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PSN Is Still Down After 14 Hours And No One Knows Why (www.forbes.com)
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[–] herrvogel 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nobody's gonna dispute the necessity of some sort of server somewhere in the mix. But does it need to be something like PSN? A central 3rd party service that most games only use because they're forced to?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Walled gardens and all. That’s the cost of doing business on PlayStation. Perhaps we’ll see some pushback from developers to PlayStation that might carve a path for sidestepping PSN services if the developer wants to.

It’s important to note, though, that PSN (and Xbox Live, and Steam) does provide useful services to developers in exchange for that cost of doing business.