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[MrAlwaysRight]

Status for me (London UK) is PSN is down completely, Xbox Live on Xbox One gives the impression it's up, but Game downloads drop to half a meg down for long periods and games I've never played before wont load, Minecraft Xbox One Edition is unable to generate an online world etc.

Neither service is without fault at the moment

 

[Altered Juice]

damn i accidentally logged out of ffxiv. damn damn damn!


itt: xbl vs psn squabbles

also dafuq is with that one dude here approaching anyone who says "xbl is up for me"?

 

[cantthink9]

Finest Squad is likely Lizard Squad, and just part of their elaborate trolling.

The doxx that was released is likely fake, and has innocent people's information on it.

As for trying to use a botnet to ddos a botnet, it's feasible, but inefficient and wouldn't really work. DDoS works becase we;re talking about millions of PCs in the zombie botnet horde, all attacking one target. It's good at nuking a single space, it's not good at going after a wide, distributed setup like a botnet. It'd be like trying to swat flies using a cannon.

Well I did read an article (i forget what website) saying how a 17 year old canadian member of lizard squad was arrested. Could of been fake, makes somplete sense.

Sucks that out of the millions of gamers that play that nobody can help to fight these guys. Imagine, Xbox gamers and Sony gamers coming together to fight off the evil lizard squad. The xbox gamer hands his XB1 controller to the PS4 gamer, who than hands his dual shock 4 to the XB1 gamer. They smile at eachother, turn around, sit at there PC's, yell up at mom for more pizza rolls, than take down the hackers as one big happy gaming community.

Sorry I think im still a little drunk from yesterday.

 

[chubigans]

log out and try to log in...

Yeah, how about he doesn't do that. Jeez.

 

[Moa]

Do what Valve did when they got hacked.

Offer the guys a job and once they show up at your office have the Feds waiting.

Source for this?

 

[The One and Done™]

Anyone actually enjoying what's occurring is a bad person.

 

[Courage]

I assumed that, but I just figured if they could hack such a large company with 10 or less people, how come so many gamers, which im sure some know how to hack, cant do it back to them? Someone else told me to re-read what a DDoS is, I appareantly need to. It just amazes me that these 10 people could continue to pull this off.

The biggest downer is the lack of responses from sony. I love my PS4 and Playstation in general but man...these generic responses and no sort of real communication is messed up. They need one of the big guys, to come out and release a statement. Say what happened, say why its still down, apologize, offer some sort of compensation even if its just 2 days of PSN(to make up for what was lost) and really thats it. That would be cool with me. The lack of anything but completely generic bullshit responses is sad.

I mean, considering nothing can be done and it's also Christmas time, it's reasonable to assume why they haven't officially released a statement. I'd expect something by Monday if this keeps occurring by then.

 

[MastorofPuppetz]

Live is up and problem free for me.

Cool, but like has been said already it's not for everyone, again whats your point?

 

[Nodnol]

Console warriors have made this thread pretty hilarious.

It makes me sad.

What side of the fence your on doesn't matter when the neighborhood is being nuked.

 

[ilium]

It's sad that BBC 5 Live doesn't broadcast to Omicron Persei 8.

All we get out here is 'Single Female Lawyer'...

and 'Law & Order'.

 

[breakfuss]

MastorofPuppetz: "Please please oh please let Xbox Live be down too!"

Oh god LOLOLOL this thread keeps on giving. Guys, let's not turn on each other. Remember who the real enemy is.

 

[nowai]

There are?

I was able to login at 11pm pacific last night.

Bought my Hawkmoon and Gjallarhorn upgrades in Destiny before logging off around 2am.

 

[Mr Croft]

Live is up and problem free for me.

Yea I was playing eariler then all my games went down. Can no longer load a single game because it says I'm not online when I'm clearly logged in.

 

[Noobcraft]

Cool, but like has been said already it's not for everyone, again whats your point?

Keep up the good fight soldier! Your unwillingness to listen is getting to them!

 

[funkypie]

I wanted to play destiny today but haven't been able to all evening. Haven't the energy to play anything else.

 

[BronsonLee]

Source for this?

They did this to the guy who stole Half Life 2 source code, no?

 

[Joeki11a]

Yeah, how about he doesn't do that. Jeez.

I am saying he is flaunting his I am online all day flag, explain why.

 

[BokehKing]

go do it to Apple, I will retweet you

What is your issue?

 

[IcyEyes]

There are people how could log in to PSN as well too, whats your point?

You need to read my previous post to understand what is my point.

 

[HamsterPackage]

There are?

I was on PSN updating my newly purchased PS T.V this morning. It was working for me earlier. But now it's down again.

 

[Marvel]

Cool, but like has been said already it's not for everyone, again whats your point?

You asked for proof.

 

[Netherscourge]

Source for this?

Gabe caught the Half Life 2 leaker by doing that.

Located him, ID'd him, offered him a job and then when he showed up, the FBI took care of him.

 

[CheDominik]

It makes me sad.

What side of the fence your on doesn't matter when the neighborhood is being nuked.

But might as well enjoy it by watching people having meltdowns.

It's not like anyone here can do anything about it.


edit: The outage finally gave me an opportuninty to play velocity2x, awesome game

 

[Art Vandilay]

I was having no issues with XBL today until about 30 minutes ago. Can't get BF4 or Destiny to function properly.

 

[kevin1025]

I guess I'll go play Metal Gear Solid 3, then...

 

[MastorofPuppetz]

You asked for proof.

