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Free PS Plus Extension for All Members Affected by PSN Outage

PSN was offline for almost an entire day on Saturday, in what was the longest outage since 2011’s infamous hack. While services have now mostly resumed, Sony has promised that all PS Plus members will receive five days of free service as compensation for the down time.

Writing on English speaking support page Ask PlayStation, the manufacturer issued the following statement:

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“Network services have fully recovered from an operational issue. We apologise for the inconvenience and thank the community for their patience. All PS Plus members will automatically receive an additional five days of service.”

While outages will inevitably occur with all online services, this was a particularly bothersome one, as it was so widespread and lasted so long. Hopefully Sony has learned from the situation, and will be able to recover faster should anything like this occur again in the future.

Considering the outage only lasted approximately a day, though, five days of free service does seem like reasonable compensation. As noted in the statement, you won’t need to do anything to claim the free time, as it’ll automatically be added to your existing subscription.

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As the Editor of Push Square, Sammy has over 15 years of experience analysing the world of PlayStation, from PS3 through PS5 and everything in between. He’s an expert on PS Studios and industry matters, as well as sports games and simulators. He also enjoys RPGs when he has the time to dedicate to them, and is a bit of a gacha whale.

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nomither6
Yesterday, 6:26am

lol, how about making it free. this effects no one that plays F2P multiplayer games like probably 80% of the PS5s userbase. charging to use your own internet is outdated and scummy.

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Lukeded
Yesterday, 6:30am

yes, they did compensation. But question is, some people may miss the ps+ discount sale. Lucky me, I subscribe on 5thJune, still on sale when 10th

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Balie3000
Yesterday, 6:30am

Sony: “Don’t worry about the uncertainty of a digital-only future.. here’s 5 days of our online service… sshhh”

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DennisReynolds
Yesterday, 6:31am

Fair enough 5 days is more then enough.

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Member_the_game
Yesterday, 6:34am

Is there any way to opt out?

I’ve timed my renewals to perfection for the last few years so that it renews when they have a 35% – 40% off sale

With these extra 5 days it’ll probably take me over the sale period and I’ll have to renew at full price next January

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Lukeded
Yesterday, 6:37am

@Member_the_game see if you can attend june or Nov sale?

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get2sammyb
Yesterday, 6:38am

@Member_the_game You can still renew during the sale. It’ll just add a year on top of what you’ve already got left.

Subscriptions stack.

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Yaycandy
Yesterday, 6:39am

@Member_the_game Even if there is a sale with 5 days left on your subscription you can still buy the sale price. It will just add it on so you would have 1 year and 5 days left at that time. You can buy as many subscriptions as you want at anytime. It just pushes the renewal out.

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MidnightDragonDX
Yesterday, 6:41am

Not much, but I’ll take it.

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kevinm360
Yesterday, 6:46am

@nomither6 those players haven’t lost out financially and don’t need compensation.

Online services cost money to maintain, and Sony don’t sell your personal data to make that money.

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PuppetMaster
Yesterday, 6:46am

Yeah 5 days compensation are fair.

@nomither6 “charging to use your own internet is outdated and scummy”

Well you should thanks MS who popularized online play behind paid subscription.

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Member_the_game
Yesterday, 6:48am

@get2sammyb @Yaycandy

You would think that, but when the sale was on in January it would only let me upgrade for what remained of my contract… (at the time I had about 10 days left)

I had to wait till it expired on 31st January only then would it let me renew for another year with 35% off.

I was fortunate that the sale ran till 5th February

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Judal27
Yesterday, 6:50am

I’ll take it but I think I’d rather they just give me my polys for missing a day in zzz and extend the mh wilds beta by a day lol

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carlos82
Yesterday, 6:54am

So nothing for me then but I was completely unaffected anyway as all my games worked

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Kenobi42
Yesterday, 6:57am

A proper explanation of the cause is needed. I want to know if my data is safe.

“an operational outage” can mean anything.

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FreasurePlanten
Yesterday, 7am

@get2sammyb The issue is that Sony only does sales if you upgrade your plan. So if you don’t time it well and effectively stop subscribing for an interval of time, you won’t be able to take advantage of sales. The issue seems pretty clear.

