PSN Was Down But Has Now Been Resolved

Things like this are why I will never own a digital only console

Interesting timing given the PS5 UI bug yesterday. A sign of a wider issue perhaps?

I checked, I can still play vampire survivors and Balatro, everything is OK!

Phew!

Was down in the very early hours but back up for me now.

@carlos82 You can still play digital games if psn is down, you just can't use online services. It's no different for disc.

@carlos82 you mean in order to download a game you feel like playing at the moment?

@Intr1n5ic there have been times where digital licences have been affected leaving people unable to play and there was a bug earlier this year where some users were unable to access their digital library for 3 weeks

@naruball this is simply one of the reasons, Sony just raised the price of Horizon because they felt like it and a world where the PlayStation store is the only way to buy their games will not be beneficial for the consumer

I was playing the 3/10 game The first Descendant with no issues last night, very strange, I'm sure toxic xbox fan will try to warp this somehow.

I finally set up my PlayStation right before the outage. And wondered why it wouldn’t connect. So, you’re welcome everyone! I did this!😹

@carlos82 yeah, I get it. It can be quite frustrating.

The store still worked for me but my trophies were screwed up. I had to go offline to see the info - and it was saying I had zero trophies in games where that isn't the case.

Someone tripped over the network cable! I saw a message pop up, but i was playing Blasphemous so i didnt care

@carlos82 I've never experienced this myself, but that sucks for anyone who unfortunately has.

It's already fixed like 2 hours ago. Been playing Exit Man and got the Platinum trophy. What a fun game but i wish there's a PvP online mode.

The one fun thing about this happening was getting to see what the PS5 ui looks like totally free of noise and clutter.

It is quite a beautiful, simple thing to be honest.

I heard it was due to Phil Spenser hitting that cross.... I mean "ex" button too hard.

Couldn’t play ESO so I played Star Wars Outlaws. No internet, so I played the game that didn’t require it. Also, digital only console. 🤷🏾‍♂️

@Medic_alert you can always just disconnect your wifi/unplug your ethernet . i think there’s an option to go offline from psn too .

Yeah, this was quite annoying. I couldn’t connect and even booting up Dark Souls 2 from the disc wouldn’t work because it would get hung up trying to load the trophy list. So I ended up playing Vampire Survivors on my phone. 🫤

@nomither6 I know, it doesn't bother me that much.

I just thought it was interesting with this week's upset that the original design is so clean and how easily that can change if marketing get involved

I didn't even notice that.i was playing assassins creed odysey until after 9 oclock.word up son

@Kidfunkadelic83 Perhaps Xbox should change their name to CrossBox - they often seem quite angry!

I wasn't affected but my friend was, which is weird because we live in the same region.

@Oram77
Oh they are already warping stuff, Microsoft is back with their covert ops the same one they used back when this gen began.

My library is fully digital since the PS3, and my son's is too. Worth noting this morning he dragged me out of bed before school because his games were not working.

To be specific these games didn't work

Poppy Playtime Chapter 3
Poppy Playtime Chapter 2
Fortnite
Roadblox

What did work

Astrobot

I was suprised that Poppy Playtime failed to load, both of them are single player games with no online features. Obviously Fortnite and Roadblox need a connection to PSN to function.

Perhaps Sony trying to add obstructive ads to the PS5 had something to do with this mess.

After the massive backslash Sony had no choice than to rush and remove those ads while breaking everything else in their servers.

Things like this just happen every now and then with everyone, from Microsoft to banks and even mobile network providers.

Aslong as it gets fixed quickly I won't let it bother me.

That explains a lot. I went to fire up the Metaphor demo last night, and it gave a licensing error. I needed to get to sleep early anyway.

I logged to play Borderlands 3, and when I got to check my trophies I noticed the outtage. It even messed with my character build, as I have the Designer's Cut DLC, the new ability tree disappeared. Today in the morning the PSN returned and I checked the game, could return all to normal. But it's very incovenient, they warned the game would log-off due to license issues. I hate that, we buy the product but sometimes can't play it.

@carlos82 That's weird, because I can play my digital games.

@Mikey856 what you going to do when everything is digital?

@Matroska I had that issue a couple of weeks ago, I had to go into airplane mode to see them again then after I went online and synced them when the network was working alright

@Intr1n5ic either way, I just meh and game on my merry way, there is a setting to sync up your digital licences offline for this reason, it's a bit of a pain to see but it helped me out when my digital licences were online dependant for a while and I had network issues

The outage caused two Borderlands game on my PS4 to not load. Tiny Tina Wonderlands disk copy and Borderlands 1 digital copy. My digital copy of Dead Island 1 loaded and was playable. I then disconnected from the internet and Borderlands 1 loaded and was playable. All is back to normal now.

Funny thing is that I usually disconnect my PS4 from the internet before starting to play a Borderlands game, but last night I didn't. The reasons I disconnect are the games then play with less fan noise, and I am not annoyed with selecing an online option along with updates that I may not want that keep attempting to download every time I play.

Another failure, I don't see webs like amazon suffer these failures so often.

And down again...

@tpepper1985 If you have offline games that seem to be impacted; you might try disabling internet on your playstation and seeing if they work.

Sometimes games will check for a valid internet connection and IF one exists, try and connect to remote servers for some reason (telemetry?) and will fail if the connection to the server fails, rather than fall back to the no internet mode. The same games might work when there is no internet connection to begin with.

I have had this experience with games on the PS3 that lost their servers and would just crash when they were started and had to be played with internet off.

@Intr1n5ic I was unable to play anything I own digitally during the outage. The game would boot but then just seemingly load forever.

I eventually gave up waiting and played Zelda instead.

@Thorn84 That's strange, I don't understand why your situation would be different to mine or many others. There must be something else at play but I've no idea what.

Did it, or has it, affect(ed) the PS stars thing? I just loaded three different games to complete three different campaigns for 150 coins total and my app says none of them have completed and I haven't received any of the coins? My Ps Plus expires today but I don't think the Stars campaign is linked to that?

@Intr1n5ic Probably just more wonders of the digital future.

BS like that is why implementing a PSN login for single player games is getting push back from the PC crowd

I wonder why some dumb noobs say never get a digital console! Hummm how i play last night until morning my digital games on my ps5? How i play included digital games from my ps plus? I wonder... how? Miracle? Pfff learn first to say something like we cant play digital games. Yara yara yara
Ohh and yes. My psn was down ok. And i still continue play my games digitally!

Last night I wanted to play Fortnite but couldnt so we watched The Penguin instead. Glad its been resolved.

@Yousef- I even turned on my PS2 to check if everything is indeed ok and it was. For me at least