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I’m back on and getting annoyed with my DPSes in Overwatch 2, all is well.
That previous outage eventually saw Sony give all affected PlayStation Plus members an additional five days of service free of charge as compensation.
This is of course far from the first PSN outage — and it’s a long way off being the biggest. Well, unless it goes on for a lot longer…
I can see my Trophies again! I don’t really care about Trophies these days — long gone is my Xbox 360 Achievement-hunting era — but given that 20 minutes ago I couldn’t see them, it’s a welcome improvement.
Online, but not officially
Sony still hasn’t updated the PlayStation Status site to say that it’s back officially. I am, as you can see, back Online though.
As you’d imagine, gamers were getting a little frustrated at the outage.
“What makes it worse is how random it feels. You can sit down ready to play, and out of nowhere you’re getting connection errors with no warning and no clear idea when it’ll be fixed. It just kills the whole vibe, especially if you only had a little time to play,” says one user, Used_Debt_9763.
Another, SillyWillySaxon, says, “Outage has made me realise just how many games are an online service. I can’t access career mode on something as simple as EA Sports PGA Tour. I feel so vulnerable with most of my games being digitally downloaded 😓”
Let’s hope that the PSN’s return in the last few minutes holds up — not all recoveries from outages go smoothly, after all…
Downloads work!
So, I’ve been able to add Slime Rancher 2 to my library, download it, and start playing successfully it all during this PSN outage — which is a drastic improvement on previous PSN outages, where often people couldn’t fire up games they’d already downloaded, let along play online or download and start new games.
What do you mean ‘Offline’?
Now, I do notice that my ‘Online status’ is offline, and it really doesn’t want to let me select the option and do anything with it, despite the fact that I am clearly online and downloading a game. Slime Rancher is at 70%.
It’s noticed elsewhere
You can see that people aren’t just noting that PSN is down on Downdetector, but it’s hard to whether these are connected — the reports may be just the ripples of PSN being down, as specific games or services get flagged as not working as a result.
You can also see that the spike is dropping, though there’s no status update from Sony and I’m not playing Overwatch 2 yet…
What’s out? Officially, all of these
Here’s Sony’s list of what’s officially down — you can see that Sony officially recognized it around 40 minutes ago, but reports online first surface around an hour ago. And to be fair, by Big Tech standards, acknowledging a problem after 20-30 minutes isn’t too bad at all.
Hello folks, I’m looking out for status info on what’s happening on PSN, and will update this page as I find info!
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