SONY takes down Planetside??
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Topic: SONY takes down Planetside??
Posted By: SNIKT
Subject: SONY takes down Planetside??
Date Posted: 03/May/2011 at 12:00am
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seriously?? come on i resubbed 3 days ago and now i can't play....just when i was starting to enjoy the game again...
heh btw i was searchin forums and found this old story i don't even remember happening. Remember i worked third shift at an adult video store. after 3 am i get a phone call from a private number young man on the other line asks "do you have toys?" "yep" "Do you have viewing booths?" "yep" "do they take dollars?" "yep" "Are you guys hiring?' "you'd have to talk to the boss during the weekdays" "I'd really like to have a job mopping jizz" /em hangs up phone 3 minutes later phone rings again "yeah i called earlier about mopping... http://www.soe.com/securityupdate/ - sony press release ------------- 
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Posted By: Goffin
Date Posted: 03/May/2011 at 10:58am
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It's a blessing more than anything. Nice to see you around sniky-poo If you got a mic you need to hop on vent. ------------- Ball punching for Teh Win! 
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Posted By: SNIKT
Date Posted: 03/May/2011 at 2:26pm
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servers still down. Ya i hopped in a couple days ago but you were afk. Mic hooked up and workin -------------
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Posted By: Midnyght
Date Posted: 05/May/2011 at 8:21am
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They are supposed to be up by Friday. ------------- |
Posted By: Midnyght
Date Posted: 10/May/2011 at 8:10am
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Looks like it could be down for weeks...could this be the nail in the PS coffin...I think so.
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Posted By: Goffin
Date Posted: 11/May/2011 at 1:23pm
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FYI. I will lose 0 sleep over this and I hope you are right
and we need an apb session. all I do is run around in a car and piss people off. ------------- Ball punching for Teh Win!
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Posted By: Midnyght
Date Posted: 12/May/2011 at 7:49am
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lol I still haven't downloaded it yet...maybe I will tonight and get it patched up. Maybe I will get in some time next week, this week isn't looking promising. ------------- |
Posted By: Tybox
Date Posted: 12/May/2011 at 6:21pm
| Go play World of Tanks its free |
Posted By: Midnyght
Date Posted: 13/May/2011 at 8:33am
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So is ABP and its more fun and better then World of Tanks ------------- |
Posted By: SNIKT
Date Posted: 13/May/2011 at 10:27am
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so is league of legends. and i dont drive tanks anymore unless i play VS -------------
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Posted By: Midnyght
Date Posted: 13/May/2011 at 1:16pm
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so yeah ------------- |
Posted By: Goffin
Date Posted: 13/May/2011 at 9:26pm
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/discuss
taken from another a memeber in brbuninstalling clan i'm in for tf2 and the fact heresjohnny is in it. Old vs chum.
