaining about not giving any indication as to when the system will be live.

    They are damned if they do and damned if they don't to be honest.

    I don't think most people would complain if from the outset they told us what had happened and what they were doing. Its obvious now that they are rebuilding the network which is why its taking so long. And anyone in the know would realise how long doing something like that takes with building, testing, etc.

    For me as long as its working when it comes back i don't mind when that is. Its the shabby way Sony treated its customers at the start with the false information being given out and unattainable deadlines. If they didn't know what was wrong why lead us all on?
    Honesty goes a long way.


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    #1518
    SeanQCitizen
    Registered Users Posts: 87 ✭✭SeanQCitizen


    Grayditch wrote: »
    I'd be wary of entertaining donalg1's questions after his troll attack a few days ago.

    excuse my noobness but what is a troll attack?:confused:


    hehehe, noobness:P


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    #1519
    tok9
    Registered Users Posts: 7,160 ✭✭✭tok9


    Just wondering, When was the last statement Sony gave?

    Not the worst time to be doing exams! :)


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    #1520
    Varik
    Registered Users Posts: 12,506 ✭✭✭✭Varik


    keithc83 wrote: »
    false information being given out and unattainable deadlines. If they didn't know what was wrong why lead us all on?
    Honesty goes a long way.

    Was there more than the deadlines.


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    #1521
    Desire.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,601 ✭✭✭Desire.


    tok9 wrote: »
    Just wondering, When was the last statement Sony gave?

    Not the worst time to be doing exams! :)

    Tuesday. They just said they were sorry and they are working hard on fixing the PSN and they don't know when it will be back.

    I agree... :pac:


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    #1522
    keithc83
    Registered Users Posts: 460 ✭✭keithc83


    Varik wrote: »
    Was there more than the deadlines.

    Lack of information being given at the start and the deadlines i think were the issue. I know they are trying to do all they can now to fix their issues but i can understand why people got so angry with them. All they needed to do was tell people what had happened, what they were going to do about it and that they did not know how long it was going to take.


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    #1523
    WolfForager
    Registered Users Posts: 4,532 ✭✭✭WolfForager


    Reports of alot of internal testing going on.

    Someone played Killzone3 this morning:

    http://www.killzone.com/kz/mykillzone.psml?kz_user_id=walmart45#recentmatches

    Soccom 4 servers were updates yesterday:

    http://www.examiner.com/ps3-in-chicago/socom-4-stats-updated-internal-psn-testing-going-on

    Someone also played LBP2:

    fSjSD.jpg

    Gentlemen! Prepare your bodies....


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    #1524
    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users Posts: 44,080 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    It's close, I can smell it.

    Oh hang, thats my dinner burning, crap.


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    #1525
    Tallon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,569 ✭✭✭✭Tallon


    Micky Dolenz wrote: »
    It's close, I can smell it.

    Oh hang, thats my dinner burning, crap.
    Thats the RROD's you can smell :pac:


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    #1526
    SeanQCitizen
    Registered Users Posts: 87 ✭✭SeanQCitizen


    Tallon wrote: »
    Thats the RROD's you can smell :pac:

    Don't even joke about that. My internet went down for 2 weeks about a month before this outage and I am already on my second PS3. I'm close to breaking point here.


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    #1527
    Notorious97
    Registered Users Posts: 1,479 ✭✭✭Notorious97


    So its official yes? Its back Tomorrow :D:D

    I bleedin wish :pac:

    As long as the tests go fine, and no as*hole hacker comes along, lets hope we are close!!!


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    #1528
    shinzon
    Registered Users Posts: 5,458 ✭✭✭shinzon


    in all honesty sony can do all the internal checking they want, they can double check triple check everything but until there new security measures are tested in a live enviroment where it will be tested in full by foul means or fair then unfortunately it means nothing

    Shin


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    #1529
    WolfForager
    Registered Users Posts: 4,532 ✭✭✭WolfForager


    shinzon wrote: »
    in all honesty sony can do all the internal checking they want, they can double check triple check everything but until there new security measures are tested in a live enviroment where it will be tested in full by foul means or fair then unfortunately it means nothing

    Shin

    I'd say this is less security and more making sure that all the games work with it.


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    #1530
    Desire.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,601 ✭✭✭Desire.


    Either way, it's a good sign.


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    #1531
    jimbob86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 307 ✭✭jimbob86


    Rite den if its not back on 2moro im gona kick the fcuk outa my ps


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