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get2sammyb
Yesterday, 7:03am

@FreasurePlanten @Member_the_game Yeah, I see what you mean now! Unfortunately, I don’t think there’ll be a way to opt out of the extra five days.

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RoomWithaMoose
Yesterday, 7:07am

@PuppetMaster I wouldn’t really say Microsoft popularizing it excuses Sony and Nintendo from practicing it.

I kinda got it when the sub presumably paid for server maintenance and labor, while not offering the consumer anything other than online play. But, at this point, I think GamePass Ultimate, Playstation Plus Ess/Ex/Pre, and NSO/Nintendo Music all offer more than enough to sustain subscribers without paywalling online play itself. So — and I realize you didn’t really dispute this — I absolutely agree with @nomither6 that the practice is outdated.

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ATaco
Yesterday, 7:12am

“Not enough, Give me Astrobot”

Is what I expect some to demand.

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PuppetMaster
Yesterday, 7:16am

@RoomWithaMoose The practice is not outdated but it’s completely bad and unnecessary from the very beginning.

And again, MS was the one who popularized it for console gaming. Sony and Nintendo followed because they see it not just as a trend but the $$$$$ that MS earned from locking online play behind paid subscription.

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Nakatomi_Uk
Yesterday, 7:32am

@PuppetMaster I think because you see 3 large corps that have plenty of money that they should fund the costs of servers, maintenance, upgrades etc themselves. Do you realise the cost it takes to actually have something set up to let the world play online??

They don’t just have servers in the US they have them everywhere which means paying people to fix them at the rate that country pays etc. New servers aren’t cheap and you need a lot of them not just a few, just because Steam doesn’t and have never charged doesn’t mean everything can be free.

Sony did it for free on PS3 but that was incentive to get people to buy the console and it took a few years to get somewhere. Then they realised to make it compete with Xbox Live they needed to charge hell even Nintendo had too for Switch in the end.

Playing online costs and for 365 years a one off fee plus discounts to games free monthly games I don’t think your getting robbed at all. Yeah sure the games lately have been lackluster but again I’ve had some great discounts on some games and DLC I don’t think it’s bad as you think it is

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nomither6
Yesterday, 7:46am

@kevinm360 sony gets their money from initial console and accessory sales, cuts from any physical/digital game purchases & anything else that can be bought digitally on PSN, in-game MTXs & their own first party. You shouldn’t have to pay sony to connect your paid for internet to a game developers servers. sony has nothing to do with that

well, i guess you can argue that they actually do have something to do with it , since psn was down and players couldn’t connect to third party servers

i still think online should be free and that charging is unnecessary and wrong

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Pitcher-T
Yesterday, 7:58am

To be fair I could still play offline games eg I was playing Ghost of Tsushima Ps5 edition which I got through ps plus extra.
So considering I didn’t “own” this digital title i was surprised to be able to still play it

HOWEVER things like needing server connection for disc drive installation is a big problem for future preservation of hardware

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kevinm360
Yesterday, 8am

@nomither6 while I wouldn’t go as far to say as charging is unnecessary or wrong (we live in capitalism), I’d definitely question the value for money of the services.

I think many people have also questioned the value for money and that’s why they offer so many “bonuses” along with the online access. While the bonuses make people feel better about the money they’re spending, I don’t think they’d sell subscriptions alone if the online service itself was free and Plus was just for everything else.

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Member_the_game
Yesterday, 8:04am

@nomither6

I don’t really play online much myself so the reason I pay for PS Plus (Premium) is purely for the games collections.

I do however agree with you that we shouldn’t have to pay to play online.

Or at the very very least there should be some sort of PS Plus alternative option where you can pay a small amount for your online play subscription but you don’t get the benefits of the free monthly games or extra Bells and whistles.

As I previously said, it’s not something I would be interested in as I enjoy having the “Free” games collections but there definitely should be a cheaper “online play only” option for those that want it.

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breakneck
Yesterday, 8:25am

I don’t really understand it. I had Ninja Gaiden 2 Black and had no issues playing it offline. Seems like the issue specifically affected online games or server based games like GT7 etc. So giving the 5 days to people who do play online and have subs seems fair. If you rely on the discount that seems like a “you” problem.

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MrHabushi
Yesterday, 8:31am

There appears to be a few people here with short memories who don’t remember how poor PSN often was back when it was free.

