Capcom’s senior vice-prez Christian Svensson has come down hard on whoever is responsible for pushing the PlayStation Network offline, reminding everybody that in situations like this, pretty much nobody comes out #winning – and perhaps gamers and developers are feeling the worst of it.
“I’m frustrated and upset by it for a number of reasons,” he writes over on the company’s official forum.
“As a consumer, I also play games online on PS3, which I can’t do… and likely my personal information is also compromised. Secondly I like to buy things in the PlayStation store and that I can’t do right now.”
“On a related note, as an executive responsible for running a business, the resulting outage obviously costing us hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars in revenue that were planned for within our budget. These are funds we rely on to bring new games to market for our fans.”
“In short, the hackers appear to be trying to “punish” Sony for some perceived injustice, and they’ve been effective in that I suppose. But they’re also punishing millions of other consumers and businesses which makes it impossible to be sympathetic to their ’cause’.”
Of course, Sony’s prepping a whole proper welcome back party with free games for PSN users, but one has to wonder what they’re doing to make nice with developers and publishers behind the scenes.
Discuss the PSN downtime’s effect on publishers in the forums
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