Day one updates and DRM checks introduce extra difficulties when trying to game offline, even if you still purchase physical media.
Would be great if Sony took this as a lesson learned to ditch DRM like this, and make the PlayStation more “offline friendly”.
Right now would be a good time to make suggestions to them.
You will own nothing, and you will be happy
The day consoles become digital-only is the day I give up console gaming
You can not steal what you can not own. ☠️
Did PlayStation ever make a public statement about why there is an outage? Like what caused it?
Incompetence, poor planning, probably a healthy dash of managerial stupidity not listening to the engineers. And they never drill for this which is why it’s lasted so long. But having your expensive IT staff do regular disaster recovery drills is complex and expensive so almost nobody does it properly.
Recently retired from one of the major telcos. They would do DR exercises with tabletop discussions. No actual testing or hands on. Once I learned that I knew the first big disaster we had I was just gonna walk. It was that bad.
Darn.
