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[QUOTE="WilliamRLBaker"]
any one know of the recent amazon ECS downage causing for 100's of sites to go down including all whiskey media sites *giantbomb, tested, screened, animevice, comic vine*
TC PC's are as suspectable to hacking as Consoles are as they are as suspectable to problems caused by errors and glitches.
WilliamRLBaker
Anything connected to an online network is vulnerable to hacking. The difference here is that the PC doesn't, and will never rely on centralisation, so if one falls that doesn't mean everything will - for your games, websites, everything.
If I go onto a hackers IRC and make a bold statement as hack me, do whatever you want you cant bring me down what will happen? OOOOOOO you mean my pc will become unsuable for....gaming,websites...everything.
If a bunch of hackers were pissed off at Battlefield 3 when it launched you can damn well be sure they will bring down the online component of BF3 with DDOS attacks. Don't claim PC's aren't centralized and are completely autonomy based in everything they do because they aren't there is a certain amount of centralization in even pc's they can be brought down, have been brought down and will continue to be brought down do not make such statements as anything connected to an online network is vulnrable to hacking then go onto say the PC has special circumstances Its very disingenous its a part of that every thing and depending on what hackers attack every thing will go down, specially since the psn service as a whole was actually taken down by Sony in response to outside interference not the outside interfence took down all of PSN.
We're talking about online networks and infrastructure, not your own system :|If you left an open invitation for hackers to make your life a misery on your console, they would take advantage of that too. That's what happens when you leave any system with an online connection out and proclaim 'come at me bro'.
Otherwise, yes that's one game bought down. There is an amount of centralisation of online networks (why you didn't choose to use steam as an example is beyond me), however it isn't reliant on a single consistent network to play.
My old online game isn't working, Westwood online doesn't exist anymore? Well glad to know I can use a variety of virtual lan clients to play my games with other people - like GameRanger. If Blizzard's Battlenet is down, then I can play separate online games with the knowledge they can't be affected. That's the fact of the matter, your PC gaming experience online isn't completely reliant on a central service.
While it can be compromised, this doesn't mean there will be an eventual Armageddon of your online games. Which is why you know, so many games have a legacy of online play on the PC for over a decade now despite their closed networks not existing. Sierra may not exist, I can play Tribes 2, MSN Gaming Zone abolished, well there are plenty of opportunities to play AoE2 online. EVE down for maintenance? Well then I have options of other online games to play, don't I.
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