Dear Valued Sony Online Entertainment Customer:
Our ongoing investigation of illegal intrusions into Sony Online Entertainment systems has discovered that hackers may have obtained personal customer information from SOE systems. We are today advising you that the personal information you provided us in connection with your SOE account may have been stolen in a cyber-attack. Stolen information includes, to the extent you provided it to us, the following: name, address (city, state, zip, country), email address, gender, birthdate, phone number, login name and hashed password.
Customers outside the United States should be advised that we further discovered evidence that information from an outdated database from 2007 containing approximately 12,700 non-US customer credit or debit card numbers and expiration dates (but not credit card security codes) and about 10,700 direct debit records listing bank account numbers of certain customers in Germany, Austria, Netherlands and Spain may have also been obtained - we will be notifying each of those customers promptly.
There is no evidence that our main credit card database was compromised. It is in a completely separate and secured environment.
We had previously believed that SOE customer data had not been obtained in the cyber-attacks on the company, but on May 1st we concluded that SOE account information may have been stolen and we are notifying you as soon as possible.
We apologize for the inconvenience caused by the attack and as a result, we have:
1) Temporarily turned off all SOE game services;
2) Engaged an outside, recognized security firm to conduct a full and complete investigation into what happened; and
3) Quickly taken steps to enhance security and strengthen our network infrastructure to provide you with greater protection of your personal information.
Despite having countless methods to recoup costs and multiplayer not being a luxury anymore, consoles continue to enforce paid online play.
Paid console multiplayer started before Xbox 360. In fact the first xbox introduced paid multiplayer to Xbox, not the 360. I still use my xbox tag from over 20 years ago: Franwex.
The Dreamcast before had a service too. Seganet. Sega had online multiplayer since the 1990.
But yes, agreed. Paid console multiplayer is not really need these days.
Didn't the Megadrive or the Genesis as the residents of North America called it have online MP?
XBAND here is a vid
https://youtu.be/QEHnAku4r0...
Yeah another thing sega did like there controller that xbox copied.
Now subscriptions are the norm even a car after purchase has subscriptions even mircotransaction's so they know the average person is a money cow that is ready to be milked.
Netflix makes crap content but its subscriber base is growing even after another price hike.
I remember when sony tossed out a expensive console a ton of first party games and free MP never had money issues at the end of the ps3 era were well off then came the ps4 and all the xbox ponies that loved to pay for mp :( man i miss free mp on that console with linux os for 5 years it was hard to find a cheater on the ps3 i miss that.
There was xband but there was also the sega Chanel which was a subscription service that let you download games to the genesis like mega man the Willy wars as an example which came to Europe as a retail game but not the US instead it was locked to the sega service.
Yet again Nintendo doing the same thing Sony and Microsoft is doing yet is left out of the conversation...Nintendo Switch Online doesn't count?
Does Nintendo blacklist if you include them on thumbnails for negative articles or something?
It's costs about 30 percent of those services and yeah you get a nice little emulation hub for their legacy content which unfortunately can't just be purchased anymore but they are not charging and introducing free modern games to justify higher costs
I mean Nintendo just started their paid online with the Switch. Xbox and PlayStation have been doing it for nearly 2 decades now, both definitely deserve more blame.
They would not blacklist but instead send in a swat team to raid your office because you are using there name without permission.
Nintendo is so crazy with lawsuit's i remember when there bots took down there own content on official channels.
It takes too long for some of these writers to bring out these takes. I suppose what I am saying is not enough people actually care and these types of articles should have been written a long time ago when game writers were at the height of their power.
Exactly why pc gaming is best. I got sick of subscribing to their BS online services.
I prefer paying for online over upgrading PCs every couple of years, dealing with cheaters and not having physical games. I don’t play many online games and I originally started paying for the service for cloud saves on PS3. On top of online you get games every month. I don’t usually play them but my children do. So the package isn’t bad imo. Of course I’d rather it would all be free but the small
savings I would get from not paying for online is not worth it for me to go back to PC.
Sony Music Entertainment Japan, subsidiary Aniplex, and Palworld developer Pocketpair have announced the establishment of Palworld Entertainment, a joint venture that will be responsible for developing the reach of the intellectual property and for expanding commercial business endeavors, including the global licensing and merchandising activities associated with Palworld, outside of the game.
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Crazy that they’ve formed a partnership of sorts, but the game itself still haven’t been released on PlayStation
It's still in Early Access. If it ever goes gold, there will definitely be a PS5 version, might even be a PS4 version too
The PS1 and PS2 both had strong RPG libraries, so it’s not a huge surprise that the PSP saw numerous excellent RPG releases, covering original releases, ports, and spinoffs/sequels to major franchises.
Great list but needs to be 12 you don’t have Star Ocean First Departure and Second Story!
Jesus christ another attack?
They are not just hackers now, this is cyber terrorism.
If they ever catch them, I hope their trial we conduct in Finland,
the punish there for this kind of stuff is death by hanging.
Now, can we stay CALM this time?
when it starts looking up, things go south again...damn...
as usual some sites jumped the gun...
Not that I have subscribed to any of there MMOs, shouldn't they have dealt with this at the same time and just shut both of them down?
I know for a fact that Sony Online Entertainment said they were merging DCUO servers, but are they merging the other MMOs as well? I guess that also explains the "down time".
I assume hackers were going to plan an attack in 2007, but failed seeing as how the billings were expired? Or was this a recent attack and all they found was expired billing from 2007?