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The Great 2011 PSN Outage Megathread *Post 1 updated*

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,923 ✭✭✭kearneybobs


    PaddyBomb wrote: »
    Quick question. Where do I go to check how long I have left on my Plus subscription?
    It's under Account Management on the XMB. then Transaction Management, Services List, click on PS+. It'll tell you when it expires.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,553 ✭✭✭✭Varik


    PaddyBomb wrote: »
    Quick question. Where do I go to check how long I have left on my Plus subscription?
    It's under Account Management on the XMB. then Transaction Management, Services List, click on PS+. It'll tell you when it expires.

    It also tells you on the actual games if you scroll down the details.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,131 ✭✭✭Azure_sky


    Kenno90 wrote: »
    I just tried to add funds to my wallet, i got an error code but went to check my bank balance and i got charged a euro :confused::confused::confused:

    Was that all about?

    Same here. Only I tried to add funds five times and was charged a Euro each time but didn't receive the funds. Sony owes me a fiver.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,565 ✭✭✭✭Tallon


    no


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,561 ✭✭✭rickyjb


    Does anyone know how long I would get ps+ for if I was to join it right now (14.99 for 90 days)? Would they just add on 30 days plus the 90 I'd paid for or would I get an extra 70 days free??
    Joining for awhile seems to be the best way to get value out of the free ps+ membership, 30 days is pretty much useless as you lose all the content then.

    Also when will you be able to activate the free ps+ membership, same time as you download the free games?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,605 ✭✭✭irish_stevo815


    rickyjb wrote: »
    Does anyone know how long I would get ps+ for if I was to join it right now (14.99 for 90 days)? Would they just add on 30 days plus the 90 I'd paid for or would I get an extra 70 days free??
    Joining for awhile seems to be the best way to get value out of the free ps+ membership, 30 days is pretty much useless as you lose all the content then.

    Also when will you be able to activate the free ps+ membership, same time as you download the free games?

    How would you get an extra 70 days may i ask? :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,553 ✭✭✭✭Varik


    rickyjb wrote: »
    Does anyone know how long I would get ps+ for if I was to join it right now (14.99 for 90 days)? Would they just add on 30 days plus the 90 I'd paid for or would I get an extra 70 days free??

    The 70 days is only for Plus members who had subscriptions before PSN went down(set as 21 of April), you get the 30 days and any time you pay for.
    rickyjb wrote: »
    Joining for awhile seems to be the best way to get value out of the free ps+ membership, 30 days is pretty much useless as you lose all the content then.

    Also when will you be able to activate the free ps+ membership, same time as you download the free games?

    Depends on how Sony do it, if it's a code we are emailed and need to enter, a activating PSN download or some a automatic system.


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 10,420 Mod ✭✭✭✭F1ngers


    rickyjb wrote: »
    Does anyone know how long I would get ps+ for if I was to join it right now (14.99 for 90 days)? Would they just add on 30 days plus the 90 I'd paid for or would I get an extra 70 days free??
    Joining for awhile seems to be the best way to get value out of the free ps+ membership, 30 days is pretty much useless as you lose all the content then.

    Also when will you be able to activate the free ps+ membership, same time as you download the free games?

    You lose the PS+ stuff after 90 days too - unless you continue with your subscription.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,561 ✭✭✭rickyjb


    How would you get an extra 70 days may i ask? :eek:
    Anyone who had an existing ps+ membership gets 60 + 10 extra days don't they??

    In hindsight it would be a bit much to expect this for joining now but sony aren't exactly on the ball at the moment when it comes to their online services, you never know...

    Speaking of which the store is down again:rolleyes:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,561 ✭✭✭rickyjb


    F1ngers wrote: »
    You lose the PS+ stuff after 90 days too - unless you continue with your subscription.

    Yes but 120 days would at least allow me to get some value out of the free stuff. It probably is a bit stupid buying 90 days to get value out a free 30 days but it's not that dear. It's a genius marketing ploy out of sony when you think about it, I bet loads of people join ps+ on the strength of the free 30 days, it's essentially a trial.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 54,640 ✭✭✭✭Headshot


    As part of the welcome back package does in include free psn+ for a while or is it just games?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,561 ✭✭✭rickyjb


    Headshot wrote: »
    As part of the welcome back package does in include free psn+ for a while or is it just games?

    Yes you get it free for 30 days if you weren't a member or an extra 70 days free if you were.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 54,640 ✭✭✭✭Headshot


    rickyjb wrote: »
    Yes you get it free for 30 days if you weren't a member or an extra 70 days free if you were.

    Thanks, it will come in handy when uncharted3 mp beta comes out


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 234 ✭✭TommyTippee


    The PS shop seems to be all over the place, but I managed to download some add-ons for Shift 2 today pretty easily.

