The PSN’s been down now for well over a day, with sign-in still currently unavailable (even though queued downloads will still work) and there’s no sign of anything changing any time soon.
We’ve come up with ten things to do whilst the PSN is down, but Sony haven’t updated for ages now, so we’ve no idea what’s going on other than Anonymous, responsible for downtime earlier in the month, are saying they’re not involved.
“While it could be the case that other Anons have acted by themselves, AnonOps was not related to this incident and takes no responsibility for it,” said an apparent official statement.
“A more likely explanation is that Sony is taking advantage of Anonymous’ previous ill-will towards the company to distract users from the fact the outage is accutally an internal problem with the companies servers.”
Worse for Sony, however, is the news reaching the all-seeing eye of the BBC, with a story on the news site today.
The article, which will hit more people than (presumably) all the gaming sites in the world put together (and wrapped twice around the moon) will mean that Sony’s public perception will be taking a battering.
Sony’s lack of updates is starting to grind.
AdmiringWorm
It is a little annoying that they ain’t giving us any updates, but as others mentioned it’s better they work on it than loosing time on posting updates.
Oh, and i just noticed a new strip on Penny Arcade regarding this so I thought I should share it. I almost laughed my ass off with this one:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/4/22/it-only-doesnt/
Darksidesystems
If we were meant to play online, all of the time then Lego games wouldn’t come with an annoying percentage of completion message every time we load them up. For what it’s worth I’m blaming Steam’s integration with the PSN for it being down. I’m not going to back it up with any hard facts but for once I’d like to beleive that it’s cos things will be better in the future not worse. Take as long as you need guys! (smiles happily into thhe distance :) )
Kitch
Thank Fuck it’s sunny.
If it was foul weather (as is normal in UK) would the same people be saying go outside???? NO. STFU!
Simple fact is Sony have failed to be honest and true to their customers. I pay to play on PSN. I buy there games. That subsides the PSN.
I have a right to moan. Stop ignoring your customers.
Tell us YES Anon have had us over.
Tell us, NO we have messed up the whole Steam link up,
or, Due to a huge earthquake a lot of our engineers are off sorting out other things and we have power issues. We are currently moving power to the U.S.
Or failing that just admit you haven’t got a clue why on one your busiest weekends of the years you have dropped the ball.
Darksidesystems
“Again with them negative waves Moriarty!”
Kitch
Please spin the positive.
E8_BALL_
i thought this was 6th axis not scee.com
ok you are entitled to be angry if you so wish,
but cmon m8 chill, just a bit, too much negativety is kinda depressing.
anonymus212
You do not “PAY TO PLAY” PSN. You may pay for psn games, they have OFFLINE modes too, the CORE ONLINE gaming service is free. It costs you no more to use the psn than it does for someone who uses their ps3 offline all the time. You should just stop trying to say you paid for psn.
If someone bought no PS3 games at all, only the PS3 they could still register and use the PSN (ie. PS HOME AND FREE STORE ITEMS). They have not bought any games but still get the service.
IT IS PROVEN FREE.
XisTG
The weird thing is that I just popped a new game on my ps3 and immediately warned me there was a 1.02 version available. It downloaded and everything.
Lord Supercomputer
Sony have finally posted something on the matter.
http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2011/04/23/update-on-playstation-network-qriocity-services/#comments
“An external intrusion on our system has affected our PlayStation Network and Qriocity services.”
aerobes
The plot thickens.
Anonymous say one thing and Sony says the other, reminds me of the school playground.
the_greeze
This whole comment thread pretty much reminds me of the school playground…
moshi
If your life solely depends upon playing online games then I really think you need to take a look at your life. To me its a very minor inconvenience at best, there is a big wide world out there go and sample some of it.
Kronik76
I have to say I disagree. Each to their own. Not that I rely in the slightest on online gaming, but maybe there are those that have sampled the big wide world and are fed up of what it constantly throws at them, and online gaming is their form of escapism.
ThatMattKid
Here’s an online game; play this and chill out
http://www.foddy.net/Athletics.html
Foxhound_Solid
Bbc news eh. Rightly so, ps3 is awesome and should be on there. Would like my psn back now though :-(