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Sony Gives Update on Why PSN Has Gone Down Again

PlayStation Network users have been experiencing the PS3′s online service go down yet again just recently. Users from Europe as well as North America have stated they are still seeing the PlayStation Network is down for maintenance message. Sony has now given an official update regarding the message.

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Hellsvacancy5360d ago (Edited 5360d ago )

“Please bear with us as we continue working on PSN restoration. We are experiencing extremely heavy traffic.” No sh!t Sherlock

MaxXAttaxX5360d ago

Too much PSN love LOL

It's hard to contain ourselves from not signing in all at once the moment we heard it was back on :P

Foliage5359d ago

I have just connected with 7 Reference Kits, and 1 Test Kit. It is up on the developer end at least, up here in Canada.

I wonder if these users changed their passwords?

For development purposes, I just created whole new users and PSN accounts.

Anon19745359d ago

Yeah, I'm in Canada too. I got in fine last night, also no problems this morning.

Welshy5360d ago

im in the UK, signed it perfectly at first, but ended up "under maintenance" again for a couple of hours there, and now its back again lol

to be expected i guess, the just rebuilt the entire system and literally the entire world is trying to get onto a brand new server almost simultaneously.

it'll come with time, should be back in full swing by the end of the week hopefully =)

Max_Dissatisfaction5360d ago

Literally huh? The whole world you say?

Redgehammer5360d ago

Umm, maybe He meant literally in the figurative sense, or better yet; Never go up against a Sicilian when death is on the line.

Scyrus5360d ago

I love sicilian pizza!

Truth5360d ago

@Redgehammer

Pulling some lines from Princess Bride? Very niiiice.

Aarix5360d ago

Your if going to say "literally the entire world" there better be a 6 billion count on there.

paintsville5359d ago

Down again. Meh. Not surprised.

PS3n3605359d ago

Clearly I can not choose the wine in front of me.

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LOGICWINS5360d ago

Funny, mine never went down.

norman295360d ago

Same here, signed out and back in again and still working fine.

Dee_915360d ago (Edited 5360d ago )

mine just did
and itl probable be going down for more of you

Guard7195359d ago

Same. I jammed to several hours on HomeFront last night and signed in the morning on the East Coast. All is fine.

trounbyfire5360d ago

people can't wait and already sony dead articles again

LOGICWINS5360d ago

Whats wrong with reporting news? Apparently, it went down for some people..so y can't we talk about it?

Soldierone5360d ago

Because its server traffic causing it to stutter at times...its nothing more. Sites are making it out to be like the PSN was hacked and wont be back up for weeks. We don't need ten articles "PSN IS DOWNS AGAIN OH NOES!!!!" We need one simple headline "PSN Traffic Causes Outages" Done.

Remember MW2? Did the same thing, was fine within a day. Its simply servers jumping back online and processing information correctly. Once people stop requesting password changes, that portion of the servers can work on keeping people online instead.

LOGICWINS5360d ago (Edited 5360d ago )

^^You sir, are a paranoid fellow.

"Bu bu bu dey cantz say nuthin badz abouts mah TREY!"
Grow up dude.

solidjun55360d ago

Do you look at yourself in the mirror deadreckoning666? Cause you're the one acting like a kid. Grow up.

rezzah5360d ago

@solid

Logic is Dead?

solidjun55360d ago (Edited 5360d ago )

@rezzah: Yea it's him. I first recognized him in the way he writes. Then he implicated himself when he lied and told me to stop PMing him. First of all, I never did; especially to his LOGICWINS name; and second of all, I have a electronic trail of him PMing me as deadreckoning666. I never initiated a message to him. When you read the messages, it's easy to see it's him. Same style in terms of of writing.

fatalred alarm5359d ago

When the xbox experienced heavy traffic everyone was screaming doom to.. and that was only heavy traffic, not included the 3 week outage.

