Home suffering instant connection issues

Multiple users are complaining that they're unable to access the now-launched PlayStation Home.

[pale2hall]

I've seen it myself.

[Simon_Brezhnev]

same here even tho i been had home i mean im not surprise everybody downloading and trying to get on at one time i guess there is a lot of hype for it :)

[NegativeCreep427]

Where are you guys accessing it from?

Here in the major locales in Los Angeles I haven't seen any problems with Home.

[blackbeld]

i also got this problem ...

edit. at the begin. now it works!!!!!!!

[Radiodread]

this sucks, I hope they fix it soon.

[lociefer]

there's like 7-9 m ppl trying to access it at least , of course shiet is bound to happen ,i think sony is gonna expand the servers capacity or smthin , patience is the key

[ThanatosDMC]

Yup, that's how it was when i got my beta invite. Couldnt download it till 4am in the morning.

[Draperc]

Try telling that to the people who are gonna start saying "IT'S BECAUSE TEH HOMEZ IS BUGGY AND GLITCHY AND SUXORZ! OLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!1E LEVEN!!" I'd like to seem them try to sort through close to 14 million psn ids in mere seconds.

[BrunoM]

humm isent it easy to see why these is hapening every one that as a 360 went to buy a ps3 to try home out .. lol no im joking ..
but its easy i mean come on guys theres MILS of people tryint to get in to home so ya ...

gave it time by these time tomorrow it will work good and easy

[ofx360]

im having the same problem. im gonna try it through ethernet

[Sayai jin]

Your right patience is the key. I was in the closed beta for about 2 weeks with only a few connections issues, but since the launch I having the smae problems. So this is definately due to all of the anxious people trying to log into Home. Sony will respond with more servers without a doubt. The only problem I have is why did they wait. They knew Home was long awaited. The new roughly how many people have PSN accounts. They sould have already had enough servers. With that said it is still in beta. It will get better.

@Draperc- 14 million? You do realize those are double and triple accounts made by the same PS3 owner. I have 2 accounts myself. Like the original poster said 7 to 9 million.

Back on topic, I hope the connection is do not last long and everyone is enjoying Home.

[GiantEnemyCrab]

Yeah, right just like the NXE but that didn't stop the $ony zealouts from slinging their poo around like gorillas.

So yes, it's because Home is a buggy freakin mess and PSN sucks. But it's free so you have no right to complain.

[Dread]

I remember how people dumped all over Ms for the stupid christmas lag. But of course now it is perfectly understandable. Sony should get a pass.

I truly think this is not a real problem . With so many users it is expected. Just make sure u apply the same reasonable standads both ways.

[Pika-pie]

Seriously your not going to get on today. I tried for about 1/2 hour and just kept getting timed out. Not surprising that its like this.

Im gonna try again sometime tomorrow, its pointless getting frustrated now.

[TheDude2dot0]

Isn't the whole point of betas to see if this happens? What's with the complaining?

[whoelse]

Realistically theres probably more like one million trying to log in. Not everyone who has a PSN account is trying to sign in at this very time.

[agentace]

lol i got on 1st time, i guess its just luck

@dread
well you pay M$ not to have problem thats why its not ok

[smurfie4]

yeah me too. I think its because of a whole lot of people trying to login at once. That same error code popped up in the k2 beta and one of the devs on the killzone forums said it was a login error.

[xwabbit]

2 Many people downloading it LOL, this SH GOING TO BE AWESOME!

[InfectedDK]

Thats how a real start should be and thats how it always is.
I have been logged in some times now and some times i cant log in..
I guess we will just have to wait until its up and running 100% which ofcourse takes some time. See you beyond.

[ghostface]

Same here.

[40cal]

Before it kicked me out there was a F'in Ocean of people in Central Plaza. I have never seen HOME that full.

[Yi-Long]

... and after that, connection fails. Great stuff(!)

I dont see why we cant create the avatars OFFLINE, so we could at least already be doing that while we wait for the online to work.

[InMyOpinion]

Well, what the hell did you expect?

[NegativeCreep427]

We expect a fa*got hater like you to stop dwelling in the news areas that don't concern you or that console you own and to just STFU!

Good God! Go Get Laid or something. Sh*t!

