Call Of Duty:World at War - PS3 servers down?
Filed under: Gaming, Sony Playstation 3 | By: Alan Ng
Posted on: November 14, 2008 | 58 Comments
Well today was the official release date for the game in the UK, and as expected the servers would obviously be extremely busy during the weekend, but already the game seems to have encountered a major problem as the servers seem to be down for the moment on the Playstation 3.
Its not known exactly when the servers first shut down, maybe Treyarch are aware of this problem and are currently working on the job. But for the past few hours this evening, the game has hung on the ‘finding potential match’ screen, and in some cases, freezes the ps3 for a few minutes after this.
Even despite this problem, I read a total number of 79602 online in the COD:WoW lobby at one point, so I can imagine a lot of you are getting slightly frustrated as I am, waiting around for a solution.
I did take a look at the official forums, and there has been no official posts yet regarding this problem, so if any of our readers have any info to share on this, leave your comments below.
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well i had about 20 minutes of connection problems last night, but otherwise this game rocks. yeah its not cod 4 but thats the whole point. new maps, mew guns and a whole new challange. stop moaning and comparing it to what was a great game in cod 4 and ill still play online for another year no doubt, but also cod 5 is a stunning visual game and is great online. i was so pleased to see capture the flag back as its a great game type and the game in total is awesome. so lets stop comparing it because although they are games from the same series, they are totally different games and play totally different too so enjoy it for what it is and lets kick some but online!
Panda people haven’t compared the two games on this site. We are just complaining about the problem in getting to actually play a game you’ve paid for online.
Cod 5 is defenetely not as good as cod 4, and Ive got to admit I was a bit dissapointed about the fact that you throw a grenade and you can see it on the floor you only see the danger icon but its still a great game. I think cod 4 is more about the glory side of war and all that and this is more like the darker side of it.
Expect some online problems at the beggining cod 4 had problems too.
I noticed last night whilst playing on-line co-op with 3 friends, that at the end of the mission when each players points are being added up, the hosts PS3 crashes and needed rebooting. We had to take it in turns to host the game because when the hosts machine crashed, none of their points were saved.
I cant believe such a major bug made it into the game and was released. Surely they must of tested on-line co-op mode first.
I also get the ‘Downloading Game Settings’ msg hanging for around 5 minutes each time but they may be due to server traffic.
Oh, and I also can’t connect to friends in the states and they can’t connect to me.
This is a very poor start to a game that should be great.
ive friggin had it with cod 5, first PS3 dont get any beta or semo or whatever and then now f**ing sever crashes, what kind of servers are they using? i was about to go buy it right now, i change my mind.
I am unable to connect online today. I gues their servers are down? Anybody having the same problem?
Good game, need options for just sword, handgun and knife play. Just a thought.
Have been looking forward to the release of World at War. Ordered it to ensure I got a copy. Had to wait for ages for my missus to finish watching her programs on the T.V before I got my chance to get on my PS3. Finally get on to find I couldn’t play a bloody game online. Called a few of my mates to find there having the same problems. It would be nice if Treyarch posted something to let us all know that they are aware of the problem and reasure us that they are trying to deal with it.
Regards Diesle2007
Hey. ya the pc servers are down to, not to sure why everything is down, i was playing it on my ps3 today but the pc is down for some odd reason, im sure it will get fixed, no point bitching about it it fixes nuthing.
Ditto to the comment above.
Last night, no problems whatsoever bar the co-op crashing thing.
Today however, I can’t connect to my friends… which is so frustrating… any solutions?
Just found out that just before your co-op mission is about finish, if the host quits the game then the PS3 doesn’t crash. You also keep your points as well.
This is just a temporary fix before Treyarch fix it properly.