[quote name='Zyzomys']Well they did a shit job - it is like Sony isn't even trying any more. A new online only game breaks and the servers are not already up and running?[/QUOTE]They are trying (remember, when XBL got a huge number of new users last Holiday season, it had tons of issues of problems signing on and stuff). Same thing kind of happened with PSN for a short time. Lots of things went down yesterday (even the PS Store). When Warhawk came out, it was a mess on PSN, but everything got fixed. If Sony wasn't trying, they'd just leave the servers as is and not try to fix something, but they are. And it's not just SOCOM coming, there's a Killzone beta, Resistance 2 beta launching, lots of stuff around the same time.
Although with SOCOM, there will be server issues since SCEA didn't want the game to be delayed anymore (It really needed a delay, but they were getting sick of delaying it for over a year), and it was going to come out even if not completely finished. That is why I'm not jumping onto SOCOM until 2 or so weeks, because I already knew what was going on and what was going to happen.