Sony says Trophies, friends lists are safe

Sony has issued its second Q&A regarding the PlayStation Network downtime, which reveals that Trophies, friends lists, and cloud saves are all safe and sound.

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The PlayStation Network is still down, but Sony is reassuring fans in the off-time with answers to some pressing questions. The company issued its first Q&A round-up on Wednesday, and late yesterday released a second round of answers that deal mostly with games.

First, any Trophies you earned in single-player games while PSN was offline will be synced once the service goes live again, so you can keep plugging away confident that your progress will show. Your friends lists and download history will remain in tact as well, and PlayStation Plus cloud saves will be retrievable once Sony puts the servers back up.

The Q&A also reveals that Sony is working on some form of goodwill gesture to fans, saying it is "currently evaluating ways to show appreciation for your extraordinary patience." Players of PlayStation 3 MMOs like DC Universe Online and Free Realms will get a little extra for their troubles; the blog reveals they're working on a "make good" plan for those games, as well as hosting special events once PSN is restored.

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    April 29, 2011 8:45 AM

    Steve Watts posted a new article, Sony says Trophies, friends lists are safe.

    Sony has issued its second Q&A regarding the PlayStation Network downtime, which reveals that Trophies, friends lists, and cloud saves are all safe and sound.

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      April 29, 2011 8:47 AM

      Thank god they kept the important things safe from harm.

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        April 29, 2011 8:49 AM

        When life gives you AIds, you make lemonaids - Sony.

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          April 29, 2011 10:01 PM

          No, you give the AIDS back and tell life you don't want its AIDS.

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      April 29, 2011 8:49 AM

      Do not fear! We have encrypted and secured your trophies and friend lists!

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        April 29, 2011 9:13 AM

        Pschew.. Nice of them to take over a week to let me know my trophies are secure.

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      April 29, 2011 9:19 AM

      Sony's sort of fucked no matter what.

      If they hold off until they know everything of what's happened then people get furious with them for holding out on them.

      If they let people know what they know as soon as they know it then they get screwed by bringing this into the news cycle over and over again.

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        April 29, 2011 9:28 AM

        I'm wondering what kind of negative effect this is going to have on the PS3 for the future. Are people going to be ready to jump right back on to the PSN and buy up more games, offering up their info or will they be a little gunshy?

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          April 29, 2011 11:10 AM

          I'm planning on jumping right back in, but then there are games for the psp that I want to buy. I'd guess that the average person is probably going to wait until something comes up that they want and then buy it. I can't see many people just stop using one of the best functions on their ps3/psp.

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          April 29, 2011 11:38 AM

          A lot of people will claim they don't trust Sony and Sony is the devil, and that they will now use only their 360 and then three weeks later you'll see the same person posting.. omgz i r so excited for (insert PS3 exclusive game here), itz going to rockz0r

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            April 29, 2011 11:40 AM

            I'm going to buy psn cards from now on.

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            April 29, 2011 1:59 PM

            or that they'll say the same about MS if and when Live is breached

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            April 29, 2011 2:27 PM

            ^^ Last Guardian. That's what I want. I WILL DO ANYTHING SONY except give you a credit card number

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          April 29, 2011 2:33 PM

          The only effect it will have on me is I won't buy anything from them with my CC and overall I'll try to be more careful about passwords and stuff like that in the future.

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      April 29, 2011 9:21 AM

      MY TROPHIES}/.

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      April 29, 2011 9:24 AM

      Are they certain the hackers didnt get to that too? It would be a tragedy if they find out what games we 100% and who we play with or if they just deleted it for ha-ha's. I think that would be 100 times worse than my name, address, birthday, phone number, debit card # circulating the interwebz.

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      April 29, 2011 10:03 AM

      Pshew!

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      April 29, 2011 10:19 AM

      What would thieves go after useless crap like trophies for anyway?

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        April 29, 2011 10:20 AM

        **why

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        April 29, 2011 10:48 AM

        They want big e-dicks? Imagine how good you would feel with 1,000 Platinum trophies instead of what 1 or 2 like a little e-dick having busta.

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        April 29, 2011 11:27 AM

        They're not saying they were stolen. They're reassuring people that the worthless trophies they've gone through the trouble in earning will not be lost in the restructuring.

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          April 29, 2011 3:28 PM

          Trophies ain't so bad. I've grown to like them more than achievement points in 360 games. They're a nice way to compare playing history against your friends (oh he favored those weapons in Uncharted 2 or GOD DAMN DID HE LIKE ARKHAM ASYLUM) and now knowing that they have set values (15pts for a bronze, 180 for a platinum, etc) and a set limit of cumulative points per game, it makes the "level" system make a hell of a lot more sense and feel less arbitrary.

          It's reassuring to know that both the original data wasn't lost and that any new trophies since the service went down will be seamlessly synched with the online history when PSN goes back up. Thank god. Been working on these Portal 2 trophies for the last few days and daggum are some of them tricky!

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        April 29, 2011 3:25 PM

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      April 29, 2011 11:45 AM

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      April 29, 2011 3:02 PM

      You guys reckon this'll be as harmful to Sony's rep as the RROD on 360? Probably not.

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        April 29, 2011 3:22 PM

        I'm convinced that the people who don't want to pay a recurring fee for online aren't going to jump off the Sony boat until some other console can offer the same deal but with less downtime.

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        April 29, 2011 5:18 PM

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        April 29, 2011 10:09 PM

        To me, this is worse. With the RROD, Microsoft didn't really do anything wrong, they built some hardware that had problems, something that happens, from the iPhone 4's antenna issue, to PS2 disk read errors, to the bad motherboards of the white iBooks, to the shitty contacts of the NES.

        If Sony would have done secure encryption on all of our user data, and would have told us within hours of PSN going down, I wouldn't really care. But their lack of transparency in the beginning, and their crappy storage of customer information, Sony really fucked up.

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        April 30, 2011 5:16 AM

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      April 29, 2011 3:54 PM

      my cheevos!

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      April 29, 2011 9:34 PM

      "The Q&A also reveals that Sony is working on some form of goodwill gesture to fans, saying it is "currently evaluating ways to show appreciation for your extraordinary patience." Players of PlayStation 3 MMOs like DC Universe Online and Free Realms will get a little extra for their troubles; the blog reveals they're working on a "make good" plan for those games, as well as hosting special events once PSN is restored."

      So... the entire PSN network is affected and they only compensate the ones that play their MMOs?

      Its stupid in many levels, because first of all... if Sony wouldn't compensate the gametime lost in a game with fees, then it will be a good time to leave, because thats a really bad thing in a MMO. So its statig the obvious and then showing it as something special.

      And its stupid by itself, only compensating the ones playing their games with fees, because, aren't the rest of the PSN users worth a dime to Sony or what?

      As someone ( i can't remember who it was) said in another PSN related post, if someone messes with Sony, a hell of lawyers rains upon him, but if Sony messes things really hard, then nothing happens.....
      Hurray for justice ¬¬.

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        April 29, 2011 10:56 PM

        that's not how I read that quote at all.

        It seems like they're saying they will have something for everyone, plus something extra for the MMO players.

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        April 29, 2011 11:37 PM

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      April 29, 2011 10:00 PM

      Well, I'm glad they saved the important shit. No big deal my CC info etc was leaked, but my fucking friends list is safe!

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      April 29, 2011 10:15 PM

      well thank god the important shit is safe. Who cares about credit cards.

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      April 29, 2011 11:40 PM

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