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Playstation To Restore Services This Week

Posted by timothy on from the no-schwag-for-geohot-I-bet dept.

iSimon19 writes with word that after last week's unscheduled service disruption and security breach, "On their blog last night, Playstation representatives announced they were restoring services throughout the week. This also included giving all users a month of Playstation Plus free, as well as select downloads for free with their 'Complimentary Offering and "Welcome Back" Appreciation Program.'"

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  1. Blog comments by hipp5 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Does anyone else have a hard time believing the majority of the comments on the blog post are real? They're all along the lines of, "Hallelujah, Sony is wonderful for getting the service back up!!!!!!!" Or are people so desperate to go back to playing CoD multiplayer that they're willing to take any sandpaper-wrapped anal raping that Sony will give them?

    1. Re:Blog comments by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Very true, and they've been disabling some accounts. Mine is blocked now. I was critical, not rude at all, now I cannot log on.

    2. Re:Blog comments by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

      It is interesting, as all "normal" PSN logins used for commenting on that blog expired last week. The cooking keeping them "logged in" to the blog had a 1 week expiration. I guess that only leaves Sony employees to be able to actually log in and comment.

  2. Token offering by grilled-cheese · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm not going to go back to the PSN until Sony gives me a year of credit monitoring and the ability to sue them (not that I would, but thank you SCOTUS).

    1. Re:Token offering by nobodyman · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Agreed - they totally screwed over their entire user base and as a consolation prize they are offering more of the same. In fact, I bet that acceptance of this "Complimentary Offering" is contingent upon agreeing to not sue Sony or take part in any class-action lawsuit.

  3. Wakeup call US? by mrcvp · · Score: 3, Interesting

    When is the US consumer ever going to learn that the credit card is one of the worst inventions ever! Of course it's Sony's fault but you are using a broken system. Make direct online banking the standard, not some insanely insecure card or some horrible third-party service like paypal. Here in The Netherlands we Have iDeal We need to get to such a system on a global scale. The tech is there and it's more secure, so what the hell are they waiting for.

  4. Re:It started way before that by tripleevenfall · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Why is it that slashdotters hate MSFT with the fire of a thousand suns - except Xbox. In that case, Microsoft are the good guys?