Sony gives PS Plus members extra five days after interruption of the PlayStation network

Sony said he gives subscribers to PlayStation Plus An additional five days of service To compensate for large interruptions of PS Network, which began the night of February 7th and lasted around 20 hours the next day.

Sony suffered a similar interruption in October This lasted about 8 hours. The company said in a post of x that the question is technical.

“Network services have completely recovered from an operational problem. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank the community for their patience,” the publication said. “All members of PlayStation Plus will automatically receive an additional five days of service.”

Since February 10, service seems to be back to normalS Sony did not respond immediately to an email for further interruption information.

Gamers who own the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 consoles were among the affected, although any game or service that requires Playstation Network entrance would also have problems. Last year, Helldivers 2 players protested against Sony’s requirement to require PSN entrance to play the PC version of the game. Sony eventually retreated, Remove the requirementBut not before him removed the game from sale in multiple territoriesS Some game sites have pointed out that if Sony continued to need PSN input, his computer games would be and cannot be reproduced

The most interruptions affected popular titles such as Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and Marvel Rivals, but fans of online multiplayer games were not the only affected. Owners of consoles who have digital copies of games instead of discs say they failed to check their gamesMaking even games that need to play offline inaccessible.

Last time PSN decreased so long in 2011 When the interruption of games turned out to be part of a major hacking incident.