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Xbox Live and PlayStation Networks Downed By Apparent Attack
mrspoonsi writes Both Xbox Live and PlayStation Network [were] down this morning, apparently due to a denial-of-service attack. The notorious hacking group Lizard Squad — which already carried out earlier attacks on Microsoft and Sony — has claimed responsibility on Twitter for these latest outages. While the group's role in all of this remains unconfirmed, it's worth noting that the group threatened last week to take down Xbox Live and PSN, according to Business Insider. And again, Lizard Squad has already proven it can successfully pull off such attacks, not to mention other malicious pranks.
Whatever the cause, the timing is obviously terrible: Plenty of people surely received one of the two consoles as Christmas presents today, while many more gamers would have happily spent the afternoon in front of the TV. In the meantime, both Sony and Microsoft have acknowledged the problem, with Sony issuing a tweet and Microsoft posting a message on its support website: "We're working to address this as quickly as we possibly can," reads its status website. "Thanks for your patience, Xbox members." In an email, a Microsoft spokesperson declined to comment further or say when the company expects to restore service. We've also asked Sony to comment and will update this post if and when it does. The Xbox Live status page says service remains "limited," and the Playstation Network is listed as offline.
Whatever the cause, the timing is obviously terrible: Plenty of people surely received one of the two consoles as Christmas presents today, while many more gamers would have happily spent the afternoon in front of the TV. In the meantime, both Sony and Microsoft have acknowledged the problem, with Sony issuing a tweet and Microsoft posting a message on its support website: "We're working to address this as quickly as we possibly can," reads its status website. "Thanks for your patience, Xbox members." In an email, a Microsoft spokesperson declined to comment further or say when the company expects to restore service. We've also asked Sony to comment and will update this post if and when it does. The Xbox Live status page says service remains "limited," and the Playstation Network is listed as offline.
If only the games for these systems didn't depend on Microsoft's and Sony's servers to be accessible for them to work. It's almost as if it's some kind of crazy DRM scheme.
Maybe eventually we will have the technology to make a console and games that don't depend on a server that is not in the purchasers control.
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Maybe eventually we will have the technology to make a console and games that don't depend on a server that is not in the purchasers control.
That's impossible. Everything has to be done in The Cloud, and must be a black box to the user. Anything else is pure heresy. Control in the user's hands? What are you smoking?
Not all console games are single player, twit.
They don't need to be. Being able to run your own servers would solve this problem most of the time. Sadly, what you get from greedy companies is just locked-down, DRM-infested proprietary software.
Ah, so you aren't surrounded by a set of kids all unhappy and whining cause they can't play with their new xbox etc.
You seem to not understand what you own. These devices were not DESIGNED for playing games.
They were built to take money. And they do that job very well.
And if they can't take money there's no point in the system working at all.
But they are NOT criticising, they are removing the rights of other people to play the game they bought.
They are saying that THEIR opinion is the ONLY opinion and they have the right to deny anyone else to ability to play the game they bought.
What you are suggesting is that it is OK to make your protest known to the government by burning down someone else house/ business after all this is what seems to happen. YOU have assumed that YOU have the right to create damage to innocent people who don't happen to share your world view. Perhaps Afroamerican protesters can go around burning down the properties of white people to voice their protest about the unfair/illegal treatment they receive.
YOUR criticisms can be voice online in forums, letters to new papers/gamers magazines, that is called free speech. You can write to the companies themselves, you can make submissions to government departments, you can even compete with your own product. But its not done this way is it, these "protesters" break into other peoples computers so they can hide and not be identified, thats not protest, thats cowardice.
Screw 'em. Take a day off gaming. If they can't find something else fun to do besides play on their XboxOne or PS4 for one single Christmas Day, then you've been a shitty parent. Next thing you know they're gonna start talking about ethics in game journalism and SJWs and then you have to drown them.
Better they learn now that not all gratification is instant, and an online first-person shooter whenever you want it is not a basic human right.
You'll thank me later.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Keep board games handy. Everyone can play and interact like a real family and your kids won't end up as pedos on 8chan.
You are welcome on my lawn.
I'll compare that to Sykrim on Steam. No internet connection means just not being able to sync character data with their server and not being able to get updates. So long as it's on the same computer you played it on last time a lack of connectivity is completely ignorable.
I think that's a far better approach than needing to log onto the server before you can play.