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People pay to host things on AWS. PSN is a free service. They shut down PSN because of the data breach. Their screwup was in allowing customer data to be sto
by 9999 15y ago
People pay to host things on AWS. PSN is a free service. They shut down PSN because of the data breach. Their screwup was in allowing customer data to be stolen, not in closing the network down.
- pstack 15y agoBeing a free service isn't exactly a reasonable justification for "you get what you get", though. You can pay for PSN+, but either way, it's still using the same network service and it's the only option. It's not like there's a pay-for option that you can say "well, if you care about uptime, you should have subscribed to the pay-for PSN service". Additionally, it's the service that is essentially part of and supplemental to the entire PS3 purchase. It's great that it's free, in that you're not losing anything with the downtime, but it's not even remotely the same thing as providing some sort of a free/beta community service website that goes down and being able to say "hey, it's a free website, what do you want from us?". That said, I've been eager for PSN to get back so I can register my PS3 copy of Portal 2 to use on the PC and so that I could play Killzone. It's amusing that the only two titles I will probably buy on that platform in the entire year came out near the same time and were hindered by the outage.
- nodata 15y agoNonsense. You buy a PS3 BECAUSE you can play online games. Whether you do that or not, it's part of the package. Their screw up was letting the network be down so long, being hacked TWICE, preventing any of the game producers from earning money while the PSN is down, preventing their customers from playing games they bought, etc. etc.