Isn't so much a PSN thing. When you do P2P with someone, you can see their IP address. If you know how, you can force a connection to close on their end.

Anyone with a decent understanding of networking IT can probably do this.

Edit: as far as the article goes though this seems more than a P2P instance since they were being disconnected from PSN and this was more in response to another comment to you. Seems more likely that the kid was running something that possibly blacklisted their public IP address but its hard to say, the article doesn't have a lot of info.

To explain a little further you can easily see what is connecting to your network if you have access to your router and it supports the functionality. When services use peer to peer connection or P2P its connecting that pc to yours if you are the host. Think old CODMW2 when it would constantly redirect host which would happen if the host rage quit from dying too much (lol). All you have to (this is simplifying) is figure out which is the IP address of the person you are connected with thats annoying you and disconnect him from your network usually by just selecting a setting to cancel their connections. On my router at home I can see all devices connected and can just click a button to disconnect. Its a bit more than that for a connection like this but the principle is the same.

There are a lot of ways to close a connection. You can use your router or other software to do it fairly easily.

Wait a minute this kid is disconnecting you not banning you or taking over your account thats a bit much there guy.

This isn't a cop intervention level issue at all. People want cops to intervene for the dumbest things. BBQin call the cops, walking call the cops, disconnect from the internet call the cops. Let Sony sort it out and leave it at that

Lol, calm down.

Did you report them?

I've noticed that the vast majority of people that say they will hack you, or brag about how good they are in public about it...particularly one that has to do it through facebook, are typically completely clueless on how to hack anything. I doubt they'd even be able to ping another person. Think of it this way. I've been on this site for 10 years, and while I'm not a master hacker, this article is probably the first one out of tens of thousands of comments where I actually said I could do worse to someone than kick them off a server. I learned because I spent half my adult life in network security, and often tracked down breaches, and most security breaches, or at least attempts are pretty pathetic and easily done by just looking them up on google.

Prudence should be a thing of course, but a guy using face book to get others to file false reports? Facebook would shut that down, and most server owners aren't so stupid to think that a sudden influx of complaints against someone who likely has never had any is probably not real.

There is always one shithead that ruins things for everyone else. That shithead is you!

I think there are already some shenanigans going on in Overwatch. Every single time that I've had a game end due to server error it's always been just seconds away from the game ending, as if someone deliberately attacked the server in some way to avoid losing the game.

Money is one thing security is another but again millions have 0 knowledge past 2020.

Epic store for years struggled with a shopping cart/account theft/credit card theft

Rockstar launcher/store to this day over 5 years later still has horrific user interface security flaws lost account's and stolen CC

Then you got that activision need phone number oh we lost it launcher

The crown jewel is the ea launcher/store ea app 3 yrs old still has hundreds of threads were people lost games/accounts/game access or just straight up crashes.

Edit" Oh ubi launcher were you buy a game that may or may not be there again or work and the launcher 5yrs old still has no 4K support if you launch it on a 4k screen there is a high chance it will just crash.

It literally says in the OP that PC gamers don't like multiple launchers lol. It even mentions Steam being the go to for gamers

Title: "PlayStation Doesn't Need a Dedicated PC Store Launcher"

N4G: "Can tell who ever put this together is not all that clued up on pc gaming"

When you don't even read the headline...

Steam and GOG are highly preferred because of the rich feature set. Ubisoft, Rockstar, EA, Epic etc have all set a precedent over the years for customers to instinctively expect individual publisher launchers to be so extremely half-assed that the majority simply don't want to bother dealing with what is almost an inevitable disappointment by comparison to Steam or GOG. Those publishers and their inaction or general disinterest to improve have effectively ruined any future adoption to be taken seriously.

Yep, huge double standard look at the tortured reaction to the ps5pro, websites hyperventilating like Sony is forcing people to buy it.

Wait my xbox from 2004 has avengers gaas on it? wow your so smart

m$ Gaas started with the other companies like sony

Gamepass yes they are deep into that but its still a huge money saver sense you do not own your games then get a service like that.

Now there pc xbox launcher that is trash for years now

That's right, well, BG3 deserved it imo.