Jon Posted May 13, 2011 Posted May 13, 2011 Anyway, isn't is a fairly poor idea to announce a brand new onlline multiplayer game at a time like this? Why? we all know the PSN is going to be back online fairly soon and it's not like you're going to be able to play this game any time soon.
Burny Posted May 13, 2011 Posted May 13, 2011 I only played the demo of warhawk and god I hated it! Would take something awesome to convince me to play starhawk! Like mechs transforming into Starhawks? Building walls, turrets and the likes?
flameboy Posted May 13, 2011 Posted May 13, 2011 Like mechs transforming into Starhawks? Building walls, turrets and the likes? ok so it does look pretty cool from that trailer. I like the building idea but IGN did raise a couple of concerns about it hopefully these can be ironed out. Like the music on that trailer, kinda bit star wars in places.
flameboy Posted May 14, 2011 Posted May 14, 2011 I heard Sony are going to start offering paypal as a payment option when PSN is back.
Cookyman Posted May 14, 2011 Posted May 14, 2011 This PSN outage is getting very tiresome - some developers are online now but we're still waiting *sigh* It's baby steps for PlayStation Network, with developer sources informing me the developer version of PSN is online. Whatever steps Sony took to get PSN up and running, however, has broken some pieces. Right now, developers are unable to register new accounts on PSN, only perform a recovery process on individual accounts. The problem? In order to facilitate testing, developers often created many, many dummy accounts with fake personal information. In order to recover an account, you need to know the personal information entered when the account was created. No surprise: most didn't write that down. In order to access PSN, developers have been asked to install an updated firmware. When reached for comment, Sony would not confirm the status of the developer-side PSN. "We said in this post last week that we've begun internal restoration," said a spokesperson. As I reported last night, PSN's three week hiatus has directly affected game development at several studios, as some have been unable to engage in active multiplayer testing for nearly a month now. As developers are able to bypass the login screen, shooters have been largely okay; those games connect to servers running independent of PSN. Games that access the friends list do not have the same option. The continued issues have frustrated developers I've talked, too, while inspiring relief in others. "I've never been more grateful to only work on single player games," said one developer. NeoGaf - helps cheer us all up though.
flameboy Posted May 14, 2011 Posted May 14, 2011 Theres also this news as well; A source from within the seedy depths of the Internet has implicated Amazon's cloud servers in the PlayStation Network breach that saw millions of consumer data stolen and the downtime of Sony's online services. According to the allegation, hackers created a legitimate account (with fake details, obviously) to rent a server through Amazon’s EC2 service and stage its attack on the PSN from there. The account has been shut down, which is obviously a great comfort to know at this stage. Amazon and Sony have declined to comment. The FBI has also refused to say if it is investigating Amazon. If Amazon's found to be culpable in this situation, it'll be a hefty PR blow to Amazon's remote servers. Companies are already said to have concerns over such things, and this'll make those worries all the greater. At the very least, it looks like Sony isn't the only company that may need to drastically upgrade its security. http://www.destructoid.com/amazon-cloud-servers-possibly-used-in-psn-hack-attack-201133.phtml I've had enough of it now. I would never have said this in the whole time I've owned my PS3 previously as always been a primarily single player gamer but do miss playing Killzone 3. If only the Wii wasn't so shit online I'd be ok. (although only online games I own are mario strikers and mario kart not exactly same ground)
Diageo Posted May 14, 2011 Posted May 14, 2011 I saw an article saying that loads of people are trading in their PS3's because of this. I don't know if it's true but it seems a bit drastic just because they can't go online for a while. If it had to happen at any time, I'm glad it is now since it doesn't hinder me as I am meant to be studying for my exams.
Jon Posted May 14, 2011 Posted May 14, 2011 You really need to be assessing you priorities in life if a few weeks without online gaming is resulting in you actually trading in your console. Especially when almost all of the people doing it will crumble as soon as the PSN comes back online again and go out and buy a new PS3. Fair enough if the PSN was going to be off for a long time, not a few weeks.
flameboy Posted May 14, 2011 Posted May 14, 2011 I saw an article saying that loads of people are trading in their PS3's because of this. I don't know if it's true but it seems a bit drastic just because they can't go online for a while. If it had to happen at any time, I'm glad it is now since it doesn't hinder me as I am meant to be studying for my exams. You really need to be assessing you priorities in life if a few weeks without online gaming is resulting in you actually trading in your console. Especially when almost all of the people doing it will crumble as soon as the PSN comes back online again and go out and buy a new PS3. Fair enough if the PSN was going to be off for a long time, not a few weeks. A lot of this evidence seems to be anecdotal with no actual numbers to back up these claims, which if true yes they are pretty sad. There does seem to be other stuff somewhat backing it up with reports of a number of key titles dropping drastically in price due to high number of trade ins. The only reason I would say people could justify trading in is if they really had lost faith in sony and felt their trust couldn't be brought back. I guess its not different to someone leaving a bank or other such company when they have fuck ups...We are perhaps being abit harsh in purely attributing this to the lack of online play.
