We all know about the PSN outage by now so I won't go into a story about it. I have not yet made a blog post in the seven days PSN has been down, and I figured I would now.
- To "Do something better" comments.
The argument is about PSN not being back up, yes I agree its a tad sad that people are missing PSN, take into account that people do have the right to complain. Telling people to do something better isn't helping. You usually make this comment to insult people. If you don't have anything useful or helpful to say on the subject, don't say anything.
- To the Xbots.
The situation is not about which console is better, its about PSN being down. Now in America its not much of an issue, however in the EU and the rest of the world where the PS3 is OUTSELLING the Xbox, you can see why people are complaining. Xbox live is not better, it is only a matter of time before Xbox live is hacked again, yes again. Also didn't Xbox live go down for a whole week in 2007? Around Xmas time ....
- To "Hurry up and fix it" comments.
Sony have to re-build the entire PSN network with better security. Its not something that will happen over night. Luckilly they had backups, otherwise it might take months for PSN to come back online. Sony are trying to fix it.
- To "I want a refund"
A refund for what? If your a PS+ subscriber then you have the right for a refund or at least an extension on the subscription, however those who don't pay for PS+ Sony shouldn't give you anything, because you didn't pay for anything. Any DLC is stored on the console so you haven't lost anything (Unless you were downloading DLC when PSN went down) If Sony feels they should give you all a refund or something for free then you'll get it.
- To "bad timing comments"
Sadly I have to agree, it is poor timing for PSN to be down over the bank holiday, and over the week Portal 2 and MK9 are released. Remember when Xbox live was down for a week over Xmas back in 2007, when people all got Xboxes for Xmas (myself included). It is possible that the hacker targeted PSN over the bank holidays, because they knew people were off work then. Why would the hacker wait?
- To those scared about personal information being stolen.
Yes it is a real bad issue, however I have not yet had any suspicious activity on my bank account, nor have I recieved any scam E-mails, phone calls or Scam Post. Nothing bad has happend yet, and Sony do not have sufficent evidence to suggest that credit card information has been stolen. If you recieve any E-mails that are from Sony, then ignore them and send PSN an E-mail asking if they sent it. Scam Phone calls and E-mails are very easy to avoid.
In my personal opinion, it is chaos. The US Playstation blog says some PSN services will be up and running within a week, the Metro newspaper said it would be back on tonight (27/4/2011) and the UK PSN FAQ doesn't give a date. It seems no one 100% knows for sure when PSN will be back up. It is nice to see a time frame now, and hopefully Sony will keep to it.
Some services doesn't mean all services, while PSN might be back up you might not be able to play online, so keep that in mind.
Also when PSN is back up, don't all log in at the same time as that is a very bad idea, and could cause more downtime for PSN. Wait a day or two before trying to log in!
A good way around this problem is for Sony to bring PSN back online one region at a time. That way people can sign on without having the server cause chaos.