Seven Hours Of PSN Maintenance Today

Okay, I know that if I complain about this there’ll be a slew of comments where a few hardcore Sony apologists reply. They’ll basically either tell me to shut up moaning (fair point) or tell me that they’d rather this regular downtime for maintenance than another security breach (also a fair point).

But I do want a little moan and here’s why: I think this is a far too regular occurrence and I think that we all deserve better than to have maintenance so often and at such peak times.

That said, I would rather this than another massive security breach and I do tend to moan a lot. So there you go. We’re both right. Hugs?

Oh, the facts: The PSN will be undergoing maintenance between 16:00 and 23:00 BST today. It shouldn’t cause disruption to gameplay but there might be the odd little glitch for a limited number of users. So it’s not as bad as usual and you should still be able to sign in and play your games but if there’s a problem, you’ve been warned why.

Source: PlayStation Forums

38 Comments

  1. I agree with your moaning. This really is happening to often, I wouldn’t mind if they did it overnight or earlier in the morning. Why always the afternoon, when more people are likely to be playing?!

    • You do know that not everyone on the planet is on the same timezone as you, right?

      • Everyone should use GMT/BST

        /discussion :p

  2. So tiring… its getting really annoying….

    • Agreed, we need more updates and less maintenance. And when I say updates I mean the ones that introduces features rather than just add 0.01 to the version number

  3. Hey, I’m with you on this CB. I get quite fed up with UK’s peak time outages (although it doesn’t happen as often anymore). The notice period they give for them is poor too, considering that they are for scheduled maintenance.

  4. I agree, I think it is becoming a too regular occurrence. Recently, pretty much every time I’ve tried to connect to the Store I’m thrown a maintenance message.

  5. as long as i can still play online, not fussed.

    • It is a bit annoying, but I agree with your comment.

  6. Do people still keep banging on about Cross Game Chat for PS3?

    • one day

    • It’s coming BIGAL, I can feel it!

      (inb4 that’s what she said) :D

    • It’s kind of turned into a running joke.

      I’d comment about CGC if it wasn’t already mentioned. Even though I really don’t care and would be very surprised if they suddenly managed to squeeze it into the limited resources left once a game is running.

  7. As long as its just account management & the store, I don’t really care. As long as I can log in & play online, it’s no issue for me. But that said, near every week does seem a bit much?

  8. As I understand it, the maintenance is carried out in Japan. Since they’re about 8 hours ahead of us, that’s why it always falls at inconvenient times for most of the SCEE region.

    • True, but why can’t they let us know at least a day or two in advance? I know they have done it in the past, but it isn’t a common thing for them to do.

      • Shouldn’t really matter this time, though, as sign-ins and online play *shouldn’t* be affected.

        Usually, when you won’t be able to sign in or play online, they do give quite a bit of notice.

  9. As long as it’s not on a store update day it doesn’t bother me. It’s never effected my playing.

  10. A browser that stops freezing… You have to have hope:)

    • The browser is great now thanks to the previous update.

    • Are you on the right firmware? ;)

      I’ve been using the PS browser while my netbook is out of action and haven’t experienced any problems anywhere near as bad as it was before the update. I actually ended up refusing to use the browser pre-patch because it was so naff, but now I’m more than happy to surf with it.

    • (yes using latest update.) Browser is drastically better, but i still get freezing requiring a hard reset.

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