heya all :)

Its just a game but still i miss my guild maybe its sad that but its true some of the best players humans or whatever i even met in life i meet in EQ am i lucky yes iam . i have a wfie and kids a cat a dog a house and a job allthat takes up time, But there is allways time to play on FV with the guild clever cool kind friends online. yes i have other things to do while this mess is being sorted ofc but i miss my guild Iam sure sony gonna take this attack and use it for the common good for all of us in the furture.

with kind regards

crusherinc a proud SK

I am sorry that you feel the need to ***** about what to Sony must be very devastating. Sony offers high quality games as we all know or we would not be playing them - most of us for years. Yes I want Everquest back on-line, but I think I can find something else to do in the mean time. What I really want is for the hacker(s) to be caught and punished. They are mad at Sony for catching a previous hacker and he is now doing time so they wanted to get even with Sony - they could care less how that effects millions of other people. Hopefully they just wanted to show Sony that they can still cause havoc and do not plan to use any of the info they stole, but I would take all the precautions you can - new cc, change passwords, etc. cause even hackers have expenses and stealing your money is so much easier then actually working to earn their own. I know Sony will make it up to their customers, via free game pay time and perks for our characters , I just hope people don't go crazy and jump on the "sue Sony" band wagon. We need Sony to be a healthy and viable company so we can continue to have a great source of entertainment such as Everquest (or whatever game you enjoy). We also need Sony to survive so the hacker(s) do not win. It is a shame when someone thinks they have the right to do this kind of thing - no different then when someone thinks its okay to rob a bank, hold up a gas station or break into your home. What happened to Sony is a crime and Sony (along with its customers) is the victim here not the criminal.
I hope Sony will start providing more information on the status of the breach and the repairs to that breach, including and estimated time that they will be back on-line. I will continue to support Sony not only with my words of encouragement, but I will continue to play the game that has given me so much enjoyment – even when the mob wins the fight. Ha Ha.

I need to make things go BOOM!!!!.................. Let's get this prob fixed fast =)

Wizario
90 Wizard (Fironia Vie)

Would all of you relax??? I have played Everquest for 11 years and this is the first time this has happened. What is SONY supposed to do, open the servers and let the hackers do more damage? They are going to more than compensate us for the time the servers are down (1 month plus each day it is down) and I am sure they will do double exp for the potential time we have lost.

It is pretty simple what all the angry fuss is about. People who are raging arent mad cause they feel they are wasting money- they are mad because they are obsessed with this game and DONT HAVE A LIFE. If you turn into a psycho and send SOE hate messages about how you are going to cancel and go to WoW (like they or any of us care) all because you are out of playing a GAME for a few days or however long it takes, you have real problems. You are probably the same tools I see running around showing off all your gear and bragging you are the TOP tank or the TOP healer because it validates the rest of your pathetic real life.

SO stop with the hateful messages about how SONY is so incompetent!! They are doing their best!! Blame the hackers who also have no lives who get off on this! The only thing you are accomplishing by complaining is making yourself look like a loser! PEACE

New info and it is not good.
http://www.soe.com/securityupdate/

I've had an account since 99, and this is the first time i am posting.

I dont care if you are embarrassed of the situation or whatever the case may be. We, the costomers of Sony have a right to know what is going on. Not hear it from other sources, rumors of what may be happening. After all if it wasnt for us, your customers, you wouldnt have this billion dollar company.

And i'm only getting aggrivated because you said over 11 hours ago you would post an update and here we still sit waiting for an update from you. Jumping from site to site to find any imformation we can that, SHOULD BE coming from you.

We respectfully pay our monthly subscription to you, have some respect back towards your loyal customers and keep us updated please.

