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PSN Currently Down For Maintenance. Down Again Next Week Too
Written Wednesday, May 02, 2012 By Richard Walker
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Who here loves a good 'PSN down for maintenance' story? Everyone, right?! Well, we've got not one, but two maintenance newsflashes right here for you. First of all, the PlayStation Network is currently down for minor maintenance until 23:00 BST, so if you have problems downloading stuff, buying items or accessing the PS Store, just retry the action and it should work fine.

But wait! There's more maintenance where that came from, as next week will also see the PSN going down for maintenance. On Wednesday May 9th, from 16:00 BST until 00:00 BST, the PlayStation Network will be undergoing more maintenance (yes, maintenance), affecting the PS Store, Account Management and Account Registration. PlayStation Home will also be unavailable during the maintenance period.

As always, simply sign in to PSN before the maintenance, and stay signed in if you want to play online. That's your maintenance update for the next couple of weeks then. Here's hoping we don't have to write another one of these boring posts for a long, long time. That is all.




 
 

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Comment #1 by Draco416
Wednesday, May 02, 2012 @ 10:54:51 AM
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Wow lots of stuff to fix evidently. Why is it always in the middle of primary play time?.

 
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Comment #2 by Adeel_E13
Wednesday, May 02, 2012 @ 10:56:49 AM
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lol so true #1

 
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Comment #3 by Sr Original
Wednesday, May 02, 2012 @ 10:56:52 AM
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Because it has to be, it is a shame

 
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Comment #4 by Lara Soft
Wednesday, May 02, 2012 @ 10:56:54 AM
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@1
right? but i was losing the match i was playing so it didnt matter this time, lol.

 
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Comment #5 by Yoda91192
Wednesday, May 02, 2012 @ 11:02:43 AM
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Maintenance after maintenance after maintenance, WTF does Sony do with all of it besides update the god'damn PS Store?! -______- What a waste of damn time.

 
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Comment #6 by POISONMAN
Wednesday, May 02, 2012 @ 11:03:05 AM
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fix the network speed tired go play online with friends then auto sign out in middle of a game and downloading 8 gegabit take over to 5 hours to download my internet speed 30 meg ps3 speed between 6 to 10 meg plz fix it

 
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Comment #7 by nintendo64X
Wednesday, May 02, 2012 @ 11:18:00 AM
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@6

You're doing better than me, I'd be lucky to get 2mb, ps3 or pc, harden up :P

As for my view, meh I'm stuck with mass effect 2 and yakuza dead souls plus many other offline games for awhile, which is good because my ps3 cuts out alot, damn cheap isp's in australia...

 
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Comment #8 by Wingamesnow
Wednesday, May 02, 2012 @ 11:24:28 AM
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what's playstation home? ;)

 
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Comment #9 by tobyrabbit
Wednesday, May 02, 2012 @ 11:45:33 AM
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@27 Lol

Never mind at least PSN is still a FREE service, suck it up.

 
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Comment #10 by maur1c1o
Wednesday, May 02, 2012 @ 11:48:02 AM
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@8 its when you take your playstation home


)im kidding of course(

 
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Comment #11 by Charlyposho
Wednesday, May 02, 2012 @ 12:08:30 PM
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#9 This guy can look into the future!!!!

 
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Comment #12 by blazlngswordsmen
Wednesday, May 02, 2012 @ 12:18:51 PM
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I get the feeling all this maintenance is for the vita stuff.

 
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Comment #13 by EmptyFibers
Wednesday, May 02, 2012 @ 12:49:06 PM
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...I think I may the only PS3 owner who never has issues with anything :), love it! (Knock on wood)!

 
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Comment #14 by castillomodryder
Wednesday, May 02, 2012 @ 12:58:49 PM
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so that's the reason I can't sign in ¬¬

 
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Comment #15 by Aori29b
Wednesday, May 02, 2012 @ 01:19:27 PM
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@9. I see what you did there sir. good one lol. come on people, as said, PSN is free, if they don´t fix it you may be signing in and out all day, you wont be able to play online in peace for that. you will buy something from the store and wont be able to download it. no refunds for sure, and the mind control device on your ps3 wont work if they don´t update as it works with PSN secret stuff lol. all this may happen without maintenance

 
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Comment #16 by wrathion
Wednesday, May 02, 2012 @ 01:54:45 PM
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@1 Better on weekdays then on the weekend I would say.

@5 Someone needs to find a new game to play!

@6 Sounds to me that it's time to upgrade your internet speed. Or leave it on when you go to sleep and have it shutdown when it's done. Can't get any easier than that.


 
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Comment #17 by ZACHSP8
Wednesday, May 02, 2012 @ 02:06:14 PM
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This must be the reason Sony gave people loads of PS+ free games, they must have thought well online is going to be down so have some free games to play.LOL

 
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Comment #18 by bldagl
Wednesday, May 02, 2012 @ 02:09:45 PM
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@#5 there probably doing alot of it now to make sure that they dont get attacked again like last year.

