PSN is down

[baopee]

I was able to log o with PSN app on my phone, but still no luck with PS4.

[Makado]

This is really annoying, and even more so it only hurts the console users. It seems like this happens a few times a month almost now. It would be nice to maybe get a credit for a month or something from Sony since they can't seem to find any way to keep it from happening.

[IshidaTsukuyomi]

Saw this coming, it was said over a month ago that they were gonna do these attacks through the Christmas season.

[Huntington]

This attack was a little bit of an odd one for me because I was on very very early in the morning on the 25th, about 4 AM. I was doing crafting during that time because nothing was going on in the PF, about 6 AM, my PS4 tells me that in 15 minutes the game will be closed because it could not verify the license for the digital content. Only a PS4 problem there too, if I was on the PS3, I wouldn't have that problem. But I have only really played physical copies on my PS3, and XIV was a Physical copy on it in the past as well.
Anyways, I get kicked from XIV by that point, my internet is still working and my laptop is on youtube just fine. If I was allowed to be on during that time because that's how it works when maintenance for PSN or anything works, I would have been able to stay on. But now basically there are two things barring PS4 players from being on this game, and if you dodge one issue, the other one kicks you off.

It's bullcrap and I'm getting tired of these people that would rather be an outright pain in the ass to people who haven't done anything to them, then instead "hack" or cause problems for legitimately evil corporations and entities in the world(I.E. North Korea.)
If you're online when PSN goes down, on PS4, you can't stay on for long because the license check gets you. And if you aren't logged in when maintenance starts, then you can't play at all then either. *sigh*

[Buff_Archer]

I am going to be MAD AS HELL if I lose a garden full of expensive crops due to this crap. I already lost several hundred thousand gil worth a week ago because I had the flu and was sick in bed and unable to log in for a full day, and if this crap happens again because I can't log on I blame SE and the ability for certain high value crops to die so quickly as much as I blame Sony.

It's a private house and no one can water them for me.

[VanilleFang]

I can't log on I blame SE and the ability for certain high value crops to die so quickly as much as I blame Sony.

That seems irrational, at best.

It has nothing to with SE. They programmed the crops a certain way. Deal with it.
And we don't even have any actually information on what is going on with the PSN. It is possible that Sony can't really do anything and they are trying to fix it.

[Sylve]

I really hope they can come up with a way to keep this from happening so often/easily.

The problem with DDoS attacks is the way it happens.
The only way to 'fix' a DDoS attack is to also block legitimate users. Until we have a way to track each individual connection back through all the addresses theyre falsifying we wont have a way to actually block these kinda of attacks without affecting normal users.

[Yamimarik]

I was able to finally log in just now on my PS4. So I don't know if that means it's up for most, but might want to give it a try for anyone still trying. GL too!

[myahele]

I was able to log in too

[Huntington]

Logged in to craft daily stuff, mine, then got off. Not in the mood to do more at these hours.