Is PSN under attack? - PSN now back up 15/05

Energize said:
I mean the revenue that the PS3 division brings in.



Like I said though game sales are only one source of revenue, I doubt Sony or any other company would take a hit on profits. It also depends on your definition of free I suppose. I've always considered myself as paying for the service indirectly, like the NHS. Though it is certainly preferable to a sub service live as it is one less thing off your mind, and you don't have to suffer trying to cancel your subscription.
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mate the quality between psn and live is the difference between the NHS and BUPA.

ive had countless problems on fifa when playing virtual pro clubs and not being able to talk to my club members due to moderate or strict nats, or just simply the service. this never happens on xbox live.

psn is free but poor quality
xbox live is paid for but high quality

im not a fanboy, i gave up ps2 online to play xbox 1 online and then when my 360 died 3 times i gave that up and took up ps3 online.

i know both services well and live is a much better service, i personally wouldnt pay 1p for psn, i would rather pay the £30 for live. but since its free ive chosen psn.
 
Maybe it's just the games I played, I don't know but on the pc versions of halo for example you could play online for free, just click on a server someone hosted and you immediately entered the match, the admin of that server could kick laggers and trolls with impunity and there was essentially unlimited customisation of the games, whereas on the xbl version you spend aeons in the auto match system having to buy loads of content to be able to enter the decent play lists and then spend maybe 5 mins playing the game, I know which system I preferred. Perhaps this is symptomatic more of the problems of the p2p architecture as opposed to client-host that many of these game service use rather than xbl specifically though.
 
I'd just topped up my PSN wallet to go on a spending spree in the Spring Sale when it went down :(
I'm not that bothered about the online play being down but am missing the store.
 
andy_mk3 said:
Sony can take as long as they like for all I care. If people can't live without online games for a few days then they must have issues!
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that's a stupid thing to say. :rolleyes:

Sony tell us they have great on-line games and that they have millions of users, so come join us for free rather than buy a 360 and pay to play the same games on-line.

Psycho Sonny said:
then ms realised their mistakes and then started giving bigger hard drives and built in wireless.
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while Sony realised there's and started taking things out.

ps3ud0 said:
I really dont see the relevance of the tangent we appear to be going down - just seem to be heading to fanboi-ville and eventual thread lock...

ps3ud0 :cool:
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true.

Psycho Sonny said:
psn is free but poor quality
xbox live is paid for but high quality
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i've never found LIVE to work any better than PSN at all for on-line gaming, hell... even over these past few days i've been getting signed out of LIVE.
 
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might play a bit of asassins creed 2 seen as im yet to complete it while psn is down!

although im not bothered how long it takes for sony to get psn working again ,it would be nice if they could give a time scale of how long it will be , if they have mentioned they are rebuilding the system they should have a rough idea?
 
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This is absolutely ridiculous. Hopefully those responsible will get the book thrown at them.

You cant just go breaking the law because a company does something you dont like, the solution is to not buy their products again, but nobody ever does that :D
 
back on tuesday.

As the PlayStation Network (PSN) outage enters its fourth day, there seems to be some light at the end of the tunnel. Sources suggest that some major restructuring work has almost been completed, and the servers will start to be switched back on in the next 24 hours or so. It's believed that Japan will be first to get service restored, some time on Monday, with the US and Europe following on Tuesday. If those timings prove to be correct, the network will have been out for almost a week.
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