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

badcompany · 10 May 2011 at 22:30

Reported in the i today that we will get 2 free games out of a choice of 5 (games not listed yet)

KNiVES · 10 May 2011 at 22:33

Yeah, it will be one PS3 game and one PSN game. Not a bad deal at all.

Apparently anyone who's been sent the email warning could be able to take up the offer. I've got an email and I've not had a PS3 for months so it'll be interesting to see how exactly they will verify who is and isn't eligible...

n111ck · 10 May 2011 at 22:34

ps3ud0 said:
LOL nothing special - the position thats most relevant this was in Revenue Assurance for 5+ years for a Telecomms

Not NTL by any chance?

CliffyBiro · 10 May 2011 at 22:35

KNiVES said:
Yeah, it will be one PS3 game and one PSN game. Not a bad deal at all.

Apparently anyone who's been sent the email warning could be able to take up the offer. I've got an email and I've not had a PS3 for months so it'll be interesting to see how exactly they will verify who is and isn't eligible...

Surely anyone with a registered account?

Twentyone · 10 May 2011 at 22:38

I'm sure it will say on the tiles when you go to the store tab.

rp2000 · 10 May 2011 at 22:40

skippi90 said:
Surely anyone with a registered account?

This seems very open to abuse. I think they should ask for serial numbers or something else that verifies ownership of the console (maybe they can see that serial online from their end and associated account?). Although a few owners may no longer want to connect their PS3s online after the recent problems

Anyway, I will happily take any spare games off people in return for some postage and packaging money

If they do plan to genuinely give away 77million PS3 games and PSN games I imagine they will be reducing this years profits projection by a massive amount!

rp2000

Twentyone · 10 May 2011 at 22:42

If I remember correctly, you have to enter your serial online. At least every time I logged in on the site it said to complete your registration, enter your serial number.

Mr Men · 10 May 2011 at 22:59

I have had about 15 emails as I just make accounts to help Sony get 78 million users

Psycho Sonny · 10 May 2011 at 23:05

Twentyone said:
If I remember correctly, you have to enter your serial online. At least every time I logged in on the site it said to complete your registration, enter your serial number.

you have to enter your serial number every time? which website are we talking about here?

andshrew · 10 May 2011 at 23:37

Psycho Sonny said:
you have to enter your serial number every time? which website are we talking about here?

If you logged into the account section of the UK Playstation web site it would pester you to enter the serial number for your consoles if you hadn't already.

RedStarRiot · 10 May 2011 at 23:40

any idea about what games at all?

Robert1986 · 11 May 2011 at 05:58

RedStarRiot said:
any idea about what games at all?

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Pure Futbol
Clash of the Titans
Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust

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Robert1986 · 11 May 2011 at 06:02

well I would def say this PSN outage is now worse than the RROD. I mean, I can see people just not buying a ps3 in the future because of this... and who can trust sony with our info on any of their products?

msmalls74 · 11 May 2011 at 06:53

Robert1986 said:
well I would def say this PSN outage is now worse than the RROD. I mean, I can see people just not buying a ps3 in the future because of this... and who can trust sony with our info on any of their products?

Sony 3 weeks of PSN downtime is the same as about 2years of your console RRODing? AS for trusting Sony with, could be said about any company TBH, at least they didnt leave the data sat on a train somewhere lol.

Dutch Guy · 11 May 2011 at 09:15

Robert1986 said:
well I would def say this PSN outage is now worse than the RROD. I mean, I can see people just not buying a ps3 in the future because of this... and who can trust sony with our info on any of their products?

Not really, I'd rather have the PSN issue instead of having to get a replacement console every 3 months.

PSN issue is just an annoyance, RROD means I have to physically replace the machine.

CliffyBiro · 11 May 2011 at 09:20

Robert1986 said:
well I would def say this PSN outage is now worse than the RROD. I mean, I can see people just not buying a ps3 in the future because of this... and who can trust sony with our info on any of their products?

LuLz.

Kanpai · 11 May 2011 at 09:30

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13304551

OriginalJonty · 11 May 2011 at 09:54

Quite interesting to see Anonymous has entered a civil war of sorts.

Twentyone · 11 May 2011 at 10:06

Official blog posted a new update today, that there are no new updates

cu3ed · 11 May 2011 at 10:08

Dutch Guy said:
Not really, I'd rather have the PSN issue instead of having to get a replacement console every 3 months.

PSN issue is just an annoyance, RROD means I have to physically replace the machine.

Really?...always every 3 months?...the warrenty turn around time was faster than this outage, plus now personal information is lost.

Not saying its as bad, just a different bad..or a possible worse as I think details will be floating about the scenes for months.