PSN And Xbox Live Are Down (Update Again)

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deskpro2k3 on 26 December 2014

wow holysh!t. I'm just glad I have Dragon Age to play on PS4. I can't log into FFXIV... And I don't want to use my laptop to play FFXIV because my laptop kind of sucks lol.

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Squeezol on 26 December 2014

Multishanks said:

To answer why Nintendo doesn't get attacked it is most likely because they don't charge for a monthly subscription so accessing that information would be a waste for the most part.

Also --- couch multiplayer.

Yeah, Nintendo is just a less interesting target in general for hackers. That's a good thing though!

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Aeolus451 on 26 December 2014

dane007 said:
http://www.thetechgame.com/News/sid=7750/kim-dotcom-makes-deal-with-lizardsquad-to-stop-attacks-towards-xbox-live-and-psn.html

That's just giving a ransom to cyber-terrorists for the sake of a PR stunt.

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Ruler on 26 December 2014

Is it down for other germans too?

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MoHasanie on 26 December 2014

Ninsect said:

MoHasanie said:
This is unacceptable. People pay for both Live and PSN now and if you can't play on so many days of the year due to maintenance and hacks then MS and Sony need to offer compensation of some sort.

Yeah which would give lizard squad an incentive to do this even more

Well they need to figure out a way to stop this from occuring.

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Mr Khan on 26 December 2014

SvennoJ said:
http://gizmodo.com/hackers-who-shut-down-psn-and-xbox-live-now-attacking-t-1675331908

They claim to have shifted their target. Never heard of Tor.

Tor is the main engine used to access the Darknet, the Tortuga of the internet.

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poklane on 26 December 2014

Anybody else on PS4 getting errors that either the connection is terminated or connecting took too long? It wouldn't surprise me if Sony just shut down PSN partially.

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riecsou on 26 December 2014

poklane said:
Anybody else on PS4 getting errors that either the connection is terminated or connecting took too long? It wouldn't surprise me if Sony just shut down PSN partially.

That is the error I am getting.

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Insidb on 26 December 2014

AlfredoTurkey said:

cannonballZ said:

I don't get why it won't work, it was loading up just fine yesterday and now it won't load Minecraft. I've been waiting for the update as well. It's working fine on my xbox one, though it has a ton of bugs now.

Xbox live is working for me, still no psn.

And this is why I had to game on 360 last gen (PS1 and PS2 fan before). I'm not rich, and can't afford to own all three consoles so I have to pick between the two. This generation, I decided to go with PS4 because the PS3 has better games imo. I figured that yeah, PSN probably wasn't going to be as good as XBL but, I'll just deal with it for the privilege of having better games to play.

That ended last night.

I think it's sad that the console industry has gotten to the point where the internet is so vital to ones experience but here we are. Not being able to play my PS4 for a little while due to an attack, ok... I can understand that. But shutting the whole damn thing down for this long? I STILL can't log in to PSN. Their website still says offline. Meanwhile, I was online playing Xbox 360 last night without issue and MS website said online gameplay was working.

I don't know how MS does it. Maybe they have smarter I.T. guys. Maybe it's the way they built their servers. All I know is they're clearly superior as keeping their online service up and running and that's now, unfortunately, pretty damn important... amost vital.

I guess I'm going to have to get an Xbone instead... *sigh*. It would be cool if we could have the hardware and games of PS4 with a service like XBL. I guess we can't have it all.

I think the big reason is that MS does all their server work in-house, and Sony outsources. Plus, computer infrasturcture is more or less MS' bread and butter.