PlayStation Network Is Experiencing Problems… Again

Today is PlayStation Plus update day and many people across the world are probably looking forward to downloading the latest offerings of the service. Some of you may want to play a bit of Rocket League against others, while some may want to download Styx, or Entwined. Well at the moment that isn’t happening because the PlayStation Network is suffering from problems.

Affected Services: You may be experiencing issues related to launching games, applications, and/or social features such as trophies, messaging, or friends list. We appreciate your patience while we address this.

You’ll have to cast your minds back to a time when the UK was experiencing a lot of heat to see the last time this happened. Wait, that was last week. Come on, Sony. We’re getting very bored of writing this same story over and over. Oh and the lack of being able to play online.

Source: PSN Status

19 Comments

  1. PSN is “up” in terms of messages and friends but launch a game and it advises that you must be signed into PSN…store is goosed…

    So, first Tuesday when we go live with store/PS+ and its goosed…nice.

    Thankfully, I left my PS4 on in rest mode and downloaded my PS4 games at 1pm today…

    • First Tuesday that it’s store update day. Weekly reset day for Destiny. ‘Bungie day’ too.

      It’s like someone sat up & took notice & thought “All on the same day eh? Sounds like a good time for a ddos!”.

      It’s probably just too much going on at one time broke the string that holds psn together though. :(

  2. Typical, and I was really looking forward to playing Rocket League tonight.

  3. I get that online services have the occasional hiccup but this is really beginning to be a common reoccurring thing. What doesn’t help is the ambiguity and cryptic responses from the Sony online team, yes I would hope the engineers are looking into it but I’d also like to know what the resolution was and how they intend to stop the fault occurring again.

    We all pay for this service and have vested interest in it.

  4. At least the PSN is free, imagine if we had to pay for this service…

  5. Not usually one to complain but this is getting ridiculous. Not much point in planning a gaming session in the past week or so. When ive been able to get onto Destiny its been a lagfest! Never had loading screen whilst travelling within a mission until the past few days. Crucible has been unplayable at times.

  6. Even I have to admit this is getting very tiresome.

    • It’s very annoying. I thought I’d come on for a few rounds of battlefield. Nope :(.

      Sony either need to stop charging for online play or sort their servers out. This happens far too frequently for a paid online service.

  7. It feels like they need to have a downtime target to be properly implemented. I get that you’ll need downtime for updates etc but it’s a bit boring of late.

  8. As a Final Fantasy XIV player, this is getting beyond a joke. There have been at least three times in the last week or so that I’ve loaded it up, only to find that the PSN is down.

  9. I was hoping to play some of the new plus content tonight but i guess it’ll have to wait until tomorrow.

  10. The PSN issues are annoying, but are many people honestly excited that it’s PS plus update day these days?? Surely I’m not the only one fed up of the constant stream of crappy Indie titles every few weeks.

    • Trust me bro, you’re not alone. I’m fed up with them. I don’t ever play them.

      I want a decent and interesting Indy title like the escapists.

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