Update [Thu 3rd Apr 2025, 5am]: Sony is sending out confirmation emails to confirm your current PS Plus membership has been extended for five days.

While we spotted the changes to our account last month, the company is now contacting all subscribers to confirm the compensation has been provided.

The reason for the gesture is due to the PSN outage earlier in the year, which pulled the PS5 and PS4’s network services offline for almost an entire day.

“We appreciate your patience during the recent PSN outage,” the message reads.

“As a token of our appreciation, we’ve automatically extended your PS Plus membership by five days, no action is needed on your part.

“Thanks for being a valued PS Plus member.”

Original Story: Sony has started issuing compensation for PSN’s recent dramatic downtime, which lasted almost 24 hours.

The company promised it’d make good on the loss of service by providing all paying PS Plus members with an additional five days of service, free of charge. The additional time, the company said, would automatically be added to all eligible subscribers’ accounts.

And we can confirm that this is being processed now. We checked the expiry date of our most recent PS Plus Premium payment and can confirm five additional days have been added.

You can check this for yourself by finding your own receipt in your inbox, and then comparing the denoted expiry date to your current membership info.

To do this, login to the PS Store through here, click on your avatar icon, select ‘Subscriptions Management’, and refer to your next payment date. If it’s five days later than what was listed on your most recent receipt, then you’ve received your extension.