Official PSN discussion thread

[Guest]

If anything it does give a nice little glimps into the pay service over free and it doesn't really surprise me how mickey mouse everything has been sounding on the ps3 end.

You know, I want to say something to that effect, but I am pretty sure that someone could exploit Microsoft is they have the drive and support from others. Nothing is as secure as we want to believe.

EDIT: That, and I am not a fan boy of either. I just do my online gaming on the 360, because that is what most of my friends have.

[padman59]

I just had a dream the PSN was back on and everything was right in the world

If it makes you feel better, you can imagine that the last thought going through Bin Laden's mind was regretting he used his actual name and address when he signed up for PSN.

[leaffan]

You know, I want to say something to that effect, but I am pretty sure that someone could exploit Microsoft is they have the drive and support from others. Nothing is as secure as we want to believe.

EDIT: That, and I am not a fan boy of either. I just do my online gaming on the 360, because that is what most of my friends have.

I'm sure they could and really no one really knows what the xbox's back end does look like but I'd be willing to bet their information storage isn't kept just wide open for anyone to take like it was on the sony side.

I only play on xbox because I won my 360 at a golf tournament and really have never paid for the console itself since I've owned it for like 4 years now. If I would of won a PS3 I would of been playing PS3 this whole time lol.

[PP]

I think this is a little lame by Sony to be honest.. A free month of PS+ is cool since I already have it for the year but the people who don't have it and use it for only a month.. what are they going to have when their subscription is over? When you stop PS+ you are not able to access any of the downloaded games or anything anymore so really you will just have a month to play whatever crappy DL titles they are going to give.

[leaffan]

I think this is a little lame by Sony to be honest.. A free month of PS+ is cool since I already have it for the year but the people who don't have it and use it for only a month.. what are they going to have when their subscription is over? When you stop PS+ you are not able to access any of the downloaded games or anything anymore so really you will just have a month to play whatever crappy DL titles they are going to give.

Ahh but I don't think you see the the clever advertising they did with this. Let everyone have it for free when really after this whole thing is over they could have a bunch of people hooked on PS+ which will equal new subscriptions.

It's quite shady of an idea but a good one.

[spiker]

So is PSN back up yet or what?

[PP]

Ahh but I don't think you see the the clever advertising they did with this. Let everyone have it for free when really after this whole thing is over they could have a bunch of people hooked on PS+ which will equal new subscriptions.

It's quite shady of an idea but a good one.

No I see exactly what they are doing, and I am shaking my head to it. First time in a long time I do not agree with Sony.

[Guest]

Ahh but I don't think you see the the clever advertising they did with this. Let everyone have it for free when really after this whole thing is over they could have a bunch of people hooked on PS+ which will equal new subscriptions.

It's quite shady of an idea but a good one.

Yep, very shady. However, they need to make money after all they've probably spent to fix this issue. Also, the mall near where I live had a Sony store up until a month ago, and it closed down. I imagine that that experiment hasn't worked well in other places, so they have to pay for that too.

[PP]

:obama:

I gave up on my PS after more than a week down and sold it back to gamestop, Sony then decides to email us to inform us that basically all the information they have on us was likely to have been compromised. I will gladly switch to Xbox and learned the lesson that before I put credit card info out there on a game system again I will purchase the points and stuff from stores.

[Twigg4075]

Like someone else said, the most important thing they should've done is offer a Life Lock type service for free to all their customers. For an individual person it's pretty expensive but with Sony being the huge company they are I'm sure they could get a small discount if they helped 77 million people sign up. :cool:
Of course I would guess that only half of the customers, and that's probably pushing it, would even bother following through with the sign up.

[Guest]

Like someone else said, the most important thing they should've down is offer a Life Lock type service for free to all their customers. For an individual person it's pretty expensive but with Sony being the huge company they are I'm sure they could get a small discount if they helped 77 million people sign up. :cool:
Of course I would guess that only half of the customers, and that's probably pushing it, would even bother following through with the sign up.

That could have worked as well. With my previous post a few above, I don't mean to say that I am criticizing Sony. I love my PS3, my PSP and they make get products, and on the whole, they are a great company.

It just seems that what they are doing to "repay" their customers for this is not enough. Shoot, even eight months to a year of PS+ would be better than just a month- at least that way it doesn't seem as much like a way for them to get people to test it and buy it. Thats my issue with it. Or even the ability to download a current game to own, with a choice of 10 or so titles- that would be fair (note that I do not know if that is possible on PS3, as I do not play online or use the store.)

[padman59]

Small correction. The only thing encrypted apparently was CC info. Everything else apparently was plain text, including passwords.

Very careless on Sony's part with the passwords. Amazing that a tech company of Sony's size would be foolish enough to not encrypt passwords. However, at least they encrypted the CC info. Changing a password isn't too much of an inconvenience. Stolen credit card is a bit more troublesome.

Passwords were hashed, not plain text. So, anyone who took them still has/had work to do in order to break it.

EDIT: Sony is also claiming that the rumor about stolen credit cards being offered back to them is false.

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2011/05/02/playstation-network-security-update/

[Blade]

Can we send Team Seal 6 to fix the playstation network already?

[Handleit_44]

Link: Report: Sony hit with second attack, loses 12,700 credit card numbers

Following up on this morning's news that Sony Online Entertainment servers were offline across the board, Japanese newspaper Nikkei reports (via BGR) that the company has lost 12,700 customer credit card numbers as the result of an attack. The company apparently took SOE servers offline after learning of the attack last evening, but has yet to issue a statement confirming that customer information has been lost.

Of the 12,700 total, 4,300 are alleged to be from Japan, while the remainder's origins are unknown. The report also notes that the data stolen was from 2007, which Engadget posits could mean this was simply stolen data from an old backup.

The report doesn't mention whether last night's supposed breach is connected to the recent incidents involving Sony's PlayStation Network and Qriocity services, though an SOE representative told Joystiq that official comment would be coming from the company "within the hour."

[Twigg4075]

Don't you usually get a better deal if you purchase the stuff online with a cc rather than buying points in a store? I know once in awhile you can find a deal on XBL or PSN points, but if they sell for retail price, is it cheaper online or offline for the amount of points you get per dollar?

There never seems to be any deals on PSN cards (or Wii cards for that matter) because they are actual dollar values, whereas M$ uses their funny money/space bucks/carnival ticket points there is some leeway in pricing. Because of that you will occasionally find deals.