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Sony said he is giving playstation plus subscribers five additional service days To compensate for a great interruption of the PS network that began on the night of February 7 and lasted approximately 20 hours the next day.
Sony suffered a similar interruption in October that lasted approximately 8 hours. The company He said in an X publication that the problem was technical.
“Network services have fully recovered from an operational problem. We apologize for discomfort and thank the community for their patience,” said the post. “All PlayStation Plus members will automatically receive five additional service days.”
As of February 10, the service It seemed to return to normal. Sony did not immediately respond to an email about more information about the interruption.
The players who have PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 consoles were among those affected, although any game or service that requires a login of the PlayStation network would also have had problems. Last year, Helldivers 2 players protested by Sony’s requirement that a PSN login is required to play the game’s PC version. Sony finally retreated, eliminating the requirement, but not before eliminated the game of sale in multiple territories. Some game sites indicated that if Sony had continued to require their PSN login, its PC games It would also have been impossible to play
The most recent interruption affected popular titles such as Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and Marvel Rivals, but fans of the online multiplayer games were not the only ones affected. Consoles owners who have digital games of games instead of records said They couldn’t verify their gamesMake the games even inaccessible offline.
The last time PSN was down for so long was in 2011 when an interruption of the games turned out to be part of an important piracy incident.
