My first reaction to the hack attack on Sony was, and I’m sorry if I offend anyone, “Ha, good for them”. But then I absent mindedly switched on my PS3, trying to log into PSN and play Resistance 2 (my choice online shooter for Deathmatches). And then it struck me- I was a victim too.
Bending over backwards, the network is
Fast forward 16 days of no online gaming (I played some of Final Fantasy XIII in the meanwhile). The network was back, I could play online, and Sony promised to ‘make it up to’ the gamers.
I expected them to go all Japanese on our asses, with something really cool in the works, what with the thousands of lawsuits being piled. It was not to be. Each account holder is entitled to 2 games of a list of 5 which includes LittleBigPlanet and inFamous, and two more for PSP users, out of another list of 5. But these games are way past their sell-by-date, and fail to interest me (or anyone else).
There is also a 30 day free subscription to PSN Plus. What will that gave me? Discounts on games I can play for free anyway on my iPod Touch? No thankyou.
People on the boards said free is free. Atleast they’re giving you that much. But don’t they realize its their ph***ing identities that have been compromised. Our personal data, and that includes our house addresses, passwords, email-addresses, phone numbers etc. is for all we know in the laptop of a sleep deprived Pakistani teenager who could then sell it to far more shady organizations. The entire attack could be a little Chinese kid executing his project for the school science fair, and that’s best case scenario.
That guy could have all our credit card numbers
Even then I was part of the lucky ones, having never used my dad’s credit card to make an online purchase on PSN store, and thus atleast safe from credit card fraud. And now I won’t even consider buying anything from there. It will simply make more sense to nip off to Planet M.
I expected a quick reaction from Sony to atleast reinstate some of the faith in its disappointed fan base. But no. The date for the reopening of PS Store kept getting delayed, and when it did come back online, the much touted ‘Welcome Back’ package was missing. And it’s still not here as I write this.
Also, the Network is still not back in Hong Kong and a few other countries. Most irritating of all though is the fact that Sony still hasn’t beefed its security to acceptable levels, according to some experts.
Final verdict: Sony. Make believe.
