The Playstation Network will be back up and running on Tuesday May 3 -- A week before the release of brink :happy:

So don't fret PS3 gamers, you will be able to play Brink on release day.

http://www.youtube.com//watch?v=nGc2Kz49Hkk

Well that took long enough, maybe thats why PSN is free...

WOOHOO!!!! PSN I miss you so much

>_> Boy I sound like a loner don't I?

Oh, thank goodness. ^_^

I just hope everyone who had fraud problems will be all right.

BTW, Joe+....what IS your avvie, lol?

The main character of an Xbox indie game named "Pixel Man".

This was on ign yesterday.

Thats in six days, that kind of svcks.

Why must topic titles be so heartbreaking today? First "Dedicated Servers for Consoles" making me think they had decided to ditch P2P and now "Good News for PSN Users" making me think PSN was back online already! Tuesday? That's almost a week away! I'm going to diiiiiie!

Oh for [censored]'s sake did we really need another thread for this?

They're moving them all here from the other forums. That's why they keep popping up.

Well... nice.

People should come to the community discussion more often.

But it's so big & scary here... hmy:

Nonsense. How can it be big or scary with my avatar? I mean she's only 156 cm (5' 3?") tall.

key words "some of the services" and "should be online"
im not going to get excited yet

Agreed.

My progression with sony and this so far: oo: --> :user: --> :deal: --> --> :confused: --> :glare: --> :angry: --> :swear: --> :tes:

And they are gonna be like

"Oh [censored], whoopse daisy. Looks like someone resetted our mainframe, we're sorry, we'll be online in June 4th."

Oh man, I was so worried.

They'll be extra careful o one hacks into their mainframe again.

I am infinitely more irritated they didn't bother encrypting the passwords and personal information. So I trust my real life information to Sony, and their security is so poor that people were able to steal it? I couldn't care less if it took 2 hours to get it back online, their failure of security is disgusting. I'm not sure what to think.

When it comes back up I'm going to have to figure out all the other sites I used the same password for and change them, and find out everywhere I used the same security question for, and change them. Oh so fun. :shakehead:

I largely forgive Sony for it, but they need to be punished, so I support any lawsuit that hits them over this.

I guess this thread should be my insta-response the next time someone asks me why privacy is important. Thanks, guys! :thumbsup:

This.

That's still a rumor but it could happen. I might get flamed for this but I hope Sony takes their time rebuilding PSN so that this type of thing doesn't happen again or it isn't as extreme in damage. I would rather they fix the problem and get it right then rush fixing it because the 75 million are demanding that they get it back up right now. That would be a mistake if Sony doesn't fix the problem or plug the holes shut.

Im hearing conflicting stuff between this board and the MKO board.

From what I gather, although the mainframe was hacked, the important info was encrypted and thus not useful to a hacker. Sony is recommending that we all change numbers and pass codes basically to cover their butts in case of a lawsuit. Reading between the lines this is how I personally interpret Sony's statements in that regard: "We dont think anything actually happened, however this scared the bejeezus out of us, so we are making it better for the future, o yeah and change your account stuff just in case, please dont file a class action against us."

I think it will ultimately yield a safer PSN but the improvements will be behind the scenes, and not readily obvious to the user unless its a little diferent interface or something to that effect (cosmetic changes).

Thats just what I think though, the whole thing is kinda shady.

The only thing encrypted was your CC. Everything else they had access too. So you should really change your password.

Because that was SO much worse than the weeks 360 users had to wait to get their consoles replaced, that sunk Microsoft in sales for years... **cough**

Glad to hear PSN is coming back up though. I was getting into my console gaming mood when PSN went down, so it will be nice to pick up Confrontation, or LBP2 again.