After the first Offline passage on Friday evening, PlayStation Network returned online on Saturday evening. Over 20 hours of downtime makes it one of the longest PSN failures in history. Despite the PlayStation status page showing green lights around the world, it has passed a few hours before the restoration of all services.
Immediately after midnight on February 9, ask PlayStation shared a post on x Announcement that the services have been restored. In addition, “all PlayStation Plus members will automatically receive an additional five days of service,” according to the message.
Network services have fully regained the operational problem. 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 (@EKPLAstation) February 9, 2025
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The cause of the failure is still unclear, described only as “an operational problem”. The company apologized for the inconvenience, but many players took part in social media to express frustration from a break, Sony silence and compensation. For many players, the free service five days is not much time, especially when most of the game time weekend has been lost.
One of the problems that players approached, is that five days of the free PlayStation network is only passed on to current subscribers, although the failure did not affect players other than PSN. Players suggested a free PSN month or free game as part of compensation. Even now at the time of writing, there is still the above number of reports in Down This suggests that the problem is not fully solved.
Fans in the whole board called Sony because of the lack of transparency in this matter. Players raised concerns about the silence of the company’s radio and reluctance to announce the cause of the failure from One player writes“Things are seriously seriously, but you have to communicate with us. And you didn’t do it. We are more bad that you did not communicate with us than the real problem. Get with the program. “
