Waiting for PSN to get online again, just to see what I can do with the new portable toy
― Crazed Mister Handy (kingfish), Tuesday, 3 May 2011 06:12 (thirteen years ago) link
* Each territory will be offering selected PlayStation entertainment content for free download. Specific details of this content will be announced in each region soon. * All existing PlayStation Network customers will be provided with 30 days free membership in the PlayStation Plus premium service. Current members of PlayStation Plus will receive 30 days free service. * Music Unlimited powered by Qriocity subscribers (in countries where the service is available) will receive 30 days of free service.
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 3 May 2011 13:15 (thirteen years ago) link
gee, thanks guys
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 3 May 2011 15:10 (thirteen years ago) link
my CC got hijacked, but I got this cool ps3 "theme" for free :-)
* Each territory will be offering selected PlayStation entertainment content for free download. Specific details of this content will be announced in each region soon.
* All existing PlayStation Network customers will be provided with 30 days free membership in the PlayStation Plus premium service. Current members of PlayStation Plus will receive 30 days free service.
mystery prize + less than $5 worth of psn+ that i didn't want anyway
― jay lenonononono (abanana), Tuesday, 3 May 2011 15:15 (thirteen years ago) link
just wish they'd turn the account management thing back on so i can check which rubbish password i used
― Romford Spring (DG), Tuesday, 3 May 2011 21:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Useful: http://ispsnbackup.blogspot.com/
― Crazed Mister Handy (kingfish), Wednesday, 4 May 2011 22:17 (thirteen years ago) link
snore http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/05/sony-offering-identity-theft-protection-little-news-on-psn-re-launch.ars
getting tempted by the 360 tbh
― Romford Spring (DG), Friday, 6 May 2011 15:22 (thirteen years ago) link
My PS3 YLOD'd a week before this PSN nonsense happened. I had been thinking about either paying to have it repaired or even buying a new one, but now I am thinking about making the leap to 360 (or possibly just getting Apple TV and sticking to PC gaming).
― rockapads, Friday, 6 May 2011 18:51 (thirteen years ago) link
yeh cos 360s are renowned for their reliability :por wait 12-18 months for next xbox maybe?http://www.develop-online.net/news/37618/Develop-source-New-Xbox-console-on-desks-at-EA
― zappi, Friday, 6 May 2011 20:24 (thirteen years ago) link
tbf 360s die but iirc they dont vomit their users' personal information all over the internet
― Romford Spring (DG), Friday, 6 May 2011 21:00 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, that's the thing. it was a total one-two punch to the nuts.
― rockapads, Friday, 6 May 2011 22:24 (thirteen years ago) link
this massive international company is literally blaming this on the anonymous force of the internet to congresswhich is some philip k dick shit iirc
― Stone Colde Sylke Freek (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 7 May 2011 03:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Anonymous is the name of an organised thing though
― Autumn Alma-hairy-bicycle-rack (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 7 May 2011 03:47 (thirteen years ago) link
organized is kind of reaching a little
― Stone Colde Sylke Freek (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 7 May 2011 04:10 (thirteen years ago) link
i am spartacus is a little more like it
― Stone Colde Sylke Freek (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 7 May 2011 04:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Went to click like on that urg. But yeah that.
― The man who mistook his life for a FAP (Trayce), Saturday, 7 May 2011 07:17 (thirteen years ago) link
xp haha, otm!
― Nhex, Saturday, 7 May 2011 12:23 (thirteen years ago) link
http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2011/05/06/scee-identity-theft-protection-offering/
― Romford Spring (DG), Sunday, 8 May 2011 18:54 (thirteen years ago) link
A week after I put fraud alerts on my credit via Equifax, I got a letter supposedly from TransUnion asking me for my SSN, permanent address verification, and $8. Sounds fishy as hell.
― NoShoutsNoCalls (Leee), Sunday, 8 May 2011 20:20 (thirteen years ago) link
I still haven't had an email.
― Autumn Alma-hairy-bicycle-rack (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 8 May 2011 20:43 (thirteen years ago) link
http://gizmodo.com/#!5799885/playstation-network-downtime-expected-to-last-six-weeks
― Romford Spring (DG), Monday, 9 May 2011 13:11 (thirteen years ago) link
I just want access to the store
― Crazed Mister Handy (kingfish), Monday, 9 May 2011 17:34 (thirteen years ago) link
I just want to watch MLB.TV!
