Well i seen on face book that SOE will not be back up this weekend.

"The Official Star Wars Galaxies Page
We wanted to let you know that our games will not be up this weekend. We are working around the clock to get our services back up and running soon. Thank you for your continued patience and support."

While Sonys servers and networks are down, they are losing an incredible amount of money.

It doesn't benefit Sony to have the servers down, but it is the most responsible thing to do on their behalf.

They could try to recoup money by opening up the servers early or by not shutting them in the first place, but that could potentially be more damaging for us - exposing us to more security risk.

Yes, its **** the servers are down but its probably for the best.

hehe I dont really know much about the technical side of things so I take your word for it

So is playstation network running this out of date apache thingy too?

Either way, logic dictates if they could have the servers up they would. This is going to crush their incoming revenue already and it will only get worse as it continues, BUT if they re-open prematurely and allow folks to get their info exposed a second time......well then consumer confidence in them would be totally lost and the consumer would have to be a fool to send them any money, much less their private and financial info....in other words, if they don't take as much time as necessary and take their time in getting this absolutely sorted out 100% the first time, then it will be the deathnail for SOE and the PSNetwork.

Besides, look on the brightside, maybe they are taking the opportunity to handle some performance related issues too, like the lag and LoS....
wishful thinking

I'd say that consumer confidence in them is completely lost already...

While I can confirm that Apache 2.2.3 is running on station.sony.com/soe.com - http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://station.sony.com

I'm afraid to say that the servers running starwarsgalaxies.com were much more out of date - http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.starwarsgalaxies.com

I can also confirm that the game servers (I've tested farstar.starwarsgalaxies.com and bria.starwarsgalaxies.com) are still up and responding to ping requests. It is only the login servers that have been taken down

Considering that the FBI are now involved, I'm not going to dig any deeper into finding out what happened however :P I can only hope that either Sony decides to be honest us or that somebody RIPS the information out of them

 

 

Because they will get the local law enforcement involved, and I've had some run-ins with them in the past (with good reason), and they have stitched me up in the past. It's only the judges realising this that saved me from prison (how the hell do you run across a room that is only just big enough to hold a single bed, attack 3 police officers and resist arrest when you're unconscious and dying?)

On top of this, I'm also quite lucky that I'm still allowed to use computers. Got caught running amok on my high schools network. It's only because of the deputy head deciding not to get the police involved that I can

So the FBI paying attention to me for anything would be a bad thing for me :P

Wow! offline for an entire month?

In my opinion this is bigger than the toyota recalls of last year and the tylenol recalls in the 80's.

I gotta say, it looks BLEAK for SWG if it is going to be offline for over a month. I will come back and I am sure I wont be alone, but a lot of folks are going to move on to other things and not look back after that long away. This could precipitate a server consolidation, maybe down to 3 servers plus farstar

I am testing SWGemu tonight.

Mont, be sure to let us know how it is. I might have to follow you there.

I've tried it out, but I don't have the time to play really, and tbh, looking back at it, nowadays I prefer what we have, but that might just be because of the guild

What is this SWGemu?

 

--hmm, just went to their site. This looks very interesting, but I have a hard time imagining how a bunch of private individuals can possibly manage a project that proved to be unmanageable by a well-funded company.

 

If they pull it off though, it has some real potential. I wish I had time to help them, of the 3 years I have played this game, 2 of them were pre-CU but to be honest I have forgotten about alot of the game mechanics from back then.

-- Edited by Aqua-Raxal on Wednesday 11th of May 2011 10:22:30 PM

Never played WoW, but I gathered the CU was more or less modeled after it from what folks told me

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May 12, 2011
We thank you for your patience as we continue to work around the clock to restore our game services. We know this has been a frustrating time for you and appreciate your understanding as we work to confirm the security of our network.

In light of the recent outage of Sony Online Entertainment's game services due to April's cyber-attack, we are committed to compensating our loyal player base for the inconvenience caused by the data breach and lost game time while we improve our security measures.

We are currently in the process of an extensive upgrade to our network to further protect your information from future attacks. It will likely be at least a few more days before we restore our services, and when we come back online, here is what you can expect for each of our game services.

First and foremost, all impacted players will receive 30 days of game time added to the end of the current billing cycle in addition to one day for each day the system is down. Additionally, many games are offering a variety of in-game items and special events to welcome players back once our services resume (per the outline below). This is true for both PC and PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system based products.
DC Universe Online: Batman and Two-Face Inspired Masks and 30 Marks of Distinction
Free Realms®: Free daily items (7 to collect)
Clone Wars Adventures: Count Dooku v2 Outfit
EverQuest®: A series of events, including Double XP, Double Rare Mob Spawns and Double Faction Gains
EverQuest II and EverQuest II Extended: A series of events, including Double XP, Double Guild XP, Loot Bonanza, and City Festivals
Vanguard: Saga of Heroes®: A series of Double XP events
Star Wars Galaxies: Bounty Hunter Statue, a miniature model of Boba Fett's ship, the Slave I
Magic: The Gathering - Tactics: Four of each of these spells: "Ivory Mask", "Duress" and "Angelheart Vial", plus 500 Station Cash
PoxNora®: Limited edition Carrionling, Welcome Back 5K Gold Award Tournaments and two Draft Tournaments, plus 500 Station Cash


For our lifetime subscribers, we'll grant in-game currency; specifically 20,000 coins for Free Realms, 7,500 Galactic Credits for Clone Wars Adventures and 10 Marks of Distinction for DC Universe Online (in addition to the items listed above).

And finally, our Station Access subscribers will receive 500 Station Cash, in addition to the subscription time and items listed above.

Additionally, we announced today that SOE will provide its U.S.-based Station Account holders with complimentary enrollment in an identity theft protection program through Debix, one of the industry's most reputable identity protection firms. For Station Account holders who live outside the U.S., SOE will be offering similar programs, if and as available, and will provide details as they're confirmed for each country or territory.

We continue to work around the clock to restore SOE's services and thank you for your continued patience as we complete our investigation of this criminal attack.

Thank you,
Sony Online Entertainment



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May 4, 2011

We want to thank you again for your patience as we work to get the SOE services back up and running. We received several questions and comments relating to the criminal attack to our network and would like to address some of the most common questions today. We are also going to continue to post updates to this website with new information as they become available.

We appreciate your continued patience and feedback.
Thank you,

Sony Online Entertainment
When will SOE's services be back online?

We have been working around the clock to restore operations as quickly as possible, and we expect to have some of our games and services up and running soon. However, we want to be very clear that we will only restore operations when we believe that the network is secure.
How is the SOE intrusion related to the PSN/Qriocity intrusion? Was this a second attack on SOE?

While the two systems are distinct and operated separately, given that they are both under the Sony umbrella, there is some degree of overlap in design. The attacks were similar in nature. This is NOT a second attack; new information has been discovered as part of our ongoing investigation into the criminal attack in April.
How is SOE planning to notify customers whose data may have been stolen?

We are sending out customer service notification emails to the email addresses we have on file for the accounts that were affected. These emails will be sent by Innovyx, our third party email distributor, and will contain either 'soe.innovyx.net' or 'soe.sony.com' in the sender field.
SOE initially thought no data was extracted, what changed?

Essentially the perpetrators used sophisticated means not only to access the data, but also to cover their tracks. We committed to continue the investigation and in doing so, uncovered further information that we did not have when we initially believed the data was not stolen.

Well back when I used to play before they added voice the guild used skype to talk so theres always that and I heard that servers were possibly going up monday or tuesday nothing official though