Air Zombie Meat
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Good to know they're aware. Would be really worrying if they hadn't noticed.
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LIZARD SQUAD is Back. Planning XBL Attack. "Biggest attack yet". [UP: XBL/PSN Down]
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Good to know they're aware. Would be really worrying if they hadn't noticed.
LookAtMeGo
Member
Still a mess eh? Fuck these kids.
All hail single player!
All hail single player!
Exploding8
Member
Banks don't even have enough money in all their banks combined to handle everyone taking out all their money.
Exactly. Its the same deal with Sony's and Microsoft's networks. They can't handle the combined load of a large portion of their clients on top of a DDoS attack. Microsoft's better off because they already have a large server farm (Azure) that they rent to people that they can borrow from, but Sony's naturally going to be more affected since they don't have that infrastructure to borrow from for this specific period of time.
LowParry
Member
All jokes aside, I tried to get a Wii U yesterday, but Walmart seemed to be sold out.
If you could get in on one of those refurb systems directly from Nintendo, it's an awesome deal. Though you can get the same through their bundle. Sold out though? Guess that's just Walmart. I usually see them over at Best Buy all the time.
Tales from the ass, right?
gregor7777
Banned
Ugh. Certainly you troll sir.
NO NETWORK ON EARTH IS EQUIPPED TO HANDLE 100% OF ITS USERBASE ACCESSING SIMULTANEOUSLY.
Pattycakes
Banned
Holy shit guys. When the service went down doesn't matter. Who fucking cares if it is really three says or four days? All that should matter is that it went down at some point the past few days, and it is still down. You're all arguing semantics and making yourselves look like goddamn morons.
/rant
/rant
BronsonLee
Member
Totally valid. But people say more than three days, then it becomes four, then it's a week, and exaggeration doesn't help anything.
Jest Chillin
Member
So you'd be comfortable with the price of something like Plus going up to support the implementation of entire datacenters that have to be manned and maintained that aren't even used 95% of the time?
Because you keep saying that Sony isn't investing in infrastructure but you've provided exactly zero evidence of such.
Some military intranets can. I demand mil-spec gaming networks. First company to launch has my $$$.
Let's see. 25th, 26th and today is the 27th. That is ON the third day, as I said. Now kindly drop this arguing semantics shit, please.
Its not North Korea.
SDCowboy
Member
Yeah I was strolling through Wallyworld yesterday and they appeared to be sold out of all consoles except the Alienware SteamBox and the original Wii's and maybe some 360s.
People keep saying this but I seriously doubt 100% of Sony's user base is trying to login right now.
LowParry
Member
Sounds like those TLG crazy folk. Maybe next E3!
gregor7777
Banned
Perhaps. I can't speak to those but even then I highly doubt it.
oh yeah, ctrl c + ctrl v is very hard. i want a public statement from shu, shawn layden or andrew house about this shit, and what they're gonna do to fix it.
hopefully people will stop buying ps4s so they see how big of a deal this is. i know i wouldn't buy it is this happened before i bought.
Exploding8
Member
People do do this every day, some have bigger botnets to distribute the attack across than others, which makes some more effective than others. Some also have more money to throw around to rent botnets than others as well.
Hell, you can view a map of attacks here:
http://map.ipviking.com/
You really don't get it, do you? Ok, let's say you get the network capacity up so everyone can log in at once. It would all be a waste when 80%+ are offline after an hour or two. So you would be happier for sony wasting your money on unused servers and bandwidth just because?
Robert J. Sullivan
Member
jesus christ mate it's just video games
gregor7777
Banned
Yet that's what he is demanding LOL.
I'm making a point. They probably can't even handle a small percentage, but the point is, even that is an unrealistic expectation.
shysaursoft
Member
You're right - though there is likely a large increase in the general population trying to get in due to Christmas, which when added to the damage of the DDoS from a few days ago, is compounding problems. There is no excusing Sony - their infrastructure needs work - but the reality is this: PSN is down, for most, and Sony is "working on it". That's all we know.
lol even sony ditched the vita
I'm logging in fine on EU PS3 and Vita. Are you on PS4? I don't have one but seems like PS4 is having the most issues.
Live Free or Die
Banned
Don't bother wasting your time with him. No point in you getting upset. He is either trolling at this point or doesn't want to understand the problem. Seems like he just wants to make this into a console war.
Marvel
could never
This is why I am trolling. It is very doubtful that the users trying to login right now are what's keeping it down.
Jinjo
Member
That's just the same fucking message copy-pasted over and over again. "We're aware" hardly constitutes to "giving us information/updates". The fact that PSN is still down and Xbox Live isn't shows their incompetence.
Vita doesn't have sign in problems, at least nowhere near as much. I was online whole day.
Jest Chillin
Member
No, they aren't. But the people saying that are responding to a poster who is saying that Sony should be able to do so.
The reality is that this is likely much more like a car accident causing a traffic jam. Even once the accident is cleared, it takes awhile for traffic to clear up because there's been a back up of people trying to travel past it. So it doesn't even have to be 100% off a user base trying to log in. It doesn't even have to be the majority, as long as it's more traffic than the login servers are able to handle.
Hmmm because you're not everyone maybe... the point that was being made.
LookAtMeGo
Member
I think they know this is a big deal and are doing everything in their power to fix it. Having a suit tell you they are trying their best won't speed things up. There is a whole thread here describing whats happening if you want to educate yourself on how DDOS attacks work.
SDCowboy
Member
Sony, I think most of us are aware that you're aware. Lets advance past this already...
Shadow Broker
Banned
I agree with what you said. What I think that some Gaffer's don't understand is that some of us has to plan when we're able to play video games for a extended period of time because of work, family, & life. I work shift work like many, I worked Christmas eve and day like many and my plan was spend time with family and than get knee deep in Destiny to try and get some higher level gear. This shit fucked that up and I lost that time playing with my Uncle.
It's not all that bad because I do have other games like Akiba's Trip to play in the mean time but doesn't change the fact that I (and many others) couldn't do what we intended to do in our time off. I can always play single player games at anytime I'm not working but have to plan a head for multiplayer sessions with family. Now it's always going to be in the back of my mind if these dick holes will do this again. Sony not releasing some form of a statement is also annoying.
I'm really annoyed.
gregor7777
Banned
It's pretty well accepted Live has been up and running for the majority of users for almost 2 days.
Live Free or Die
Banned
You dont think there is millions of PS4 users trying to get on the network after it's been down for a few days?
What would you prefer they say?
BronsonLee
Member
I'm with you. It's just that some cannot handle even the slightest bit of criticism towards their console of choice and will defend it tooth and nail... down to the minute.