PlayStation Network Currently Down Worldwide

PlayStation has been hit with a worldwide outage

[Tacoboto]

When PSN is down, can people even use their PS Portals locally?

I'm also near platinum in Astro but I can't even load the trophies page on the system with this issue going on.

[OtterX]

Yea, this thing just became a paper weight. :\

I just tried, and it woke the console up out of sleep mode just fine, but it's stuck in a neverending attempt to actually connect. I've had my Portal for a bit over a month now and have absolutely loved it... but I just found my biggest dislike of this thing.

[lukasmain]

Works fine for me as writing this.

[OtterX]

@potatoseal great! Glad your region is working. Mine's still stuck in "Connecting". :\

[fr0sty]

USA seems to be ok, just turned my system on and all is well.

[OtterX]

Yea weird, my Portal wouldn't connect until I actually restarted the Portal. It's working fine now! 🔥

[Profchaos]

No it still needs to use you PlayStation account authentication to connect the two systems. Both ends need to be able to talk to PlayStation authentication servers to verify your identity prior to connection. It's a good thing I guess as you wouldn't want a unauthorised connection to your console

There's a alternative remote play app on the app store that allows it but it's not going to help you with the portal right now

[kayoss]

Im able to connect using my PS Portal but all my games have the "License cannot be verified...." error.

[Yui_Suzumiya]

And here I just dusted off my PS4 the past week after not touching it for over 3 years and now I can't even play an offline visual novel (World End Syndrome), lol

[Christopher]

It was a night of Vampire Survivors for me.

[Disccordia]

Great choice, still waiting for WORLDEND PHENOMENON...

[Yui_Suzumiya]

Same here! I went to Twitter to check up on progress for WEP and apparently it's on the backburner for the moment while the production team works on a spin-off that takes place in the same universe as WES. I did get the platinum trophy though. Now I'm working on Steins;Gate Elite which I should have gone through years ago because the anime adaptation is what got me into anime to begin with, lol.

[P_Bomb]

Yeah it’s been 3 hours as of this writing. No official word on the cause that I know of.

[ZeekQuattro]

Verizon had outages across the US yesterday. Probably still do bit it didn't effect me. Wonder if this is related or just a coincidence.

[blackblades]

I can see people in my friend list playing, its not everyone just like other times. I don't mind I got other things I can do in this world we call life. It's funny on Twitter cause they all use the same excuse "oh just got off work and just wanna play". Also I like free stuff compensation would be great, I prepared for it to go down so I can get more out of it compensation

[Michiel1989]

day 2, drums in the deep. They are coming

[LG_Fox_Brazil]

Just checked and it seems Xbox is also down, is this ddos? Downdetector has quite a few people posting about both platforms and also for Verizon as well

[Reaper22_]

That's not true. Xbox was never down.

[InUrFoxHole]

When was xbox down?

[gold_drake]

yeh its been down for hours now.

everytime it goes down, i get ptsd from 2011 haha

3 weeks.

[blackblades]

Lol I don't I be like yeah free stuff

[Extermin8or3_]

Free stuff at the expense of 3 months without PSN. No online play, no access to digital games .....

[blackblades]

@Extermin
Ain't talking that long, 24hrs is the limit. 24hrs should be that compensation time. 3 weeks I'm strong enough to handle it but its not worth it at 3 months bruh. 24hrs

[Profchaos]

@exterminator it was easier to stomach back then sure but at least there's still disc based games and games you have on your system will still load just fine unlike Xbox there's no check in to validate licences it just plays locally if it's not expired

[SimpleDad]

It's down in EU too.

[TheTony316]

Up again

[SimpleDad]

Wow, thnx Tony!
Yup, it's up.

[lukasmain]

Up for me too as of writing this

[ichdich]

for about 8 hours!

[pwnmaster3000]

I just checked and for some reason my PS5 just had a black screen frozen.
I thought it broke but I just had to restart it and now it said system software has an error.
Idk if that’s got anything to do with this.

[TheTony316]

It works again

[shadowT]

they prepare more ads on dashboard

[Rhythmattic]

That made beer go up through my nose!

[OlderGamer17]

No problems here in the Netherlands, everything is up and running😊

[joab777]

Who was around for the PS3 one? It was brutal

[Profchaos]

I was and it wasn't that bad most games were all on disc back then and online play was not as prevalent it was before we didn't even pay for it. It was nice to have not a must have.

Yeah it was fine I was more worried about my credit card details also I had just picked up portal 2 the day before it all happened so I was distracted and ended up with a free copy of infamous and a ratchet and clank game as a result.

Now if it happens today and PSN is offline for that long different story

[gold_drake]

here. lol

it was terrible.
was even on the news it was so bad.

[VariantAEC]

I dispensed with my PS fanboyism to pick up an Xbox 360.

The Xbox 360 in turn made me wonder why I stopped being a PS fanboy, though.

[jznrpg]

I was. I mainly play single player games so it didn’t really bother me

[Redgrave]

Transparency about the issue (that we won't get) and clarity over not being able to play certain games (also probably not) would be nice.

[Grievous]

Services go down all the time. It's been back up for hours already.

[46player]

Aka CYBERATTACK

[Profchaos]

It's running fine for me just played a round of helldivers2 I assume it's fixed

[phatak]

I am a pc gamer these days and was warning about this for a while, now that games like god of war ragnarok /horizon zero dawn remastered require a psn sign in to play single player campaign, does anyone think this was a good idea or "cmon guys you already have to login to steam so whats the issue with another login ?" , well imagine you get a "verifying licenses message after paying 60$ for your games and waiting to play until the server is back, utter madness
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The first time this happened to me was the rockstar launcher for rdr2 which I purchased legitimately, was having server issues or some crap that prevented me from logging in, I became a pirate that day 4 years back and played rdr2 when the legit copy did not work for hours.
Honestly ill just admit it today lol, ive been a pirate for the last 4 years, I own an external hard drives of 20tb each which holds around 1500 cracked games, basically I own 95% of all the games I ever wanted on this 20tb external hard drive, what I additionally did is get 5 portable external drives of 4tb each, so for 20tb of external portable ssd, I have made a copy of all my games as well in case my external hard drives ever dies + much higher speeds with ssd, so have a 2nd copy of 1500 games, the rate at which I finish my games is around 75 games in 1 year, so it will take me about 20 years to finish the 1500 games I have, probably dont need to buy games for a while which I still occasionally do , this was the exact kind of scenario I did this for, absolutely no login needed, 99% of the cracked games work without any tweaking.

It sucks that people that paid for ragnarok for example will have more issues that a pirate, insanity that I will never willingly accept, straight up piracy or ideally GOG games for the win, which is one company I absolutely support , no DRM crap and you get the actual games files, even sony put their main games like god of war 2018, horizon zero dawn, days gone, uncharted collection all on GOG, and I supported them by buying each of them, clearly sony is taking a different route now with this mandatory PC login crap, im sure the future games wont come on GOG as well, just horrible decisions they have been making lately, not sure what's up.

[HansyJ]

Using Chiaki on my steam deck, it works fine lol

[Knightofelemia]

Give it time it will come back on I didn't know it was down been working too much.

[Retroman]

Why is Anonymous attacking Sony again for??
Dang, was not able to download any New demos.