Sony Offers Another PlayStation Network Service Update: It’s Still Down
As you’ve probably noticed, it’s been nearly seven days now since Sony last offered up a “this week” time frame for the restoration of PlayStation Network services. While there’s still no real end to the downtime in sight, Sony has at least acknowledged they’re probably going to miss that soft deadline with their latest blog post:
When we held the press conference in Japan last week, based on what we knew, we expected to have the services online within a week. We were unaware of the extent of the attack on Sony Online Entertainment servers, and we are taking this opportunity to conduct further testing of the incredibly complex system. We know many of you are wanting to play games online, chat with your friends and enjoy all of the services PlayStation Network and Qriocity services have to offer, and trust me when I say we’re doing everything we can to make it happen. We will update you with more information as soon as we have it. We apologize for the delay and inconvenience of this network outage.
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May 10th, 2011 at 11:50 pm - #Zuel
I was told today the PSN will be back up May 31.
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May 11th, 2011 at 2:17 am - #Stay Puft
I was told yesterday that it might be, but still a rumor at this point. If it’s true though, online features will be turned on in steps, starting (mabey) late this week, or next, and ending about the 31st with everything working.
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May 11th, 2011 at 12:08 pm - #Zuel
Let hope it does happen in that matter.
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May 15th, 2011 at 11:12 am - #ding ding ding
And Zeul/Staypuft win the prize! XD
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May 10th, 2011 at 5:46 pm - #Madman2k10+1
Take away the 5 from GT5 and add “R2″. Play it and storm around Suzuka in a Honda NSX GT500
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May 10th, 2011 at 11:39 pm - #Yawn
Take the ability to think of anything worth posting from Madman2k10, and, well, you pretty much end up with what we’ve allready got: Some of the lamest attempts at trolling ever seen by man.
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May 11th, 2011 at 12:52 am - #Somewhere………
……..out there, there is a pasty skinned kid, who’s only friend (psn) left him two weeks ago. Sitting alone under his dim bulb, encircled by empty redbull cans, junkfood wrappers, and a rather curious looking stuffed bear he thought to himself, “Whatever shall I do? I know, i’ll go to GTP and post the most brilliant example of trolling that I have ever dared think up.”
So the pasty skinned kid thought, and thought, and thought, and thought, and thought, and thought, took a break, and thought, and thought, and thought some more.
Finnaly, after days of deep, deeeep, deeeeeeeeep thought, he came up with a plan.
“I’ll post repeated references to GT2, slightly modified each time. They’ll never guess that really i’m a closet GT5 player. It won’t ever occur to them that simply by my posting here demonstrates my lack of devotion to GT2. They’ll be to busy bursting into rage over my awesome example of trolling that they’ll never realize how they’re being played. It will be EPIC!”, he said to his stuffed teddy bear.
So the pasty skinned kid began to enact his master plan, but something was wrong. Every post he made was either completely ignored, or promptly b!%chslapped down for what it was: Obvious bullchip trolling, nothing more.
Pasty was so enraged at his total fail, he couldn’t even take solace in the fact that at least his failure turned out to be of epic proportions, even if his trolling was not.
“WHY ISN’T IT WORKING MR. TEDDY?”, cried the pasty skin kid, and sank to the ground in tears.
At this point, Mr. Teddy spoke.
“Mabey it has something to do with your utter lack of creativity, your extreme overestimation of your own wit, you hidden desire for self abuse, or your inability to see the posibility that GTP has already seen it all before”, said Mr. Teddy, “But don’t worry, I can help you. I can do something that will change your life forever……”
Mr. Teddy promptly exploded with the force of a gazzilion tons of TNT, and thus redefined the meaning of pasty. At least has it applied to the pasty skinned kid that is……..The end.
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May 11th, 2011 at 7:12 pm - #Madman2k10+1
Well you’ve just wasted 2 mins of my life reading this ****. Do me a favour and………..rip up the 70s Nurburgring track with the ’79 F1 mod and use the Lotus of the great Jackie Stewart. (in GTR2 of course) and i’m not some kid with no life and drinks red bull all day with a teddy and makes up crappy life stories about a pasty kid, in fact i have a LIFE and a gf and i suggest you get one as well. The End.
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May 11th, 2011 at 10:40 pm - #I love it!
ROFLMBO @ “somewhere”
Excellent story. Heck of alot more creative than “Take away the 5 from GT5 and add “R2″. Play it and storm around Suzuka in a Honda NSX GT500″
Stupid troll posts the same crap over and over and says YOUR wasting his time and need a life. Classic.
