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[Necromanti]

I am bracing my body for the inevitability of the PSN store never being brought to life again.

 

[demosthenes]

I am bracing my body for the inevitability of the PSN store never being brought to life again.

The only way that happens if Sony leaves the console industry.

 

[opticalmace]

The only way that happens if Sony leaves the console industry.

Spoiler

Playstation 4 is a peripheral for the Cafe.

 

[cj_iwakura]

Not that it matters at the moment but do we even have a release date for the game?

Early June is about all I can assume.

According to XSeed, very soon after the store comes back.

 

[MNC]

Was the PS store going down on 31st was it?

 

[Clipper]

Hmm, that's strange. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I was under the impression that the redeem code feature available through the us.playstation.com website was disabled all this time. It just let me enter the code and redeem my Reptile skin from MK, though... Is this a recent change or has code redeem always been working since they enabled website logins?

Unfortunately I'm not near my PS3 to see if redeeming the code allows for download of content or not...

 

[MNC]

Ah... It's down NOW and going up 31st.

 

[Wario64]

Hmm, that's strange. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I was under the impression that the redeem code feature available through the us.playstation.com website was disabled all this time. It just let me enter the code and redeem my Reptile skin from MK, though... Is this a recent change or has code redeem always been working since they enabled website logins?

Unfortunately I'm not near my PS3 to see if redeeming the code allows for download of content or not...

It's been working ever since PSN went back up. You can't download though obviously, unless it's a PSP game

 

[Clipper]

It's been working ever since PSN went back up. You can't download though obviously, unless it's a PSP game

Thanks. I felt sure that I checked that feature the first time I noticed the site was accepting logins, but I guess I was mistaken.

 

[Flunkie]

THE STORE IS NOT UP!

 

[Augemitbutter]

According to XSeed, very soon after the store comes back.

holy shit. please be true.

 

[lolez2matt]

It's been working ever since PSN went back up. You can't download though obviously, unless it's a PSP game

Thats weird.... My code of la noire threw me an error.. Tried it 1 week ago :/

 

[Wario64]

Thats weird.... My code of la noire threw me an error.. Tried it 1 week ago :/

Because LA Noire was after the PSN shutdown date

 

[lolez2matt]

Because LA Noire was after the PSN shutdown date

Ok....
Got scared for a minute lol

 

[hebrew hammer]

I guess god is telling me not to give sony my money since I want to buy hoard

 

[Alej]

I was on my PSP today... And i have access to the download list (in account manager) for things i have already purchased (Dl'd all my PS games for retro gaming all dayyyy, grandia FTW!). But i have no clue if it was just there all the time since the PSN is up. ^^ I'm very happy at the moment.

Edit: GF said that it was there yesterday too, she has dl'd some demos on her PSP. It doesnt function on our PS3 by the way.

 

[Y2Kev]

sony = fukfail

 

[edgefusion]

PSN has never had an online store. What are you guys going on about?

I can just see their E3 conference now, "Ladies and gentlemen we have a very exciting new feature to introduce to you today.... the Playstation STORE!"

 

[duckroll]

It's really amazing how poorly handled this process has been on Sony's part.

21 Apr 2011 - PSN goes down worldwide.

22 Apr 2011 - Sony announces they're looking into it and might take a "day or two" to bring all services back online.

27 Apr 2011 - Sony announces that someone broke into PSN days before PSN was taken down, and might have stolen the personal information and credit card information of every single user on PSN.

1 May 2011 - Sony holds a press conference in Japan. Announces Welcome Back program. Promises that within a week basic services will be restored, with all services returning within the month.

15 May 2011 - Firmware 3.61 for PS3 is released. Phased restoration of basic PSN services begins in North America, Europe, Oceanic, and some Middle East regions. Kaz Hirai says sorry again. Promises everything will be restored by the end of May.

27 May 2011 - Phased restoration of basic PSN services continues in Japan and most Asian countries. Welcome Back program announced for these regions.

31 May 2011 - PSN in Hong Kong and South Korea is still not restored. There is no announcement or indication yet of the PS Store returning. The PS Store has been down for over 5 weeks. It has missed 5 weeks of updates in the US, Europe and Japan. It has missed 6 weeks of updates in Asia because it went down just before the update for that week on 21 Apr.

This is amazing!

 

[Plinko]

I can just see their E3 conference now, "Ladies and gentlemen we have a very exciting new feature to introduce to you today.... the Playstation STORE!"

If they do this to get a cheap pop from the crowd I will be pissed. I'd hope the crowd would boo the living daylights out of them.

 

[DesertEater]

THE STORE IS NOT UP!

I read it as "STORE IS UP" hehehe. One more day god damn it.

 

[okenny]

Man this is so fucked :/

I'm seriously taking notes this E3. I want to see how a company "saves face" after a run like this. A total re-branding?

