PSN Is Still Down After 14 Hours And No One Knows Why

At least in 2013 when I started using Steam more seriously if your connection dropped it would prompt you asking if you wanted to switch to offline mode. And I know this because I had Steam on a laptop that I carried in my bag hibernating and I didn't had internet in some places I went to. So that has been fixed for over a decade.

Pretty sure they did a while ago

Especially with the steam deck, you're not going to have Internet available everywhere

GoG checking in with no arbitrary server requirements! Why reward companies for treating you badly?

When companies treat me like a sucker, I move on to companies that don't.

The difference is if steam goes down I might not be able to play a few games. If xbox (what is their service?) goes down you can't play any games.

Really? We had a family game night last night with the purchased digital edition of Until Dawn just fine.

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.

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 compared to free online on PC is probably one of a multitude of reasons that people are leaving consoles for PC.

Nobody's gonna dispute the necessity of some sort of server somewhere in the mix. But does it need to be something like PSN? A central 3rd party service that most games only use because they're forced to?

Free your mind! There is another way. Video game servers should be open-source, and the games should permit you to choose a custom server. This way, games can survive the bankruptcy of their creators' companies.

To be clear, that was not a thing. Just the PSN account doesn't require payment. The subscription is for playing in MP and (I think) access to online media like yt.

Subscription fee? Is this true? Do they have a PC Game Pass service now?

You just made a Techbro angry somewhere in the world.

Yes, and I'm also telling you we'll get no free games this time. Business is more of a "fuck you" attitude in 2025.

B..but 2011 was like 6years ago?? No?

It has happened more often than that. The one in 2011 was the biggest outage, but PSN also got DDOSed by lizard squad a couple years after the 2011 outage

There was also a big outage on 2014 when Sony got DDOSed by Lizardsquad. So maybe you are remembering that one and don't need to feel quite so old

You're making ME feel old. I remember having to go over my friend's house to play multiplayer.

Why would you want them to be breached? The only people that are going to be negatively affected by that are the users who was involved in the breach.

Understand hating a company but I find it to be pretty selfish if you're okay with third party being affected just to fit your personal agenda.

It's what separates the corporate tiers with the consumer level. The ability to care.

That's your body suffering from whiplash as we're once again back in the era where you never know whether someone is telling the truth or not when they make a wild claim about the president like that.

a play on Trump purging the Kennedy Center and installing himself as chief

When I worked at a web host, we had people like that. Being support sucked. Like, yes, it sucks that your e-commerce site that uses horrifically outdated software is offline but, we don't offer quad nines, especially not on a $35/year shared hosting plan. And, honestly Drew, your site gets single-digit visits per month and sells erotica based upon the premise of Edgar Allen Poe being transported to 1990s Brooklyn and working as an apartment building super. At best, you're breaking even on that hosting bill.

I tried this in the first place I lived at where I paid for my own internet, which was Comcast at the time.

They said (paraphrasing because it was a long time ago) their contract specified they were not responsible for any outages, nor any income lost due to same. I don't know if that's true, but I was young and naive and accepted it at face value.

It is basically just a web form these days (just google "xfinity outage" or whatever).

They cut you off after a certain number of outages per quarter. And they decide how much money you get per outage. So if your next door neighbor has never reported an outage and you report every single one, they'll get more for that one report.

I never played the first one. I just watched a story recap.

The gameplay isn’t janky just brutally difficult and unforgiving. It goes for realism above all. I’m really liking it but I’m only maybe halfway through the story.

The first one is regularly on sale for $10 or less. Just try it. It's really good!

It's the sequel to the first one, and historical accuracy was like, at the center of of that one. Your character starts off the game not knowing how to read, because in medieval Europe, literacy was not widespread and the son of a blacksmith certainly wouldn't know how to read, so books you pick up in the game are total gibberish until you learn to read.

It's Bohemia so like modern day Czech Republic

It's like the anti pirating software. Drm? Can't tell if I own it or not.

I'd believe this in a heartbeat.

Or there is a completely different issue causing this and restoring would do nothing.