PSN Is Still Down After 14 Hours And No One Knows Why
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Bungie devs who were desperately hoping for a good Heresy dungeon launch: ...I'm getting fired aren't I
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You used to be able to type in an IP address whether or not the official server is running. Sometimes you still can, but seeing as Baldur's Gate 3 has LAN and direct IP connection on PC but not on PlayStation, it sure seems like Sony is asking them to specifically remove the feature if they wanted it in the first place.
Then beyond that, you've got a mismatch behind what your money is actually for. It used to be for paying for their servers, but you often don't even connect to Sony's servers anymore. Plenty of games behind that same paywall have their own servers, like Call of Duty for instance, but Call of Duty's multiplayer is behind the same paywall as Helldivers 2, which is running servers on Sony's dime. And beyond that...the reason multiplayer is free on PC is because your purchases are funding them. The majority of game sales on consoles are now digital, just like Steam, and that is a trend that's accelerating. Meanwhile, the subscription fee is probably one of a multitude of reasons that people are seeing that free online play on PC and leaving consoles.
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Finally picked up kingdom come 2 on my ps5 just to dust it off after not playing for years and this is my weekend. Well played Sony, well played
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Sure, but if it were free it's a "you get what you pay for" situation. People are a lot more forgiving when they aren't personally losing money.
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Your making me feel old... I remember when it happened. I was so missed I couldn't play call of duty.
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Boy, it sure is a good thing that Sony backed off charging a subscription fee for single player PC games
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Spoilers: it's the weekend and some hard drive is full. Japanese uptake of the cloud was lagging, and I fully anticipate that PSN isn't utilising any big cloud providers scalabaility and we're now waiting on Jim, who is on a long weekend (and well earnt!) to reboot/add more storage/logrotate
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I wonder why restoring from a backup isn't working?
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You're making ME feel old. I remember having to go over my friend's house to play multiplayer.
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My guess is, like 90% of businesses, they have multiple backups, set up monitoring for when a backup job fails, store them on redundant disks in different locations, dutifully write them on tape too, in addition to a copy in cloud storage, and have never ever tested restoring one.
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It annoys me that you can't even look at your trophies for games when PSN is down...
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I remember being so happy that outage happened because they gave away free games. That's how I got to play LittleBigPlanet for the first time.
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I’m pretty sure PlayStation requires games with certain types of multiplayer to authenticate with them as part of the agreement to publish on the platform so that’s restrictive.
It sounds like that requirement is just a bad deal for the consumer. And they charge you for it. And they can't guarantee uptime.