[Draperc]

I expected you to say something along the lines of "LOLZ HOME IS TEH SUXORZ!!!!!!!11 IT IS TEH BUGGIEST PIECE OF CRAP ON TEH WORLDS!!!!!!!!!!1" like an ignorant asshole

[kingboy]

Do you ever game?spend your life 24/7 on N4G spewing hate messages like it was a daily job or something lol

[InMyOpinion]

I have nothing against homosexuals. I'm not a "fa*got hater". I think Kurt Cobain was a great musician no matter what his sexual orientation was. I also think it's brave of you to openly promote a homosexual band in your avatar.

Home must've been really disappointing since you guys took my comment so personal.

[NegativeCreep427]

Oh yeah considering that Kurt had a wife (Courtney Love) and had a beautiful baby girl before his death. They all just screams of his blatant homosexuality!!!

Idiot fanboys like you always make me smile. Just for the fact that the only way you idiots can counter a very substantive comment like mine is by attacking my avatar. Its just like a little stupid school-yard child saying "You're Momma" when they can't think of anything decent to counter an argument.

Leave all you're B.S. off of N4G and grow the F up!

[Sir_Ken_Kutaragi]

...All the people on this who said 'i have lost interest in HOME' are all trying to get in ;-D

I just put a game on after i couldn't get on. I'll try later.

[Socomer 1979]

it took gears of war 2 about 2 to 3 days to report about connection problems.

are everyones ps3 instantly connected to the media? when i lock up my ps3 poening to many pages too fast are they the first to know?

[Ju]

...and I am still at work. Guess the majority couldn't even try yet (guess, the majority has jobs and isn't just school kids - but maybe I am expecting too much). Or its just Europe (or east coast).

[cliffbo]

just keep trying. it took me four attempts

[Fade_Walker]

Sounds about right, it took me about 5 times.

[Socomer 1979]

a ocean of people right?

that must of been crazy!

[Unreal2901]

its a freaking launch disaster sony you should have been ready by now this really sucks and im loosing faith in sony. WAITBEYOND its frekin true

[Edge Maverick]

I've hung in there, but this consistent failure is starting to become quite pathetic.

[Coconutz919]

Home, or any online space for that matter, is not designed to have EVERY PS3 OWNER IN THE WORLD logged on at the SAME TIME. These types of games are designed for a constant flow of people logging on and logging OFF. You just can't necessarily blame Sony. It's just not ethical for a company to have server support for EVERY player at one time. Later down the road when not every PS3 owner and their mom is trying to log on, it'll run just fine.

EDIT: @ below: That's true. I agree that the connection issues on those games should be fixed prior to release and that's definately a problem. I think Home is different though. The demand is insanely higher than other games.

[Edge Maverick]

Please consider that these online failure to initalize are now EXTREMELY common for Sony products. This, LBP, SOCOM, Resistance 1 (2 at times) and Warhawk are all great examples and 3rd party games, especially from Ubisoft just love to flop on the PSN. That's why we're all a little ticked at this shiet again.

[Cenobia]

It's still a BETA. If you can't handle the issues don't use it until full release. Just because its an open beta doesn't mean all the issues go away.

Beta's are there to iron out the problems. Get over it.

[peeps]

i got in fine but network dc'd so now of course i cant get back on :p lol but i'm amazed at all the fanboys and this article. ppl seem to forget that this is the open BETA and not actual home. the idea is to stress test with large numbers of users i.e. how home will be. and then tweak it so that the final product won't have these issues...

[DeZimatoR]

Its bound to have some problems at the time of release. Just go play some games and come back tomorrow when the dust has settled ;)

[DERKADER]

I hope home isn't just one big lag and glitch fest. I downloaded it and am getting connection errors when trying to sign in. Every one who says that this was expected should tell that to Sony so it doesn't happen the next time that try to release something big.

[christian hour]

I'm not even gettin an error. I've been stuck on "initialising" for the past hour... i'm afraid to turn off my console incae it decides to access the hdd JUST as i turn it off :|

*edit* okay, everytime it goes to initialising its actually just crashing my ps3. Anyone else getting this problem? Or am I the one person in the world whos getting a different problem than anyone else? :P

[Tainted Gene]

^^whats disagreeable about what he said

[DoctorBonzai]

Can't say I have the same problem. In my case, it does the initializing then times out at every step other of the process, forcing me to retry over and over...and over again. D:

[christian hour]

Yeah I stopped posting here for a good while because as un-biased as I was, people here just like to disagre no matter what. I like to think I'm a fair man, I own all consoles, and I accept all thier pros and cons (and i dont exaggerate like most) yet theres always someone who has to disagree or be a total close minded watchamacallit... erm, teenager! thats the word :P

Anyways, an update on my situation. I finally made it passed initialising, accepted the terms and conditions, and then, BAM, finally gettin the error everyone else is. But since then, its a gamble on my ps3 crashing at initialising, or i make it passed that and i get network error. I'm gonna give up for now and try again tomorrow. My XBL account is out as of monday so I really have nothing else to do but refresh HOME and hope it works :P

[OldParr]

this is a normal thing!!! be patient

[Edge Maverick]

Not quite as consistent for Live or PC gaming mate.