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nomither6
Yesterday, 8:34am

@kevinm360 that’s how it used to be during the ps3 era. plus was separate & not too many people cared about it so they forced it on people that play online. also, capitalism is wrong, no? as a business owner , what’s not to love about it, but as a consumer? it’s BS

@MrHabushi so not paying Sony was the reason for their own incompetence at creating an online infrastructure? it’s not like psn launched after sony sold the highest selling console of all time(ps2) or anything either

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Nekomichu
Yesterday, 8:41am

When there will be a discount?

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Pixel_nme
Yesterday, 8:45am

@MrHabushi indeed PSN has vastly improved since the free online days of the PS3 where it felt like the network went down every other week.

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Member_the_game
Yesterday, 8:49am

@breakneck

I’m assuming your comment about “Relying” on a discount is aimed at me.

Let me assure you that in no way do I rely on a discount…. I have enough disposable income to pay for a years subscription at full price should I need too.

I just found it rather annoying that’s all….. I’m sure if you gave the majority of sane people the option of paying the normal price of £120 for a years Premium subscription or paying £77 with a 35% discount they would almost certainly choose the discounted price.

Very much a 1st world problem of course but doesn’t make it any less annoying if it effects you personally

Sorry but I found your comment to be unnecessarily patronising and insulting

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thefourfoldroot1
Yesterday, 8:53am

@FreasurePlanten
This must only be in certain regions. I’ve timed the same just in case it ever changes, but it’s always let me (UK) just extend whenever any sale is on. I usually renew during the Black Friday sales but don’t have to wait for mine to end (yet).

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thefourfoldroot1
Yesterday, 9am

The main reason i was inconvenienced is that the wife and I each have a PS5, and have set it so we can play each other’s games. I couldn’t play the PS Plus games I’d been playing nor any I bought myself. I could have just played on the PS5 in the living room, but I wouldn’t have been able to download my saves from the cloud due to the outage. Nor could I change the settings because of the outage.

I guess this is a niche case, and Sony shouldn’t be blamed for my fiddling their system.

5 days? Barely registers as anything to be honest, but not being able to game for a day is hardly horrendous torture anyway.

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Dodoo
Yesterday, 9:01am

I don’t have PS+, do I get 5 days free? 🤣

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Brundleflies21
Yesterday, 9:13am

I have a feeling like Griswald does in National Lampoons when his boss gives him a one year enrollment in the ‘Jelly Of The Month’ instead of his Christmas bonus.

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Titntin
Yesterday, 9:20am

@thefourfoldroot1 I too have a wife who games as much as me and we both have ps5s (we have both in our lounge with their own TVs). It’s so frustrating that my misses has to sub to psn in addition to my premium sub, just so she has online saves and can play on either machine.
Microsoft do it so much better. I sub to Game Pass Ultimate and as my wife is listed as family, she has all the same benefits on her account, no faff, no second sub.
I prefer gaming on this platform, but Microsoft handles it’s accounts and families miles better. It feels like Sony is grifting us….

As for the compensation, it’s calculated to be cr@p.. anyone who doesn’t have PSN already likely works all week like most of us and 5 days means it will end before next weekend, when they might best have used it. You could argue they can use it today, but I suspect most won’t realise they have it till the weekend is gone. It should have been 10 days to ensure people can use it. It means literally nothing to those of us who always have a sub anyway….

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BecauseBecause
Yesterday, 9:21am

That’s funny cos my psn expired on Friday 😅

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Slayer25c
Yesterday, 9:26am

@nomither6 it cost money to run servers the money they make from consoles and acc and games allows them make new games. Stop trying to get things for free online play will never be free again if u want the hack 2011 again servers are not cheap to keep up. Everytime there something about ps plus u always moaning about paying stop paying it

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Oz_Who_Dat_Dare
Yesterday, 9:34am

@Lukeded there no longer is a PS+ sale… only for those increasing their tier…

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Oz_Who_Dat_Dare
Yesterday, 9:37am

@Titntin I completely agree… given that most people in the real world game outside the working week – 5 days seems the least useful (and cheapest) and most galling spit in the eye you can get.

