Sony Playstation 3 Network (PSN) Offline: PS3 users unhappy
Filed under: Gaming, Sony Playstation 3 | By: Daniel
Posted on: June 24, 2008 | 35 Comments
We all know there has to be updates and when its not possible to keep everything online we have to have downtime, but when gamers in the UK come home from work or school today and want to play games on their Sony Playstation 3, its not going to happen. They will be given the message, use of the Playstation Network has been suspended and to new people that means an update.
In this case the PSN is getting a big update, well in time scare that is, thanks to being offline from 15:00 BST to 20:10 BST. You will have no access to the Playstation store on your Sony PS3, and more upsetting is the result of no online gaming over PSN.
What I cannot understand as a PS3 owner and also other people I know have mentioned the same, is why are they updating in the busy time of gaming when they could of done this update in the middle of the night or early hours when the UK is sleeping.
I am happy that the PSN is getting an update, and even happier if this includes some really cool extra features that could be heading to a PS3 2.40 firmware and maybe even stability for Home. Just trying to work out why the PSN in the UK could not be taken offline when the UK is sleeping.
Unless this is an update to the PSN around the whole world, now that is very unlikely. When we get to around 20:10 BST you should be able to sign in and use the Playstation Network as normal, we will update you on any changes we see (if any).
Do you think the time of this PSN downtime could have been planned better?
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who cares about when they do the update, were getting the holy grail of ps3 apps.(next to home maybe)this puts ps3 owners at the same level of online gaming as the suck box.so stop bitchin.
Plus, the time frame is during normal working hours in the US. Afternoon in Europe and Early morning in Japan. The main people complainin are those is Europe.
I am ok because it will be back up and running when I get home from work.
The UK is not the freaking end of the world… ALL servers, worldwide, are down… And guess what… it’s nighttime in Japan and Morning in the US
And… for f*cks sake, you still can play your freaking games, just not online.
And “users” unhappy… I couldn’t care less. Working people don’t play in the afternoon…
It’s happening everywhere actually Sony is a Japanese company. So the down time is during sleeping hours in Japan (Wed. 05:40 hours) and here (Canada, Toronto) 16:00 hours.
Mate you are one hell of an idiot, they havent purposely given us british a downtime in peak playing hours, theyve done it to suit their mass market, the USA. and like neonskull said, its only 5 hours, don’t you have anything else to do other than play on PSN or write this pathetic article.
Actually, it is worldwide. We are having downtime right now here in the US, but it should be over in 15 minutes at 14:00 PST for an update that started at 8:00 PST. I just found out while typing this that 8:00 PST to 14:00 PST is 16:00 BST to 23:00 BST
at least sony is fixing the problem,if we were xbox users we would have to buy another xbox or pay them to fix it.
@ the Author
Are you retarded? This update time choice is excellent. The console market doesn’t exactly revolve around the UK you know. This update schedule works perfectly for the US market and Japan market which combined outstrip the UK market. It may be during your after school hours, but its during US working hours and Japan’s twilight hours.
get a life ppl there is nothing to be unhappy about. its common to have servers going down for maintenance and also its common to have a long one like what we have now once awhile. this article is going no where as well as all the so called “angry” gamers. get a grip please for goodness sake. cant play online just play some single player games first. i dont see one can die for not playing online for a day and you ppl make it sounds like tomorrow is the end of the world. not to forget psn is free. you should be glad that playing on a free server yet sony is bother to do all these maintenance to keep things running smooth and good for us. learn to be appreciative rather than bitching all the time. every ppl living in different part of the world are on a different time zone. there is no way you can make a time that cater to everyone out there. more over this maintenance its not only occurring in UK. its basically globally. the entire psn is basically down for a long maintenance. this is no big deal and whats the fuss to brag about. stop making yourself look stupid especially to those xbots.