PSN UP

[Volcano]

Microsoft is a popular DDoS target, but they have invested billions into cybersecurity. They have far more resources to spend on combating botnetworks (and are actively taking them down) and DDoS attacks than most companies do. Sony's business is nothing like Microsoft's. Sony spending such huge amounts of money against DDoS attacks is irrational.

I'm sure all of these targeted companies are investing as much on DDoS mitigation as is wise for their business to do.

With how much money they milk from their costumers it's no wonder they can combat this easier.

[Sove92]

With how much money they milk from their costumers it's no wonder they can combat this easier.

It's more about priority. Microsoft is far more dependant on having their online connection remain up 24/7 than Sony is. For Sony, it's like protecting a gas station's cash register with a central bank level security. If Microsoft's connection went down even for an hour, it's going to cost them millions, not so for Sony.

[Niwashi]

With DDoS, it can sometimes be the case that instead of being totally down, the servers are still up and trying to function, but you have like a 0.01% chance of getting in through all the clutter the attackers are throwing at it. (Not an exact percentage, obviously, but near enough to make the point.) I suspect that's how a few people seem to see it as back up when most people don't.

Please avoid the temptation to just keep trying over and over. It's going to take enough attempts to frustrate you, anyway; and in the meantime, that just adds even more traffic hitting the servers that are down precisely because of an attack that's hitting with too much traffic. It's time to dig through your game collection for a good single-player game you haven't played in a while, or start a Netflix movie marathon, or find a good book, or whatever. Then every now and then, check Playstation's twitter account, for updates on getting the problems resolved. Once they say it's back up, that's the time to try logging in again.

[SulwynCaliope]

Canadian PS4 user here and I managed to log in at about 9.45 am EST. Been on all day since I'm afraid of logging off. ;~; I basically spammed the server log in non stop until I managed to get in.

[Ilitsa]

Canadian PS4 user here and I managed to log in at about 9.45 am EST. Been on all day since I'm afraid of logging off. ;~; I basically spammed the server log in non stop until I managed to get in.

strange thing is, my fiance is in canada right now, and was able to log in with no issue this morning on her ps3, does ps3 and 4 connect differently or something?

[SulwynCaliope]

strange thing is, my fiance is in canada right now, and was able to log in with no issue this morning on her ps3, does ps3 and 4 connect differently or something?

From what I'm reading that is indeed the case. I'm in no way tech savvy but what I've been hearing is that PS4 has additional security measures that requires your system to connect to their servers for. PS3 just checks to see if you can connect to their server and let's you through directly or something. I'm not 100% sure though. So if you're on a PS3 you should've been able to log in hours ago, however, PS4 users are still SoL.