Sony gives PS Plus members to extra members five days after the PlayStation network shutdown

Sony said it offers PlayStation Plus subscribers Extra 5 days of service To compensate for the outages of major PS networks that began the night of February 7th and lasted about 20 hours the following day.

Sony We received a similar suspension in October It lasted about 8 hours. company I said in a post on x The problem was technical.

“Network Services has fully recovered from operational issues. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank the community for their patience,” the Post said. “All PlayStation Plus members will automatically receive five days of service.”

As of February 10th, services It looked like it was back to normal. Sony did not immediately respond to emails with details about the outage.

Gamers who own the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 consoles were one of the people affected, but there were also issues with games and services that require logins to the PlayStation network. Last year, the Helldivers 2 player protested the Sony requirements required for PSN login to play the PC version of the game. Sony eventually backed down, Remove the requirementbut not in front of it Removed game from sales in multiple regions. Some gaming sites say that if Sony continues to require a PSN login, then that PC game will be It would have been impossible to play like that

It affected the latest outages such as Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and Marvel Rivals, but it wasn’t just for fans of online multiplayer games. Console owners who have digital copies of the game instead of discs, they said Could not check the gamemaking a game means you can’t play offline.

last time PSN was down for a very long time in 2011 When the game’s suspension turned out to be part of a massive hacking incident.