Gamers celebrate full return of PlayStation network The PlayStation network is back in business, hip hip hooray. Sony PS3 Slim Sony announced today that the full restoration has begun, fulfilling a promise made a few days ago that all services would be up and running before the week was up. Of course, the company had already broken the promise made prior that all would be …
actually i didnt realise the xbox network was down? :)
i still will not pay via there system for a long time. i dont trust it any more. luckily i changed my debit card just before it went down so no problem there. just change email details.
i still dont trust it to stay up long. whats the best its down by end of the month?
I thought at one point Sony were saying they weren't sure if the CC details had been taken
"In an interview with Game Hunters last week, Sony CEO Howard Stringer said the company was still unsure whether credit card data had been swiped during the breach."
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/gamehunters/post/2011/05/sonys-identity-theft-offer-for-psn-users-now-available/1
I think the issue is Sony issued statements such as the database *may* have been stolen so people assumed the worst even though the CC info was encrypted and lacking the security code. It was bad enough that they didn't know what got lifted and therefore had to extend their worst case scenario to cover it.
My own opinion is that cancelling a card is too much bother when there is no certainty it was even stolen. It's Visa's money to lose anyway so I assume they're monitoring the cards for suspicious activity already. If the card does get used for unauthorized transactions I'll ring up the bank and get a new one then.
Apparently this content is still undergoing testing, since it is stuff already on PSN, I'm assuming they mean the servers that will let millions download this at once are being tested, rather than the content itself. They also seem to be holding off upgrading regular accounts to their free month of PS+ until this point too.
I wouldn't count on Visa or anyone else returning your money without a struggle. Most card companies, especially banks, just tell you to call the merchants that charged the card and ask for a refund. This is especially useful when you have a list of Chinese mail order companies on your credit card statement. Telling them you don't speak Chinese doesn't seem to be a concern of theirs, apparently it's still your responsibility to get the vendors to refund fraudulent transactions.
"Don't worry, you'll be able to rejoin those virtual squadrons soon"
... it was only the store and other services that took a bit longer to bring back up.
Reg should stop covering this story or sack the "correspondents" who have done so ... the bias and lack of knowledge on the matters on which they claim to speak and proffer forth firm opinion unsupported by anything as tiresome as facts is not doing The Register ANY favours.
Or perhaps I detect the green tinge of jealousy? I wouldn't be surprised to find that the Reg's correspondent(s) on this found their XBoxes were borked by the recent Microsoft firmware update, or perhaps had yet another RRoD. Maybe.
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