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PS3 DC Universe, Free Realms players promised a 'make good'

In light of PSN downtime, SOE says its personal information databases are secure, promises redress for outage; details to come later.

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The PlayStation Network security breach saw the personal data (and potentially credit card information) of an estimated 77 million registered users laid bare to unknown parties with unknown motives. However, the impact of the resulting downtime is entirely clear to PlayStation 3 owners with a penchant for online-focused games. Among the titles rendered unplayable due to the outage is a pair of massively multiplayer offerings from Sony Online Entertainment: DC Universe Online and the free-to-play Free Realms.

Can our heroes right injustice and overcome the diabolical threat known only as The Unauthorized Person? Tune in next week to find out!
Can our heroes right injustice and overcome the diabolical threat known only as The Unauthorized Person? Tune in next week to find out!

On the DC Universe Online forums Tuesday, SOE community relations admins posted a pair of notes to users impacted by the outage. First off, the representatives said that SOE's user systems and databases are separate from those of the PlayStation Network and SOE has no reason to believe its security was breached.

Second, the company offered an apology to players and said it would be offering promotions on its PC portfolio of games this weekend "to thank players for their patience." As for the PS3 players of DC Universe Online and Free Realms, the SOE representative said the company is "working on a 'make good' plan" for them, with details to be available soon.

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Oh they better give me some Green Lantern powers for DCUO over this.

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basicly there saying pleases dont stop paying for nothing, i swear were give you something good, it wont be your money back but it might be a nice hat

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@gameking5000 well of course not, its called sarcasm, though they should considering how much Sony messed up!!! @deano2096 I would be up for that lol

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hahaha @Mtait01 "sony need to give every PS3 user an Ipad" get a grip Eric, although.... maybe apple can use you as their prototype centipad?

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@mtait01 And you think apple is gonna give away 77 million iPads?

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$ony need to give every PS3 user an Ipad to make up for their lack of security

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That's good for DC online players

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@tmacman - man, I had a go at others earlier for derailing the topic, but that's some funny s****!!! We'll stop now everyone, promise... ;) ha ha BTW - what is Free Realms? never heard of it :?

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@partytimekegs Because the renewing was because of a possible fraud, banks are not allowed to charge for changing your card. I changed mine today explaining this situation and they didn't charge me anything.

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I want some free points for all the BS I had to go through with destroying my credit card, renewing my card for 15$.

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@SicklySunStorm If you rearrange "Sony" and add some letters, you get "Yes, we blew up the twin towers and the pentagon, and now we're busy drinking apple smoothies" OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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an apology sony are freaking kidding me u better do better than that i dont pay my memberships with apologies

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@SicklySunStorm OMG! You're right!!! Now I know it! It was Sony who hacked into the PSN! Stupid son of a...oh wait, Sony hacked into the PSN o_o ? lol

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@GunBladeHero - that is sheer genius LMFAO. A very tenuous link, but then that's all most conspiracy nuts need to start babbling and squabbling.... Sony rerranged spells Noys, which is like Noise, which is what happened when the towers collapsed(!) OMFG you're right RUUUUUUNNNNN!!!! ha ha ha

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and still noone suspects Microsoft??? they're the ones that gain the most of the situation ...

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@330566 Yea thats true I had forgot that part thanks for clearing that up for me

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@SicklySunStorm The day the 'Unnautorized person'' hacked into PSN was 04/19/11 see here? 19/11 excludes the 1 = 9/11 OMFG!!!! lol

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what's free realms?

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you better

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Make Good plans are always well good!

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It would be nice is they would let you transfer everything from your ps3 for dcuo to the pc. I would jump on that.

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A free PS classic to each user would be nice.

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@Marky360 The difference is that DCU is pay to play and Free Realms has pay to play aspects. Those are the only games they could "technically" be sued over as you are losing out on something you paid for. The other games are all free to play so people will just have to suck it up and move forward after this is all done.

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Sony's going to make good with us Free Realms and DC Universe Online players? I bet it's just going to be some useless piece of crap armor that becomes obsolete after level 5 in those games. If they want to make good, they should refund people the amount they paid for their subscriptions, but let them keep playing until the time those subscriptions would have expired. And in the case of those of us who paid for Lifetime Memberships for Free Realms, we'd get our money back and keep playing for that lifetime.

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What about players of MAG correct me if I'm wrong but isn't that game online only to and I know Socom Confrontation is only online will those players get compensation to.

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if they wanna * make good* they should do a marvel game instead

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lol so its a trick huh??

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DCU players should at a minimum be given free play for X number of days. (X being how many days PSN is offline). This would just be a minimum. Personally I would say players should all get a free month on their account, and they should have some sort of "double xp" or other similar event for a few days after PSN is back online.

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