PlayStation apologises after gamers couldn’t get online for 24 hours

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confirmed things had been fixed. “Network services have fully recovered from an operational issue. We apologise for the inconvenience and thank the community for their patience,” Sony wrote on social media, and told fans they would receive five additional days of PSN membership as compensation.Network services have fully recovered from an operational issue.

We apologize for the inconvenience and thank the community for their patience. All PlayStation Plus members will automatically receive an additional 5 days of service.— Ask PlayStation (@AskPlayStation) February 9, 2025However some fans aren’t impressed by the compensation being offered by Sony. “Not good enough,” wrote one fan.“Additional five days of service???

Wow so generous,” said another. Others have complained the extra five days will mess up scheduled payments or renewals set to coincide with annual sales, while those users who don’t subscribe to the PSN but were still affected by the outages won’t receive anything.Simply not good enough.

You caused gamers globally pain. A lot of rescheduled competitive syncs had to be canceled with financial implications. 5 days?