For me – I actually didn’t get impacted that much as I was able to play my SP games just fine. However, a huge number of players are subscribed to PS+ because they need to (to play non F2P) games. They will get nothing out of this, other than a frustrating weekend, and a lower opinion of Sony.

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Titntin
Yesterday, 9:38am

@Slayer25c He’s got a point though. Most titles also play on PC and the PC is a valid high tech gaming option. If it’s financially viable to have free online play on PC, then it also is to have online free on playstation. It exists to help support their store and digital sales which make Sony money hand over fist. The justification for charging us for this sales network and the servers that support it has greatly diminished since this was introduced, and if one platform can manage fine without charging the end user, then all of them can.
I rarely criticise the way Sony do business, but on this issue, it’s legacy charging simply because they can get away with it. I wish Microsoft hadn’t started the practice…..

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Oz_Who_Dat_Dare
Yesterday, 9:39am

@thefourfoldroot1 I agree 24 hours is not the end of the world… so when are we going to hear about how it happened, and why it won’t just keep happening. Sony need to stop with the head-in-the-sand comms strategy.

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BiosNova
Yesterday, 9:43am

@nomither6 You’re not being charged to use your own internet. You’re being charged to use their service.

I bought a car, why isn’t the fuel free!!??

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thefourfoldroot1
Yesterday, 9:45am

@Oz_Who_Dat_Dare
I’m sure a day outage every year or more may keep happening. Not too bothered by that level of (in)frequency, but do agree that Sony’s communication on this and all issues is terrible.

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UltimateOtaku91
Yesterday, 9:46am

Didn’t effect me as I was playing Dragon Quest 3 HD and the Switch during that down time but il sure as hell take those 5 free days 👍.

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FinneasGH
Yesterday, 9:46am

5 extra days is functionally useless. I stack my subs and have had it running for years, so it just means I’ll get an extra 5 days at the end of it, whenever that may be, years in the future.

It was down for a day for me, which realistically cost me 33p. A comp for 5 days is worth £1.65.

But again I’m not realistically ever seeing that comp come back as it’s just pushed to end of my contract, which is years down the line and so practically I’m not ever going to see it.

Was it a hardship for me to not play something online for a day? No.
Was it a hardship to see my son upset because he couldn’t play Fortnite with his friends? Yes.
Is a fundamentally useless comp worth seeing him upset? No.

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BiosNova
Yesterday, 9:51am

@FinneasGH Perhaps your son needs other hobbies if this is enough to cause upset in the family that he can’t play a game for a single day.

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FinneasGH
Yesterday, 9:56am

@BiosNova He spends the rest of his week studying and working and doing other clubs, to enable him to have his one free night off a week to play with his friends.

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PuppetMaster
Yesterday, 10:17am

@Nakatomi_Uk “they should fund the costs of servers, maintenance, upgrades etc themselves”

Yes these multi billion companies should pay with their own money instead of charge extra on their costumers to play online. They made billions of profit every year. So it’s part of their service for their consumers who already paid for their products.

Ironicly here we are with another PSN outage. Where all the PS+ subscribers money if Sony can’t even prevent this outage???

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Marquez
Yesterday, 10:24am

@Titntin My understanding is it’s five days tacked on to the end of your current sub – not ‘you get to use PS Plus for the next five days from now’. So the days of the week will depend on each individual’s subscription expiry day.

Overall, receiving 400% compensation for a loss is very good in any case, although if it’s that easy to do for Sony for 40(?) million subscribers it would indicate the daily running costs of PS Plus aren’t that high!

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Nakatomi_Uk
Yesterday, 10:26am

@PuppetMaster You will never ever prevent DOS attacks if that’s what it was it could have been a severe failure or upgrade that didn’t work it could have been many many things that went wrong. The money from subs will go towards other games, again server costs maintaining the servers etc you clearly have no idea at all how it works. The may earn billions but they are under close scrutiny how how they spend it because they are like many other companies ran by and with shareholders in mind first and foremost.

If you think in today’s world internet attacks shouldn’t happen then your living in a different world

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KillerBoy
Yesterday, 10:28am

This is not good enough, I won’t be renewing my ps plus went it runs this month

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daveofduncan
Yesterday, 10:44am

@KillerBoy nobody cares buddy. Move along now.