 
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Comment #19 by GoldenMonkey34
Wednesday, May 02, 2012 @ 02:13:13 PM
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i guess you get what you payed for... which is nothing

 
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Comment #20 by Mangoes
Wednesday, May 02, 2012 @ 02:23:18 PM
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Please add tabs on the downloads list or ability to delete demos clogging my download list...

 
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Comment #21 by EmptyFibers
Wednesday, May 02, 2012 @ 02:43:36 PM
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...some folks are just angry all the time. :)

 
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Comment #22 by solstice779
Wednesday, May 02, 2012 @ 02:50:14 PM
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@8

Playstation Home is a rare house made out of Playstation 3 consoles that anyone who bought the newest version of the PS3 Slim earned. All appliances in the house (oven, microwave, refrigerator, etc) function through means of wifi and internet access, so without PSN service, no appliances work because everything is Playstation-based. It's like going through a power outage, which is why you may hear many people with Playstation Homes complain when there is maintenance. Maintenance means that the Sony staff members are upgrading their service so that your appliances run more effectively.

 
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Comment #23 by TheUnlockable1
Wednesday, May 02, 2012 @ 02:55:35 PM
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Well it's a good thing that they are fixing it yet every now then. It will help Playstation Network from getting hacked so I'm actually glad. I rather have one day a week offline instead of 2 months offline.

 
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Comment #24 by mjc0961
Wednesday, May 02, 2012 @ 03:24:12 PM
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To everyone saying "It's free so it's cool", kindly shut the fuck up. Seriously. Shitty service is still shitty service, no matter how much you pay for it. And people have every right to complain about shitty service. Taking PSN down every month for unspecified maintenance is completely shitty. They should either stop taking it down all the god damn time so people can play, and if that's not possible, at least say what the hell they're actually DOING. They're treating their customers like shit and keeping us in the dark about why. Pretty bad business practice, and no amount of bullshit "well, it's free" comments will change that. Besides, it's not free anyway. I seem to recall paying $300 for a PS3 and $60 per game, and imagine the poor bastards who actually pay for PS+ and can't use the cloud saves, betas, store discounts, and other exclusive features that they paid for because the network is down. Again.

And to everyone saying "well at least it won't get hacked again", where did you get this info that Sony is upgrading security? All it says it maintenance. That could mean ANYTHING. It could be that they're upgrading security, or it could be that they're just replacing some faulty cables. You have NO FUCKING IDEA what they are doing. Stop trying to tell people that they shouldn't complain because they're keeping PSN from being hacked by bringing it down every month because YOU DON'T KNOW THAT THEY'RE ACTUALLY DOING SECURITY UPGRADES.

Seriously, I'm starting to feel like the only person on this website with any common sense.

 
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Comment #25 by AndyBeans
Wednesday, May 02, 2012 @ 03:27:30 PM
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I have online and offline games, as long as I have enough notice to leave my ps3 on in the morning before work I'm happy. I haven't found any probs tonight (2100 BST) anyway.

This isn't XBL, we don't have a subscription we're losing value on during downtime so all Sony really need to do is communicate properly with us. The poor Blog guys get the flack and they tend to only hear at the last minute too. If it's _scheduled_ maintenance then somebody need to communicate the _schedule_, simples.

 
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Comment #26 by Terminator
Wednesday, May 02, 2012 @ 03:37:29 PM
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@24:

I completely agree with you! 2 doses of Maintenance in two weeks is just ridiculous, I really want to finish off RF:G but with all this going on it will take twice as long :(.

 
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Comment #27 by Catalyst08
Wednesday, May 02, 2012 @ 04:35:55 PM
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So a man walks into a bar and...........

 
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Comment #28 by swampgas13
Wednesday, May 02, 2012 @ 05:54:17 PM
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#24... if you don't like it... go PAY for Xbox and QQ less... thank you and always, have nice day.

 
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Comment #29 by Razielbtc
Wednesday, May 02, 2012 @ 06:06:34 PM
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i kinda hope they add vita trophies to PS3 trophy list

 
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Comment #30 by clone150
Wednesday, May 02, 2012 @ 06:31:09 PM
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@27 NOOOO!!! You were supposed to complain about the service or something so #9's future telling would make sense :(

 
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Comment #31 by SparkyTomm
Wednesday, May 02, 2012 @ 06:53:05 PM
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@24
shut the fuck up and go play a shity xbox if you dont like it ^^

i for one couldnt care how many time they take it down cause i dont play online anyways cause its dull and boring as fuck i get game to play them and enjoy them not to play with douchebags thats just keep saying that there the best player in the world blah blah blah.

 
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Comment #32 by SmithyReborn86
Wednesday, May 02, 2012 @ 08:42:30 PM
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@24 true true and true i couldnt of worded that any better myself congrats on actually seeing it for what it is. They take the network offline without even saying why i mean even that shit company called EA least tell us what the maintenance is for lol then there is SONY.......

