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DC Universe Online players get credit, mask for downtime

by Alexander Sliwinski on May 4th 2011 2:05PM

Sony Online Entertainment plans to give all DC Universe Online players a free month and "Batman-Inspired mask" as compensation for the current outage. The company asked players on the game's Facebook page to bear with them as "the complexities of the subscription server dictate how and when this will be available" and that the company will be releasing "more information this week."

The outage is part of the overall PlayStation Network issue that resulted in SOE announcing earlier this week that 12,700 credit card numbers were taken and 24.6 million accounts were compromised. So, yeah, a free month and a virtual hat seems like a good start to an apology.

Via: Gamasutra
Source: DCUO Facebook

Tags: DC-Universe-Online, pc, playstation, ps3, psn-outage-2011, SOE, Sony-Online-Entertainment

Reader Comments (34)

Wait..just batman themed hats or specific character hats cuz that be nice like TF2.

When I see that I think of Batman and Blue Falcon, merged unnaturally.

@Shockwave

Sigh.. make that Captain Falcon. No I dont think Batman merged with a hover car.

@Shockwave

I find both of those statements amusing given your avatar!

@KobaltKode

That's perfectly natural ;)... I'm talking completely messed up, like.....like Dinobots.

@Shockwave

Me no understand joke.

@Shockwave
I thought you were talking about this Blue Falcon:
http://www.myfreewallpapers.net/cartoons/wallpapers/blue-falcon-and-dynomutt-dog-wonder.jpg

@Shockwave An outrageous and unnecessary correction! The Blue Falcon was a superhero before he was a hover car! The reference fit!

Holy shit! My very own Night Owl mask! How could the crippling loss of personal data possibly bother me now!

@Pika132 Finally! been waiting for someone to say that.

@Pika132 let me guess, you have a facebook or myspace account and listed in the phone book.

@mmmfishtacos

What's a "phone book?"

@mmmfishtacos I don't play DCUO (though I do have a PSN account), but I don't have a Facebook account, I'm not in the phone book, the MySpace page I had four years ago didn't have any identifying information, and a Google search of my real name turns up a half-dozen other people that have the same name, but nothing about me.

Not all of us are stupid enough to advertise everything about ourselves all over the internet.

@End User you must have a pretty common name like john smith, good for you your doing it right then. A lot of people complain about stuff like this but list all their info on facebook and want to cry about a large phone book being stolen from Sony. I'm sure you real info can be found if someone wanted to find it.

@mmmfishtacos Actually, it's not that common of a name, or so I thought (it's Hungarian). I was actually a bit surprised when I did the Google search because of all the results that came up, and then I saw that none of them were me.

Also working to my advantage is that everyone mispronounces and misspells my last name, and even my boss for the last eight years usually misspells it (because he's spelling it like he says it... which is wrong).

@mmmfishtacos And yeah, it's pretty mind blowing how many people don't even bother to check their Facebook privacy settings. My girlfriend did a bunch of her friends a favor and told them "you know your phone number's on display on Facebook, right?"

@End User I'm in the same boat, when i Google my name i get a definition and a magazine, my Facebook will come up, but it's blocked to everyone, including the people on my friends list, and i have no personal info listed. I wanted to slap my cousin for listing her phone number.

@mmmfishtacos I believe I am immune to any google search.

My name is brian williams and as my name will show most of my ingame names have to do with the news or his show.

Come at me MOFOS I dare you to find me!

@NightlyNews

Well mi name is charlie. Im from New jersey. I am single and have no children. I work full time active duty Army. Im bout to retire here within the next 2 months. Im lookin to find someone i can share miself with, im pretty much lookin for a relationship. Someone i could spoil, take care of and call mi own.

Ring any bells? Mr xbox live user dabeast007.

I was really hoping the hat would look like the PSN logo.

its SOE not Valve.. every1 is getting the same hat

I'd like to see a Venn Diagram of how many people who were signing class action lawsuits and are now running around in these.

this is a fisaco on the level of Toyota. These consistent reliable Japanese companies have just decimated thier reputation. I would like to see Kaz give himself a proper samurai ending on the E3 stage.

Would rather have this: "My Credit Card Was Stolen and All I Got Was This Stupid Shirt!" So, start making some shirts, Sony!

@SEGA Scream Good one! Made me laugh, even while my stolen PSN credit card info is being illegally used to buy Venezualan orphans to make neckties for Kevin Butler in his "workshop".

Batman inspired or Watchman inspired?

@Randallmcginness

Watchman was still DC, right? That's rhetorical, I have Wikipedia, yes it is, and I don't see why it shouldn't be 'Night-Owl inspired'. So either they don't think enough people would get it or they didn't notice the incredibly obvious resemblance.

@Randallmcginness

Watchman. Makes me think of Mr. Game and Watch. Or a man comprised entirely of timepieces. Take your pick.

Lol, this should totally smooth over the hard feelings.

Batman's cowl covers his nose. Shouldn't they know this?

@Milf Biggenson

I guess that's where the "Batman-Inspired" part comes in.

@Xiegfried I guess you're right. Dang it! I guess we could wear a full mask on the eyes, which would then cover the nose, iirc.

i wonder if the style of the mask will be named "Sorry bout that",and then we will have to wait for more network problems to collect the full set.

If there's one thing Team Fortress 2 has taught me, it's that a hat provided to the entire player base is only cool for about 10 seconds.

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