Sony's Playstation Network has been down for several days now, taken down by Sony themselves. Maybe due to the actions of hackers, the PSN was down earlier in the month, and perhaps Sony is now updating their network to be more tamper proof.
I hope that other game developers and publishers are watching this closely.
You would think that these companies would have extremely sturdy networks able to resist hacking, DDoS, exploits and so forth. It might be difficult to prevent every attack possible, but you would think that Sony, of all companies, could take down the PSN and have it back up in relatively short order. And they are being their usual, quiet selves when it comes to giving out information.
These sorts of attacks, and this lengthy downtime, might turn people away from digital distribution of games, and online gaming in general. I believe that most people don't like not being able to access their games, stats and other information, especially for almost a week with scarce information on what is going on.
This sort of think might just cause a rethink in the abandonment of LAN gaming. Maybe.
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