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Stueeeee
Yesterday, 10:46am

@get2sammyb yes I had issue last black Friday where I couldn’t renew at the current price for plus and could any upgrade to extra with discount for the remaining few days of the plan

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Weebleman
Yesterday, 10:47am

There is a lot of grown ass people throwing their toys out over one day.

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Titntin
Yesterday, 10:50am

@Marquez I did specifically say ‘for those that don’t currently subscribe’.
For those of us that subbed to psnow and have never been without the service since, it makes zero difference.

Whatever though, it’s not gonna spoil my day, but it’s certainly not redemption for Sony locking me out of playing £1000’s of pounds worth of games that I bought and paid for.

Have a great day mate 😄

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Artois2
Yesterday, 10:50am

@DennisReynolds 5 days is not enough for the hardship we have had to endure. I demand at least a years free ps plus

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PuppetMaster
Yesterday, 11:01am

@Nakatomi_Uk Excuses excuses and more excuses. What are you, their lawyer?

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JohnnyShoulder
Yesterday, 11:09am

I’m the same as @Member_the_game, and am unable to stack subscriptions. Last time the dates did not align, I bought 3 months or monthly subscriptions and then let it expire when they were on sale.

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Nakatomi_Uk
Yesterday, 11:11am

@PuppetMaster No I’m not but it’s called logic thinking which you don’t seem to have but I’ll end it there because I’m no longer waisting my time with people like you

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KillerBoy
Yesterday, 11:13am

@daveofduncan clearly you do enough to leave a comment

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CottonModem
Yesterday, 11:16am

@Member_the_game I’m on the Deluxe tier (no Premium in Australia due to no streaming) and was able to extend my sub by a year at the discounted rate in early December, so it now expires late next year. I’d checked a week earlier and it didn’t look like it was going to apply the discount, so I don’t know if they changed the terms or what. Either way, it’s worth giving it another shot.

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Corc11
Yesterday, 11:17am

This may be a silly question but how is that even compensation if you’re a subscriber anyway? If your subscription ends it automatically renews, 5 days later or not. Still got money coming out of your account that week 🤷🏻‍♂️

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PuppetMaster
Yesterday, 11:21am

@Nakatomi_Uk bye bye mr lawyer 🫡

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TommyNL
Yesterday, 11:32am

@thefourfoldroot1
That depends of course, first of all what do they have to tell you? Is that exciting to know? Or can they use their time better to work on a solution behind the scenes. I don’t care at all why psn was down, what I do care about is that it will work again, and that’s what it does now anyway? Problem solved. When xbox is down I never read anything about it but when it happens with Playstation it’s on all the news sites in the world.

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ParboldCoder
Yesterday, 11:41am

5 days makes no difference to me as I have 34 months remaining, all pre paid PS+ Premium. I bought the digital codes back when they were priced at £99.99 and were discounted on Ebay at £63.99. So I bought 4 cards.

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Bwiancohen
Yesterday, 11:43am

Perfectly reasonable. 5 free days for the loss of 1? Excellent. Thanks Sony.

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thefourfoldroot1
Yesterday, 11:45am

@TommyNL
Just say why it went down, whether there were any bad actors, confirm people’s details are secure etc.

I don’t really care about the specific reasons either, but it’s a matter of general respect.

Beyond that though, their communication is generally pitiful. Even when not saying anything brings bad PR, or even just means an opportunity is lost to drum up a excitement.

It’s like they sacked all their coms and PR people to save money.

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rusty82
Yesterday, 11:52am

@breakneck you just pay full price for anything any time do you? Not shop around for better price? You’re throwing money away if that’s the case.

Getting the best price and taking advantage of deals is just being savvy. Everyone should do it. Most people do do it

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neillaw
Yesterday, 11:59am

@get2sammyb if the sale applies to you that’s great, pretty sure the last big discount was only available to “new” customers, those without an existing PSplus

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Th3solution
Yesterday, 12:01pm

Didn’t they also give away some extra free games the last time we had an extended outage like this?

The added 5 days is fine, but I don’t need more Monday through Friday game time. I want my Saturday back! 😜

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Carnage
Yesterday, 12:16pm

Sounds fair to me. As a big Helldivers 2 fan the one day outage (on H2’s anniversary) was an inconvenience but the other game I’m currently playing is the offline Phantom Brave The Lost Hero and that worked fine.