It seems like Sony services just needs to be more decentralized. This would never have been this bad had the problem been intermittent between regions and services. This "everything-from-the-top" method of running organization has got to die.

 

[okenny]

If they do this to get a cheap pop from the crowd I will be pissed. I'd hope the crowd would boo the living daylights out of them.

We need to band together and show our support. This may sound a bit corny but it would be cool if a team took a "We love PSN" banner into the press conference and unfurled it when someone heckles. We can break the team into three parts:

Team 1 (Daxter Team): Holds up the banner

Team 2 (Butler Team): Listening carefully for hecklers. Should one happen, there like a finely tuned distributed sensory network that immediately stands and points to the hecklers so that Sony security can sweep in.

Team 3 (Cell Team): If there's a heckler should attempt to derail the presentation, what Sony needs the most is our support. Cell Team will yell at the stage things like

• We love you Sony
• We Love Jack
• We support our network!

...you get the gist ^_^

No true Playstation would come into that conference with ill intentions. The people who do this are haters sent by other conferences but together we can show them there in Sony's house now!

 

[NotTheGuyYouKill]

Maybe Sony just cut their losses and have ditched the store entirely.

Nah, but still, this is ridiculous.

 

[Link1110]

Do I have to wait for PS Store to be up to get my free games, or is there some other place to do that?

 

[hosannainexcelsis]

One more day to get the store up, Sony. Then I start upending tables.

Do I have to wait for PS Store to be up to get my free games, or is there some other place to do that?

You have to wait.

 

[maskrider]

It's really amazing how poorly handled this process has been on Sony's part.

21 Apr 2011 - PSN goes down worldwide.

22 Apr 2011 - Sony announces they're looking into it and might take a "day or two" to bring all services back online.

27 Apr 2011 - Sony announces that someone broke into PSN days before PSN was taken down, and might have stolen the personal information and credit card information of every single user on PSN.

1 May 2011 - Sony holds a press conference in Japan. Announces Welcome Back program. Promises that within a week basic services will be restored, with all services returning within the month.

15 May 2011 - Firmware 3.61 for PS3 is released. Phased restoration of basic PSN services begins in North America, Europe, Oceanic, and some Middle East regions. Kaz Hirai says sorry again. Promises everything will be restored by the end of May.

27 May 2011 - Phased restoration of basic PSN services continues in Japan and most Asian countries. Welcome Back program announced for these regions.

31 May 2011 - PSN in Hong Kong and South Korea is still not restored. There is no announcement or indication yet of the PS Store returning. The PS Store has been down for over 5 weeks. It has missed 5 weeks of updates in the US, Europe and Japan. It has missed 6 weeks of updates in Asia because it went down just before the update for that week on 21 Apr.

This is amazing!

So long, I've been looking too hard, I've been waiting too long
Sometimes I don't know what I will find, I only know it's a matter of time ...

Really sooooo long, without PSN (I'm in HK).

And no stores (in any continent) yet ... with or without VPN, I cannot get the PSP VC3 DLC that I've been longing for ...

 

[Mechanical Snowman]

I need to give Ubisoft some of my money but I can't. Why does Sony hate us

Do I have to wait for PS Store to be up to get my free games, or is there some other place to do that?

Well the only place you can download games is the PSN store...

 

[plc268]

It's really amazing how poorly handled this process has been on Sony's part.

21 Apr 2011 - PSN goes down worldwide.

22 Apr 2011 - Sony announces they're looking into it and might take a "day or two" to bring all services back online.

27 Apr 2011 - Sony announces that someone broke into PSN days before PSN was taken down, and might have stolen the personal information and credit card information of every single user on PSN.

1 May 2011 - Sony holds a press conference in Japan. Announces Welcome Back program. Promises that within a week basic services will be restored, with all services returning within the month.

15 May 2011 - Firmware 3.61 for PS3 is released. Phased restoration of basic PSN services begins in North America, Europe, Oceanic, and some Middle East regions. Kaz Hirai says sorry again. Promises everything will be restored by the end of May.

27 May 2011 - Phased restoration of basic PSN services continues in Japan and most Asian countries. Welcome Back program announced for these regions.

31 May 2011 - PSN in Hong Kong and South Korea is still not restored. There is no announcement or indication yet of the PS Store returning. The PS Store has been down for over 5 weeks. It has missed 5 weeks of updates in the US, Europe and Japan. It has missed 6 weeks of updates in Asia because it went down just before the update for that week on 21 Apr.

This is amazing!

It appears that now that steam is on the PS3, sony got infected with "valve time."

It's the only explanation.

 

[GeoramA]

By the end of May, huh?

Looks like another example of incompetence or an outright lie to throw on the pile.

 

[Boss Doggie]

Well, looks like it will be up during E3 after all.

