Crimbo

Merry Christmas to all of you losers.

Hopefully, Trance, Jaxx, Mr Saffron and Chrys found a sleek black parallelo thingy at the end of the bed, with a copy of Drive Club sellotaped to it. Wouldn't it be lovely if a waiting list were required for places at oooosh racing in the new year?

I won't hold me breath.....

In reply to a post by mrnelster:

Merry Christmas to all of you losers.

+1


I'll pick up a copy of DC when the price drops and add my name to the waiting list

Good boy Rodney, you know it makes sense.

A very Merry Christmas to you all..hope you are having a good one!

Glad you are no holding your breath..

Drive Club����.Phew Captain Toad Treasure Tracker far more fun ?

You going on over crimbo or are you banned? Might try to get on tonight if I can wiggle it. The Family Fortunes board game almost started a riot yesterday, so everybody amusing themselves instead should be quite an easy sell!

No fancy new console and nothing really exciting in sales

Need Sony to get the PSN sorted first, Apparently lizard squad did DDOS attacks to both Xbox live and PSN,

PSN still down for a mate of mine (and has been for over 24hrs), PSNDown is trending on twitter as well so I'm guessing it's still down or is for a lot of people anyway.
The other consoles side appears to be fine though when I heard about the attacks and went on to check if it was working.

I've read the attack targeted downstream servers, not the PSN directly. That could mean ISP's and explains why some people can connect and not others.

I would be so lucky.

I didnt even get a £20 game I asked for.

Yeah not been on for 4 days so I may participate .......Oh and I'm not married and under the thumb Nelly.......Remember.....

Take it as a lesson, be nicer to Timey and you will get what you want next Christmas. He's always watching !

That's right Trance........Tell Him else Father Timey won't visit him in 2015.....

In reply to a post by Chrysalis:

I would be so lucky.

I didnt even get a £20 game I asked for.

Socks or pants? Or both?

In reply to a post by time2die:

Yeah not been on for 4 days so I may participate .......Oh and I'm not married and under the thumb Nelly.......Remember.....

Whatever you say boss. Even David Beckham wears trousers more often than you sunshine...

Finished FC4 campaign, so it's now Nelly vs the environment. Hmmm, migh not bode well!!

In reply to a post by mrnelster:

I've read the attack targeted downstream servers, not the PSN directly. That could mean ISP's and explains why some people can connect and not others.

Interesting if that's the case, Unfort for one of the people I know (other one not had the chance to try) he still cannot sign into the PSN, On the plus side he came round here with 3 bottles of spirits so a merry time was had here.

sony need to get on top of it, whilst DDOS attacks are a nuisance a company of that size should be able to handle it, banks etc. also have to deal with such attacks.

Plus I know the mindset of these DDOS kiddies, when they successful it makes them motivated to carry on, they only give up when they realise they failing.

Edited by Chrysalis (Sat 27-Dec-14 02:13:04)

Agreed - Sony have had long enough to sort these problems out, whatever money they have in the bank, time to spend some getting a crack team of security experts in to try and plug some of the holes they have. DDoS is one thing, information leaks are another matter entirely. Either way, they've had long enough to try and stop this.

attackers interviewed by bbc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HyqzBo7qv0

Poor old Alex
I agree with the hacker, people should be glad that the kids can't play the games on christmas day and should do things as a family instead. The kids will be playing games every other day of the year anyway.

What a complete and utter [censored] the interviewer is


But I do think that Sony is [censored]. As I've said before the PS4 is a big step backwards in many ways. Apart from the graphics the PS3 is by far a better machine

Edited by deleted (Sat 27-Dec-14 12:07:30)

I think DDOS is completely different. I don't disagree they need top notch security advice on tap, or that their UI is currently overly glitchy.

But I read yesterday that MS has forty something million users and Sony 110 million. Now take into account the massive redundancy in terms of server capacity that MS has as a whole with it's business interest in Azure, then it is likely far easier for them to recover from such attacks. We all need to be patient and have a good old game of christmas monopoly instead.

But overall, they need to up their game with regard to the functionality of their UI, no question about that.

I'm glad that PSN doesn't have any of my details like credit cards etc

In reply to a post by Lt_Swan:

I agree with the hacker, people should be glad that the kids can't play the games on christmas day and should do things as a family instead. The kids will be playing games every other day of the year anyway.

That is not for him to decide or impose on people. You wouldn't be very happy if they instead decided that people "just shouldn't be using the internet at all on Christmas day" and DDoSed your ISP, taking it down for the entire day, would you?

No I wouldn't be that impressed but I certainly wouldn't lose any sleep over it. Trouble is most parents these days don't have the strength to limit their child's play time. So the fact it was imposed on them was maybe a good thing, but probably the child just sulked all day instead.
Unlucky

In reply to a post by Lt_Swan:

I'm glad that PSN doesn't have any of my details like credit cards etc

It's got mine, but I don't lose any sleep over it.

The PSN gets really bad press because of it's size, but you're as at much risk with a myriad of other services and that's been proven.

They made themselves a nerd target, simple as that.

I reckon your deep seated hatred of young gamers might stem back to a serious T bagging in the past. Am I right?

A very recent episode in FC4 comes to mind

That told you Farmer Swanny .....you do say some stupid things at times matey but that's part of what I like about you on here....

And you can blame the parents for letting Brats get away with murder,bring back the Kane at School and reinforce some discipline that's what I say....