Debug Mode Posted May 14, 2011 Posted May 14, 2011 Most of the trade-ins are supposedly attributed to the fickle FPS/Sports crowd. You know, the type of gamer that only really owns a console for COD and Fifa, which doesn't surprise me in the least to be honest. They just want the same games and for the online to work.
Jon Posted May 14, 2011 Posted May 14, 2011 I could understand it if people did it on principle and decided they'd had enough and wouldn't go back. I'd guess the majority of these people will be back on the PSN with-in weeks off it coming back on.
flameboy Posted May 14, 2011 Posted May 14, 2011 (edited) Most of the trade-ins are supposedly attributed to the fickle FPS/Sports crowd. You know, the type of gamer that only really owns a console for COD and Fifa, which doesn't surprise me in the least to be honest. They just want the same games and for the online to work. Yeah thats true! I could understand it if people did it on principle and decided they'd had enough and wouldn't go back. I'd guess the majority of these people will be back on the PSN with-in weeks off it coming back on. To be totally honest if I didn't have such a large library of both retail and downloadable games I would consider moving over to 360 not because of lack of online but because of lack of confidence in Sony. It's certainly gonna be a factor when the next gen hits for me. EDIT: I went to download update and it failed after 18% and now won't even try download, likely as a result of sooo many ppl downloading it? Edited May 14, 2011 by flameboy
Jon Posted May 14, 2011 Posted May 14, 2011 Yeah thats true! To be totally honest if I didn't have such a large library of both retail and downloadable games I would consider moving over to 360 not because of lack of online but because of lack of confidence in Sony. It's certainly gonna be a factor when the next gen hits for me. EDIT: I went to download update and it failed after 18% and now won't even try download, likely as a result of sooo many ppl downloading it? Same was happening for me, try turning off you PS3 and trying again.
flameboy Posted May 15, 2011 Posted May 15, 2011 Same was happening for me, try turning off you PS3 and trying again. Yah did that seems to be goon along alright now.
Jon Posted May 15, 2011 Posted May 15, 2011 Yah did that seems to be goon along alright now. Don't hold your breath, mine stopped again at 47%
MadDog Posted May 15, 2011 Posted May 15, 2011 Stopped at 20 twice and now again at 46. Will get there eventually. EDIT Sony have started restoring PSN state-by-state in the US, says so on the official site.
Debug Mode Posted May 15, 2011 Posted May 15, 2011 It's confusing since you all ready own the console so you might as well get some patience, but fickle gamers are fickle. Even funnier though is the fact that PSN is now in its revival stages and being rolled out across the world right now. EDIT: For some reason Mad Dog's post didn't show up, ah well, late post is late.
Jon Posted May 15, 2011 Posted May 15, 2011 Even downloading the update of the Sony site isn't happening, keeps stopping at random points
bryanee Posted May 15, 2011 Posted May 15, 2011 Downloaded it just fine PSN still isnt up yet though even with the update downloaded and installed.
dwarf Posted May 15, 2011 Posted May 15, 2011 (edited) You really need to be assessing you priorities in life if a few weeks without online gaming is resulting in you actually trading in your console. Especially when almost all of the people doing it will crumble as soon as the PSN comes back online again and go out and buy a new PS3. Fair enough if the PSN was going to be off for a long time, not a few weeks. ... An update's available OMG!!!!!!!1111 MUST UPDATE!! EMOTION LEVELS AT FEVER PITCH IT'S NOT UPDATING FULLY, FUCK FUCK. JUST GONNA HAVE TO COUNT THE PERCENTAGE UPWARDS ONE BY ONE, CMON PS3, YOU CAN DO THIS I LOVE YOU PS3, JUST KNOW THAT I NEVER DOUBTED YOU! C'MOOOONNNNNN!!!!!! Fucking 'ell Micro Condom, look at yourself. Calm down, take a sip from your mug and relax, we're all friends here. We know who you are, and we don't need to hide ourselves from each other anymore. Maybe we'd be better of as Daz eh, hearts on sleeves who's with me? I'm joking, he's a cunt This is why I love the other consoles board. We're losers too, but we do it in style. Edited May 15, 2011 by dwarf
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