You know you hit close to the mark when the trolls post responses like that. Nothing like a lame ” i have a gf and a life, you need to get one” comback to show how pathetic a troll really is. Even better when they act like kids, then try playing adult when they get caught. That sure explains the childish rant comback, and why he spends so much time spamming GTP. Nevermind his fanboy devotion to GTR2. That inflatable gf of his must be really lonely, not to mention desperate.
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May 11th, 2011 at 11:02 pm - #FNG
Somehow the whole pasty skin redbull thing is waaaaay more believable than the girlfriend and a life thing……lol
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May 11th, 2011 at 11:36 pm - #GTProcks
“Well you’ve just wasted 2 mins of my life reading this ****.”
30 seconds reading, 60 seconds wishing the teddybear really could talk, and the last 30 yelling at teddy to stop looking at him like that. :D
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May 12th, 2011 at 1:53 am - #lololol
lololololololololololol
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May 12th, 2011 at 8:31 am - #Madman2k10+1
Ok ok kids calm down and go burn rubber at Bathurst in an Aston Martin DBR9 GT in GTR2
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May 12th, 2011 at 11:16 am - #Dean
Ok troll, get a clue and figure out you got powned. Nobody really fell for it before, but now you just sound more desperate with every new attempt.
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May 12th, 2011 at 11:50 am - #Megadeth
Ehhhh, if the little fool gets a kick out of posting spam to himself, might as well let him. It’s not like he’s gettin anywhere with it, and mabey we’ll get a few more stories to pass the time as well, hehe.
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May 12th, 2011 at 12:14 pm - #This^^
Yup. +1. Untill now, I thought it was just some kid that rediscovered Gran Turismo 2 and couldn’t stop himself posting about it. Funny how people get excited about “newly discovered” things sometimes when something gets old enough.
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May 12th, 2011 at 12:52 pm - #Rofl
I skimmed through and thought he was going on about gt2 also. Too funny.
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May 12th, 2011 at 7:49 pm - #Madman2k10+1
Ryt I’m gonna settle this once and for all. Sorry for spamming and sorry for being a wee s**t. I just think that wee shud all…. Get the power and glory mod for GTR2 and thrash round the Le Mans circuit and blast down the mulsanne straight with a Ford GT40 and listen to the wonderful 7 litre V8. It will bring back memories of how it would have been like in the 60s with ferraris and it will give you a sense of freedom and just how hard it was to control these beasts. I’m sorry.. But no gaming experience can get close to that my dear friends, not even GT5 which calls it the ‘Real Driving Simulator’.
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May 12th, 2011 at 7:50 pm - #Madman2k10+1
Ryt I’m gonna settle this once and for all. Sorry for spamming and sorry for being a wee s**t. I just think that wee shud all…. Get the power and glory mod for GTR2 and thrash round the Le Mans circuit and blast down the mulsanne straight with a Ford GT40 and listen to the wonderful 7 litre V8. It will bring back memories of how it would have been like in the 60s with ferraris and it will give you a sense of freedom and just how hard it was to control these beasts. I’m sorry.. But no gaming experience can get close to that my dear friends, not even GT5 which calls it the ‘Real Driving Simulator’
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May 12th, 2011 at 9:50 pm - #AERO_HDT
I can’t tell who the trolls are, but I think there’s room in every racers heart for a good PC sim. With PSN still down, I might just move the G27 to the other side of the desk where my PC is – thanks for reminding me of GTR2.
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May 12th, 2011 at 10:07 pm - #………….
Ummmmm, no. Settling it would have been shutting up when that_guy100 called you bluff FOUR DAYS AGO. Posting a fake apology followed by yet more trolling isn’t settling it, it’s a desperate cry for attention. Nobody who goes to a fansite and posts repeatedly how another game is sooooo much better than the game the site is dedicated to, and how trying it will turn us all into converts, means to to do anything but start trouble. Problem is, you haven’t figured out just how obvious that is to the rest of us. Not like there isn’t a constant flow of trolls arround here doing the exact same thing on a regular basis and we wouldn’t know what your doing. I’m surprised it took this long for some people to start having fun at your expense.
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May 12th, 2011 at 10:29 pm - #………….
Oh, and @weAERO_HDT
Room for other sims yes, but this clown has just been hitting up various articles with numerous repeated posts that are more or less variations of a “GT5 sucks, GTR2 rocks” kind of theme. Particularly targeting the PSN outage threads where people are wound up has it is. He wants to talk about, then there are places in the forums for that. Pretty clear he’s just baiting people while thier moods are sour from the outage. If he just wanted to talk about it, one post would have been fine, but every time someone awnsered him for real he didn’t show any effort to continue a real discussion in that post, but posted a new variation further down instead, and only got interested when it turned ugly like this did.
