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[phierce]

Its back up and i bought a few Ps4 games. Alien Isolation, Walking Dead SSN 2, and Battlefield 4

Not for me...

 

[Brutalitops]

PS Store down

LBP3 online down also

 

[InfiniteUnrest]

Can't connect to Destiny servers on PSN right now either, or access my shopping cart in the store.

 

[Live Free or Die]

Now the military/government is getting in on it http://map.ipviking.com/ #3 on the list.

 

[Sword Of Doom]

I hope they get this sorted out by tomorrow.

Doubt it. Last year psn was down on xmas. Sucked not being able to play during the holidays.

Yea I'm out.

Merry Christmas gaf.

The poster has a point you know. Maybe he can articulate better but you shouldn't be so dismissive. It's a shitty service

 

[Balphon]

Whatever the case, Im glad Sony Pictures got hacked to hell and back for being incompetent assholes.

FBI: 90% Of US Companies Could Be Hacked Just Like Sony

At best, incompetence is the norm.

 

[IAmRandom31]

Seems fine here

 

[Demon Ice]

Weird, I was able to connect to PSN and get a party chat going but Dragon Age was telling me I was signed out of PSN and was therefore unable to connect to the DA servers.

 

[Psychological Intellect]

Yup
No psn. Really wanted to play 2k15 tonight.

 

[Hendrick's]

Still waiting to see where the hell all that PS+ revenue is going towards.

To pay for all the "free" games?

 

[phierce]

Weird, I was able to connect to PSN and get a party chat going but Dragon Age was telling me I was signed out of PSN and was therefore unable to connect to the DA servers.

Yeah...kind of the same now on my end. I can connect to the store, but not to the FFXIV servers...

 

[Badlucktroll]

damn why does china hack the fuck out of the US all the time?

 

[Dazzler]

Can't get into Destiny PS4, Driveclub having connection problems too

oh well, time to go drinking I suppose

 

[wenis]

Oh good it's not just me. Maybe they're getting servers ready to drop The Interview on PSN?

 

[Enigmatic Rainbow]

Wasn't able to access PS Store on my Vita earlier today. I can now access it and download stuff.

 

[Vestal]

damn why does china hack the fuck out of the US all the time?

Its not Chinese people exactly. Most of the bot nets reside in china due to the extensive pirating and lack of security there.

 

[shysaursoft]

For those who don't know how ddos mitigation works, or at least, one way of dealing with it, this video explains it nicely: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x14r6yg_prolexic-in-action-mitigating-a-160-gbps-ddos-attack_news

The current ddos attack against PSN looks to be about 400Gbps or higher.

For those reporting: "no issues", it's likely all of PSN doesn't sit on a single server cluster, there's a lot of distributed management going on, so while the cluster you randomly got put on is fine (for now), others might end up with ones that are down, or going down. It's like if there was a coordinated effort by a thousand people to go rob every McDonalds in the city - they're not going to be able to do them all at once, so the one you walk into might be fine now, or was robbed 10 minutes ago and is now fine, etc.

 

[Matrix]

Yup
No psn. Really wanted to play 2k15 tonight.

Same. Nothing is working for me.

edit- well the store is now

edit 2- working for me now

2k servers down LOLZ figures

 

[The_Inquisitor]

Watching Netflix with family on PS3. No issues.

 

[ArkkAngel007]

I suppose I can use the opportunity to knock out the last few chapters of The Evil Within. Store is fine, but recent activities and Destiny are out. Haven't bought or streamed anything from the store to see if the store is functional beyond browsing.

North Carolina.

 

[Styles]

Still down.

I thought these baboons were gunning for Xbox Live as well? So why is that still up? Kinda fuming right.

 

[Primeau31]

everything is literally fine on my PSN. PS4 here, Philadelphia.

 

[IAmRandom31]

Playing DriveClub online atm. Seems ok

 

[TheBaronOfNA]

This is fuckin pissing me off. They just had to release the interview huh?

Is not about that.

 

[Sword Of Doom]

Watching Netflix with family on PS3. No issues.

Yeah I'm watchinf Netflix on the PS4 and it's working fine but I can't check my friends list of access anything else related to psn. Weird cause I remember Netflix not working in the past when psn was down

 

[xenorevlis]

everything is literally fine on my PSN. PS4 here, Philadelphia.