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 12:52 (thirteen years ago) link
wait, does it mean you can't access the internet at all on the ps3? ie no iplayer, 4od, i love film streams ?
― remove this man from the internet (Ste), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 13:02 (thirteen years ago) link
It keeps telling me I need to be signed in.
But - weirdly - my games are capable of downloading updates...!
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 13:14 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't have Lovefilm, but apparently Netflix works if you try it three or four times. (The first few times it says you need to be signed in and then.. it just works.)
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 13:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Netflix apparently has some sort of failover if you can't sign in, but I'd almost guess they had to badger Sony to allow them to do that without being signed into PSN.
Hulu Plus is still dead in the water due to the fact it requires you to log into PSN before its own service.
The sort-of irony here is that Sony was much more accommodating for third-party developers than Microsoft when it came to sign-in and data storage, as far as I can gather. That's why Portal 2, on the one day it actually worked online on the PS3, was able to sign into Steam. iirc the xbox version can't?
― mh, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 13:51 (thirteen years ago) link
iplayer + 4od still work although last time i tried the latter i could get anything newer than a week old.
― ledge, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 14:00 (thirteen years ago) link
couldn't
Yesterday I boxed up all non-exclusive PS3 games, gonna trade them in for the 360 versions. I'm done, it's a Blu-ray player now unless I want to play Demon's Souls or something.
― AaronHz, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 15:18 (thirteen years ago) link
amazing how badly they've fucked themselves with this. you would think they'd have a failsafe quickfix solution that they could roll out by region but shutting off EVERYONE for the better part of a month and a half with no warnings, no updates and no promises feels deadly.
― Stone Colde Sylke Freek (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 16:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Whoa, AaronHz is back
― Crazed Mister Handy (kingfish), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 16:26 (thirteen years ago) link
more like gaystation pee imo
― Lamp, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 16:29 (thirteen years ago) link
well i'm a reluctant to put too much blame on Sony for all this, lets not forget those filthy hackers out there are the real fuckers that need to be fried for all this.
― remove this man from the internet (Ste), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 16:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Please send me all your PS3 games, thanks.
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 16:41 (thirteen years ago) link
I'll take any psp games y'all wanna ditch
― Crazed Mister Handy (kingfish), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 16:46 (thirteen years ago) link
i bought a used copy of modern warfare 2 the day this happened
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 16:49 (thirteen years ago) link
so its all your fault then
― Lamp, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 16:50 (thirteen years ago) link
And better than ever! Hi man.
― AaronHz, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 16:50 (thirteen years ago) link
I was kind of hoping to play Beyond Good and Evil HD this month.
Instead I've decided to finish Red Dead Redemption and I am having so much fun that I'm not even noticing my bank account being drained every time I switch it on.
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 16:54 (thirteen years ago) link
I've been calling it POS3 since long before this happened.
― AaronHz, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 17:11 (thirteen years ago) link
"gaystation pee"About 216 results (0.17 seconds)
― jay lenonononono (abanana), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 19:14 (thirteen years ago) link
I think my PS3's disc drive is failing on me :(
― muus lääv? :D muus dut :( (Telephone thing), Friday, 13 May 2011 00:13 (thirteen years ago) link
any idea how this is affecting the market value of second-hand ps3s? just wondering if now is the time to buy...
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Friday, 13 May 2011 08:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Not as much as you'd expect according to our numbers. But they're still in decline, I'd give it another week or two then see how things look.
― JimD, Friday, 13 May 2011 08:42 (thirteen years ago) link
You're saying I should sell quick?
― NoShoutsNoCalls (Leee), Saturday, 14 May 2011 18:11 (thirteen years ago) link
I doubt the market will crash or anything, but even before the outage, most major retailers started discounting all three systems or offering $50 gift cards with one. With E3 around the corner, the Wii 2 already announced, I'm expecting price drops or new SKUs for every system. The original Wii drop is already pretty much in effect, with the new Mario Kart bundle.
― Nhex, Saturday, 14 May 2011 18:17 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-05-14-playstation-network-back-online
― Romford Spring (DG), Saturday, 14 May 2011 23:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Well, I just got offered a firmware update in the US, so it might be!
― mh, Saturday, 14 May 2011 23:50 (thirteen years ago) link