Sony PlayStation Network Back Up Now, Supposedly

Posted by timothy on Sunday December 28, 2014 @05:18AM from the nothing's-perfect dept.

jfruh (300774) writes Sony's PlayStation Network, brought down in a Christmas Day hacking attack, now seems to be back online. Of course, Sony also said the same thing on Saturday, but outages and problems lingered. From the article: At around 1 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time on Sunday, Sony declared its online gaming platform fixed and, as it had done the day before, blamed the problems on a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. ... The company jumped the gun early Saturday when it trumpeted that the PlayStation Network was gradually getting back to normal, announcing the good news at around 4 a.m. via its Ask PlayStation Twitter account and triumphantly changing the PlayStation Network status to “online” in the support website a few hours later.

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Lesson goes unlearned by Anonymous Coward · 2014-12-28 05:31 · Score: 2, Insightful

Playstation owners should demand their money back, NOW! And the rest of you dummies have to stop enabling this practice of requiring a network connection to play a damn game! How stupid can you be? This is the same idiocy that made paying to receive a phone call a marketable thing. You crave electronic trinkets with blinky lights! You people are sick!
1. Re:Lesson goes unlearned by ledow · 2014-12-28 07:18 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  Only in the US.
  Paying to receive is RIDICULOUS. Just because it's the norm for you, doesn't mean it's not still ridiculous.