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May 12th, 2011 at 10:45 pm - #RedFaction
Meh, just go back to ignoring him instead of thrashin on him. Ignoring him won’t shut him up of course, but he might at least come up with something original for a change…….
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May 13th, 2011 at 4:33 am - #Madman2k10+1
Guess what…. GTR3 is comin out this year woooooooooh!! In the meantime, make use of this outage and play a good proper sim and i’m not saying GT5 is bad because i’m definitely playing it when psn comes back.
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May 10th, 2011 at 4:33 pm - #Pepoopy
Wow
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May 11th, 2011 at 11:54 am - #JayKayEm
Indeed.
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May 10th, 2011 at 1:52 pm - #steve
update on EU and US blogs (same text) about 40 minutes ago:
“I know you all want to know exactly when the services will be restored. At this time, I can’t give you an exact date, as it will likely be at least a few more days. We’re terribly sorry for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience as we work through this process.”
And so the waiting game continues. That’s about the only game we can play.
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May 10th, 2011 at 3:40 pm - #Waiting
That is the kind of update I expected from them. Still keeping you in the dark and hanging. Just telling you what they want you to hear nothing more. They have a idea when the psn will be finished they just don’t want to tell you it will be more than 3 weeks before they are finished.
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May 10th, 2011 at 11:40 am - #Waiting
I noticed that also. Looks like sony is going to keep there customers in the dark. Where am I its really DARK in here lol
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May 10th, 2011 at 11:35 am - #Disappointed
I think Sony stopped everyone from posting on there Official Playstation Blog Website. The last post on there was at 1:46pm on May, 09-2011. Also no update from Sony since Friday May, 06-2011. Come on Sony don’t you think it to be a good idea to give your loyal customers a update.
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May 10th, 2011 at 12:30 pm - #SKOT Free
Sony finally just banned everyone on the Blog page huh? Not suprised as everyone was vert upset and were posting their frustration and they kept erasing their post which pissed people off more, but that was like 1 pm or so yesterday. One thing MS’s FB page admin have is a bit thicker Skin.
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May 11th, 2011 at 2:00 am - #Nah
People are still posting, but you can only post the same angry “sony is doing (fill in the blank) to me” complaints over and over so many times before it gets old and people move on with their lives……
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May 10th, 2011 at 11:31 am - #lol buck up sony
@ buck up sony
I feel intimidated by the knowledge you have, I must be a “little faggot, because I obviously do not have the almighty knowledge you possess about NOTHING
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May 10th, 2011 at 11:30 am - #Madman2k10+1
G…..G……GTR2 . We all luv it, gt5 nerds luv it so play it. You’ll never turn back to GT guarenteed
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May 10th, 2011 at 12:17 pm - #Ehhhhh, no
Different day, different name, same old lame bait line. Wow, not even worth trying at it anymore or is it just too dificult coming up with fresh material?
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May 10th, 2011 at 9:40 am - #buck up sony
Lol at the little fanboys thinking this is ok that a couple of hackers found a way to hack sony. Tabloids do it to a lot to things like airport security, no one is a fan of airports so we blame the airports, so it should be with sonys inept security. Most of you little faggots would do something similar if you had such knowledge.
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May 10th, 2011 at 9:49 am - #Facepalm
And the award for most obvious troll post by a intellectual void goes to……..
DRUMROLL……..
buck up sony! No need for a speech, you’ve embarrassed yourself enough already…..
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May 10th, 2011 at 8:47 am - #Magic Ayrton
I would say that Microsoft had a hand in this..
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May 10th, 2011 at 8:13 am - #Disappointed
Sony has taken hostages,they are holding my B-spec drivers hostage. I was going to run some B-spec races but when I tried I was informed that all six of them are currently online. Then I tried to retire one of them so I could add a new one to race with and was told I could not retire him because he was currently online. Sony please release my B-spec drivers.
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May 10th, 2011 at 9:45 am - #Ginge76
I’m with ya on this one was goin to take this option to do the 24hr endurance race on b-spec but found I couldn’t release or retire b-spec bob due to bein online lol
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May 10th, 2011 at 7:40 am - #Sexy Tony
With a name like Omar your probably out dodging bombs!
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May 10th, 2011 at 2:29 am - #OMAR_NOS
scince the beggening of the outage i have been hangigng out with my firends all day long every day message to some people: get a life stop being nerds!
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May 10th, 2011 at 2:43 am - #Azuil
I actually have a life, but I like to play online with my friends once in a while.
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May 9th, 2011 at 11:22 pm - #Ken
News is….PSN will be offline until May 31st
Ain’t that ridiculous.
Unheard of that a public company having servers down for~2 months.
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May 10th, 2011 at 12:10 am - #Uh-hu
So, is your problem that you can’t read a calendar, or is it just that you can’t do simple math?
