6mo ago

The PlayStation Network has been taken completely offline across all platforms for more than half a day, preventing online gaming, store purchases, game updates, and more

www.pcgamer.com

Update: The PlayStation Network appears to be coming back online after nearly a day's outage, but there's still no word from Sony on what happened

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It's still crazy to me that people will pay 30% tax on all their games and then fork over another $120/year just to be able to play them. Or in Playstation's case, to not play them.
- The new game price difference between PC and console is largely gone. There aren’t many games released simultaneously on both console and pc that aren’t $70 nowadays. I definitely agree on the PSN cost though. Fortunately it takes years for that subscription cost to catch up to the difference in hardware coats.
  
  I believe the 30% is referring to the share of revenue that Sony takes per transaction.
  
  Big games yeah, but I don't buy those anyway myself. The 30% tax is what Xbox/Playstation take from each game sale. Steam on PC takes 30% too, but doesn't require a subscription ontop of that to use their online services.
  You can build a PC as powerful as a console for near enough the same price these days and you save massively in the long term from cheaper games and no subscription. If you have the know how. But yeah, the barrier of entry is lower for a console for sure, but that gap is only closing more and more each year with PCs becoming more accessible.
Day one updates and DRM checks introduce extra difficulties when trying to game offline, even if you still purchase physical media.
Would be great if Sony took this as a lesson learned to ditch DRM like this, and make the PlayStation more "offline friendly".
Right now would be a good time to make suggestions to them.
- Corporations don't care about suggestions.
  I know if I spent a lot of money on a gaming system and games and because of the corporation's bullshit they weren't working, I would be thinking maybe other players are mad at being scammed, too - there are lawyers who make a lot of money when a bunch of consumers get swindled.
  
  there are lawyers who make a lot of money when a bunch of consumers get swindled.
  orly? it does not seem like that how it works in US. Suing a corpo is not easy. And even when plebs win, corpos keep doing same shit.
The trouble with walled gardens is sometimes they have rusty gates
You will own nothing, and you will be happy
The day consoles become digital-only is the day I give up console gaming
- You can not steal what you can not own. ☠️
Did PlayStation ever make a public statement about why there is an outage? Like what caused it?
- Incompetence, poor planning, probably a healthy dash of managerial stupidity not listening to the engineers. And they never drill for this which is why it’s lasted so long. But having your expensive IT staff do regular disaster recovery drills is complex and expensive so almost nobody does it properly.
  Recently retired from one of the major telcos. They would do DR exercises with tabletop discussions. No actual testing or hands on. Once I learned that I knew the first big disaster we had I was just gonna walk. It was that bad.
Darn.
Meh, don't play online and exactly 0 games have refused to run from BD out of a library of over 60 PS4/5 games.
- “This doesn’t affect me so I don’t care. I’m going to let others know it doesn’t affect me so I can lord it over them.”
  
  Or, alternatively, perhaps exemplify that live services are a pox upon gaming.

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