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Rich33
Yesterday, 12:24pm

I really think it should have been 7 days – only for the fact to cover those that game at the weekend only.

Edit: @Titntin just realised you said the same thing (for 10 days, but same reasoning)

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Rog-X
Yesterday, 12:25pm

@PuppetMaster.Sony did it because Sony wanted to do it, there are no excuses, in fact Sony also went on to lock Everything Digital into their Digital Store, if that wasn’t greedy enough they then locked cloud saves into PS Plus, even their digital refund policy is a joke.
Microsoft went full reverse, they give cloud saves Free, they let you buy Full Digital games and subscriptions from 3rd party’s at much cheaper prices. They give ‘Play Anywhere’ games which is basically buy one get one Free. If you buy either Xbox or PC version of the game(or via Ultimate Gamepass).

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playstation1995
Yesterday, 12:34pm

About reducing the psplus 1 year to what it was or add another month for the psplus sony.word up son

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Rich33
Yesterday, 12:34pm

@Rog-X
I think XBox were the ones who started locking online play behind a paywall 1st!
And, though it doesnt excuse Sony locking away cloud saves, if Xbox could get away with more – ie if they had a big enough (or maybe even growing) market share these days – im sure they would try!

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savarunl
Yesterday, 12:36pm

The amount of grown adults i see throwing a tantrum over not being able to play games for 1 day… Not only on this site but on reddit etc. too…
People seriosuly need to touch grass and consider seeing a shrink if not being able to game one day makes them this upset.

5 days compensation is very generous, legally they’re not required to give you anything so be happy with it.

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Marquez
Yesterday, 12:40pm

@Titntin Yeah mine either, it’s a minor inconvenience in the grand scheme of things. Enjoy the day!

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Mikey856
Yesterday, 12:40pm

I thought it was right and proper that PSN was a paid service as I USED TO think it guaranteed a decent experience but hey ho 🤷‍♂️ make it free now I say

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Nexozi
Yesterday, 12:50pm

@nomither6 Yea, everyone should get everything free. You don’t need PSN to play fortnite and I’m sure it’s the same for other f2p games. ** Sick of this culture that seems to have popped up after covid that believes they should get everything for free. Like what else do u expect for free? Maybe a mobile or even your broadband paid for? *** No, they’re businesses giving people a service, why shouldn’t they get paid for it? Like why would Sony not want to get back the money they’re paying to MS to host their services? Hasn’t happened since 2011 and it was only down for a day.

** Edit:
Your playing a free game and getting free online. What compensation do u think u should be given for the nothing that you’re spending?

*** Edit:
Furloughing people was the worst thing. Has given them a sense that they should get everything free and other people will pay for them.

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Mikey856
Yesterday, 12:58pm

@Nexozi when you get ***** service yes there should be compensation

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Nexozi
Yesterday, 1:06pm

@Mikey856 5 free days not enough?

Edit: How does 1 day outage in how many years = **** service?

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dskatter
Yesterday, 1:10pm

@Rog-X And if MS hadn’t started charging people to use the internet on their consoles (remember when they required XBL to watch Netflix? Pepperidge Farm remembers…and Sony never did that…) Sony wouldn’t have followed suit with what they did.

Hmmm…

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TommyNL
Yesterday, 1:16pm

@thefourfoldroot1
Yes, you are right that Sony does not always communicate very well. But I always think that they solve it well. Suppose there was a major hack and they immediately turned the button to protect our personal data. I can imagine that they would not immediately announce something like that. I always think that when a major service is down, the reactions of people online create a lot of hate towards the company. While we have no idea what is going on. And maybe there is a good reason for that. Microsoft also does not communicate when the Xbox network is down, but you never hear anything about that. But somehow Sony always has to explain everything and can never do anything right.

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RiverGenie
Yesterday, 1:19pm

I appreciate the free ps+ time even if downtime didn’t affect me in the slightest.

For me I just played on my Xbox and also did other non gaming related stuff instead. You know like a normal functioning and balanced adult would do. It’s possible I might be an outlier though given the angst & tears I saw on social media.

