Mike Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 PlayStation 3 owners are being warned about a major error affecting PlayStation Network, the console's online gaming and shopping service. According to dozens of forum posts, owners began to experience problems getting online yesterday, receiving the following message: "An error has occurred. You have been signed out of PlayStation Network (8001050F)" Worse still, forum users are claiming to have lost saved games and 'trophies', the awards given to players for in-game achievements. Linky here Phillip Schofield told me about this, on Twitter... randomly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt H Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 I get that all the time: "An error has occurred. You have been signed out of PlayStation Network (8001050F)" Never had any problems afterwards mine... Hang on I lost all unlocks and classes etc in MW2 last night!!! oh wait, I just prestiged Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest blueangel Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 lol im on it now ha ha wellmy 3yr old is and it wont sign in Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorin Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 I've got a PS3 Slim now so I'm OK I can't see how on earth it could lose your save games, and as for trophies I suspect it's just that it's not being able to connect to sync them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caseys Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 It's the clock logic on the fatboy PS3s. It can't roll over on a leap year on an even numbered year apparently. The going theory is that the PS3 is storing some form of date in GMT, then modifying that to get whatever you see in the on-screen clock. That modification process seems to be fine--the system can take 2/28/2010, 9PM GMT, add four hours, and get 3/1/2010, 1AM random time zone. What's apparently effed, as speculation goes, is when the internal GMT-tracking rolls over to 3/1. It's either not rolling, or rolling to 2/29, at which point a system tries to add/subtract from 2/29, which it can't do because the front-end calendar doesn't have a 2/29/2010, and shit explodes. Seemed to happen around 4PM PDT, which I think is 12AM GMT, so. And the PS3 launched in 2006; it's hit 4 2/28s so far. 2007 and 2009 were odd-numbered years; 2008 was an even, and a leap year. 2010 is the first even non-leap-year the system's been around for. If some sort of base-level math is choking on itself, it may have ruled out the odd 2007 and 2009 successfully, but is convinced the even 2010 is a leap year (this part I'm less sure of, but is why leap year could theoretically come into play at some point.) You don't lose save games, but it's quite crap that some games (inc CoD 6) do a trophy check before it launches the game fully, so if you haven't got connectivity you can't even play it offline What genius thought that up? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted March 1, 2010 Author Share Posted March 1, 2010 That is shocking... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caseys Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 That is shocking... Yes I agree, QA missed it and obviously somewhere there has been a change when they designed the slimline PS3 and changed hardware/logic somewhere. So someone in Sony potentially knew of the fault and they've kept schtum about it. 24+ hours of fallout and lack of business on PSN, I'm sure they would have picked it up and modded the firmware by now so (and I'm making a big assumption here) that it's a very embedded function and they couldn't easily change it. It's the sort of thing that has a big hoo-ha for about a week then it blows over. Yeah they've lost money in DLC etc for the last 24-48 hours. The bad thing is that this can potentially happen for 2014 too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digsy Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 No gaming for a whole 24 hours once every four years? Oh noes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martini Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 I get that all the time: "An error has occurred. You have been signed out of PlayStation Network (8001050F)" Never had any problems afterwards mine... Hang on I lost all unlocks and classes etc in MW2 last night!!! oh wait, I just prestiged This is a different error, associated with leap years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlotte Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 What if it's just a big ploy and they're in there now...stealing your upgradez. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 I've not used my PS3 in aaaaaaaages! It's still at my mum's anyway so I don't think I need to worry about her playing FIFA or anything haha! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 It's the clock logic on the fatboy PS3s. It can't roll over on a leap year on an even numbered year apparently. Aren't all Leap Years are on even numbered years? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazz1 Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 Good job i saw this i was trying to call them as i cant get signed in since morning Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caseys Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 Aren't all Leap Years are on even numbered years? Yes, but for instance as quoted above 2008 didn't have a bug, so they've implemented a strange roll-on system I guess. So rather it's that it can't deal with non-leap year even numbered years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3LL Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 Wish I had seen this, I booted one up today and thought hmmm thats strange, no ps network.. ill try the main one downstairs.. got the same thing.. so i now have two ps3's out of action.. AR$E!! Dunno what im gonna do without my daily Modern Warfare 2 fix.. LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Septic Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 Further proof that you should get a 360 (ignore RROD) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lockys96 Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 hmmm, thats my ps3 fooked, fancy a game of fifa, cant play anything Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottC Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 Strange just tried mine and it's all worky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aweegin Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 ..same ol' story, technology is great..when it works!! Yep..PS3 owner too.. lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobbeh Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 OMG, what are people going to do for a day! Makes me laugh they spend all this time on the hardware and forgot about the basics tho Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt H Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 stealing your upgradez. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted March 1, 2010 Author Share Posted March 1, 2010 10 Things to Do While Your PlayStation 3 Is Broken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobbeh Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 Is that mushroom cloud supposed to have a clowns face in it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt H Posted March 2, 2010 Share Posted March 2, 2010 Is it sorted now? Didn't get online last night due to this fault. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martini Posted March 2, 2010 Share Posted March 2, 2010 Is it sorted now? Didn't get online last night due to this fault. Yes, you can go online now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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