First Sony, Now Nintendo...Xbox Next

[slashfan7964]

As a casual gamer I went to get on my PS3 and noticed I could not login to PSN. Usually, a notice from Sony would have appeard saying they would be down for maintenance on a said date. This was not the case, and oddly enough, it's worldwide...

The link shows that a possible outside source of the crash means that the hackers that we've been hearing about lately have made a move as they promised in said link below. Sony also states that it may be a few dates before PSN will be fully functioning as well.

http://www.dealspwn.com/playstation-net ... ide-crash/



Thoughts on this?


UPDATE:



PSN was indeed hacked as Sony states below in this link:


http://blog.us.playstation.com/2011/04/ ... -services/

[amak11]

Activision broke the news hours ago. Sony said it will be a couple days until it's back up

[slashfan7964]

I just woke up a bit ago so I had no idea. Lets hope it fixes that annoying error.

-- Edit: April 21st, 2011, 3:10 pm --

http://www.gamepur.com/news/3450-us-pla ... fline.html


That last update seems kinda hacker/scamish.


If you can't view it it says:


Submitting credit card information will allow you to use PSN again.

-- Edit: April 21st, 2011, 3:51 pm --

http://www.youtube.com/user/Anon19861

listen at 1:20....



Pulled off of Gamespot forums

[Maartah]

Damn, didn't take it would get this serious. It'll get pretty big for sure. And whoever is responsible for this should stay lowww
btw, read the channelcomments at that video. People are getting pissed.

[DSP21]

This question may look dumb but what can possibly happen to the gamers in the worst scenario? I mean I don't want to lose anything on my gaming records and stuff
Damn today I was going to start achieving the multiplayer trophies of GTA IV. Cause I already won the others. working on the platinum yay!
Let us play on-line Anonymous please leave that attack!

I don't really get their obsession on getting Sony's attention...

[Jama7301]

If this is Anon, they're not helping their cause. The best way to go about this is to get people on your side, in my opinion. If they're bringing down PSN, which affects millions of "innocent gamers", the ones they want to help, they're shooting themselves in the foot.

[DSP21]

Agreed, why sacrificing us??? -.-'
This really sucks

Jama do you know Anon's objective with his hacking on Sony?

[crazy.neo]

I really doubt Anonymous has anything to do with this.

[slashfan7964]

@Crazy.neo


I agree. I highly doubt he had anything to do with it. Anon hopefully will stay far away from Sony. IDK why people are doing this anyway honestly. What's the point? To p*ss off millions of users and then getting sued up the ass? I mean all they'd have is the pride to say they did it which isn't enough to make me personally even think about doing something so remarkably stupid. Just my 2 cents.

[DSP21]

I dont really know about this. Im not into the Sony hacking news,
Just want to play thats all. Who is doing this must get caught
People are really starting to get pissed off...

[amak11]

First off..who cares about online unless you're a CoD nut. Play GH, RB, any other game that has a fun off-line aspect. Hell, play some of your aging PS1 games (if you have them still). This is nothing to baw over, sony should have it fixed in a couple days.


Second (and lastly), you're a towel


-- Edit (I lied...also lied about the cake) --

I agree with crazy.neo. There is no way in hell that they would be stupid enough to basically cripple the PSN community again. I dont think they would be able to handle the back lash of PS3 fanboys with machine guns (hehe)

[Rapt0r]

Didn't those responsible for the DDOS attacks already apologize for it?

Also, we have a thread for this already.

[weirdpeople]

No this about the worldwide Playstation Network Outage, not those ddos attacks.

[Rapt0r]

Hurrrr. I was talking about the DDOS attacks, not about this.

[slashfan7964]

I just read as a comment on th US PS blog that on N4G they say it has somthin to do with the disaster in Japan. IDK how true it is tho since Ihavent checked.