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Nexozi
Yesterday, 1:23pm

@RiverGenie Normal people seem to be a dying breed.

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BowTiesAreCool
Yesterday, 1:32pm

I pay monthly, same day every month, where or when do I see these free days? I’m not bothered either way but it would be cool to know how it works.

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PuppetMaster
Yesterday, 1:53pm

@Rog-X FFS. Kiddo, we’re talking about MS as the progenitor who popularized locking online play behind paid subscription and made tons of money from the practice. MS pretty much teached Sony and Nintendo; “Hey, you guys see what i’m doing here? I’m swimming on money from locking online play behind paid subscription. You guys are stupid af if you didn’t follow me”.

What MS did later down the line with free cloud saving etc aren’t relevant here. It doesn’t erase their status as the one who popularized locking online play behind subscription paywall.

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Dragoon1994
Yesterday, 1:57pm

Pretty sure PSN was down for a few days in a row a few years ago so it’s not exactly the second longest PSN has been down since 2011.

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Jaz007
Yesterday, 2:11pm

Worthless. Drop the price back as an apology.

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THGhost
Yesterday, 2:12pm

@nomither6 Giving away stuff like this for free in today’s economy doesn’t make good business sense.

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nomither6
Yesterday, 2:41pm

@THGhost they’re not giving away anything for free; we’ve already paid for our internet! We are using our own hard earned money to pay for our own internet, to connect to a GAME DEVELOPERS servers. sony has no place in that equation & it’s just pure greed/capitalism because they can get away with it.

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Mikey856
Yesterday, 2:41pm

@Nexozi 1 days outage? Try 3 months and one day bro lol there have been more outages over the years than I could shake a ***** stick at and don’t forget everyone’s details were stolen 👍. PSN is a terrible service always has been. Charging people to use it is annoying as hell. It should be free to access after this latest debacle

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nomither6
Yesterday, 2:43pm

@Nexozi you lost me at the first sentence , OUR OWN INTERNET IS NOT FREE, WEVE ALREADY PAID FOR IT! WEVE PAID SONY ALREADY FOR THE CONSOLE!

PSN is just a storefront that uses an account to make purchases and add other people, it has NOTHING to do with any online game servers

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nomither6
Yesterday, 2:45pm

@Slayer25c See my last two responses. shilling is so pathetic, i hope sony is paying you well to keep the other crabs in the barrel with you

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CielloArc
Yesterday, 3:29pm

@Nexozi
Zoomers don’t know how basic infrastructure works, that’s why they are able to talk BS without getting a reality check in slap form.

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Nexozi
Yesterday, 3:48pm

@Mikey856 13 years ago and still not over it.

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Nexozi
Yesterday, 3:53pm

@CielloArc 100% Just have to look at messages from @nomither6 to see this is true. 😂

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nomither6
Yesterday, 4:29pm

@Nexozi while you were offline on your console i was enjoying online on PC with my great internet service that i already paid for , so it’s all good.

@CielloArc Do tell

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Nexozi
Yesterday, 4:39pm

@nomither6 Strange comment. You know nothing about me but assume I haven’t anything but a PS5 and poor Internet. As if I’d only have a PS5 Pro and nothing else. Come on son.

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BleedingDreamer
Yesterday, 4:40pm

5 days is generous for less then 24 hours of downtime. I didn’t expect anything in return. I think that is more than fair.

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Dan12836666
Yesterday, 5:25pm

It’s not gone on mine yet

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somnambulance
Yesterday, 5:36pm

Due to that outage, they should announce that State of Play asap to change the narrative around PlayStation! With Ghost of Yotei and Death Stranding 2 launching this year and MGS Delta being basically a lock, it’s gonna be positive, right? 😁

But seriously, they should’ve done seven days, so that people get another weekend, you know? Seems like they intentionally skipped peak play times with the addition, which is sort of backhanded. You missed a Friday and Saturday, so here’s an extra Tuesday and Wednesday. Lol. Same thing for me since the kids use the console by day and I by night, but not others, I’m sure.

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Mikey856
Yesterday, 6pm

@Nexozi don’t think I’ll ever get over the shoddy service Sony provides us with PSN

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Bluemoon2008
Yesterday, 6:01pm

More than fair. Didn’t even notice personally so I’ll gladly take the near extra week.

