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Movemodo Talking Point: The Impact of the PlayStation Network Disaster

The recent attack on PlayStation Network has made headlines around the world, even reaching the US Senate as players, analysts and politicians come to terms with what has happened. Movemodo's James Newton attempts to get to the bottom of the outage's long-term impact.

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Max_Dissatisfaction5174d ago

Man, things are getting rough for SONY. After securing my credit card I'm starting to kinda feel bad for them. Not SONY as a company, but the individual people that that make up SONY. This must be a nightmare for them and I pray heads don't roll because of this mistake.
In the spirit of Easter, I choose to forgive this mistake. We are all human right? Yes even sony.

nycrekid5174d ago

i think in the interest of not sounding like drama queens these articles should refrain from using the world "disaster" and "catastrophe", especially in light of what has just happened in Japan and is happening around the world.

Max
What mistake are you referring to. The fucking PSN got hacked and everyone seem to be blaming Sony for getting violated! WTF do we blame rape victims for getting raped, robbery victims for getting robbed, murder victims for getting murdered? Come on guys let's not lose perspective here. Sony and the consumers here are the victims of internet pirates and hackers! Go after them!

Fred-G-Sanford
And blind hate isn't? Too much of ANYTHING is not good. It goes both ways dude.

The least people can do is have some common sense and put things into perspective.

pocketaces115174d ago

I was just coming to post the same thing nycrekid. This crap is getting out of hand I always threaten not to come back to this site with all the friggen fanboyism both ways and lack or intelligent comments in the most part.

My conspiracy thought is that microsoft did this... I wouldn't put it past them

Back to the point very low using the word disaster in this article.

Slapshot825174d ago (Edited 5174d ago )

This is how things work in this world now - Sony has a federal crime committed against them, and it is now their fault!

Makes me sick, and I don't care what company it happens too! The hackers are the criminals, and they are the ones to blame!

Joe29115174d ago

They have committed a federal crime, by waiting so long to tell us, its law to inform customers of a breach of security and they played us the fool - saying it was nothing (maintenance), then something to do with the Japan Disaster, then they are rebuilding and OH SH*% HACKERS GOT YOUR CC AND PERSONAL INFO!!! And they don't even say sorry or tell us anything to do with when PSN will be made available again

Rybakov5174d ago

mhm mhm and you think the US government tells the nation when there has been a break in national security NO they do not...only when they can't cover it up do they say something and by then its too late and hundreds are dead......and they dont have to tell us anything they only way they would break federal laws is if they sold our CC and personal info....user agreement dude should actually read it sometime, they can shut everything down with out a reason and you couldn't complain cause you agreed to it

showtimefolks5174d ago

the were not sure what was going on so they hired a outside firm to investigate and that takes time

you can believe whatever you want HACKERS ARE THE REAL ISSUE HERE SONY ALONG WITH US ARE THE VICTIMS

Slapshot825174d ago

I agree that Sony has it's faults and hasn't handled this situation well, but I still stick to my main point - If it wasn't for peoples desire to hack the systems and ruin it for everyone else, this issue wouldn't exist!

moparful995174d ago

Sony is a scapegoat this generation... Everyone wants a head to place the blame on and since they can't get at the hackers who are actually to blame for this the alternative is sony for "allowing this to happen". What gets me is people are in arms about how easy it apparently was but it took 5 years to hack the system, not easy.. But nonetheless people will martyr sony anyway...

taylork375174d ago (Edited 5174d ago )

I look at the situation as a whole.Blame goes to both parties IMO.

The hackers get all the blame for causing it, but Sony gets part of the blame for how they handled the situation.

Fnboys all say how everyone should know that this is going to happen everywhere...which is true. If we all know its going to happen everywhere then why was there such a poor response to it.

I don't think Sony is the scapegoat this gen at all. For this situation, yes they are, and again some of it is warranted.

The 360 RROD was a lot hairier than this IMO, and it should have been. Consumers have no doubt lost more dollars from that than they will from this.

moparful995174d ago

Everybody keeps talking about "how sony handled it" but dont you think that taking psn down as soon as they learned of the intrusion was the right move??? It took them 6 days to disclose the nature of the intrusion because they were investigating and had no knowledge of what was affected... I really don't think that sony did anything wrong.. But thats me..

taylork375174d ago

"Everybody keeps talking about "how sony handled it" but dont you think that taking psn down as soon as they learned of the intrusion was the right move???"

I can't disagree.