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May 10th, 2011 at 12:35 am - #lol
“The company is in the process of adopting an improved security system and its plan to restart the services fully by May 31 is unchanged, he said. Sony shut down the PlayStation Network and Qriocity services April 20 because of possible data theft by hackers.
”This is a part of the Bloomberg article. It says fully. Sony already told you guys the network was coming back up in sections. The key word is fully. I miss my network just as much but I really wish people would stop going to sites like N4G and running back here with everything as if it was facts, not only that most don’t even quote the article properly. One word left out changes the whole meaning of a sentence. -
May 10th, 2011 at 1:41 am - #Ken
@Uh-hu
Yes, don’t be naive.
By the end of this fiasco the servers will have been down for about 2 months.Read the news article. They “plan” to have it back up May 31st at best.
Most likely incremental roll-out too.After all this time you still have faith in Sony’s “promises”?
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May 10th, 2011 at 2:57 am - #Kyle
Looks like the troll has problems with both reading comprehension AND math, along with a bit of paranoia, a tendency to exagerate, and delusional beliefs that sony’s guestimates where promised exact dates………Facepalm.
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May 10th, 2011 at 3:15 am - #SumYungGuy
Add ignorance to that. I’ve seen companies take six months or more to do the same job, only the public doesn’t notice because they ussually leave the old system running durring the transfer to the new one. They were allready working on this prior to the shutdown, and have sped up the process because of it. Some people just need to complain I guess.
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May 10th, 2011 at 4:27 am - #Da Cheese
Life’s a mitch since they switched to the new 2.75 weeks in a month calendar. I hear that NASA is going to speed up earth’s orbit to compensate.
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May 10th, 2011 at 4:40 am - #Nasa
That would increase the orbit/travel time. I think we have to invent planetary warp drive and make controlled jumps while maintaining the current orbit. ;P
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May 15th, 2011 at 11:06 am - #Facepalm
Ehhh, give him a break. He was only off by a month…….Rofl
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May 9th, 2011 at 8:14 pm - #Acid X
Still not enough to make me want to go buy a 360 and PAY for a subscription. HAHAHAHA
Screw that noise!
Keep up the good work Sony!
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May 9th, 2011 at 8:12 pm - #Jake
“anonymous” can associate themselves with my d**k….
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May 9th, 2011 at 9:26 pm - #TJC_69
I think they would like that though…. xD
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May 9th, 2011 at 7:41 pm - #guyc1161
heres a bit of news …mutiny at anon ,1 of ther members supposedly displeased with anons lack of structure hacked anonops website and exposed the ip addresses of 600 + anon members. lol
hard to say if this is credible or not since they obviously dont hack from their own cp’s.
WARNING:DO NOT GO TO ANY WEB SITES LINKED TO ANON YOU COULD FIND YOURSELF IN A HEAP OF TROUBLE…no kidding you dont want your ip address associated with anon!! -
May 9th, 2011 at 6:51 pm - #kirbthadrifta
The psn down is driving me insane but I got salesman of the month..which means I get a new car for a month and free gas! I’ve gotten to know my gf pretty well too…lol
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May 9th, 2011 at 7:07 pm - #Gt player who gets out
Well it helps to know your gf alot or are you a gy nerd
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May 9th, 2011 at 7:08 pm - #Gt player who gets out
Well it helps to know your gf alot or are you a gt nerd
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May 12th, 2011 at 9:02 pm - #TJC_69
To GT player who pretends to ” GO OUT “…….
No one cares that you pretend to go out.
Most guys on here have gf’s.
Your’e on a GT forum , but your calling everyone ” Nerds ”…. for posting on a GT forum.
How did you find this website ? Did it appear magically when you were ” Getting Out ” ?
Get a grip saddo……. :D
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May 9th, 2011 at 4:34 pm - #Pepoopy
All done with A spec and B :(
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May 9th, 2011 at 5:08 pm - #Tokitai
What are you complaining about ??? You can always do the Seasonal Events… er wait…..
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Not sure how reliable this info is…
Sony spokesperson Shigenori Yoshida has said that the PlayStation Network may not be fully operational until the 31st of May.
Speaking with Bloomberg, Yoshida said the goal was to “restart services fully” on that day – three weeks from today.
A phased reintroduction of services was supposed to begin last week. However, the breach of Sony Online Entertainment’s servers stymied the plan.
Nick Caplin, head of communication at Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, said, “When we held the press conference in Japan last week, based on what we knew, we expected to have the services online within a week. We were unaware of the extent of the attack on Sony Online Entertainment servers, and we are taking this opportunity to conduct further testing of the incredibly complex system.”