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Dan12836666
Yesterday, 6:08pm

@BleedingDreamer should give an extra game on ps plus as a way of saying sorry a good game as well but sony are too tight for that

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Flaming_Kaiser
Yesterday, 7:37pm

@nomither6 Well that is not the case and a 5 day extension is a good compensation.

And i was having fun playing offline with my physical game. 😁👍

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Northern_munkey
Yesterday, 7:44pm

I see the comments here are as I expected. So the psn network was down for a short time. I understand that it has inconvenienced a whole lot of people and are now getting salty because you’ve only got 5 days recompense from Sony. Nobody’s forcing you to subscribe to the psn network so if its making you this unhappy just go buy a PC and play online for free (it’ll only cost you around 8 psn subs to get a decent enough rig for the latest games to run.) I acknowledge that paying for a sub just to be able to play online sucks but I chose to invest into it without anybody holding a gun to my head so I don’t think Sony “owe” me anything. This last couple of console generations have become so entitled it’s almost a meme. I feel mankind progressed quicker from their neanderthal origins than this generation is currently advancing. Happy gaming 👍

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Greifchen
Yesterday, 8:01pm

I don’t want the extra days cuz I will miss the sale date with them. Can I somehow refuse it?

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SSaunders1122
Yesterday, 8:11pm

@Member_the_game just buy it when it’s on sale. It just adds the year to your remaining time. How I’ve always done it. This was the first year I had to pay full price as I was still working down the pro rated after the switch.

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SSaunders1122
Yesterday, 8:16pm

My god all the dumb comments but I timed it perfectly. Yall don’t know how to read do yall? It’s not hard to pick it up while it’s on a sale. Any sale. Have a few throughout the year. It banks. If you have 30 days left and pick up another 365 that 30 days doesn’t go away. You now have 395 days. I really should not have had to explain this.

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SSaunders1122
Yesterday, 8:18pm

@Greifchen you really need to go back and read how psn subscription works. If you have time left when the next sale hits just buy it. It all banks.

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Northern_munkey
Yesterday, 8:38pm

@SSaunders1122 you didn’t…you chose to explain it.

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SSaunders1122
Yesterday, 8:50pm

@Northern_munkey well looking at the amount of people that seem to not know you can bank subscription time really just tells me people need to disconnect. Sony and Microsoft should probably just cut the servers more often.

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Northern_munkey
Yesterday, 9:06pm

@SSaunders1122 yes you can bank subscription times but for some reason not everybody can take advantage of the sales. For instance my sub runs out at the end of November usually just before the sale kicks in and I can never stack another year’s sub at the discounted price..I’ve had this discussion more than a few times with people who find themselves in the same boat so for you to get all high and mighty with them without knowing the circumstances is extremely presumptive of you.

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SSaunders1122
Yesterday, 9:23pm

@Northern_munkey you buy the code from Amazon or a local store offering a discount. Got to your account and put in the digital code and bam 12 months or how ever many you was paying for is added on. This is an old old trick. Nothing presumptuous about it. Yall just sound like rank amateurs calling yourself real gamers.

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SSaunders1122
Yesterday, 9:25pm

@Northern_munkey you know they don’t just offer discounts for black friday right? You can add months to your service at any point. Not just when you run out dude.

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Northern_munkey
Yesterday, 9:46pm

@SSaunders1122 thankyou for talking to me like I’m a child. I responded to you in a reasonable way presuming you were an adult but I guess I was wrong. I bow down to your superior intellect and inferior attitude.

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SSaunders1122
Yesterday, 10:01pm

@Northern_munkey if that’s talking to you like a child then sure guess i am. Also goes to show how soft society is if that’s honestly how you feel.

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Northern_munkey
Yesterday, 10:05pm

@SSaunders1122 great chat. I’m going to leave it now so take care buddy 👍

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Dampsponge
Yesterday, 10:24pm

What about people that aren’t subscribed but we’re still affected playing single play games

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LiamOliver
29m ago

What bugged me most was that I couldn’t register my freshly delivered disc drive to my Pro, and (like an idiot) I’d swapped my SSD and reset my original PS5 before setting the Pro up to be my only console. And because…. Sony? none of my digital games worked.
At least I got some decorating done though…

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