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jerethdagryphon5360d ago

its entirly my fault i synced my 200 trophys and it died :(

LOGICWINS5360d ago

Pff..its all ur fault man ;)

ikkeweer5360d ago

On how many accounts did you update your Hannah Montana trophies?, damnit

jerethdagryphon5360d ago

no hanah montana trophys :) sly 2 /3 venetica knights conract and all the simgle player on motorstorm apocolypse and portal 2

ikkeweer5360d ago (Edited 5360d ago )

OK, I'm partialy impressed by, and partialy sad for you.
Doubt they were jumping up and down at Sony-headquarters because of your trophies though, lol

@PlayStationEU
PlayStation Blog EU
#PSN services have also been restored in the rest of Europe, New Zealand, Australia, Mexico and South America.
Let's see

YES, back to KZ3

jerethdagryphon5360d ago

also how can people disagree with the trophys check my sig in forum or my profile on ps3trophys.com

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ikkeweer5360d ago (Edited 5360d ago )

why can't there just be one article linked to their twitter accounts: http://twitter.com/#!/PlayS...
http://twitter.com/#!/steve...
don't know the us one

Silly Mammo5360d ago

Just play 60 minutes of KZ3!!

dragunrising5360d ago (Edited 5360d ago )

I anticipated heavy traffic so I simply downloaded the new firmware and changed my password. The demand to game online is great enough so that everyone and their mom is jumping online. In a couple of days the congestion should go away.

frostypants5359d ago

Ditto. I pulled BFBC2 out, but then came to the same conclusion you did and thought better of it. I'll jump online after everyone else has had their turn.

solidjun55360d ago

"No sh!t Sherlock"

Exactly. Mines went down for like 20 minutes as I continued to play Deadspace 2. No biggie. Heavy traffic. I didn't expect another 24 days. ^_^

jke825360d ago

back up in toledo oh as of 100am 5/16

frostypants5359d ago

Everyone saw this coming. People are going to slam the servers much harder than they'd ever normally get hit, just out of anticipation for them coming back online after the hiatus. Not much Sony can do about it other than try to balance out the loads. They could have paid for additional capacity, but it wouldn't have made much sense given that this sort of activity is generally temporary.

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XxDarkGamerxX5360d ago

Its back up again according to some tweets

Danielmccue5360d ago

Yeah its back up, store still doesnt work though where i am (the UK)

Dart895360d ago

The store ain't up anywhere that will probably come back during the week.

limewax5360d ago

Pretty much all I am waiting for now really, just want my 2 free games

LOGICWINS5360d ago

Infamous and Warhawk :)

limewax5360d ago

Hope so, I have Infamous, but Warhawk is one I missed, Starhawk is one I will not, A chance to play it would be good but with Starhawk announced I don't feel its worth buying now, Not because of its quality, because of timing

Solidus187-SCMilk5360d ago (Edited 5360d ago )

Im happy with anything for free, especially PS1 classics.

But giving warhawk like you said would be really smart for sony. It might get more people into the series for the new one. Id love to try that.

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mastiffchild5360d ago

Yeah, I'm kinda relieved I'm not part of the hokey cokey(you turn the PSN on, the PSN off, on, off, on off...)of that amounts to tonight's open PSN beta in a way. My router's died and left me with only an old modem thing but going back on only to have to muck about with my passwords(email account issues and kids changing passwords means I think I might end up having to call Sony-and I've got a couple of old systems that have left me and I didn't deactivate)and THEN have the typical first night online issues would be too much after this wait!

It's true that it's probably teething problems and unavoidable but, you know, it's still going to scare a lot of people who don't appreciate things like this and a lot won't ever have experienced a beta so it might be a worry for them.

newn4gguy5360d ago

Type in the new password.

Type it again to verify.

What's so hard about that?

n4gisatroll5360d ago

You don't need the original ps3, I think the account has to be the master account. Go on quoricity.com and check your account details. It shows which ps3s has your account on them, and you can deactivate certain ps3s.

mastiffchild5360d ago

No, as I hadn't installed the update I didn't know if they were going to assk me to o it by email hence THAN my dead email would have been an issue AND if the two other accounts aren't set up to sign in automatically I'll be NORMALLY screwed cos my kids, who changed them, won't know what to so all I could hoe there is that they didn't change the email accounts too.