Taught me right from wrong and to respect elders.....I've seen teenagers hanging about at 12 am and they are 13/14 at most ,I had to be in my house by 10 pm every night until the age of 18.and if I did make a noise when I returned whatever time ,woke my father or neighbours I was given a good hiding and grounded for the rest of the week...

Edited by time2die (Sat 27-Dec-14 19:16:46)

In reply to a post by Lt_Swan:

A very recent episode in FC4 comes to mind

I keep telling you it was an accident....I fell, honest guv!!

In reply to a post by time2die:

That told you Farmer Swanny .....

Not at all. He/she has a different opinion to me that's all.

And yea you're right the little [censored] have no respect for anyone or anything these days

Well blame the goodie goodie boys that have ruined the country,tell you now we should have progressed as the years roll by but it's got worse..

Even the thought that a child can report his parents for over discipline procedure makes my skin crawl,tell you now if I had kids they could shove that were the sun don't shine and they would get a good hiding if they back chatted me or any other older person.

Sometimes when I'm out and about I just cringe when I see the future teenagers and there arrogant ways and total lack of care and consideration for anyone......

That's why myself and the Mrs Timey in 2015 are moving back to the country nowhere near town type life.......Think I might move to Milton Keynes......

I've heard there is a crazy bloke up that way who actually owns a copy of Drive Club.....

Yep kids should be seen but not heard

Milton Keynes is renowned for it's Motorsport connections. Silverstone sits just a stones throw away, whilst Red Bull and Oooosh Racing boast headquarters there.

The PSN came back on after midnight it seems.

Been reading a bit more on DDoS attacks and it seems Sony already use the best people money can buy. When you read how much bandwidth these guys can provide for re routing, it can only be the size of the PSN (twice as big as Xbox live in terms of possible subscriber throughput) that causes the delay.

Anyhow, The Tiny Lizard Pen*s Squad have promised never to attack PSN or XBOX Live ever again. How very decent of them.....

On the BBC news they said Anonymous were responsible. I never believe anything the BBC say these days anyway.


Looks like someone else has been busy http://www.dailydot.com/politics/anonymous-lulzxmas-...

Edited by deleted (Sun 28-Dec-14 10:21:30)

Remember though that the numbers quoted are the numbers of usernames made up and not of unique users, When PSN was free a lot of people (read kids playing COD and cheating) made multiple accounts for when the username/gamertag got banned and used another account. I read somewhere that the actual number of unique subscribers is actually a lot closer.

Apparently PSN was properly hacked and in the PSN store Destiny was made free (not the trial) as well (pics of it were online) and that was the reason late last night that when PSN got it back it came up as maintainance etc, Not sure how true it is but there is deffo pics about of it with it free and everyone was talking about it online yesterday and on streams etc, Although obviously it doesn't take much to start a rumour and it taking off online now so it maybe fake.

Either way it's a kick up the [censored] of all the companys that they need to improve a lot (especially Sony IMO).
Would be nice if they actually give something away as a gesture of goodwill for the downtime even if it's just adding the days down onto peoples sub.

There's been a lot of fake hack stories around, including the Daily Mail Online which soon got taken down. The scramble for the headline overrides the facts.

I would say it highly improbable because hacking a DDoSed service is likely almost impossible. If your method of preventing external access is by flooding servers indiscriminately, how do you then get in to hack it? I would assume they only usually get in by exploiting weaknesses in the front end?

I'd go along with that.....

Also, like you say, the media are publishing an array of misleading and confusing articles so it is quite hard to figure out what is going on.

The hackers did a great job with GTA V
My characters drive around in some very nice cars thanks to them

I think the hackers have been mucking around with the handling of the cars in DriveClub, especially the McClaren.

That's wotty's excuse anyhow!

I hope mine doesn't handle like that

Have they fixed the time of day changing so fast?

In reply to a post by Lt_Swan:

I hope mine doesn't handle like that

Have they fixed the time of day changing so fast?

Your ok yours is really heavy and got huge tyres

You should get DC again, it's much better than it was
Except there's a driver called Killa who seems to have cheat mode enabled and finished about 20 secs before anyone else

I wouldn't want Drive Club if it was free,it had its chance ,got released and failed miserably and that is that .....I dont like driving games at the best of times and I got far more interesting games to play than that game......Anyway you are now a Traitor as I thought like me you had traded that game in and gave up with it....

It's not my fault you boys all chose the trolley wheel option when selecting your tyres last night

I did but hearing how much it had improved and seeing the option to pick it up again for £15 I thought I'd have another shot at it. I enjoyed myself last night and had a laugh with my buddies

Nope.....Not interested even if it was free.....

Pretty sure it is free, I remember them saying it was going to be free at E3 when the PS4 was announced, Oh wait.....................

Now Swanny's back there's five of us in each race so it's a good laugh with tons of banter.

I even managed to keep up with Kila a couple of times last night (i.e. got across the line with him still vaguely visible in the distance!) and Swanny's now back in the swing and pushing for the front too. It's all really good fun and private lobbies will make it even better. It's a great game, credit where credit's due.

You never know mate, they might even add funky mopeds in a future update?

Arr tiz fun
I don't know the tracks too well but am learning.
I had ago at Kilas Mini challenge last night. 2 secs off but close

Really looking forward to the private lobbies so we can lose the rammers. That will make my place at the back a lot easier

Did you check out my Black Series Merc challenge? It wasn't a very good time, just a fun match for car and track.

In reply to a post by Lt_Swan:

...make my place at the back a lot easier

What's your surname, Newman? I sense a hustle coming on....

Yea I had a go but didn't do very well