Sony shuts down PlayStation Network Indefinitely

[user130523]

what idiots

[Stephen]

Meh. It was pretty obvious that it had all been stolen. Guess it assures us but doesn't really surprise me. If only they had given the first warning as soon as they thought there might of been someone with all our details but oh well. Doesn't really affect me except psn being off. Used an old email, old password, old card etc so I'm all good!

[dbgtz]

Meh. It was pretty obvious that it had all been stolen. Guess it assures us but doesn't really surprise me. If only they had given the first warning as soon as they thought there might of been someone with all our details but oh well. Doesn't really affect me except psn being off. Used an old email, old password, old card etc so I'm all good!

card data was encrypted so :L

apparently the addresses and that are easy to find so that doesn't bother me and the password I used is purely used for psn so thats good, and the dob is fake so its all good.

[Stephen!]

Australian Man First PSN Victim of Credit Card Fraud

Adelaide man Rory Spreckley checked his banking details on Wednesday and got a shock: $2000 in new charges on his credit card. Spreckley noted a number of $1 transactions on the 23rd - usually a test for hackers to see if the card is a viable source for fraud. Following those transactions, Spreckley saw "including domestic flights within Australia, bookings at Best Westerns [hotels] and what not."

http://www.gamepolitics.com/2011/04/...dit-card-fraud

[Recursion]

Will be getting my card cancelled asap then. Luckily I don't think I've ever used my new VISA card on PSN, but can never be too sure.

Sony better pay up for this, although I think that link is just a coincodence above ^^.

[N!ck]

Yeah, the card I used is cancelled now but it's such a shame that this happened .

[Eoin247]

It was a joke, but now that you mention it.

"better controls" - Debatable, I'd rather have a joypad than using a mouse and keyboard.
"graphics" - PC graphics aren't much better than console graphics, better yes, a console couldn't match what a PC can do yet, but they're not much better.
"community" - Also debatable, I feel the PC community is full of bone headed morons that spend more time comparing RAM than they do playing games, I'd much rather have my games on a stable platform than one that requires upgrades if things get a little intense.

To be fair the really good gaming computers can beat consoles by quite a bit. That said the difference in price doesn't justify the huge price increase i think.


I feel kinda bad for sony. This is going to send their loss before profit plan right down the toilet.

[:.:kaytay:.:]

1. I hate Xbox; costs to much.
2. I hate PS's ; cause of this
3. I Love wii; Free

[Hiro]

Homeland Security looking into PSN outage

http://uk.gamespot.com/news/6310929.html

[Recursion]

It was a joke, but now that you mention it.

"better controls" - Debatable, I'd rather have a joypad than using a mouse and keyboard.
"graphics" - PC graphics aren't much better than console graphics, better yes, a console couldn't match what a PC can do yet, but they're not much better.
"community" - Also debatable, I feel the PC community is full of bone headed morons that spend more time comparing RAM than they do playing games, I'd much rather have my games on a stable platform than one that requires upgrades if things get a little intense.

Try playing an FPS on a console against someone playing the same FPS on a recent gaming computer, your controls wouldn't be a patch on a mouse and keyboard, they're a lot more accurate than any control anyone can produce, most console FPS games have some sort of autoaim to compensate. If you want to get better graphics... well, we can, just upgrade our graphics cards as opposed to having to wait 5+ years for a new console to be released. Also the community... Yeah, I can see where you're coming from, but also not quite at the same time... there's a massive community over at places like steamcommunity.com and dedicated community sites like that.