Ea servers are not connecting to madden

Both PSN and Xbox Live have been under attack from a group of hackers since Christmas eve.  AFAIK PSN has been down for at least the last 18 hours straight and more than 24 hours in all.  I was able to connect for a brief period about 20 hours ago, but not since.

Since it appears that this is a DDoS attack, I'm afraid that neither Sony nor MS can do much about it until the hackers stop.

Why do you think the hackers did this in the first place?

Too costly, the "extras" that the game offers?

Meaning, when we use our hard earned, real money to purchase points to then by packs, and the packs yield more often than not, nothing that was worth that dollar amount spent for those packs (with a statement similar like "x amount of gold or eliet players" and it's all bronze, silver, gold players received), people may feel they got ripped off. Especially when buying bundles. Open 12 packs only to get one elite player or badge, just spent 50 bucks..

Or, maybe the auctions are too pricy. Taking 10 percent of a sold item (coins). Why? It's fake money. Oh, but..then a person has less coins, to purchas a pack. So they might just spend real money to purchase points to then buy the pack, and...they get nothing great! yay.

Maybe one or many of these hackers are those that purchased packs, many many packs and only yielded a few or no eliet players or badges.

i never get great value out of packs as well, i have always wondered.. and with all the lag switch hack games,where internet slow mo's to other players advantage, packs missing items, and now lizard squad hacking the servers due to lo security fire walls!

Having the same exact problem.

Beyond frustrated.  Much of the value of this game is the online features and can't get them to work at all.