Posted on Tuesday 28-Feb-2012 1:07 AM

Thursday's PSN downtime applies to US too

SCEA confirms 'several hours' of PSN inactivity

By Mike Jackson for computerandvideogames.com

Sony America has confirmed that the US with EU gamers with PSN downtime this thursday.

"PlayStation Network will undergo a significant maintenance period on Thursday, March 1st. Maintenance is expected to start at just after 8:00 am Pacific and will last for several hours, until approximately 10pm Pacific," confirms SCEA.

That falls in line with EU's downtime, which will bring down PSN servers from 16:00 until 07:00 UK time the following morning.

The PS Store, customer account management and account registration will all be unavailable, and anyone logged into an online session will be booted out.

PS Home will also be offline.

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    FemmeFatale on 28 Feb '12 said:

    Can't say we're pleased with this. :roll:

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    sammikid on 28 Feb '12 said:

    Can't get my evening fix of starhawk...deadly :(

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    Imaduck on 28 Feb '12 said:

    Look, I can see very easily how this could be construed as trolling but well, I got to ask, I've held back ages......

    Why is PSN down so much? Maybe I'm making a mistake, is it only like some services? But if not, you'd think they'd want to nail down a way of doing the repairs in the background and then just "patch" it or something. :shock:

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    PG2603 on 28 Feb '12 said:

    They can't patch, fix or repair in the background. That will open backdoors for hackers. Thats why it'll be down for maintenance. I don't mind because we have a life to do other stuff too aswell as gaming.

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    TroubleMaker411 on 28 Feb '12 said:

    Ahh, the rage.

    I'll be 14 days into my 30 day "all sales are final" run on twisted metal, which requires a bloody connection to PSN!

    ARGH!

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    YouStoleMyKill on 28 Feb '12 said:

    They can't patch, fix or repair in the background. That will open backdoors for hackers. Thats why it'll be down for maintenance. I don't mind because we have a life to do other stuff too aswell as gaming.

    Thats true but im limited to what I can do on a night as I live with my pregnant girlfriend and 2 year old son ... once he goes to bed I can either watch tv , play online/offline on my PS3 or play online/offline on my XBox 360 I just got Saints Row 3rd (ps3) and Alan Wakes American Nightmare this week and I still got Gears 3 campaign to finish so il have plenty to do.... only people this maintenance hurts are the casual gamers who like the odd game of Fifa or CoD on a night.

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    sammikid on 28 Feb '12 said:

    Maintenance is usually in the background so to speak. Usually you can still play online while they update stuff. This is just one of the times the whole of psn is down. No biggy as they're improving a service I don't pay for.

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    Imaduck on 28 Feb '12 said:

    Thanks for the replies, but I still reckon there's got be a better way than taking it down altogether. Surely that's bad for buisness.

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    XpAcErX on 29 Feb '12 said:

    Look, I can see very easily how this could be construed as trolling but well, I got to ask, I've held back ages......

    Why is PSN down so much? Maybe I'm making a mistake, is it only like some services? But if not, you'd think they'd want to nail down a way of doing the repairs in the background and then just "patch" it or something. :shock:


    What do you mean down so much? They haven't been fully offline since that hacker breach fiasco. Anyway it will give those CoD multiplayer addicts a chance to play the campaign for once.