How is that proof most everyone can login and use live OK? LOL 1 person is not exactly much proof. He said most everyone, 1 person is not most everyone.

 

[jetjevons]

Any validity to Anonymous going after LIZARD SQUAD?

 

[StrongBlackVine]

I would be really annoyed if I got a console for Christmas and couldn't use it almost two days later. Not a huge deal(for me) overall, but a major annoyance.

 

[BronsonLee]

RIP Joeki11a

...You goddamn doofus

 

[LookAtMeGo]

log out and try to log in...

I asked a streamer on PS live how are you on?

he said "I never turn off the PS4"

Ive done it multiple times now. Sometimes i get back on and a few times i didnt and had to try over and over to get back on but I did.

 

[JP]

I used to have a social life but I was no good at it. Then I just stayed at home on my own, with my computer.

It's worrying that he is actually the cliche that he was supposed to be.

 

[TsuWave]

Live is just better. Sony really screwed the pooch again here and hasn't learned from their mistakes as usual. Like Nintendo, Sony's circling the drain because of their shitty decisions.

I told everyone to get an Xbox and they didn't listen.

amazing .

 

[tuna_love]

How is that proof most everyone can login and use live OK? LOL 1 person is not exactly much proof.

Guys guys only mastorofpuppetz anecdotal proof is what matters here.

 

[Mik317]

Ive been on all day

damn....Id trade my Xbox Live loggin on ability for yours right now lol.
I want to play FFXIV so bad....I won't have time after this weekend.

 

[The One and Done™]

Seriously guys? Really? Christ.....fuck it

 

[Zakalwe]

Just because it's only a DDoS attack doesn't mean the people who did it don't know how to do more.

What I am extremely curious about is the part where they suggested the companies could have much better protection if they spent the money.

Lots of people in here saying "you can't protect against ddos", but I'd really like to read some informed information.

I pay Sony a lot of money for services and products, I expect things to work well. Psn has a terrible history of reliability, for example, and if there are things they /could/ be doing to help their network run more reliably and be better protected then I'd like to think they do all they can.

It doesn't seem like they do, though. I can understand why someone might want to being attention to that if true. I want the money I pay to help improve service, not just line pockets.

 

[Spacejaws]

I've never heard of Stephen Nolan before, but he was stellar in this interview. Loved every minute he spoke and called these guys on their B.S.

Well I admit I kinda cringed when he said would you go round to a kids house and put a hammer through his ps4, because thats 'essentially' what your doing.

Reminded me of this old classic

 

[Insane Dead]

Yea I was playing eariler then all my games went down. Can no longer load a single game because it says I'm not online when I'm clearly logged in.

Yeah can't load any of my digital games either.

 

[waypoetic]

It works for PS3. We know. It works for Vita. We know.

... What some of you don't seem to get is that it doesn't work for PS4 users.

 

[Tampler]

Source for this?

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-02-21-the-boy-who-stole-half-life-2-article

Pretty good read.

 

[Marvel]

How is that proof most everyone can login and use live OK? LOL 1 person is not exactly much proof. He said most everyone, 1 person is not most everyone.

XBL been fine for me the entire day(and my FL of gaffers), I'm posting this from it's browser right now after heavy sessions of halo/cod.

 

[MastorofPuppetz]

Guys guys only mastorofpuppetz anecdotal proof is what matters here.

This post makes no sense, I am not the one proclaiming live or PSn is fine.

 

[Noobcraft]

How is that proof most everyone can login and use live OK? LOL 1 person is not exactly much proof. He said most everyone, 1 person is not most everyone.

http://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-live-status
Is it running perfectly? No. Is it running? Yes. Here's proof.

 

[Nameless]

Well there are atleast 1074 people online an active on PSN....

http://bf4stats.com/

But then again they could be just be stuck at menus spamming the X button .

I've just been checking that site periodically, tells me all I need to know. Less soul crushing than failing to login.

 

[recks]

Yea I was playing eariler then all my games went down. Can no longer load a single game because it says I'm not online when I'm clearly logged in.

Can you still send messages, use the store, etc? Everything working flawless here, been playing FH2 for the last 2 hours with zero problems.

 

[MastorofPuppetz]

http://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-live-status
Is it running perfectly? No. Is it running? Yes. Here's proof.

Yet people on this very forum were totally down just recently.

 

[tuna_love]

This post makes no sense, I am not the one proclaiming live or PSn is fine.

As soon as someone said they got booted from gta on xbox you proclaimed live to be down. Remember?
And saying my post makes no sense? You seem so flustered that half of your post don't make any actual sense at the moment.

 

[SpacLock]

XBL has worked flawlessly for me since this morning. West Michigan.

 

[JP]

Just because it's only a DDoS attack doesn't mean the people who did it don't know how to do more.

What I am extremely curious about is the part where they suggested the companies could have much better protection if they spent the money.

Lots of people in here saying "you can't protect against ddos", but I'd really like to read some informed information.

I pay Sony a lot of money for services and products, I expect things to work well. Psn has a terrible history of reliability, for example, and if there are things they /could/ be doing to help their network run more reliably and be better protected then I'd like to think they do all they can.

It doesn't seem like they do, though. I can understand why someone might want to being attention to that if true. I want the money I pay to help improve service, not just line pockets.

What they can pay for is bandwidth, you just make sure that you have more bandwidth than the DDoS attack can use. It's not something that you can really fight though.

 

[kevin1025]

I hope there will be anecdotal articles popping up on Facebook in a week proclaiming, "He was logged out of PSN and Live, You Won't Believe What He Did Next".