Entitled Gamers
Jan. 2nd, 2015 04:13 pmAnyone who knows me probably knows how much I hate people tossing the slur "Entitlement" around like cheap candy. These days it's used to try to shut up the other side of an argument you're losing more so than anything else.
However that's something that pops into mind when I read through the comments on Sony's "A Holiday Thank You" blog post where they describe what they're going to do for the people affected by the DDOS attack they suffered over Christmas due to the script kiddies in lizard squad.
Essentially, for anyone who had an active PSN+ membership on Dec 25th, they're going to extend that membership by 5 days at some point this month. I guess they have to actually do the work to make it possible to do that. If your psn+ membership runs out before that happens, you'll get reactivated for 5 days automatically. Nobody has to do anything to get this. It's going to be automatically applied.
Also at some point this month everyone (PSN+ or no) will be given a 1 time discount code of 10% off their entire order in the PSN store.
There are totally reasonable comments left in the blog post. But there are some idiotic ones such as:
"have you no shame?? disgraceful but it’s funny how the masses will praise this useless gesture, one can receive a bigger discount by searching the internet for coupon codes 10% you are a joke Sony. You deserve what you got."
"I was hoping, more or so, that we would get a selection of free games to keep."
"Thank you Lord Sony. Now please, take what you learned from this DDOS and make sure it never happens again."
"That’s real fair. How about us plus member who couldn’t sign up because the network was down. I receive a PS4 for Xmas and can’t do anything for 3 days. However 10% I’d a pretty good deal."
etc.
1. The system was down for 3 days. Get over it.
2. Last time it was down, it was because Sony was an idiot and got actually hacked by their buggy code and exploits. This time it was down because a bunch of idiots flooded their bandwidth. There's nothing TO learn this time. You only stop a DDOS by having more bandwidth than the attacker. And when the attacker is using a botnet that's just not going to happen.
3. For those of you who couldn't sign up for 3 days, get over it. You haven't lost a damned thing to begin with. Sony's announcement about the discount code didn't seem to be limited to just those who had an account on Dec 25th either.
Given the system was down for just 3 days, I can't say I was really expecting anything to really happen at all. It would have been great if they extended the Christmas sale a few days that was impacted during the outage but that wasn't even necessary since the system was back up well before the sale ended.
Will I use the 10% discount code? Hard to say. If there's anything I want to buy this month I'll probably make use of it. 10% isn't something that'll make me rush to the store and buy things I normally wouldn't buy, but that doesn't mean I'm going to bitch about it being useless.
(Keep in mind the outage didn't affect me at all. During the entire thing going on I was playing Minecraft on the PC if anything at all, or a couple of offline games on the Vita.)
However that's something that pops into mind when I read through the comments on Sony's "A Holiday Thank You" blog post where they describe what they're going to do for the people affected by the DDOS attack they suffered over Christmas due to the script kiddies in lizard squad.
Essentially, for anyone who had an active PSN+ membership on Dec 25th, they're going to extend that membership by 5 days at some point this month. I guess they have to actually do the work to make it possible to do that. If your psn+ membership runs out before that happens, you'll get reactivated for 5 days automatically. Nobody has to do anything to get this. It's going to be automatically applied.
Also at some point this month everyone (PSN+ or no) will be given a 1 time discount code of 10% off their entire order in the PSN store.
There are totally reasonable comments left in the blog post. But there are some idiotic ones such as:
"have you no shame?? disgraceful but it’s funny how the masses will praise this useless gesture, one can receive a bigger discount by searching the internet for coupon codes 10% you are a joke Sony. You deserve what you got."
"I was hoping, more or so, that we would get a selection of free games to keep."
"Thank you Lord Sony. Now please, take what you learned from this DDOS and make sure it never happens again."
"That’s real fair. How about us plus member who couldn’t sign up because the network was down. I receive a PS4 for Xmas and can’t do anything for 3 days. However 10% I’d a pretty good deal."
etc.
1. The system was down for 3 days. Get over it.
2. Last time it was down, it was because Sony was an idiot and got actually hacked by their buggy code and exploits. This time it was down because a bunch of idiots flooded their bandwidth. There's nothing TO learn this time. You only stop a DDOS by having more bandwidth than the attacker. And when the attacker is using a botnet that's just not going to happen.
3. For those of you who couldn't sign up for 3 days, get over it. You haven't lost a damned thing to begin with. Sony's announcement about the discount code didn't seem to be limited to just those who had an account on Dec 25th either.
Given the system was down for just 3 days, I can't say I was really expecting anything to really happen at all. It would have been great if they extended the Christmas sale a few days that was impacted during the outage but that wasn't even necessary since the system was back up well before the sale ended.
Will I use the 10% discount code? Hard to say. If there's anything I want to buy this month I'll probably make use of it. 10% isn't something that'll make me rush to the store and buy things I normally wouldn't buy, but that doesn't mean I'm going to bitch about it being useless.
(Keep in mind the outage didn't affect me at all. During the entire thing going on I was playing Minecraft on the PC if anything at all, or a couple of offline games on the Vita.)