IT IS ALIVE!!!!!

[Edited on May 15, 2011 at 12:25 AM. Reason : IOP5]

5/15/2011 12:25:24 AM

mine still says undergoing maintenance...

also, what are the freebies? Are they available yet for those who can access?

5/15/2011 6:34:12 PM

Somebody please enlighten me. I updated my firmware last night...


Yet I still can't log onto the PSN today (I live in Raleigh). WTF is going on?

5/15/2011 6:44:09 PM

I had to try logging in 5 times before the stupid thing gave me the chance to change my password.

Working now

5/15/2011 6:50:09 PM

Down again.

Too much traffic.

Nice.

All the posers saying they are going to leave the PSN are back.

5/15/2011 7:54:06 PM

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2011/05/16/details-for-playstation-network-and-qriocity-customer-appreciation-program-in-north-america/

5/16/2011 5:40:14 PM

is Dead Nation any good? that and LBP are the only games in that list I don't already own.

5/16/2011 6:07:34 PM

Dead Nation
inFAMOUS
LittleBigPlanet
Super Stardust HD
Wipeout HD + Fury

Which 2 are the best?

[Edited on May 16, 2011 at 8:35 PM. Reason : .]

5/16/2011 8:33:38 PM

what is littlebigplanet about? i have no clue about that one...

what style of game is it?

5/16/2011 8:46:23 PM

it's a 2.5 D platformer

[Edited on May 16, 2011 at 8:55 PM. Reason : infamous and LBP are the best out of the 5]

5/16/2011 8:53:30 PM

i don't own any of those games... I'm def getting LBP, any recommendations on another one? infamous looks OK...

[Edited on May 16, 2011 at 8:56 PM. Reason : derp]

5/16/2011 8:56:03 PM

Those are the only two that are full games on the list and they both have scores over 9 on IGN.

[Edited on May 16, 2011 at 8:59 PM. Reason : ]

5/16/2011 8:59:33 PM

That's pretty good compensation, relatively speaking.

5/16/2011 9:29:15 PM

i'll be going for lbp (sold my original copy, bought lbp2, regretted selling the first) & infamous i think

5/16/2011 9:39:18 PM

I already have LBP so I'll pick up inFAMOUS and one of the others. Think I'm leaning towards Wipeout.

5/16/2011 10:25:06 PM

if it's Wipeout HD that is 3D compatible I may pick that up, it looks pretty awesome. If not i'll get Infamous and LBP. Glad i upgraded my harddrive last summer.


It's a pretty smart move by the Infamous developers to put their first title on this list since the second is right around the corner from being released. Could potentially boost their sales quite a bit. It was a game I always found interesting but was never motivated to pay for.

5/17/2011 8:01:32 AM

balls, now i feel like a sucker for buying infamous a while ago

5/17/2011 8:27:45 AM

Quote :

"nothing22 All American 20799 Posts user info edit post does this mean wipeout hd is free?"

good news, everyone!

5/17/2011 8:29:23 AM

do we get to choose when the 30 day PS+ trial starts?

[Edited on May 17, 2011 at 10:04 AM. Reason : itd be pretty sweet to be able to get priority access to UC3 beta]

5/17/2011 10:01:08 AM

Those downloads good for people even without the premium sub?

5/17/2011 10:04:18 AM

good for all existing PSN members.


i'm actually pretty excited for LBP, I've never played it but seems like something the gf and I could play together.

5/17/2011 10:15:08 AM

ditto, i don't feel as annoyed anymore . . . great success?

5/17/2011 6:50:27 PM

not yet, we still have to wait for the PSN store to come back from "maintenance"

5/17/2011 7:24:49 PM

infamous is actually a pretty cool game, it just gets really boring and repetitive after awhile. i never finished it, but i got a few hours out of it before i sold it.

5/17/2011 7:25:51 PM

I already have lbp. Should I trade it in before the trade in value drops? I assume many people will be doing this, driving the price down.

5/18/2011 9:51:33 AM

LBP has little trade-in value. They released a GOTY edition with free DLC thrown in. Just checked Amazon, and the original game goes for $15 while the GOTY edition is $18.

5/18/2011 10:07:54 AM

I was using this site to go by.
http://slimgamer.com/forums/showthread.php?505-GameStop-Trade-in-Values-List-amp-Trade-in-FAQ-v2.0

It had lbg trade-in-value at $9 as of 4/5/11
Not sure how accurate it is though

5/18/2011 10:18:43 AM

If you get $9 for it, I'd be very surprised. But you'll never know until you try. And yeah, the sooner you unload it the better.

5/18/2011 11:15:55 AM

So if I don't really care for a game that is a campaign I have to keep up with and keep playing, would I be best suited to get LBP and Stardust/Wipeout?

5/18/2011 11:28:17 AM

^I'm not really understanding your question. If you want to be able to play a game in short sessions without an involved story/mission/objectives, then yeah LBP and Super Stardust would be good for that. Dead Nation and Wipeout might work for you too though.