"It took them 6 days to disclose the nature of the intrusion because they were investigating and had no knowledge of what was affected... I really don't think that sony did anything wrong.. But thats me.."

Are you seriously going to keep believing that they had no knowledge of what was affected? Its seems to me they kinda knew but weren't 100% sure. Since I believe they had some idea, there is no excuse to not inform the consumers of the possibility that their data isn't safe. They took a chance by not saying anything and it turns out they should have. It was a PR move that didn't work out. That's what I think they did wrong. You are entitled to your opinion of how it worked out, I'm just guessing as well, but take the goggles off for one sec and realize that chances are they knew more than they were saying.

Hellsvacancy5174d ago

Itll be forgotten about as soon as the PSNs back online

Pillville5174d ago

If personal info hadn't been taken, I would've agreed. This now extends beyond online gaming.

pocketaces115174d ago (Edited 5174d ago )

It doesn't matter if personal info got taken they don't have the 3 digits of the back of your card they can't do anything with the info. and my plans take over the world were not stored on my ps3 so they didn't get that either. take a pill pillville this is not as bad as all these sites make it out to be and it could have happend to microsoft just as easily but they probably paid someone off to avoid it happening to them then paid the same people again to do it to sony

edit: I wish they would ban that disagree button(or attach a forced comment attachment to the disagree... disagree with what I agree this comment is not as well thought out as what I usually post but please tell me what you disagree with.

taylork375174d ago (Edited 5174d ago )

I have ordered plenty of things online that didn't require the 3 digit number on the back of your card.

That's what I disagree with.

Edit:

And I am assuming that you are joking about MS paying someone to do this. That might explain some disagrees.

Fishy Fingers5174d ago

Month or two and all this will largely be forgotten.

Then we can all get back to the old N4G we all know and love... console comparisons and monthly sales figures :)

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Rolling the Dice: Do Modern RPGs Miss the Point of Team-Based Play?

It seems it was long time ago. A bunch of friends spending hours on end playing RPG games, sitting around the table with the box of cold pizza. Excited about the story, listening to the Game Master, they were completely engaged in the worlds only visible to them and their imaginations.

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Takwin3052d ago

The GM is the programmer, and in MMOs and co-ops, you can play with others. If you want to ONLY use your imagination for the visuals, read a book.

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Record of Agarest War 2 announced for PS3

Scrawl: "Looks like we know how that new Compile Heart countdown is going to end. The latest issue of Famitsu has confirmed that Agarest Senki 2, known as Record of Agarest War 2 in the US, is Compile Heart’s newest title."

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Godmars2905497d ago

1) Hope they put it on disc this time.
2) Hope this is a positive for Neptune coming over as well.

Demons Souls5497d ago

If so, that's being developed & published by Idea Factory. Compile Heart has nothing to do with it (Thank God for that).

Godmars2905496d ago (Edited 5496d ago )

Thought Compile Heart was one of the companies lending characters.

Was also speaking in general as in regards to a US of Neptune. If these guys are offing a second game, NIS or Atlus, both of whom offer quirkier titles, will put that one out.

@kagon01:
My issue isn't - wholly - with the DL-only option, but the price. The first game should be $30. Maybe $40, and by that I mean $39.99. The only reason its $45 is the 360 disc version which has extras. Nevermind that by all rights its a PS2 game. Something that proabbly could have been done if the devs had the GOW2 engine or tools.

ClownBelt5497d ago

I approve of this god damn message.

Could have gotten my 60 bucks if they just put it on a disc.

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Tripl3seis5497d ago

Another exclusive damnn the ps3 keeps on rollin wit games awesome ;)

Jack-Pyro5497d ago

Is this a half decent SRPG, porn aside, cause if it is, i might just decide to go and buy it for the 360.

Anon73495496d ago

There's no porn just some sexual innuendos but that's it.

Also it is a great game by itself, maybe not graphically but everything else is top tier.

RedDevils5496d ago

so it had some kind of "top tier" porn story jk

ThanatosDMC5496d ago

Yup, it's a decent game. I just hate that a move has to go first before any attack options.

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Bless Online Korean MMORPG Gets Server Merge

This is not the first time that Bless Online receives a server merge in Korea. An announcement was made on the official Korean site.

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Bismarn3087d ago

Bless must be an amazing game to be on all these platforms (according to the tags): iPad iPhone Nintendo DS PC PS Vita PS2 PS3 PS4 PSP Wii Wii U Xbox Xbox 360 Xbox One