See: http://www.soe.com/securityupdate/

SOE had more than 10,000 credit card numbers stolen, according to this article:

http://kotaku.com/#!5797858/more-than-12700-credit-cards-stolen-from-sony-online-entertainment

One thing is for sure. The least concern for SOE is Everquest. We are a minority as compared to the nearly 70 million PS subscribers. In the worst case they will forget to click the "Turn On EQ servers" key. :)

To everyone whining about the downtime...get over it...they took them down to try and protect what was left and keep it from getting worse...granted theyre trying to shove the **** back in the cow and its not working very well...but theyre trying...give them a break, suck it up, and stop ***********

No i am not an soe employee-- gee does everyone have to work for a company to have a loyalty to it? and yes i do get decent service -- after all i deal with humans not machines. but i don't expect perfect -- just decent and good. being humans, people i deal with do make mistakes, give me the wrong advice, and sometimes ***** up. what matters to me is that they try. i don't expect the impossible.

when i get online on internet explorer even with the best security, i sometimes still get a virus. living on a planet full of real people, there are always idiots who want to see if they can "do it" so they hack and make viruses and try to create havoc. why? who knows-- guess it is for the challenge. as far as sony layoffs-- what company doesn't have layoffs, especially when they decide to change their direction and focus on a specific area of their business. after all, when a company gets spread too thin trying to be everything to everybody, they become less effective. by specializing they can offer a better product and better service. that means cutting back in areas that are no longer effective or profitable for them or that doesn't fit the direction they want to go. it's called business and happens when companies reconstruct their goals and reassess where they want to take their company.

business information and account information is always a risky thing no matter how good the encryption is. there is no such thing as fail-proof or total security. there is always someone somewhere who is trying to hack it-- especially with a company as high profile as sony. that doesn't make it ok-- but could anyone really have done better? can you guarantee complete safety? no one can -- not in today's world.

i prefer4 to be realistic -- and hope for the best outcome.

All the posts here have to be taken as conjecture given that no official information has been given to anyone - the media is trying like crazy to outscoop each other on anything credible to report at all on this. And yet not a one has anything more than a rehash of the same quote we all see and useless space filler. No one who really knows anything is talking...

Less than a week after news of a security breach sparked an uproar, Sony Corp. has shut down its online-gaming unit after a hacker infiltrated the network in the second such attack on the company in the last month.

Sony Online Entertainment, known for creating massive multi-player games such as EverQuest and The Matrix Online, suspended service Sunday night, according to a statement Monday.

"In the course of our investigation into the intrusion into our systems we have discovered an issue that warrants enough concern for us to take the service down effective immediately," the statement said.

Two weeks ago, an attack on Sony's PlayStation Network and Qriocity music service exposed the personal information of 77 million customers accounts. Sony apologized and disclosed Saturday that 10 million credit card accounts may have been compromised during the security breach.

The company will give affected customers 30 days of free access to its Qriocity music-streaming service as well as 30 days of access to its PlayStation Plus online game service. The company will also provide credit card protection services to relevant customers, Kaz Hirai, Sony's executive deputy president, said during a news conference on Saturday.

The company has drawn the ire of both customers and lawmakers since the initial attack. A congressional subcommittee last week demanded answers to a detailed list of questions regarding security concerns, including when the breach occurred, how much data was stolen and why Sony waited a week before it notified customers.

Consumers have filed at least two lawsuits in California against Sony and are seeking federal class-action status.

LA Times report

Seems to me that a lot of people like to whine before being informed. I know Sony is not a real forthright company their customer service attests to that but read the news peeps. Go to money.msn.com and read the article "Sony tries to recover from data breach" then see if you want to come back here and grip. 10 million customers had some of their personal info taken. Sony even said that those 10 million CC info may be compromised but "it knows the hackers didn't get the security codes for those cards".
10mil out of 77 mill across all Sony networks sounds pretty hopeful. Besides it sounds like some peeps trying to settle a beef with Sony and not out to rip-off the customers.
I am far from gullible and would usually join in on a gripe session about Sony but not this time. They know they crapped their pants now let them be to clean it up.