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[blade07]

Is anyone having troubles with getting on SvR2010 with the net and also the trophies?

[Mustang]

kotaku.com/5482328/ps3s-suffering-from-global-network-lockdown?skyline=true&s=i
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All around the world, PlayStation 3 consoles simply aren't working like they're supposed to, with an error preventing people from not just going online, but from playing some PS3 games offline as well.

From Europe to the Americas to, well, my house in Australia, users (mostly of older "Fat" consoles, those released before 2009's "PS3 Slim") are complaining that upon booting their consoles up, they're unable to sign into their accounts, check their trophies, use dynamic themes or access the PlayStation Network. That's fine, Sony say there are PSN connection problems, and that they are "looking into it".

Problem is, the error does more than just prevent you from going online. It prevents you from playing certain games offline as well. Even for some consoles that aren't connected to the PSN, like debug units. The screen above is what I was greeted with on a retail console when attempting to play Heavy Rain, and pressing out of it simply reboots the PS3, returning you to the main menu screen. It's the same story for other games that feature dynamic trophy support.

Sony say "stay tuned" for updates on the problem. In turn, we've emailed Sony for comment and will update if we hear anything more.

While theories abound that this has something to do with the calendar on older PS3s (some users are reporting their date/time settings have been reset), bear in mind Sony has redesigned its PlayStation website over the weekend, so it could be the result of some tinkering under the hood for the PlayStation Network. Then again, if consoles not connected to the PSN are also affected, it could be something else. Who knows!

Whatever it is, though, you have to wonder at the design process that turns a network outage into something stopping you from playing an offline, singleplayer title.

UPDATE - Sony has updated on an update, saying "We're narrowing down the issue and continue to work to restore service to all. Updates as soon as we have them."

UPDATE 2 - A mass story-telling session on internet gaming forum NeoGAF points towards the issue potentially being related to a calendar bug in older PlayStation 3 consoles, not the PlayStation Network as was first suspected. Bear in mind this is mob science, however, and is by no means official confirmation on the cause of the problem.

[x]

I'm hearing from some of my friends that the error is actually corrupting trophy data completely. It'd truly suck if in the interim of this people lose their trophy data completely. And what's worse is we have to sit and wait for Sony to give us info of which they don't exactly seem very forthcoming to reveal. If I sound a little peeved, it's because I am. Someone at Sony had to have been aware that an error like this was going to happen.

[blade07]

Yeah it's really annoying I lost my SvR2010 trophies and now my Dante Inferno trophies. They better fix it.

[punch]

The trophy loss might just be result of your consoles not being able to connect to the sever and sync up with it. It's probably just showing no data because your PS3 can't connect to it, not because the data is physically lost. Once the PSN servers are back up and running, your trophy data should show back up.

Trophy data is tracked with your actual PSN account, not the data stored on your HDDs. So right now no one has any data because their consoles are unable to access them. Once things are fixed, the trophy data should go back to normal.

Makes no difference to me either way since my PS3 is borked and all my data, trophy or otherwise, is totally inaccessible. I have to start from scratch on all of my trophies regardless of the outcome, but I thought I'd pass that info along to anyone in a panic over their trophy data being "missing".

[Thr33XWA]

And here I thought it was cuz there were too many people on MAG, lol. Looks like the PS3 now has it's first official "crisis" situation. Not quite the RROD, but still a pretty significant technical difficulty.

[punch]

God I love YouTube sometimes...

[the1]

^^^ LMFAO!!!

[obsessed]

I'd like to point out about trophies, being someone that has 1.) been yellow line of death'd, 2.) upgraded his own harddrive, and 3.) upgraded a friends Hard drive... that trophies don't entirely sync to your PSN unless you actually do upload it all to the server. For the most part, it's on your PS3 until you need to do a backup, and then you upload it to be saved/restored when you need to.

Sony says it's all better now though... I haven't been home around mine since Sunday afternoon so I'm sure all my shit will be all fine for me to get some Bad Company 2 going on with.

[blade07]

About time its fixed.