People think they got hacked again.
The PlayStation Network has been down for well over twelve hours now at the time I’m writing this, and the reason is obvious. Sony was hacked just like in 2011. Or their main office in California is being held hostage by Hans Gruber. Or the servers are being DDOS’d.
Or they’re about to announce their acquisition by Microsoft. Or the Saudis. Or Tencent. The problem here is that nobody really knows why PlayStation’s servers are down, given this is the longest they’ve been down in a good while. We don’t know what the plan is, or when Sony expects services to be brought back online.
And that is leading to rampant speculation. So far Sony has given little more than a very non-committal “some users might be currently experiencing issues” on their Twitter account.
What they mean is everyone is definitely experiencing issues. Even the PSN status page is waffling in its language, simultaneously stating “some services are experiencing issues” while literally every single service box is ticked red.
The PlayStation status account has said absolutely nothing in over 15 hours, and the lack of communication certainly isn’t helping quell people’s anger.
It also doesn’t help that the lack of online functionality is serving as a reminder to how internet-reliant Sony’s system is. The PlayStation Portal has been functionally bricked during the downtime, even if you’re using it from your own house on the same wifi network as the PS5 it is tethered to. Users attempting to connect their PS5 disc drives to the system will find that also does not work with PSN being down.
On an unrelated note, has anyone peeked outside and noticed all the frozen water on the ground? What’s the deal with that?
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