[cliffbo]

Maverick you have to remember that there are more people that will be accessing HOME than LIVE. arcade owners and core owners don't even bother with downloading stuff. and don't forget this is a Sony product. so you are bound to get more interest. HOME will be running fine once people have downloaded it and downloaded each space

[tda-danny]

Then go play on live, we're sick of your comments already.

Oh, and I 'played' gears 2 online on launch, boy was that flawless, on a paid-for service, no less.

[aiphanes]

Oh i forgot it also has online issues too...come on dude Home at the moment has over 2 million people trying to log in.....

[I_LOVE_MYSELF]

let me in on my 5th try... not bad... with the amount of time Sony have spent on HOME I should of connected 1st try but no biggie... Im in and LOVING IT!

[peeps]

obv people missed my point. this is a beta...

[WhittO]

It took me a few attempts to even sign in to PSN, i cant check any1s profile for trophies or anything, haven't even tried home yet lol.

Totally understandable, with the amount of people downloading home spaces right now.

[foreverflame]

ok so i DL'ed Home right now i must say its quite stupid my avatar looks like like a guy with down-syndrome and everyone here is ugly...Enjoy a gamers motel guys! i'm going back to the real-gaming machine the 360 i'm gonna go play some blue dragon.

[Edge Maverick]

Cause you can't even get into home to see your avatar...

So you all fail!

[pukka_p]

As I understand it the avatar can be customised so you can make it look just like your real self. So, presumably, you did that - but now you complain?

[DoctorBonzai]

If you're so attached to your "real gaming machine", why did you bother burning money on a PS3?

And it's your fault your avatar looks retarded.

[Yipee Bog]

edge that was good. btw, isn't blue dragon a kiddy game?
On topic, Ya I'm getting connection issues but its due to traffic. That is what beta is for, to test sever load. no problem, it will be fixed

[Radiodread]

Last christmas it was out for what a week? shut the hell up you douchebag.

[locos85]

just wait. Home is worth it. the closed Beta was pretty cool.

[Crazywhitie]

This is nothing new with the PS3,, The home beta wasn't even big enough to hold 50,00 users,,, now they are trying to force millions into it... Wow I just wonder if they added anything.. There is not much to do yet

[DERKADER]

On open beta is just a way for companies to release unfinished buggy software and get away with it. It's a beta can be the answer to all of home's problems until Sony figures out what there doing.

[DARKTRINITYxxx]

Well i was happy i rebooted my PS3 and there it was the home icon. Downloaded and installed no probs. But now im really pissed off i either get connection timed out or a error message. Im in the UK btw any others in the UK getting this problem ?

[Bladestar]

This is predictable... Big roll out more often than not cause lots of issues... and even the all perfect Sony (as sony fans seem to believe) will also have problems...

Let's hope that Sony fans remember this day when there is any xbox live issue as they seem to do all the time and start with the, "look! xbox live sucks!"..

[creeping judas]

memories are fleeting moments!!!

So I doubt it.

[kingboy]

should be the least of your problems eh!! go have some fun on live

[jwinkelman8]

Foreverflame is laughing at you guys. Ha. He is my favorite fanboy of all time! Quit replying to him. The N4G forums is the closest he can get to home so he will be here until you guys just ignore him.

[DeZimatoR]

Wasn't it down for two weeks around this time last year? So people were actually paying for a service they couldn't use...f*cking brilliant man! That's just f*cking brilliant!

Oh, and incase you haven't noticed, this is an open BETA, its obvious it will have some problems, considering its not the final build. And even if it was, something this big with so many people trying to access it for the first time...

[LostCypher11]

My only concern is that Sony keeps this "Open Beta" on for a long while as an excuse to give us a buggy half @ssed version of what they really want home to be. But are not sure how to give us PS3 owners that with the current PSN.

[khellendros1]

I've been in the beta for about a month now. I'm not going anywhere near it tonight though. I'll wait til tomorrow. For all the people complaining, chill out. That's why its a beta.

