Calling a spade a spade.
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LIZARD SQUAD is Back. Planning XBL Attack. "Biggest attack yet". [UP: XBL/PSN Down]
- Thread starter Horse Armour
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Calling a spade a spade.
I will not resub either, Feb will expire and I will let it expire, Im seriously pissed right now.
Bitmap Frogs
Mr. Community
Can't believe it's not back up yet.
Colbert
Banned
Thats true. I gorgot to mention that I was only unable to log in for about 3 hours. So that is not much compared to the problems Sony seems to have with their network.
KennyLinder
Member
Sky News have a video of one of them. Surely at this point they should be caught?
http://news.sky.com/story/1398435/xbox-hacker-reveals-why-he-attacked-consoles
http://news.sky.com/story/1398435/xbox-hacker-reveals-why-he-attacked-consoles
Live Free or Die
Banned
According to their description they say they are. I saw PS Nation rewteet one of their tweets so Im thinking it might be a real account. If its a fake account I apologize. I didnt know.
That's not what I said at all, angry internet dude.
Douchebags who think it's "funny" to ruin other people's time like this are not people that need to be in society.
There is nothing uncivil about putting a bullet between their eyes. At all.
4 days running? . Well since It last worked at about mid day on Xmas day, how's your math holding up?
Marvel
could never
Call Dr. Stevie.
But...You did.
so should the attacks not stop, PSN will just be down forever?
SDCowboy
Member
It supposedly went down Christmas eve.
I was told in this thread it went down Xmas eve. If it's only 3 days, fine. My point still stands.
God, I hope so. What a fucking tool.
BronsonLee
Member
...You know I'm not taking issue with that, right?
Even he can't help me now!
I would say no attacks are happening at the moment. Some are able to log in, some aren't and some are getting booted off. Live is pretty much working. I'm sure if I had a ONE I could get on and play right now online.
PSN I can't log in Period. Haven't been able to for days now. I don't blame either company for the attack but after the attack it should not take PSN days to come back online.
Jesus Christ. Missing a chromosome there.
You miiight care about this outage a bit too much...
Hidden One
Member
No. I was playing Destiny Chrismas eve. When I woke up Christmas Day PSN was outta there.
Correct. Xmas Eve night, not the full day.
GalacticToast
Member
Wow...good thing you're not in charge.
Hidden One
Member
I didnt go down Christmas Eve night. I was playing Destiny at like 2 AM Christmas morning.
Possibly. Sony could change ip's which would stop the issue for a short amount of time, or they could temporarily increase the size of their servers to cope with it, but then ls could jsut grab a larger botnet. But it may be like this till whoever is controlling the botnet runs out of money or gets bored or gets caught :/
Lol I know. You take issue with me saying they need to hire MS. Very reactionary on my part. The point is Sony at this point needs to do everything possible to make sure their service is reliable.
Especially is Playstation is going to be a cornerstone of their business going forward.
SDCowboy
Member
I get it. I edited my post. That still doesn't change anything.
Yeah, little OTT. I'd probably hack, I mean chop... there fingers off.
The 24th is still the 24th!
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
I can't say its really that much better.
Xbox One
- I was unable to play Forza Horizon 2 offline because it had to log into my profile and couldn't. I should've tested other games.
- I couldn't update anything.
- system would freeze. I'm guessing this is due to it trying to sign into Live. It locked up on me numerous times to the point where I didn't want to use it at all.
- Error where system wasn't recognizing a disc in the drive. Had to hard reset to fix.
PS4
- I'm able to play my single player games, both physical and digital.
- I'm able to download and install updates for my games despite PSN being down.
So during this whole shitfest my PS4 has gotten use, while my X1 was a doorstop until Live was restored. Glad Live was restored sooner, but when both were down, PS4 wasn't completely KO'd and could at least function without locking up.
At least that's my experience through all this...
Jest Chillin
Member
My argument isn't an argument. I was explaining why a surge of users logging in at one time is not at all "normal traffic." The fact that you missed that tells me that you're more concerned with arguing and blaming than you are with understanding. Which is unfortunate.
Free or Paid, your expectations do not change reality. What you deem valid isn't necessarily an intelligent decision for them to make. So rather than sit here and argue with people over a subject that you're not at all interested in understanding, why not just sell your Sony systems and game on whatever you feel represents your vision best.
VibratingDonkey
Member
Doubt they'd be this stupid.
Well, plenty of others did, including myself. At roughly around 8 pm eastern it started going out.
No he didn't. He was explaining how these things are set up regardless of it being a paid service. Your idea that it could possibly be up 100% of the time while 100% of the user base (a number that is always changing) is accessing it isn't exactly realistic. It's a nice thought. But no.
"Oh no, my videogames don't work. Better shoot the people responsible in the head."
Ridiculous.
Hidden One
Member
Except it didn't go down on the 24th. It went down in the early morning hours of Christmas Day.
So what are you waiting for tough guy, get off your dumpy ass and get them.
Not everyone. It was down about 30hrs for me. I don't blame Sony for the DDoS attack or the down time. Who knows what the DDoS did? But I feel Sony could of communicated in more detail. Hopefully they will do a big post on it after the problem is sorted.
Nealand Liquor
Member
This really fucking sucks and I still can't log on. I hope Sony does right by everyone and extends the flash sales, etc so people have a chance to buy the games on sale they wanted. I've been trying every day and I'll be pretty unhappy if I can't purchase the games I wanted.
I merely explained to you that companies don't set up their network infrastructure for 100% peak load, paid or not.
But whatever. I guess that makes me some kind of corporate apologist.
Fnord
Member
That dude is a chode. And I'd be surprised if he had anything at all to do with any of this, as DDoS attacks have fuck all to do with "security."
spindashing
Banned
Lizard Squad.
gregor7777
Banned
Live was restored on Christmas night for a majority of users. There's a big difference here for most of us.
Exploding8
Member
No one's saying that, we're saying this isn't a problem that Microsoft or Sony can fix, the only way to stop it is to find the guys responsible, something law enforcement has to do. There is literally no way to prevent DDoS attacks, all you can do is mitigate the effects by increasing bandwidth.
Again, yes it did for many of us.