Designer Hopeful PSN/XBLA Learn Lesson to Avoid Nightmare

"The PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade are the home of hundreds of unique software titles provided by a plethora of hard-working developers and publishers. Because of this, running and maintaining such extravagant network services is essential in not only making your consumers satisfied, but those who provide the content."

-TheGamerAccess.com

[Nick212004]

I can definitely see where the designer is coming from. Just imagine your job being held back due to another company experiencing issues.

[AndrewE]

interesting opinion you got there dr. nick.

[tmanmushroom]

I can just imagine how much pressure and frustration developers may have had because of the psn downtime. Also, it possibly may have hurt their sales. In the end, this security breach never should have happened, and hopefully the industry as a whole learns from it!

[ShadyDevil]

I think people are blowin it all out of proportion.

[mbsaeger]

Hopefully all of this was a one-time event that will NEVER occur again..

[killajd]

I can see ur point on both company going thru hell right now with one being hacked and another being faulty systems not being able to update correctly. Now the question is could both companies have avoided their troubles to begin with? That remains unknown...

[FullEffectGaming]

What people don't understand is this was bigger than just us playing online and our info being stolen. Lots of companies lost sales or sales were effected because pan being down. This was almost a month long an several online only titles were supposed to be released but you can't do that if the network is down. Lots of mk players still can't get online to redeem there online passes as well as other games that use this feature. You have to look at the broad picture this was a big deal if you want to admit it or not.

[Fallouts]

i think the bigger deal was ppls info being stolen. imo those that plan on buying a psn game or anything on psn that couldnt cause of the breach will buy it once its all back up..

i would undertsand months of no sales but if your company was crippled over a 3 week stint then i would have to assume they was on life support to begin with..

[gamingdroid]

That is kind of how small (almost indie) studios work though... and we are nearing the end of the 4th week I believe....

[subtenko]

xboxlive seems like it would b more valuable to screw with them. they might get hit at an even bigger scale. Some people still think its all about sony, its not, its every company.