PSN and Xbox Live! outage..
This sucks.. Stupid act of tw@ishness..
http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/25/merry-xmas-you-filthy-animals/
Makes Sony & MS look silly that they couldn't stop it, even after these morons boasting about it in advance.
As I write, it's still down here.
At least back in the Speccy days, we didn't have hackers to deal with..
http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/25/merry-xmas-you-filthy-animals/
Makes Sony & MS look silly that they couldn't stop it, even after these morons boasting about it in advance.
As I write, it's still down here.
At least back in the Speccy days, we didn't have hackers to deal with..
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My lad had a new ps4 yesterday.
At 9:00 am gmt Christmas Day we got on, got the system updated, updated battlefield 4, which took about an hour, after lunch (when those across the pond were just waking up) access to online gaming was intermittent to non existent.
Not tried today yet.
I tried putting my PS4 on as soon as I finished with Forza, but it wouldn't connect to PSN and it said it was "down for maintenance". I only put it onto check if anything was on sale, so I wasn't fussed, but wasn't surprised to see it down either.
My PS4 did automatically download an update for Far Cry 4 though as it normally does when you first turn it on, so at first I thought it was a firmware update that needed downloading. I feel for everyone who got a new console for Christmas, although the basics will have worked I think?
From my admittedly entirely third hand, and very limited knowledge of hacking, this type of hacking is almost impossible to defend against, since it's basically the equivalent of people (well, morons) tying up your home telephone by them constantly phoning you up from lots of different phones for hours on end. If I've understood what I've read (always a first time!) then all these cretins are doing is using a lot of PCs to constantly access XBox Live! and PSN, to cause congestion with those two online services. Apparently it takes very little skill, just some pre-made scripts that you run on networked PCs.
Well, we did, sort of, but back then hacking meant getting infinite lives or unlimited bullets in a game. Back then hackers were good people, sending their hacks into Crash and Your Sinclair so we could use them if we liked.
I've pretty much given up wondering how (an admittedly very small proportion of) people can be so selfish/pathetic/moronic. I mean, even if you agree that the group in question have good motives (and if they have then I've yet to hear it) then by doing this they are hurting honest gamers (adults and especially kids who got the consoles on Christmas day) much more than they are hurting Microsoft or Sony.
I could also log in yesterday morning, then things went strange.
Microsoft and Sony seem happy enough to take money from trusting people to provide the service, protecting against hackers and not leaking payment details should be the bare minimum expected.
There is no point in getting angry at the cockroaches in your hotel room, you would complain to the hotel management.
But if someone released the cockroaches into the hotel for a laugh. You'd still get mad at the hotel for letting it happen?
This is why hotels do stuff like fit locks on doors as part of providing a service. And yes, I should think guests in such a situation would be expecting some kind of apology or compensation.
I think pretty much every other major downtime on both PSN and Xbox Live has been accompanied by some form of compensation, I doubt this will be any different in that regard. Doesn't mean the ire shouldn't be directed at the stupid kids doing this kind of childish DDoS stuff.
Christ, I just sat and read through all the comments on that link, and for every sensible and reasoned comment, there were 20 morons typing ****, and arguing about whether North Korea should be nuked. I need a few drinks to get my IQ level back up.
Personally i'd be more worried about that bunch of console owners than a select few dumbass wannabe hackers.
Hey ho, back to Steam. :-)
;)
:p
I didn't say we were the gaming Master Race, did I ;)
Still, Steam may well be hacked next. Or Origin.
Actually, please hack Origin.
Presumably they're all still updating drivers and fiddling with settings....
:lol:
I didn't actually type any swearwords either, just lots of asterisks :lol:
Probably ;)
Not if we're playing something done by Squeenix we're not lol ;)
But PS3 PSN Working fine.
Are they differerent networks?
I think they are as the PS3 was notoriously sluggish for most users, but they fixed it for PS4. My PS3 can take 20 minutes to download a few hundred meg, but my PS4 will download gigs in the same time over the same connection.
It's annoying that it's still down though. Xbox Live is up and running again though :-)
Pretty sure they are.
Messages on ps3 network=fast as a stoat
Messages on Ps4 network=slow as a sloth.
ps3-no voice messages
ps4- voice messages
ps3 cant see ps4 users online
ps4 can see ps3 users online
By connecting via lan cable. (May not have done anything)
And
Changing the mtu setting (whatever that is)
I had to do the same, changed the MTU to 1473 and reset my PS4, connected first time and now downloading The last of us...finally :) never played it but heard really good things about it, cant wait if im honest.