 

[edgefusion]

Anybody want to place bets on whether the PS Store will be back by the E3 conference or not?

 

[duckroll]

Anybody want to place bets on whether the PS Store will be back by the E3 conference or not?

Maybe Wario64 should run another contest.

 

[runlikehell]

Sony doesn't know how much money I want to spend once the store goes up it seems.

 

[corporate cheerleader]

Sony doesn't know how much money I want to spend once the store goes up it seems.

In my case, they know it's €44. :/

 

[Glix]

It's been working ever since PSN went back up. You can't download though obviously, unless it's a PSP game

Or a PSone game? I'm downloading Suikoden (sp?) onto my PSP right now. Its taking FOREVER!

 

[Nizz]

Damn, when will the store be up again? I want to download Infamous and Dead Nation already!

 

[opticalmace]

Damn, when will the store be up again? I want to download Infamous and Dead Nation already!

I have to assume E3 at the latest.

If not that would be a huge failure.

 

[GraveRobberX]

Quick comment

Anyone worried the longer the store "Re-Opening" delay, the more of a CLUSTERFUCK the updates to the store are going to be

I mean we have missed like 5+ store updates, almost now 1.5 month of PSN+ updates

Good lord, how are they gonna cram all this shit (you know some titles will get lost in the shuffle + the Welcome back package equals free games, so that takes away from the new games being offered)

I mean if they do every 2 updates per week, lets say a Tuesday/Wednesday + Thursday/Friday Scenario....you still would need 3 fucking weeks just for the store to "catch up"

I mean E3 is just around the corner, 6 days, is Sony really gonna do montages and do Sales talk and boast about it's PSN network and how much they make, when they can't even get their own fucking store running

 

[Castor Krieg]

I read it as "STORE IS UP" hehehe. One more day god damn it.

I don't think the Store will be up by Wednesday, they would've announced it if it was. The big maintenance might be to test some features of the Store, or put it on for a couple of hours to test things.

 

[cRIPticon]

By the end of May, huh?

Looks like another example of incompetence or an outright lie to throw on the pile.

I know, right? Massive and crippling security breaches that require new solutions to be implemented while dealing with other attacks, rebuilding systems, testing, performing system forensics and dealing with other outages, globally, is easy peasy and any high schooler with a LAMP stack and some torrented firewall software could have had this whole thing resolved in a week!

Stupid Sony and their lies. We all know they enjoy keeping us from using their services and not making any money while pissing off their dev partners. They are probably laughing about it right now! *SIGH*

 

[PepsimanVsJoe]

Quick comment

Anyone worried the longer the store "Re-Opening" delay, the more of a CLUSTERFUCK the updates to the store are going to be

I mean we have missed like 5+ store updates, almost now 1.5 month of PSN+ updates

Good lord, how are they gonna cram all this shit (you know some titles will get lost in the shuffle + the Welcome back package equals free games, so that takes away from the new games being offered)

I mean if they do every 2 updates per week, lets say a Tuesday/Wednesday + Thursday/Friday Scenario....you still would need 3 fucking weeks just for the store to "catch up"

I mean E3 is just around the corner, 6 days, is Sony really gonna do montages and do Sales talk and boast about it's PSN network and how much they make, when they can't even get their own fucking store running

I'm definitely worried about this.

Then again this might benefit me(as a reviewer) since there's a chance more review codes will go out as publishers scramble to get anything out there that might help sell some games. Then again it might not because my schedule is completely shot just with what's on my plate at the current.

 

[PjotrStroganov]

It's probably result in a more focused press confo without all the sales talk.

 

[Ken Masters]

I want to DL some stuff on the store, the fuck is Sony doing?

 

[cRIPticon]

I want to DL some stuff on the store, the fuck is Sony doing?

I don't know. Perhaps they are just ignoring it all and hope we will forget about it?

 

[ferr]

Yeah I'm starting to have doubts about PSN Store being up by the end of May.

 

[UberTag]

Yeah I'm starting to have doubts about PSN Store being up by the end of May.

But Sony is so good at underpromising and meeting both their internal and publicized target dates.
I simply can't fathom that the PS Store won't be up tomorrow with everything back to normal.

 

[Dr. Malik]

Yeah I'm starting to have doubts about PSN Store being up by the end of May.

haha, I just noticed tomorrow is the last day of May



...... :/

 

[Fuzzy]

But Sony is so good at underpromising and meeting both their internal and publicized target dates.
I simply can't fathom that the PS Store won't be up tomorrow with everything back to normal.

Sarcasm! I am so smrt.

 

[kpx0]

the ugly thing is that when (if) PSN Store finally does open, the 20+ million gamers trying to download their 2 free games at the same time are going to shut down PSN again... its going to be like a Walmart during Black Friday.