The PlayStation Network will be down for maintenance today for several hours. The process is expected to start at just after 4.00pm BST and finish at 12.30am BST. During this time, users won’t be able to access the PlayStation Store, PlayStation Home or Account Management, and may encounter difficulty while signing in to PSN.
UPDATE: I’m an idiot and messed up the times. The article has been edited to display the correct times of between 4pm and 12.30am.
Source: US PS Blog
Charmed_Fanatic
8 and a half hours!?!?!??!?!?!?
Forrest_01
That is a little on the ridiculous side isn’t it? Oh well, singleplyer games it is then!
stueeeee
It does say we can play online as long as u sign in before 4…..
Forrest_01
Unfortunately some of us work…
Grey_Ghost13
C#ck it! Hopefully its to do something meaningful! Offline it is then tonight.
Jumping Monks
You’d think they’d time it to be in the middle of the night wouldn’t you? Having said that, it may then clash with another time-zone where there would be more activity than us.
Tuffcub
It will be night time in Japan and that is where worldwide maintainence takes place from – even though Japan has the smallest PS3 user base. Go figure.
Bilbo_bobbins
bloody stupid that.
cc_star
wowzers!
Need to get my times set on NfSHP’s Wall & Autolog before then, I’m a little too far down my friends list for my liking although I don’t think I’ll manage to catch JamboGT
djhsecondnature
I have no idea how Ryan is so high up on the Cop one. Mental.
cc_star
Absolutely mental time
theberzerka
What time does he have? I’m currently struggling to beat icuyesido with a time of 1:08.00
Ryan1991
I’m 3rd on my friends list. Got icu and wick ahead of me with 17 seconds separating me from wick. Now that is mental.
JamboGT
I haven’t set any good times yet?
:P
Forrest_01
Do we know the reason behind the maintenance, or is the standard response of simply ‘essential maintenance’?
Seems a jolly long time to be unavailable for something simple – In fact, i don’t recall it being down for this long in the past (although i could be wrong)?
stueeeee
It says on the blog that if anyone has any questions about it we can ask on the community forums and someone will get back to us! Blimey!
Pete_UK
I got my KZ3 beta code through and was looking forward to the scheduled event tonight – I guess I’ll have to make other plans.
rept0n
I think th scheduled event was postphoned until Friday for this reason.
Soild_Nat
It might not effect sign in and online play, its the stores, account management etc that are down.
Sir_Jay
The timing is awful as per usual. If it makes things better online then it’s worth it :)
cc_star
It is dreadful for Europe which is is practically PlayStation’s homeland.
AFAIK, it’s SCEJ who do the maintenance so it happens during their working day or to suit their obsession with the US market, as its happening during their school/working day.
Sir_Jay
I understand why a lot of Sony’s focus is on the US market and that is because the PS3 isn’t doing well there. I think that will always be the case so instead of screwing the European market over they should change the time they do work on the PSN. I know that won’t happen but trying to win the Americans over just isn’t going to happen.
Crazy_Del
Aw man!
I guess I’ll tidy up the house or finish off the last mission on MoH, then start Act 2 on Vanquish.
Yeah I’ll play singleplayer instead beats than cleaning =P
Erroneus
Again? What are they doing, trying to keep a crashing system running or are they actually preparing for something new?! :D
John Malcolm
Well, the PSN Store has been very slow at getting up thumbnail images for games recently, although the downloads have been fine, so maybe that’s it…
solidsteven
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU…..
It has to be today when i’m hosting a meet.