I doesn’t exactly look like barbecue weather this bank holiday weekend, so there’s bound to be a ton of people in the UK at home on Monday evening, wanting to get a spot of online gaming in. Sony has slightly different plans for your free time.
Between 17:40 BST on Monday 25 August 2014 and 00:50 BST on Tuesday 26 August 2014, PSN is going to undergo maintenance.
The services affected by this and to be taken offline are as follows:
- PlayStation Store on all devices.
- PlayStation Network Account Management.
- PlayStation Network Account Registration.
- Entertainment services.
- Online gameplay – however, you may still play online if you are already signed into your SEN account via the relevant device before the maintenance begins.
So, basically no online play on Monday night, but you have to wonder if this a malicious and targetted campaign to deprive UK-based gamers of their precious bank holiday fun times Apparently not, as one of PlayStation’s Online Support Co-ordinators replied on Twitter:
@garymufc7 major maintenance's are always on Monday. Unfortunately this sometimes chashes with the bank holidays
— SuperFastZombie (@SuperFastZombie) August 21, 2014
I guess if you want more conveniently timed PSN maintenance, you’ll just have to move country:
Source: Twitter, PlayStation
Kevling
Apparently you just need to have logged in any time from the 21st and everything will be fine, so no frantic 4pm sign on required.
Jones81
i hope you’re right
Jones81
for fucks sake sony sort yourselves the fuck out. they’re clearly to fucking stupid to realise pissing of paying customers in one of gamings most important markets isn’t a good idea
im tempted to demand compensation seeing as we’re paying for psn now. it obviously wouldn’t amount to much but it’s the principle
ron_mcphatty
I’ll be working until 10pm.
:(
OneShotWook
Those having problems could try logging into a Ftp like Warframe when they take it down.It’s usually ok if you do that however you still can get friends list issues and party problems.
The Von Braun
:-) well… (a hole in the ground?)
I’m into week 6 of will it/won’t it work? issues with the Broadband, period (but then so is everyone else in a 50 mile radius), so still busy enjoying ‘Phone BT, ask to speak to complaints, get put throught to another ‘have you tried changing your micro filters?, Sir, there’s no need to get like that with me (well, yes, yes there is, you sent a bloody phone engineer out 3 weeks ago, you know house is fine, send a blok, hell send 3…out to the b*stard exchange which is just across from me..) etc etc’ or Ranting at call center in India…eps 9,10, 11 etc to start ranting at Sony….
And as a PS3 owner i can hardly complain, as online is free, but were i a PS4 owner, then yep, i’m be bloody reet p*ssed off.
Sony hates me anyway, lol.Had 1 PS3 die on me, out of warranty, just had my 1st PSP (a Phat) die on me….in a ‘It’s worse than that, he’s dead Jim, DEAD!’ kinda fashion.Still it was a ‘spare’ i bought off a dodgy mate (everyone should have at least 1 dodgy mate…right?).
jayboy31
Since moving to Aus, there’s no one to play online with anymore.
What with the time difference and evil sharks. Sharks affect everything.
I relatively new to PS+, indi games are a bit shit aren’t they, and with such good reviews, really?