    Great they were too :-)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,789 ✭✭✭grizzly


    I tried accessing the store through L.A. Noire and it froze and locked up the system. Anyone else experience this?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭Trevor451


    http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/02/sony-pictures-hacked-by-lulz-security-1-000-000-passwords-claim/

    WOW I know sony pictures is unrelated to the PS3 outage but it just shows you how much sony care about your personal information.

    "stolen the personal information of over 1,000,000 users -- all stored (disgracefully) in plain text format"

    :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,470 ✭✭✭RedXIV


    I got my PS Plus stuff last night, including Burnout Paradise, Pain, James Pond and Streets of Rage (and the minis but I never really pay attention to them)

    I must have gotten on when everyone was getting pissed off because all that (around 7GB) downloaded in less than half an hour :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 294 ✭✭dellWlan


    Can't see anything in playstation store about our free stuff.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,561 ✭✭✭rickyjb


    RedXIV wrote: »
    I must have gotten on when everyone was getting pissed off because all that (around 7GB) downloaded in less than half an hour :D
    :eek::eek:

    That's some internet connection you have there, what speed is it?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,470 ✭✭✭RedXIV


    rickyjb wrote: »
    :eek::eek:

    That's some internet connection you have there, what speed is it?

    UPC 30MB

    can be tempermental sometimes with the PS3 though, took over an hour to download a 52MB update once so I call this karma :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,561 ✭✭✭rickyjb


    RedXIV wrote: »
    UPC 30MB

    can be tempermental sometimes with the PS3 though, took over an hour to download a 52MB update once so I call this karma :)

    You're doing well on a 30MB connection to get 7gb in a half an hour, that's more like 50MB (5 megabytes/sec).

    I know what you mean about the ps3, I usually only get half the speed I get downloading something using my laptop.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,470 ✭✭✭RedXIV


    rickyjb wrote: »
    You're doing well on a 30MB connection to get 7gb in a half an hour, that's more like 50MB (5 megabytes/sec).

    I know what you mean about the ps3, I usually only get half the speed I get downloading something using my laptop.

    might do a speedtest when I get home, assumed I'm on 30, could be on more?

    yeah 90% of the time when I'm downloading it takes an age, thats why I was so suprised when I thought everyone would be on last night


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,131 ✭✭✭Azure_sky


    They're not available yet but according to Sony E.U. they will be available "very soon". There's a PSN store update due today so I'm hoping they will be available later today. Anyone know when the store tends to update on Fridays?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,678 ✭✭✭TrustedApple


    Guys how do i get my PS+ stuff ??


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,470 ✭✭✭RedXIV


    usually between 4 and 5pm


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,166 ✭✭✭Beefy78


    Not too fussed about the free games right now, but I wouldn't mind throwing myself into the PS+ stuff over the long weekend.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,296 ✭✭✭Frank Black


    Will the PS+ membership kick in when the games become available to download?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,470 ✭✭✭RedXIV


    Guys how do i get my PS+ stuff ??

    were you a PS+ member before the outage? I was and thats why I had access to the Plus section, as far as I know, the complimentary plus membership hasn't kicked in yet


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 13,018 ✭✭✭✭jank


    Trying to reset my password after all this but the link I get in the email brings me to a web page that says the site is under maintenance....:mad:
    Anyone else get this?


  • Posts: 0 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Not again :rolleyes:

    http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Technology/Sony-Security-Breached-As-Hackers-Gain-Database-Details-Of-Another-One-Million-Customers/Article/201106116004801?lpos=Technology_Top_Stories_Header_4&lid=ARTICLE_16004801_Sony%3A_Security_Breached_As_Hackers_Gain_Database_Details_Of_Another_One_Million_Customers
    Hackers Target 'One Million Sony Customers'


    10:30am UK, Friday June 03, 2011
    Sony has once again been targeted by a group of hackers who claim they gained access to details of one million customers.

    482.jpg


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,565 ✭✭✭✭Tallon


    Lads, follow https://twitter.com/#!/LulzSec

    He's been saying for days that he has been hacking them


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,532 ✭✭✭WolfForager


    Never wanted to punch someone so much in my life.... blah blah internet bravado.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,968 ✭✭✭aindriu80


    I finally got logged on to the store this morning. I couldn't make head nor tail of it. No offer of any games as far as I could see. Its June now and I wanted to know did I miss the free month welcome back programme or they haven't figured it out yet.