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/05/18/psn-website-sign-ins-disabled-after-users-identify-potential-exp/

Quote :

"Call it another "hiccup" in Sony's bumpy road to getting the PlayStation Network back up and running, securely: The company has disabled PSN sign-in access on its PlayStation-related websites for "essential maintenance" purposes. "Clarification: this maintenance doesn't affect PSN on consoles," tweeted PlayStation Blog EU this morning, "only the website you click through to from the password change email." A follow-up tweet added, "We'll let you know as soon as the landing page is back online." Although Sony has yet to specify the reason for the maintenance outage, the action follows users' discovery of a potential exploit of the PSN password change function on Sony's websites. UK gaming news site Nyleveia was the first to sound the alarm when it warned, "A new hack is currently doing the rounds in dark corners of the internet that allows the attacker the ability to change your password using only your account's email and date of birth." In actuality, it was not so much a "hack" as it was a critical oversight by Sony, which had not changed the PSN password reset method on its websites when it began to partially relaunch the service last weekend. Any website user, nefarious or not, needed only to provide a PSN account's associated email address and the account holder's date of birth to change the password -- information that was stolen by hackers during the PSN breach last month. Needless to say, if you have received an email confirming your PSN password has been changed (and you didn't change it yourself), you should contact Sony. For now, the password reset function has been disabled on Sony's websites. "Unfortunately this also means that those who are still trying to change their password via Playstation.com or Qriocity.com will be unable to do so for the time being," Sony said in a statement posted by Eurogamer. "This is due to essential maintenance and at present it is unclear how long this will take." "

5/18/2011 1:26:49 PM

i traded in lbp the day before lbp2 came out & got $12 for it. good luck with getting $9...

5/18/2011 1:41:50 PM

I was on PSN last night trying to play NHL '11 and it was laggy as all hell. maybe it was because all the hockey fans headed on there after the Bruins-Lightning game was over.

Had never had any trouble like that before though.

5/18/2011 1:45:56 PM

i already have Superstardust and wipeout and they are my favorite "arcadey" PS3 games when I want a quick fix and not have to get involved in a deep storyline or something.

5/18/2011 1:46:18 PM

Quote :

"^I'm not really understanding your question. If you want to be able to play a game in short sessions without an involved story/mission/objectives, then yeah LBP and Super Stardust would be good for that. Dead Nation and Wipeout might work for you too though."

You may not have understood my question, but your answer was what I was looking for. Just something more like an arcade game I can pick up for an hour and play and then not come back for a week and pick it up again.

5/18/2011 1:52:20 PM

Whenever I try to download 3.61 it will not let me and keeps giving me error code 80710723, what is this?

5/18/2011 11:41:08 PM

So if my wife and I both have PSN accounts for our own logins, does that mean we can download four games? If they're downloadable from the store, can we share them across PSN accounts like you can other DLC?

5/19/2011 12:16:25 AM

once they are downloaded to your machine's harddrive i'm sure any account can access them and play them

5/19/2011 8:08:04 AM

^^^^lbp is a good game for that, except you do still have to unlock levels. the online content is wonderful though.

5/19/2011 8:43:26 AM

Quote :

"Sony's 3.61 firmware patch for the PS3, which attempted to secure consoles after the PSN breach, could be making older machines freeze or switch off. This claim originated on an official Rockstar support page. However, this page has since been taken down, and Rockstar have stressed that this was not an official statement. The information was sourced by a member of their customer support team from the European PlayStation boards. When the page was active, Rockstar support detailed "reports of PS3s overheating while playing L.A. Noire or beeping three times before shutting down/turning themselves off, mostly on older 60GB and 80GB fat models." And that it was "confirmed locally that multiple games (Rockstar and non-Rockstar) overheat or freeze only when 3.61 is installed." Again, Rockstar have stressed that this was not an official statement. When contacted for comment, Sony said, "We don't comment on rumours or speculation about our products." "

5/19/2011 10:22:31 AM

I went by gamestop today to get quotes

lbp $8
Uncharted $9
Uncharted 2 $15
Resistance 2 $7

Will be trading in as soon as I get Uncharted 2 back from my bro. I'm going to do the trad-in 3 get extra $10 deal with lbp and the uncharted 1 & 2.

5/19/2011 11:12:00 AM

nice, i have 3 of those but I could see myself playing Uncharted 1 & 2 again in the future. Resistance 2 not so much.

5/19/2011 11:39:21 AM

I've held on to so many games that I thought I would play again but never do. There's so many games out there and less and less time to play them that I doubt I'll ever fully replay an entire game again in my life. I rarely even watch movies twice now.

5/19/2011 11:50:57 AM

ditto here. I usually hold on to them but never play them again. The best thing I did with them is trade them with friends but then sometimes they are hard to get back.

5/19/2011 12:04:30 PM

Same here. I've been holding onto both of the Dragon Ages thinking that I will play them again in the future....pft, i just put those bad boys up for sale. I can't remember the last time I played through a game twice. Possibly never.

5/19/2011 12:54:33 PM

I'm just holding onto my favorite games so that far, far into the future when I have kids I can force them to play this old crap instead of buying them new games.

5/19/2011 1:22:17 PM

i hate that the onscreen keyboard has changed from an actual keyboard to some damn pseudo-cellphone-esque pad where you have to click multiple times to get to your letter/number.

5/20/2011 8:29:59 AM

First time trying to log in cause I suck at COD on Xbox and the network seems to be down. Definitely glad I bought the 360.

5/22/2011 11:27:34 AM

^^


i got one at kmart for $20 on sale a while back

[Edited on May 22, 2011 at 11:54 AM. Reason : ]

5/22/2011 11:53:34 AM

you can change the input mode back to keyboard by clicking the button at the bottom.

ps3 store back tomorrow(?):
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/gamification/memo-says-playstation-store-to-come-back-on-may-24/405

5/23/2011 11:04:48 AM

So just to clarify, they will be emailing once everything is up an running? Or we need to go somewhere to claim these games?

5/23/2011 8:35:39 PM