Was less about Sony and more about procedure/things that would have screwed me normally anyway. Should have been clearer but the main thing is I would have left it anyway as i didn't want to end up waiting for an answer from Sony when the'll be hugely busy.

If it's just lewtting most people do it on their PS3 I shouldn't have an issue with my main account and THEN I can change the email but as some people were saying they were waiting FOR emails I was concerned.Sheesh.

SpaceSquirrel5360d ago

I kind of expected to happen due to a lot of people trying to log back in

rob60215360d ago (Edited 5360d ago )

That is likely, but it's also possible some of those 'Anonymous' followers are DDoSing Sony's servers to try to take them down. Taking Sony's servers down for a few minutes to an hour is as far as they ever got before someone actually broke in.

Thrungus5360d ago

To be fair I didn't expect it to stay 'up'.

limewax5360d ago

Never heard of heavy traffic overloading servers?

beavis4play5360d ago

heh,heh.....heh,heh,heh....... .you said "up"......heh,heh... .heh,heh,heh....

InLaLaLand5360d ago

Lol I see what you did there.

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Rolling the Dice: Do Modern RPGs Miss the Point of Team-Based Play?

It seems it was long time ago. A bunch of friends spending hours on end playing RPG games, sitting around the table with the box of cold pizza. Excited about the story, listening to the Game Master, they were completely engaged in the worlds only visible to them and their imaginations.

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Takwin3256d ago

The GM is the programmer, and in MMOs and co-ops, you can play with others. If you want to ONLY use your imagination for the visuals, read a book.

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Record of Agarest War 2 announced for PS3

Scrawl: "Looks like we know how that new Compile Heart countdown is going to end. The latest issue of Famitsu has confirmed that Agarest Senki 2, known as Record of Agarest War 2 in the US, is Compile Heart’s newest title."

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Godmars2905701d ago

1) Hope they put it on disc this time.
2) Hope this is a positive for Neptune coming over as well.

Demons Souls5701d ago

If so, that's being developed & published by Idea Factory. Compile Heart has nothing to do with it (Thank God for that).

Godmars2905701d ago (Edited 5701d ago )

Thought Compile Heart was one of the companies lending characters.

Was also speaking in general as in regards to a US of Neptune. If these guys are offing a second game, NIS or Atlus, both of whom offer quirkier titles, will put that one out.

@kagon01:
My issue isn't - wholly - with the DL-only option, but the price. The first game should be $30. Maybe $40, and by that I mean $39.99. The only reason its $45 is the 360 disc version which has extras. Nevermind that by all rights its a PS2 game. Something that proabbly could have been done if the devs had the GOW2 engine or tools.

ClownBelt5701d ago

I approve of this god damn message.

Could have gotten my 60 bucks if they just put it on a disc.

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Tripl3seis5701d ago

Another exclusive damnn the ps3 keeps on rollin wit games awesome ;)

Jack-Pyro5701d ago

Is this a half decent SRPG, porn aside, cause if it is, i might just decide to go and buy it for the 360.

Anon73495701d ago

There's no porn just some sexual innuendos but that's it.

Also it is a great game by itself, maybe not graphically but everything else is top tier.

RedDevils5701d ago

so it had some kind of "top tier" porn story jk

ThanatosDMC5701d ago

Yup, it's a decent game. I just hate that a move has to go first before any attack options.

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Bless Online Korean MMORPG Gets Server Merge

This is not the first time that Bless Online receives a server merge in Korea. An announcement was made on the official Korean site.

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Bismarn3292d ago

Bless must be an amazing game to be on all these platforms (according to the tags): iPad iPhone Nintendo DS PC PS Vita PS2 PS3 PS4 PSP Wii Wii U Xbox Xbox 360 Xbox One