That massive Flash Sale must have overwhelmed Sony's servers, as the PlayStation Network is currently offline. While we're seeing plenty of complaints around the web, not everyone here at Push Square Towers is affected, so hopefully this is a minor hiccup, rather than a full-scale outage.
Sony, to its credit, has acknowledged the problem on its PSN status page. "You may be experiencing issues related to signing in or creating an account on the PlayStation Network," it wrote. "We appreciate your patience while we address this." We'll try to keep you updated as and when we learn more.
Update (01:00AM BST): Ask PlayStation has chipped in on the issues: "We are aware that users are having issues accessing PSN at the moment. Thanks for your patience as we investigate."
Update (03:15AM BST): While the service is certainly still spotty, we're reading reports all around the web that people are being able to successfully log back in to the PSN. Things aren't fully back online our end, but it's probably safe to assume that Sony's isolated the issue, and will be restoring the network to everyone in due time. We'll update as soon as we know more.
[source status.playstation.com]
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We could always listen to the PS Blogcast in the meantime, right?
@3Above I've got the Bombcast tonight... Will listen to the Blogcast tomorrow! XD
I say give them a chance to fix
Flash sale at the same time with 7GB Destiny patch and start of Witcher's pre-download. T___T I don't know if Sony is super stupid or testing something....
Anyway, I hate them =)))
Yes @wesker was just complimenting me on my awesome destiny skills when we got disconnected. Oh well, night folks.
@kyleforrester87 You couldn't make this up, never can with Sony.
OK my copy of Destiny arrived. I boot the game yesterday. There was an 6GB update. I let it update and went to sleep. I started the game today and there was another 7GB update. Finally after all those updates I started the game and got the message:
Destiny servers are not available. Dismiss the message to try again.
I tried a couple of times with no success.
I can't play the game today. Meh sometimes I really miss the 90's when the only hustle was to blow the cartridge.
Edit: Now I can't even go to the psn store. I guess it is goodnight then...
It's my fault guys. I downloaded a couple games of the flash sale and broke PSN.
Not the end of the world right now but of it's still happening when the Witcher is supposed to pre-load then I'm going to be super mad...
@Splat Not sure about us, but in eu you can already pre-load tha witcha...
@Gemuarto - You might be able to in the US I'm not sure since I can't get online...
50 mins into the Blogcast, still cant log into PSN :/
Me want to play play! Why no fix ?
Us was down an hour ago when I checked, tried to login said down for maintenance. Guess my cars fix will have to wait
It didn't affect me at all whilst I was on ps now. Then as soon as I'm of nothing works. Been strangely addicted to lego batman 2?
Never mind everything is working fine now for me
It sounds like it's coming back on for some, but is still a touch spotty. Hopefully things get fully resolved over the next hour or so.
wooooooooooooo now I can do hit and runs on gta online. Thanks Sammy for updates
I can sign in now but still can't get on the store.
@getsammyb I'm guessing no giving them attention that's why my comment was removed
Anyone know if I can use my EU PayPal account to do a direct payment on the Us store? I've lost 100dollars in the past for adding funds to my wallet. Anyone have the answer? Or must I visit eBay again
Seems to be down here in sunny Liverpool. Haven't been able to sign in.
Cannot access my digital content as usual during the PSN outages. Sort it out Sony!
It' happened to me 4 time's now I get a 15 minute warning about licence's then content get's locked, I just put my PS4 in sleep mode and it was sorted when I switched back on. Make sure your app's are closed before you do or it won't work (the app/game will still be open if you were booted off for licence's)
Did they extend the Flash sale? Ive been waiting to hear things are ok before trying to buy and DL 33GB of ME Trilogy.
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