    I see that Sony was hacked again with 1 million credit cards stolen.. terrible !!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,585 ✭✭✭Jerichoholic


    LulzSec The Lulz Boat

    Hey innocent people whose data we leaked: blame @Sony | RE: @joelsack

    Yeah it's Sony's fault that you hacked them and caused hassle for millions of people. What a complete clownbox. He deserves to fall asleep on the blades of a helicopter.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,463 ✭✭✭shinzon


    aindriu80 wrote: »
    I finally got logged on to the store this morning. I couldn't make head nor tail of it. No offer of any games as far as I could see. Its June now and I wanted to know did I miss the free month welcome back programme or they haven't figured it out yet.

    I see that Sony was hacked again with 1 million credit cards stolen.. terrible !!

    youve missed nothing the welcome back pack is not live yet, read the playstation blog it will be live soon, COULD be live after maintenance today but doubt it

    Shin


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,681 ✭✭✭Wolverine359


    Tallon wrote: »
    Lads, follow https://twitter.com/#!/LulzSec

    He's been saying for days that he has been hacking them

    They should find out where he's tweeting from and, and.... :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,166 ✭✭✭Beefy78


    aindriu80 wrote: »
    I see that Sony was hacked again with 1 million credit cards stolen.. terrible !!

    No, that is not correct.


  • Registered Users Posts: 35 Unregistered Migrant


    So the PSN is back up now after six weeks and these are the issues I am still having (outside of being pissed that SONY lost my details and that the free games are either s**t or ones I already have):

    1. Play TV stalling constantly (apparently SONY are aware of this and will release a patch some time in the next 2000 years to fix it)
    2. 4OD not working in the PS3 browser; click on play and it just goes to a black screen
    3. General glitchy/stalling Playstation Store
    Is this what everyone else is getting or is there something extra up with my PS3?

    Luckily my PS3 and all its ephemera didn't cost me hundreds of Euros...oh wait it did...note to self: murder all SONY management and also hackers who apparently have no dicks.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,565 ✭✭✭✭Tallon


    MASSSSSIVE thread on it with all the details...

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056229593

    Yes, some of the stuff is not back up and running yet

    And some hackers do have a penis! The rest are girls


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  • Registered Users Posts: 35 Unregistered Migrant


    Yeah I know there's another thread, but when threads get too big...they're too big. A new succinct summary thread would be nice.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,968 ✭✭✭aindriu80


    Well Im glad they didnt get those credit card details but the morning business shows were full of stories saying as much.

    They really have taken their time lauching the welcome back programme. Its June now and still stalling.

    did you hear that the NGP is rumoured to have 1/2 the power as promised.. to compete with Nintendo. Tough times for Sony.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,584 ✭✭✭Reg'stoy


    1. Play TV stalling constantly (apparently SONY are aware of this and will release a patch some time in the next 2000 years to fix it)
    2. 4OD not working in the PS3 browser; click on play and it just goes to a black screen
    3. General glitchy/stalling Playstation Store
    Is this what everyone else is getting or is there something extra up with my PS3?

    The 4OD problem might be as simple as clearing your cache and history, as this is a common enough problem if you don't.


  • Registered Users Posts: 35 Unregistered Migrant


    I've cleared cache, history, cookies etc. multiple times. Nothin' doin.' Is 4OD working on your PS3?


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 10,420 Mod ✭✭✭✭F1ngers


    I've cleared cache, history, cookies etc. multiple times. Nothin' doin.' Is 4OD working on your PS3?

    Working for me now.


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 80,797 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    How come I can't sign into the playstation website?Its been down a few days now.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,923 ✭✭✭kearneybobs


    Welcome Back package is live on the store now. Just got Wipeout and Rachet and Clank. Have the others and not really too interested in Dead Nation. I think. Now to check if the US account and Uk account will gove me the other games. i.e. dead nation!

    edit: Just tried the Uk account there. Downloading Dead Nation right now. Probably gonna get Infamous too even though I already have it.


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 10,420 Mod ✭✭✭✭F1ngers


    Welcome back: http://blog.us.playstation.com/2011/06/03/welcome-back/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=WelcomeBack_060311

    Sorry, but that's the US one.
    Don't have a link to the Irish one, but it's there now.

    Downloading Dead Nation and inFamous myself.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,923 ✭✭✭kearneybobs


    My US, UK and Irish account all work. Got Superstardust off of the US one, Dead Nation off of the UK one and Wipeout and Rachet and Clank off of the Irish one. Sweet. Now to try for the PSP games.


  • Registered Users Posts: 409 ✭✭celj


    Oops.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,908 ✭✭✭Daysha


    Ok I must have done something wrong because it's not giving me the option to download the free games. I only have the Playstation Plus tile available to me on the right hand side of the screen :confused: I think I may have clicked into and then pressed the back button but now it's no longer there. Anyone else have that problem?


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