Was only a joke ;)

Sarcasm is so hard to see in words... gotcha ;)

i hope the game comes back up soon tho its a good game and i would hate for it to be downt for a long time

How long is a piece of string..............

Violin or Banjo?

think this game is banjoed

Good point after the playstation fiasco, may just secure all info and such.

Lol
 

There is always at least "ONE" ******* who has to ruin everyone elses day... no peace in this world.... Bin Laden is dead... TG Hitler is dead.. TG.. Stalin is dead.. TG.... Now someone please shoot whoever caused PoTBS to go down..... lol

that would be a numpty at SONY then?

On the subject Bin Laden, how come it takes the Playstation network to go down before special ops boys get their stuff together and go do it for real?

Oh bye the way well done, only I do hope you did not kill him outright but made sure you get/got as much info out of him regards his organisation prior to a painful end, absolutely great idea telling everyone he is buried at sea, rather spiffing. I do hope he was/will be dropped from a great height some poetic justice if this be the case.

I bet this is al queadas revenge

Change all your information NOW, the SOE section has also given all your details away.

FLS - will you be extending times for port governor elections when (if) the servers come back on-line and with enough consideration for global player timezones since we don't have a clue when this event will occur?

I would hate to lose my governorship to a 20 influence open bid that I can't counter because the servers are closed.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that port governor elections aren't really on FLS' radar screen just now.

Im interested how this is going to work with the F2P accounts and such.

Isnt it a nice mind to see PotBS on a Steam Frontpage? ;)

If SOE/Sony can not handle with some hackers FLS should consider to change their partners.


And Steam is an ecellent platform for advertising.. Could boost population as well..

This is my opinion after those many sites..

From the sounds of things they don't have much to do but sit around and wait for SOE to open for business.

Steam would be an amazing option for PotB, but I doubt it would ever happen

FLS needs to come up with an alternative plan quickly. I don't blame them for using an outside firm in the least bit, focus on what you do well. Steam has a great reputation, respected by the community...unlike Sony, they should look there.

Reading the details of the compromise, it's amazing Sony had such elementary protection. Invincibly Ignorant.

I have a steam account, if you would like my steam friends info I will give to you if you send private message, tilll then its braves time on T.V.

BTW I slept 4 hours today, was the most amazing thing ever....the ability to rest and be comfortable was something i was searching for.

Does this security breach affect any of us who recently paid for a month of PotBS? I did about two weeks ago and now I'm very concerned. I'm not a part of the Playstation network or anything, just PotBS.

I didn't read through this entire thread so sorry if this is a duplicate question.

I believe the payment system is somehow linked to SoE, as when it is down we can't log in, and you need to be logged in to change any information, not sure who manages that section though

" Tokyo, May 3, 2011 - Sony Corporation and Sony Computer Entertainment announced today that their ongoing investigation of illegal intrusions into Sony Online Entertainment LLC (SOE, the company) systems revealed yesterday morning (May 2, Tokyo time) that hackers may have stolen SOE customer information on April 16th and 17th, 2011 (PDT). SOE is based in San Diego, California, U.S.A. "

http://www.soe.com/securityupdate/pressrelease.vm

That's all folks!

This is a bit worry some. Some folks have actually paid into the game for an upwards of 3 years now and they are wondering if all their time/money investment was going to be protected.....we might need some one of dev power to come in here and shed some light.


Braves are ahead in their ball game for the baseball fans out there, and yes my house is in a gentle state of peace:)

WOW losing debit card information is a huge booboo.....

Yay! No more QQ!

hurray for free membership =P

So FLS any updates?

i have read many different news articles about this, some say a week some, say a month until everything is fully restored .

just curious if FLS has had any word or estimates on duration?

I hope no more than a week =P

Quoted from what source John?

http://www.soe.com/securityupdate/pressrelease.vm

Near the bottom, check after what the people might have gotten from you.

Wow I want something that will interest me where I live.

Looks to me a daily F2P user will get nothing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5QGkOGZubQ

A monthly subscriber will get a month free + outtage days.

Woot what about stress? A Mazerati for meh stress!

Thanks!

Also a little tidbit:

"About Sony Corporation
Sony Corporation is a leading manufacturer of audio, video, game, communications, key device and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets. With its music, pictures, computer entertainment and on-line businesses, Sony is uniquely positioned to be the leading electronics and entertainment company in the world. Sony recorded consolidated annual sales of approximately $78 billion for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2010. Sony Global Web Site: http://www.sony.net/ "

A company so large that they can't control their files is cause for concern indeed.

Lets hope FLS use this time to put 2.5 onto the servers! :D

Good stuff
Playstation Network is down since 2 weeks or so

So i guess there will be no pirates for a while
tbh i got 14 day vacation in 2 weeks so im sure i wont kill anyone in potbs before june

sony rly needed 2 weeks to find out soe got hacked after psn did get hacked? thats a joke lol

stop blaming fls for it it isnt their fault. maybe they didnt choose the best company to stream their game but who could know that

Doubtful - from my observation, it isn't quite ready to hatch, but perhaps come over to the Test Server and see if the changes are worthy of promotion to the 'live' environment.

From what I've read in the Release Notes, Fishing should be rolled out in 2.6 while presently showcased in a pair of instances of parallel Jenny Bay and Charlesfort harbors.

I wish I could, but it doesn't look like we will be playing any potb for a little while :)

from twitter
 

We regret that our game servers and websites will not be online tonight (Monday, May 2, 2011.) We apologize for the inconvenience.

http://twitter.com/#!/SonyOnline

I'm in the same situation. I first put my credit card into SOE's system about one week ago. The breach Sony had was earlier.

"Tokyo, May 3, 2011 - Sony Corporation and Sony Computer Entertainment announced today that their ongoing investigation of illegal intrusions into Sony Online Entertainment LLC (SOE, the company) systems revealed yesterday morning (May 2, Tokyo time) that hackers may have stolen SOE customer information on April 16th and 17th, 2011 (PDT). "
Source

So, unless the hackers gained a sustained access to SOE from the 16th onward, newer players are safe.

That 'unless' is the open question for us.

from http://www.soe.com/securityupdate/pressrelease.vm:

Does this mean they only got debit info from outside the US? (I'm in the US). I'm not seeing anything about them stealing credit or debit card info from the 24.6 million accounts.

It's not my SOE account I'm worried about, it's my credit card info. I signed up on the 15th.

Not only am I worried about my credit card info, but this outage screws up the time I pay for. They better reimburse us.