People weren't terminally online yet, grass was touched and smoked and we eventually got some compensation. But fuck Sony, that all started with that lawsuit and Operation Anonymous Sony in response to them going after someone who cracked their new firmware that destroyed the modding community.
Meanwhile, in reality, the forums & social media were on fire with users complaining about how they couldn't get online to play their games and sending Sony death threats for not having the servers online the same day.
I mean if I buy a product and you tie in having to be online to use said product I'm gonna be a little miffed if it doesn't work especially when it's a $500 price tag.
Sure a number did, but his point us valid, in 2011 games were not mainly live service and you could access all your games with a disc to play the offline mode. The amount of people complaining today vs 2011 will have exploded exponentially due to the nature of the gaming industry being mainly online...
I mean Sony is a multi billion dollar company. They should have better cyber security. Not say a death threat is AT ALL warranted. But yeah. I doubt everyone got a month free with the subscription shit
Yeah, some people take their entertainment way too seriously.
That said, it was also around the start of the era were more & more game publishers started literally hiring psychologists to help them figure out how to make games actively addictive.
A noticeable effect that's easy to see is that MP games went from awarding 1-10 points per kill to 100-1k+ points per kill (it's a psychological trick to get players hooked to the gameplay loop because watching large numbers go up releases dopamine).
I had a ps3 and didn't even do online aside from on the computer, didn't know about it honestly. So I wasn't even aware of the 2011 hack. Just did school, hung out with friends and then the occasional game
Here here ! wtf is the reason they won’t give us a reworked BB ? Literally my fav fromsoft game and they are all awesome . Honestly bb on ps5 is unplayable.
Honestly i would be a lot more understanding of the situation if they just said something about what was going on as soon as they had an idea of possible problems and then update us as more info comes out. Keep us in the loop so we know whats going on, be transparent, all them being hush hush does it seems of most of us is cause suspicion and frustration. When im sure many like me would be a lot more tollerant and accepting of the outage if they where transparent and gave us updates on what was happening and how the fix was going. And an idea of how long it may take which can be updated as the process runs its course.
I keep reminding people that ALL THREE gaming companies got hacked, Sony was the only one left with outstanding damage and they paid out 3 separate times over a 5 year period.
The hack, MAG was going thru huge growing pains, and the failure of SOCOM 4 tanked Zipper. Also I am sure a bunch of vampire venture capital shenanigans.
It definitely had an effect on PlayStation Home. There were people and friend groups that spent hours and hours on it, me included, and a lot of people either went to Second Life or just didn't come back.
To be fair, that was in 2011, could be it doesn’t take as long in 2025. Of course, there’s no guarantee it won’t take longer either, so maybe I should shut up.
Hey bud, I just want to share a nugget of knowledge with you. A DDoS is not Malware. Malware is software that starts deleting major system files to cover the tracks of what data is being stolen. In some very rare cases just to mess up a computer or server because you upset the wrong person.
A DDoS on the other hand is a botnet attack where you extort a loop that mostly every server has. It sends an incomplete data package to the server over and over again and the server keeps answering the request. The more bots you have with a DDoS the more effect it is.
Not every cyber attack involves viruses or heavy programming.
I have a buddy that lives close to me that is on PlayStation currently playing cod. So it’s def not world wide. But this shit is annoying af. Hate PlayStation.
If you were already logged into a game before the outage began, you won't get booted from most game servers. I only found out about the outage just now when I logged out of Genshin to switch to HSR, but my Genshin was logged in and active for hours after the outage.
This is because HoYo and other games run their own game services, PSN is only used to identify you (standard Oauth2 implementation) and often those tokens have long lived expiries, assuming the game server ever bothers with token expiry for a user that's been constantly connected, unlike most HTTP implementations where expiry would be checked every request.
