Comments on: Remembering the Great PSN Outage of 2011

By: Boxer_Lady

Boxer_Lady — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:51:22 +0000

Ahhhh…BINX! LOL Lovin’ your Lab! Oh my do I remember the GREAT OUTAGE! It was a, on one hand miserable situation, and on the other hand a real eye-opener. I also learned how much the Home community meant to me! I missed Home and all my friends terribly…but, in the end we got some awesome free rewards as you stated and a greater appreciation for each other and Sony.

Great article Ted you’re a terrific writer…I could just see you sitting in that house…, the looks your dog was giving you during the walks…, AND the looks you got after the walks were finally over! ROFL!

By: Jayson619

Jayson619 — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 17:14:56 +0000

Me and several PS3 supporters and owners are involved in a verbal war of words against M$ losers who threw insults and rants and saying that ‘We deserve this punishment bcos Uncharted 2 won GOTY at the SPIKE Game Awards’ and such.

Rants are for idiots but sometimes when the line got crossed you just had no choice but to make a stand for the console you’re supporting, like a fan supporting his favourite football team.

Those responsible should be sentenced to death, especially George Hotz whose legal fees were funded by M$.

By: Femaelstrom

Femaelstrom — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:57:08 +0000

I think it was about a week after the system came online again that I first popped into Home. I had never been to Home and I wasn’t effected like somebody who was, so I reaped the rewards of the 100 free items and all the welcome back perks. I may not have a “what did you do during the black out?” story, but allow me to interject this, I am Home so much on a daily basis doing the whole scene, gaming, buying, making and keeping friends, decorating, that honestly, I hate scheduled maintenance offlines. As I write this, we are in a scheduled maintenance time, (in the morning) and I almost felt sad when a dear friend and I said bye last night knowing we probably wouldn’t talk today due to maintenance. I can’t imagine what would happen if it ever went off again. I would probably grow a long hermit beard and long hermit hair, sit with my PS3 on till it returned and I could come out of my dark, dank cave where I raised rats as friends. Yeah, I love it that much, and don’t want to lose it like you guys and gals did. Glad I wasnt there.

By: Burbie52

Burbie52 — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 05:08:51 +0000

I spent my time off Home by writing about it in the magazine and also by playing games and watching TV more than I had in a long time. I also read a few books and kept my eye on the virtual clock til the day came that we could get back to our friends. I wasn’t happy about the situation but since it was out of my hands I didn’t feel the need to complain about it, no sense crying over spilled milk, you won’t get it back in the bottle.
Nice read Ted.

By: NorseGamer

NorseGamer — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 04:54:27 +0000

Perverse as this is going to sound, the Great PSN Outage was actually a blessing to HomeStation.

Generally speaking, most internet outlets for Home focus on what the latest breaking news is. But if that’s your focus, then what do you report on when there’s nothing to report? Meanwhile, you’ve got a consumer base that’s absolutely starved for anything to do with Home.

Enter HSM. As a literary journal, many of our articles are evergreens — and since we cover Home from a sociological perspective instead of a pure gaming perspective, the outage provided us with fantastically fertile material to write about. And we, in turn, delivered some unique content that couldn’t be found anywhere else.

This is not to say that I liked the outage; the people responsible for it deserve to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. But the nature of business is to create opportunities and seize the advantage, and the outage permanently introduced a lot of new readers to HomeStation. It was one of our shining moments as a publication, and this team rose to the challenge in outstanding fashion, as they have done time and again. It was a pleasure to be a part of it.

By: LostRainbow

LostRainbow — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 02:48:04 +0000

Great article!!! Glad you had your dog Jack to keep you company. I remember the outage well. When I first started playing Home, I never had any problems logging on. Shortly after, I couldn’t stay connected to the game. I didn’t know whether to blame my router or something on the PSN’s end. After several calls to Sony and my router company and trying many fixes and settings nothing helped. I went to a local electronics store and told them about my problem and they suggested a long cord that connected the PS3 directly to the router. Well guess what? It worked!! I could now play Home and not disconnect. So the day of the outage when I logged on and got the error message I thought my luck had run out and I’d not be able to play Home again. After several attempts of trying to log on, I went to the Sony forums and learned that it was a site-wide problem and not just on my end. Phew! Little did I know that it would take 24 days to start working again. I followed all the news to stay up to date and was greatful that I never used my credit card to purchase things. I use PSN cards so I don’t go crazy buying things. If I used a credit card, I’d spend way too much!!! LOL!

I missed Home, but since I don’t go on daily I just waited it out. I kept up with friends in other ways. Nothing has changed my feelings about Home. I still won’t give a credit card, that’s for sure and I am greatful for the times I do see my friends on Home and love hanging out with them.

I am laughing about you saying you were worried about your Hollywood Hills House being trashed. I felt the same way about my Tropical Escape space.

I am glad that Sony handled everything well and I am glad the outage didn’t make the PS3 gone for good. As for the people in France, I hope they bought something useful and I am glad you didn’t have to foot the bill!!!