***PlayStation Network Hacked..

[Azervich]

Anyone who had their credit card information out there on the playstation network, it's now visible to everyone. It's better to use a psn card.

Sony had the credit card info's on another encrypted server, from what I read "it may have been hacked" but no one has come forward saying money has been taken out of there account at all.

Sorry, and no offense intended.
If a program relies on monthly access to credit card information, why use it.
It's a game, not a business. I enjoy games, not enough to throw credit card info out there to be hacked.
No offense if you enjoy the game. Lack of people willing to risk problems like these may make game providers change their minds. They need us and our money, we really don't need them.
Same for the insane DRM.
An alternate view.

Dave........

Hi Dave.

That's why I use Debit Card, I can control how much money I put on it, right now I have $18.82AUD on it, if someone tried to use it to buy something, say... $19.00AUD the Debit Card rejects as there is insufficient funds in the account that card is linked too, I can't even do a $0.01 overdraw either.

-Aaron

 

[H222]

-xbox 360 FTW!

-Joe

- $80 a year FTW!

-Jamie

 

[Vern]

Appreciate the spirit in which this was posted but surely at best it should be in the "Community" forum, given that Playstation is not nor ever likely to be a system for running Trainz?

 

[Azervich]

Appreciate the spirit in which this was posted but surely at best it should be in the "Community" forum, given that Playstation is not nor ever likely to be a system for running Trainz?

Actually,

I played Rail Tycoon II on the PS1 before the PS2's came out, then in Japan PS2's also got a few rail sims called "Densha De go" several versions too!

N3V/Auran could get a Train sim on the PS3 as PS3 is 100% supported by the Hard Disk Drive while PlayStation 2 had Limited support for the HDD, I think only games that PS2 had which supported HDD was FFXI Online (as it always got versions updates) uses 10GB HDD, Tetra Master, Front Mission Online, Capcom vs SNK2, Resident Evil Outbreak File 1 & 2 (installed partial files to decrease load times for Online play), Socom II and 3 uses it to download additional maps, FFVII -Dirge of Cerberus- , Street Fighter Anthology used it for to decrease load times (installed 2GB), There was probably a few more though, Sony stopped PS2 HDD support in 2004 and made the slims.

-Aaron

 

[aardvark1]

More bad news from Sony

Sony announced today, May 3, 2011 that an additional 20~25,000,000 users may have their personal information stolen buy the hackers. This is addition to the 77,000,000 initially reported.

If you have ever used Playstation..... check your bank, credit cards, credit reports, etc, to be sure your personal data is not being used illegally.

Regards,

 

[Enkidoh]

Actually,

I played Rail Tycoon II on the PS1 before the PS2's came out, then in Japan PS2's also got a few rail sims called "Densha De go" several versions too!

N3V/Auran could get a Train sim on the PS3 as PS3 is 100% supported by the Hard Disk Drive while PlayStation 2 had Limited support for the HDD, I think only games that PS2 had which supported HDD was FFXI Online (as it always got versions updates) uses 10GB HDD, Tetra Master, Front Mission Online, Capcom vs SNK2, Resident Evil Outbreak File 1 & 2 (installed partial files to decrease load times for Online play), Socom II and 3 uses it to download additional maps, FFVII -Dirge of Cerberus- , Street Fighter Anthology used it for to decrease load times (installed 2GB), There was probably a few more though, Sony stopped PS2 HDD support in 2004 and made the slims.

-Aaron

Thing is, there is a market for train sims in Japan, due to the vast majority of the population being reliant on rail transport, so having trains so ingrained socially means they're more likely to enjoy playing a train sim - unlike countries such as Australia which still are predominantly car-dependent (although that is changing though).

As for the old PS2 hard drive, most of those games you listed either had restricted releases (such as the PS2 version of Final Fantasy XI - it was never available in Europe or Australia), or never came outside Japan at all (like Front Mission Online). Final Fantasy VII Dirge of Cerberus's online functions were also only available in Japan and have long since been shut down.

Most of those games have either long since been shut down or at least had their online capabilities suspended (as far as I know, only FFXI is still running, as I still play it myself, on PC though). But I've gotten sidetracked here.

I use a Visa debit card to use the PlayStation Network (mainly to purchase PSP games/downloaded content), and which so far has shown no suspicious purchases (not that it would be possible anyway - I only ever keep tiny amounts on the card for specific purchases/debits, meaning it would almost always throw up errors if anyone tried making a large purchase to the card - that doesn't mean it's not possible though.

Hence I've been regularly checking my card history every few hours - so far there's been no problem.

 

[NikkiA]

Sony announced today, May 3, 2011 that an additional 20~25,000,000 users may have their personal information stolen buy the hackers. This is addition to the 77,000,000 initially reported.

If you have ever used Playstation..... check your bank, credit cards, credit reports, etc, to be sure your personal data is not being used illegally.

Regards,

The additional 25 million users is all users of SOE which has nothing to do with the PSN.

I got my email this morning telling me that my account info was likely stolen, and that I should change my password - should they ever deem to allow their servers back up to do so. This was because of my SOE account for playing 'Star Wars Galaxies' a few years ago, Everquest 2X and Pirates of the Burning Sea.

 

[tyard]

Haha wow this has been going for 2 weeks already-but thanks to my computer I have been kept plenty busy (Men of War, Trainz, Arma, etc) until I can finally login and see what card is on PSN.

Also, PC FTW... for one it isn't generally a unified network, plus it has a lot of games only on PC (like, oh, I don't know... TRAINZ?). Not to say that my PS3 us quite useless (well, OK, it is until PSN is back), it does have it's exclusive games like Killzone, Uncharted, and Resistance that are worth keeping the 4-year old beast around for (and no, Halo and Gears are not worth a $300 system plus $50/yr in any way).

Best of luck if anyone starts messing with your info! Hopefully we'll all be safe.

 

[Azervich]

As for the old PS2 hard drive, most of those games you listed either had restricted releases (such as the PS2 version of Final Fantasy XI - it was never available in Europe or Australia), or never came outside Japan at all (like Front Mission Online). Final Fantasy VII Dirge of Cerberus's online functions were also only available in Japan and have long since been shut down.

Hi Enkidoh,

Australia was meant to get the Release of HDD supported games by 2005, what happened was people made modchips and 3rd party programs that let you put 3rd party HDD's (120-200GB) in the PS2's and rip rented games, that's when Sony abandoned the HDD support and went to PS2 Slim, I have a Japanese PS2 with PSBBN Installed, a US PS2 with FFXI Installed (I still play FFXI from time to time, Tetra Master was closed few months back "I did play that sometimes" I was on Hades Server, then they merged it to Cerberus, good thing with Cerberus is there's less RMT's on it, hades was loaded, I laughed when I see RMT's laying dead.), pretty sure U.K also got the HDD Support as I saw some being sold on Ebay in 2006, only HDD Support Australia got was Linux Kit in 2003. I have the Linux kit also, comes with PlayStation 2 Keyboard, Mouse, Network Disc (so you can also sign up on Central Station) and official 40GB Hard Disk Drive, I don't have Linux installed on it though, I'm keeping it as a spare incase the JP or US one fails in future.
Here is a video I put up on youtube of the saves I have on it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ye-7g2G6cM
Also could someone translate the comment the person wrote for me?

Although the PSN server has been offline for some time, I haven't been bored at all as the controller broke on me few months back, I spent most of my time with trainz now, not sure if I'll get back to playing PS3 for a while, although I still use PSP allot, good thing is PSP still uses Web Browser with PSN offline

-Aaron