Home connections horrors due to “overwhelming demand,” says Sony

Oh dear…

I wonder exactly how many people they were expecting to use this “revolutionary service”!?

And you thought the 360 had online problems last year… Just wait until xmas!

WTF? Live costs money and wasn’t in Beta last xmas !!!!!!!

Demand is always a killer, in any scenario. A company can proof against this as much as they like, but until the flow of people evens out so not everyone is trying to access the bally thing at the same time, they won’t be able to accomplish much.

It’s happened to a number of online services, big MMOs too, it happened to Warcraft (and that ended up with queues), and apparently it happened to the 360 at some point (I wasn’t ware of that). It even happens to Zero Punctuation every Thursday at about 5PM GMT, and doesn’t ease up until later.

If there’s ever a service launched that magically works right away for everyone that tries to connect, it’ll be a hallmark and one for the history books.

Yes, but Sony are PURE EVIL / INCOMPETENT / PLAGIARISTS *

* delete to taste

LOL!

It happened with LIVE when there were about 3 million people trying to play Halo 3 and COD4 at exactly the same time! Plus all the rest of the people playing other games…

Somehow I doubt that that Sony is looking at anywhere near these numbers here.

Especially as the thing is region locked.

Shouldnt have happened atall though from a paying service

True.

Which is why they gave eveyone a free XBLA game as compensation.

The least they could do to calm the masses.

i still haven’t managed to get in, still getting network error c-931.
been trying for over 24hours now

Yesterday evening was fine (dec. 11) but tonight I only get the c-931 error.

Listen Sony, this is terrible! You had enough time to prepare for this.
Shame on you!

Try using another acc.

I can’t get on with my UK one but as soon as I switch to my US one it’s fine.

Worth a try…

Yep, that’s how I got one this morning. Switched to my Dutch account, got on with that and then switched back to my standard account, which then logged on immediately.

I’m definitely not going to create a second PSN account just to be able to log into “home”.

This launch is a bloody PR mess. Sony needs to iron this out, ASAP.

It’s not working anyway.

syroc we all wish you weren’t working

Oh, hey! You are back!

you could have simply just said you’re

I could have, but I wanted to emphasis it.

so stroc i hear you were in the close beta as was i, and i hear you have nothing but negative things to say.Oh sy grow up,if you were a online network people would just shit on you all day….like i will

tu madre es tan puta que no cobra dinero por culear

I don’t really get the last sentence, but that’s okay.
Edit: Obviously I didn’t mean morriss comment, which is as far as I know completely correct.

¿Donde esta el baño?

lol tagteam fags… hey guys i apologize its friday night and i have a life so im going to have to take a rain check… btw nice comeback moron you made me smirk. see you on monday losers! HAPPY HOLIDAYS

Puta.

HEY!!portence bien cabrones,no hay necesidad de esto,pero lo de su madre a ella en donde la encuentro?

Donde esta mi Tequilla?

Ariba!!

This sucks, I don’t even WANT Home. All I want to do is sign into PSN so that I can play LBP. But for some reason, it times out or something.

@Quiiick miles back.

If you don’t want to create another acc for Home which is understandable (I mean it takes such a long time) then just do it for the early/extra/diff dl content from different regions.

Or not… ;o)

@ Len
I’m perfectly happy with the content my native store provides.
I’m not a hardcore-gamer who MUST play everything “available”.

@G1GAHURTZ
I actually hated when they gave Undertow for free because I bought it for 800 MSP 2 days earlier

It’s useless to you now… but if you paid for Undertow you could have just called them and got another 800pt game for free.

@Psychotext bah! I hate this digital download system!