The same happens on PSN's own servers when authorizing licenses for games, so I also totally expect many to have no issue playing digital copies but many others will have an issue as their license token will have expired, requiring a refresh request to PSN, which will obviously fail during the outage. If your license token is expired, the system will refuse to play the game.
This is another huge issue with digital systems and I truly hope this is a lesson for everyone to encourage discs to always be an option.
Hmm, I think you're right. Elder Scrolls Online was down yesterday and they admitted it was an attack. It looks like whatever is responsible is hitting multiple targets.
What kind of warning was it? I didn't get a chance to get on my PlayStation until I got home. And when I start up a game the prompt just says "PlayStation network is undergoing maintenance."🫤😩
It is back up have to unplug power cord from outlet for 30 seconds tho then go into each app individually and it will fail then press try again on whatever app and it will work
I imagine it was one guy who found out he was going to get fired after years of loyalty, said fuck it, then pissed on some servers . then sony not wanting to admit to that is just saying they were hacked
The timing seems supportive of your theory given the recent pushback of players quite irate about PS Plus recent announcement...to drop all past gen games from the libraries next year.
Don't think that alone would be enough of a reason for someone to dick with em, but the push back over cost to reward benefits makes people do crazy stuff. So it's not an absurd assumption.
It's now been 14 hours and still nothing. The moment I found out, I just knew it had to be a hack. No info, plus random downage, there's nothing else I can really think of
1 Download PlayStation App on your phone
2 Go To Settings on the App
3 Once in Settings you'll see Scan QR Code
Now Go on your System to where you log in to your profile it should pop up a QR Code
Scan That QR Code with the App on your phone and it should log you in...
You might have to do it a couple times but it worked for me
So pissed. Damn it the whole reason why PSN isn't free anymore is because they needed to " beef up" sec. And I get it. Shit is expensive, but at the very least can we go without having attacks that have successful penetration? That's the only reason I see they would require a total shut down of the network.
Yet nobody is claiming responsibility. In these times it's either the company or the hackers itself claiming they've taken down the network. Something's up but I doubt it's a hack
It is back up have to unplug power cord from outlet for 30 seconds tho then go into each app individually and it will fail then press try again on whatever app and it will work
I think you are correct they are doing something to our games if you updated your game as of on the 7th then you're not online but if you did not update your system you're online and my baby boy he is online playing fortnite and every other game
Nitrado, a server host for games like ark, dayz and arma recently suffered a massive ddos attack
Im willing to bet it's the same person, someone getting angry in matches and dossing the entire game instead of just cooling off
Its just not coincidence that two holders have suffered huge outages within the span of two months
It’s not a “ hack “ that isn’t real it’s just them fucking with us. Do you really think a group of kids could bypass the most sophisticated technology on the flat earth? And if they could, then why would they do it. What would they have to benefit?
Yes, social engineered email bombing in order to spread "state-of-the-art" malware for no other reason than to gain privileged access to "sophisticated" technology and wreak havoc upon said "sophisticated" technology happens daily on flat earth (or the not so flat earth) for reasons associated with egotistical thoughts of grandeur, anger, depression, activisim (hacktavisim), "because-I-felt-like-it", and "will-I-get-away-with-it" mentalities that fester in the falsley prideful and misguided youth of the currently viable generations capable of such things. Which "capabilites" aren't difficult to come by since the age of AI and LLM's that will freely offer up "sophisticated" malicious code, templates and tutorials on exactly how to carry out such said attacks.
I believe it was mentioned earlier ^ up there somewhere: "Large company = large target". For those in need of boosting their already fragile egos. And we are the ones who get to suffer, the casualties of these "connected", "networked" & "online" terrorist attacks. "just them fucking with us" ? I ask you, what would they have to benefit?
PS is in business to make money, they do that by having 99.9% continuity, the last thing they would do is shut down their network for a day "just to fuck with us".
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u/NefariousnessNo6095 Feb 08 '25
Good ol 2011 hack. This is a worldwide shutdown so I'm smelling hack again.