So last night I tried to get onto the store and could do everything but pay. Now a I see a lazygamer headline saying that some hacker group is claiming to have brought down PSN. Good Times.

Why did this need a thread? It's always down

Nothing new here lol

What's new ...

Particularly irritating for me as I was picking up UC 1 and 2 pretty damn cheap during teh 20th Anniversary sale. Hopefully they will extend this...

Getting a bit much now!

Morschee said ...

Getting a bit much now!

Agreed. I am not sure who is too blame, is it lax security, outdated systems or just a very determined set of script kiddies, but if you offer such a service at a premium price, and given that that price increased just a little over a month ago, damn well be sure to look into the issues AND send comms to your subscribers. I still haven't received an email about this issue from SEN.

I cannot read the article as lazygamer is blocked at work, but I assume that the news came via the hackers twitter account and not from SEN. Also I wonder if this is related to the hack at Sony Pictures last week?

Store seems to be working just fine.

DarkPrince said ...

Store seems to be working just fine.

Cool, maybe they fixed it overnight.

On PS3 I haven't been able to access the store since October. Just pops up the maintenance message, when it even decides to do that.

Didn't think anyone still used the store on PS3 to purchase stuff, as soon as they launched the online store it killed the usage of it on my PS3. The store was always awful and slow after they changed the format from the original layout. Easier to go online, buy what you want and send it to the console.

I was trying via the app on my iPad via LTE and WiFi last night so no idea if that affected it.

DarkPrince said ...

Didn't think anyone still used the store on PS3 to purchase stuff, as soon as they launched the online store it killed the usage of it on my PS3. The store was always awful and slow after they changed the format from the original layout. Easier to go online, buy what you want and send it to the console.

Yeah I now do that as well, but sometimes when my pc is busy rendering for instance, I would like to be able to check the store on the machine it was actually designed to be accessed by.

I do agree with you, the store design is horrible and slow.

The PS4 store is at least a breeze, it is 10 times faster than the online store. It's nice to click on PSN store and immediately be logged in and able to browse and go back and forward without waiting for anything to load or think about what you need to do.

That is when it works though.

Is anyone having problems with the store still. Whenever I try and pay for a game via the website on my ipad I get a message that Commerce is disabled for my country or region.

Nope, bought something this morning

@DP thanks, wonder WTF is going on then...

Every time I log into the store all I get is a blue screen; I even left it last night till I was done with supper to see if it might just be loading slow ; still just a blue screen After an hour. Tried again this morning before work and same thing happened! Not sure what to do!

https://store.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com/#!/en-za/home/games

Just deleted the Store icon on my PS3 as per Tea's advice, and after reinstalling and updating it, can get back into the store. . .

So something must have gotten corrupted with the last store update I did I guess. . .

I still cannot make purchases as I get the "Commerce has been disabled in your country/region" message on both desktop browsers and iOS app. I mailed support last night and they helpfully ignored my query and sent me instructions on how to reboot my PS4