[hay]

That's exactly what I'm doing too. It's one or two days. If half of you think that way, the other half wouldn't have that much problems. But among ordinary PS3 owners there are hordes of whiners who weren't interested in Home got fever and are hammering the server.

And to everyone who compares it to Live and NXE: PSN and Home are FREE. What does that mean? Less funds for hardware and everything. Also Home is nothing like NXE so please... Stop your b*tchin' and show some patience.

[TheMART]

Nice Sony thanks. Launching a broken service!

[Edge Maverick]

Then again, NXE also screwed up very badly at launch with a few things...but it was forgivable more so because Microsoft aren't as consistent in launch floppage as Sony has been lately.

[Ju]

The mart! Where have you been? Long time no see. Stop abusing that little sackboy as your avatar. LOL :-)

[ultimolu]

I've been having some problems as well. I'll wait until tomorrow.

[cliffbo]

wow, i just can't believe how 360 owners keep setting themselves up like this. gloating will just make you so mad in the end. go make Avatars while i play another game of pool.

[foreverflame]

@ edge maverick hey buddy !your ticking me off.. you don't have a PS3 man you pretend to have one to get in good with your PS3 fanboy pals. pretty pathetic if you ask me , besides i get to play SOTLH day one and you ahve to wait! for a port down the line on your pretend PS3 lolz!

[sephy 9 2 5]

in there. Home is more popular among PS3 people than I thought...

[farhsa2008]

home is where the heart is

[na2ru1]

Familiar at all?

[na2ru1]

HUBPS3_SVML/account/SP_login_S ubmit.jsp

Some Java sh*t i guess

[Lumbo]

normal java server page errors when the tomcat server if overloaded .. should even out in a few hours

[peeps]

yeh .jsp = java server page. getting that alot. was ok untill i had some home network problems haha ah well gonna go play some games instead tonight. looks like home will be alright though. time will tell if it gets boring fast of course.

[IWentBrokeForGaming]

and Im sorry but with all the delays HOME has had, this should've been ironed out. Maybe the NXE update kinda forced Sony into making this move... I just feel we should all be in connection error free, to do something we should've been doing way too long ago when we were originally promised. What gives?

[I_am_rushin]

I don't.

[btnh47]

its working!!

[ThatCanadianGuy]

I was in for about 20 minutes was hanging out in the mall,bought a summer home,then did some rave dancing with two random guys lol

Then i logged off to try and fix the parental settings so i could go to the plaza..then..BAM! can't get back on :(

I'll wait a few hours till the servers cool down..to many people trying to get on at once..

[Sickr]

WOW!! I'M FINALLY IN!! :O

[Steve Stardust]

Is it me or Sony has no idea how to do Online Services?

[y0haN]

I got in first try.

[I_am_rushin]

Can anyone say BETA? Go on try it.

edit: Apparently whoever disagreed proves that they can't say a 4 lettered word in English.

[DarkSniper]

This isnt even an issue. Home is a very ambitious project that Sony has embarked themselves upon. It's expected that very minute issues like this will happen. While Sony is working diligently to rectify this problem, Dark Sniper will simply enjoy the massive lineup of AAA games that PLAYSTATION®3 has to offer.

Not a big deal at all.

$niper

[Tainted Gene]

If I get in anytime soon (hopefully by tonight's end) I will not be logging out for while....a LONG while.

[redsymphony]

guess a little more time wont hurt been waiting for over 2 years now so its all good

[iggypop123]

lets see. so far all i see is initializing..... followed by error. thanks sony. at least its free. they got 1 thing right

[OldGamer]

I've gotten about eight different error messages and still haven't been able to get in.

Timed out error.
Boot error.
Eula run error.
And multiple others I can't rmember.

I'll try again tomorrow.

[dragonyght]

the connection is wrking just fine now u couldn't get in b4 u can now

[gumgum99]

I'm in home !

got in at around 9:30 EST ^_^

[aftrdark21]

I guess you can't please some people. Chill out it's a BETA... we all said the same thing. First ppl complain HOME isn't out, Then ppl complain they didn't get a HOME Closed BETA invite. Now when Sony opens the BETA ppl still complain. Wow even though some ppl want this to fail there are many, many ppl who want it to succeed. A real gamer should be happy the Open BETA is here. It will drive competition which is good for all of US the Gamers.. and be patient it's a freakin' BETA! Quit crying and moaning about it.

To all my real GAMERS

Game On! Screw the haters!

(Edit: I'm sure I'm gonna get disagrees and lose bubbles but whatever)