The denial of service attacks don't mean everyone won't have access. Some people will already have been on and made appropriate connections or they connect to servers that are for a smaller region. I have friends online playing games though half my friends list is doing nothing. So I can sign into PSN but I cant jump on AW, GTA, or Driveclub online modes.

 

[Sodding_Gamer]

Now the military/government is getting in on it http://map.ipviking.com/ #3 on the list.

Watching this is insane. America is getting flak from all angles.

 

[B-Ri]

On a positive note, this has forced me not to play destiny and now I'm playing Transistor, and it is phenomenal!

 

[GribbleGrunger]

Watching this is insane. America is getting flak from all angles.

How do they trace the origins like that? I can't help but be slightly cynical about that visual representation.

 

[Exr]

Got the maintenance message but when I tried a second time I logged in. PS3 NA.

 

[King326]

Even SONY getting ready for Christmas noobs.

Down for me as well. But some of my friends are able to still play.

 

[genjiZERO]

Watching this is insane. America is getting flak from all angles.

What is that? That's freaking nuts

 

[system11]

What is that? That's freaking nuts

That's the legacy of Microsofts operating systems, in graphical form.

 

[Omegasquash]

Nothing here, north of Boston.

Can't help but feel like it's just a bunch of assholes being assholes.

 

[STILLethal]

Played AW for a few hours, evrythng was fine, then got invited to a party and that twas that, cc

 

[pixxxelz]

Well is back up for me, east coast US representing

 

[Rollo Tomasi]

St. Louis, Kirksville, and Seattle are getting hammered.

 

[Sodding_Gamer]

How do they trace the origins like that? I can't help but be slightly cynical about that visual representation.

No idea I've never even seen this thing before and have no idea what it really represents. But it was quite crazy what I saw, whatever it was lol!

 

[Matrix]

NYC PSN working here now, well except the 2k servers are down so I can't play 2k15 anyway ._.

 

[Bebpo]

PSN been down all afternoon/evening in So CA

 

[Ricker]

Yay for physical disks,at least I can play some of my games offline...down here in Canada also...going to be a long weekend folks.

 

[The Artisan]

what the fuck is going on.

this is unacceptable.

PsN has been down more times when we've had to pay for than when it's been free.

 

[Commanche Raisin Toast]

Houston Texas, just got done logging into the web store and bought some stuff. Everything was super quick and smooth.

Still can't get remote play to work but I think it's the router here at my in laws place.

 

[Opt1kon_]

i can play all my online games but i can't get into party chat for the love of sweetbabyjesus.Gif

 

[TheSpoiler]

what the fuck is going on.

this is unacceptable.

PsN has been down more times when we've had to pay for than when it's been free.

Well, some shithead is spamming the servers, so that's what's going on.

Someone already explained why this is a thing - and why it's not a simple issue to correct.

Doubt it. Last year psn was down on xmas. Sucked not being able to play during the holidays.



The poster has a point you know. Maybe he can articulate better but you shouldn't be so dismissive. It's a shitty service

It's a DDoS attack tho. It's not the servers shitting themselves because a ton of people are flooding it, it's because some kids are being scriptbabies and are overflooding the servers with dummies.

 

[veloxStrix]

You know there is no protection against DDoS right? Xbox, Steam and anything else on the internet are just as susceptible as Sony right.

It's literally the same thing that happens when GAF goes down.

Well... there is. Think of how much traffic Google receives on daily basis. Aside from how huge a search engine it is, the fact that many people have it set to their desktop, programs ping it to see if the internet is working, etc. It's almost like they are getting DDoS'd all the time. They just have servers than can handle the load.

 

[Y2Kev]

I'm online now fine and just bought Suikoden II.

 

[fireworkfan]

I get everyone is pissed but its been covered already there is not much of anything you can do to stop a DDOS attack we just have to ride it out thanks to a bunch of shitheads that want to be a scrooge this year

 

[StylesClash]

Why has this become such an issue when it was not one before on previous generation consoles?

 

[Zertez]

Houston Texas, just got done logging into the web store and bought some stuff. Everything was super quick and smooth.

Still can't get remote play to work but I think it's the router here at my in laws place.

Live just outside Houston and most of PSN is down for me. I can watch Netflix, WWE Network, Amazon, etc, but I cant log into PS store, friends list is down, cant talk to or play with people on my friends list, and cant play multiplayer on the few games I tried. It is like this during Christmas time most years, so Im use to it now.