I'm pretty sure this is the biggest gaming disruption of all time. And a huge fuckup. I mean, it's not on-par with trash-collection not happening for a whole month (which actually threatens public safety), but it is like HBO going off-the-air for a whole month (in terms of the number of people who's daily routines are affected, not sure about revenue impact), and has the added sting of potential identity/credit fraud. Maybe even more revenue impact than one cable network, maybe two. It's a longshot, but this could be a serious albatross that eventually sinks Sony (or, more likely, whatever strategic business takes fall...PSN i guess...provided they have good legal firewalls between business entities.). ... more tl:dr stuff for yall... I'm going to be very very surprised if the AG of Mass doesn't hit Sony like a ton of bricks over the new Mass Data Privacy law ( http://www.alertboot.com/blog/blogs/endpoint_security/archive/2010/01/06/massachusetts-data-protection-amp-privacy-law-201-cmr-17-00-massachusetts-general-law-chapter-93a.aspx - $5k per violation.) Let's say 100 million Sony accounts compromised. Arbitrarily, 25% are international (wild guess). That leaves 75 mil. Let's assume it is evenly distributed by states (it is not, Mass would have more Sony gaming customers per capita than the US median, but whatever). 75,000,000 divided by 50 = 1,500,000. 1.5 mil customers. With 5 grand per violation that's (pulling pinky finger to mouth) 7.5 beeeelion dollars. Even if my napkin estimates are wiiiildy inaccurate, let's revise that down from 1,500k to just 300k customers from MA breached. 300k x 5x = 1500,000,000. That's 1.5 BIL in damages for one state. (three times more than GOOG's recent settlement with the DoJ for 500mil). Annnnd, once you cascade all the bad press that a 1.5 bil suit would generate against sony, indie developers (who are losing out on revenue now) abandoning the platform, customer dissatisfaction, ... it looks grim. and I didn't even mention Sony's liabilities to the credit card lenders for fffffucking up with PCI, which will likely leave sony on the hook for fraud resultant from stolen credit cards.... ... ...BRB, uninstalling SOE. (caff, if this plays out, wouldn't it be funny if they needed to sell off some of their IP franchises for cash....) ((also, for those of you playing at home, you know that Nintendo, who's last two platforms (Wii and DS) basically PRINTED MONEY, is releasing a new console soon. Yes, the 3DS sucks ass but 1) nintendo can afford the flop and 2) who is going to take over the portable market....NOT SONY NOW (but maybe apple...diff story)). (((Howard Stringer activates GO GO GOLDEN PARACHUTE before old man time ushers in 2012))). ------------- Ball punching for Teh Win!
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Posted By: Fidelio
Date Posted: 14/May/2011 at 3:56am
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with $77.2 billion annual revenue for 2010, they'll weather the storm, but they may have done irreparable damage to the playstation brand. sony saw a 70% increase in reveue from psn in 2010. since they were in business before the increase, they'll be in business should it disappear. however, this is not out of character for sony. remember betamax? how 'bout minidiscs? how 'bout memory sticks? how 'bout walkman? how 'bout universal media disc? and i'd be willing to bet in 10 years people will say "remember blu-ray"? the question is, how long until people say "remember the playstation?" like they do about the sega, coleco, intellivision, and atari systems? this may have hastened those questions, but as long as there are japanese people who want a shiny new black gadget from a japanese company, sony will be in business. as for the guy above, is he referring to the $500 milltion that google set aside for a potential settlement pending the result of a department of justice investigation into pharmacy ads? in any case, it has nothing to do with a privacy security breach. sony is probably also more concerned with german privacy laws than the massachusetts attorney general, especially since some german bank account numbers were also nabbed. someone should gently inform him of the problem with pulling numbers out of your ass; they're usually crap, and worth as much. he's right about one thing though, it's a huge fuckup. |
Posted By: SNIKT
Date Posted: 14/May/2011 at 7:45pm
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So PS is back up. Most other games got freebies, not PS. Besides the 45 days free game time that everyone got. -------------
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Posted By: Midnyght
Date Posted: 15/May/2011 at 3:43pm
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Yeah PS is free for 45 days for everyone
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Posted By: Midnyght
Date Posted: 16/May/2011 at 10:58am
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The problem with SOE and Planetside is they screwed everyone for so long and I am not sure if anyone really gets it. - Population falls - They promised development and different development came not what they said they were going to do. - Population continued to fall - They added Advertisements promising more development. - Development never came. - In a time when population was low they raised sub fees instead of lowering them - They promised more development. - Development never came. - They promised other development. - Finally Development came and they beta tested the development. - The Development never came to the game. - They talked about Planetside Next coming out and said current subscribers will be first to beta test...rumored March. - More resubbed but No Beta test has come yet. - Subs ended and still No beta test. This has been going on with the life cycle of this game really. They have never cared about Planetsides players enough to do anything in my opinion. I wouldn't be suprised if PS was kind of a joke around SOE..."we will just tell them this they will believe anything". ------------- |