 
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Comment #33 by Totavier
Wednesday, May 02, 2012 @ 09:23:17 PM
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Another maintance?, gosh... since the Vita came out i see this maintance more often, why Sony not use a full week of maintance for put all new feature, patches and the other things in one go and not this random-surprise maintance hours?

But anyway, i'm more an offline/single player guy so is not a problem for me

 
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Comment #34 by DonChipotle
Thursday, May 03, 2012 @ 01:30:23 AM
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As long as they dont f*ck up my synch with trophies, im ok, i have modnations and killzone 3 online, so i can get those tokens in single player meanwhile, as they said here before, is a free good online service, i rather have these maintenance than paying extra 8 bucks per month for something is supposed to be free

 
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Comment #35 by SoPoF
Thursday, May 03, 2012 @ 01:33:25 AM
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What is it with the PSN that it needs that much maintenance downtime? Even if there was so much to do, couldn't they do it all in one go next week?

How about X-Box Live or what it's called, does that go down once a week for maintenance, too?

Besides, I don't think I ever heard of the Wii network being offline ever. ???

 
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Comment #36 by amoremorte
Thursday, May 03, 2012 @ 02:59:54 AM
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To quote Robin "Holy shit that's quite an unbelievably inconveniencing amount of maintenance Batman!"

 
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Comment #37 by weephilymcvey
Thursday, May 03, 2012 @ 03:38:34 AM
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Well it nvr affects me as i cant play weekdays but im pissed for those it will affect but then again sony know it aggrovates its customers so it must b neccessary, therefore worth it.

 
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Comment #38 by Saintsfanuk
Thursday, May 03, 2012 @ 05:29:39 AM
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I don't get what the fuss is about, I'm always able to sign in and play online during maintenance? I think only once during a maintenance the EA servers stopped letting us play. I also always see my friends signing in during maintenance as well. :

 
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Comment #39 by SoPoF
Thursday, May 03, 2012 @ 05:53:40 AM
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So you and your friends can log into and out from the PSN when it's offline, Saintsfanuk? You must have superiour hacking skills.

 
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Comment #40 by Saintsfanuk
Thursday, May 03, 2012 @ 06:46:09 AM
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Er yeah cause it's not actually offline. If you actually read the message they say "If you have signed into the account recently should be able to sign in and continue online during this period."

Although would be curious to know what time they class as recently, but explains why I always can sign straight back in when Fifa decides to crash.

Sucks for anyone who can't get on though, I find the whole thing rather strange.

 
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Comment #41 by KingMomo
Thursday, May 03, 2012 @ 06:56:30 AM
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It's not maintenance takes SO LONG that you can't just play an offline game for a while or maybe go do something else. Besides all you have to do is sign in before maintenance starts.

 
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Comment #42 by TheEndofWhyOU
Thursday, May 03, 2012 @ 07:22:36 AM
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I'm getting a lot of mixed feelings... But whether you like it or not, playstation network WILL be down on May 9th. No ones going to die while waiting, and complaining about it isn't going to change anything. Sony says maintenance and psn says good bye.

 
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Comment #43 by JackC8
Thursday, May 03, 2012 @ 08:17:21 AM
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So if all this rumored "always online" stuff is instituted next gen to combat used games sales, we'll only be able to use our PS4's for 6 days a week, eh?

 
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Comment #44 by Tinyshade
Thursday, May 03, 2012 @ 08:18:08 AM
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@40 I know what you mean, i actually experience the same thing when there is scheduled maintenance, i never have any trouble logging in and my friends too... i do find this strange also! But at least it is a positive strange :P

 
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Comment #45 by theghostsi
Thursday, May 03, 2012 @ 08:44:22 AM
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I really hope they fixed or fix the adding funds to wallet issue getting tired of getting could not add funds to wallet. Error

 
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Comment #46 by THE_BIG_DAVE
Thursday, May 03, 2012 @ 09:31:48 AM
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I know maintenance is necessary but to schedule maintenance next week the day after ps3 exclusive Starhawk drops seems like bad planning.

 
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Comment #47 by ByeNow12
Thursday, May 03, 2012 @ 04:14:30 PM
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@#21

I agree, people have to think about the concequences of no maintenance...
Also, PSN is free, so... you know
Lastly, they're trying not to get hacked like last year...

 
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Comment #48 by SoPoF
Monday, May 07, 2012 @ 02:52:51 AM
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PSN is not free, it is part of the ps3 I bought with my money. (The third, by the way, yeah, I got a bit unlucky with breaking consoles lately, at least the first one was still under warranty when it gave up on the second day I had it^^.)

And no one is complaining about maintenance happening, but why does it have to be that often? One week, then again next week ... why not make all in one run?

@40: That's not what I meant, but you are right. And I worded it poorly.


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