PSN is offline tomorrow

The PlayStation Network will go offline for scheduled maintenance tomorrow morning, Sony's noted.

The PS3 online service will be unavailable from 8:00am GMT until 11:00am GMT (though that's an "estimate" finish time), a community man notes on the official PlayStation forums.

"During this time, you may be unable to sign in to the PlayStation Network. We expect that users will be affected for only 15 minutes during this period," the Sony man says.

[komp]

Tuesday Morning after MW2 launch... some folks will be fuming.

I wonder if its a FW update too, usually tuesdays... but surely too risky on this day of all days?

[kalebgray92]

hopefully live does the same better 15 minutes than a server crash the whole day... but today would have been smarter.... and ppl should either be at work or school tomorrow at that time

[Serjikal_Strike]

during those 15 min...then back to mp after!

[guitarded77]

Could they pick a worse day to do this crap! I took off Tuesday so I can sit on my butt drink beer and play MW all day while the wife is at work. I know it's not a life or death issue here, but I'd seriously like to kick whoever scheduled this in the vaj.

[himdeel]

...if you cannot go 15 minutes without playing online. Some of us are very lucky to be at work all day so get over it. You'll survive and if you don't the world may even be a better place without you.

[Soldierone]

Its PSN not Xbox Live, Sony says 15 minutes its 15-20 minutes not several days haha. (sarcastic joke about Live's past)

Unless they are doing a firmware update or something it wont be long, and its usuelly very early in the morning...

[Bot Smasha]

At least they wont leave us with no online for christmas and charge us for it LOL

[SL1M DADDY]

Say that there was a FW update coming on the 10th as well? Maybe some options for cross game invites? Not sure myself but I thought that was posted a while back.

As for 15 minutes... No biggie.

[WenisWagon]

Modern warfare 2 superior on Xbox 360 CONFIRMED. You won't even be able to play online on the ps3 version when you get it tomorrow...

[ThanatosDMC]

You get what you pay for... /s

[peeps]

do ppl not have jobs lol well i guess ppl can book the day off work but cummon 3 hours out of the mourning u wont be able to play online...

[SL1M DADDY]

I took the day off for it... Didn't anybody else here?

[AssassinHD]

It is 8am-11am GMT on a work/school day. That is 3am-6am EST or Midnight-3am PST. I don't foresee too many people having an issue with this. In most parts of the world people are either working/at school, or sleeping.

[fredrikpedersen]

The day of the MW2 release?! Great f-ing timing!!

[Mr Logic]

You people realize this is GMT right?

[Prototype]

I'll either be sleep, or on the toilet with my notebook :D

Seriously for 15 min? That's what a cigarette, half of a show, or even watching porn :P

[infamous-butcher]

Oh My God, get over it. 15 mins without online. boho.
Try the f***ing singleplayer then.
My internet accross the town was out for a day and 1/2. If that ever happened to your town I wouldnt be suprised to see an article about "an idiot killing himself due to internet being down" here on n4g.

[jhooty14]

lol i'll be at scholl when it happens

[Bathyj]

Maybe it to configure something with the heavy traffic, in which case it would make perfect sense to do it today. God, 15 minutes, you'll live.

I'm hoping they're implimenting the CoD 1 download. I knew nothing about that till I got MW2. Very nice surprize to get the original game from PSN.

[Darkstorn]

@1.4, 1.14, and 1.16-
It's a joke, no need to be snide.

[Sarcasm]

Hasn't it occurred to anyone that they might just be trying to make sure the network is more solid before MW2 hits?

[dustgavin]

No big deal.

[playstation123]

What I got some MW2 to play. Maybe its for cross game chat 3.10

[Serjikal_Strike]

not a patch....

[4point7BillionLoss]

costs about $4.7 billion a year ....

[Chet Faliszek 360]

no problem with that no one even uses it..

psn will never every be as great as Xbox LIVE. And if a miracle happens.

[54percent]

4point7BillionLoss
Chet Faliszek 360
YLOD Service Tech

Same f@g

[4point7BillionLoss]

54% figure obtained but online user poll open to abuse by retarded droids.

$4.7 billion loss Sonys officail figures for the previous year

Who you going to believe?

[Grandreaper9999]

Maybe it's prep work for cross-game chat?! :o

It would be wise for them to get on top of that. They have some big games coming to their platform that could really benefit from this feature. Cross-game chart and invites.

[gaffyh]

I don't think it will be, probably just adding more dedicated servers for the game so it doesn't crash the network.

[Martini]

MW 2 is P2P on all platforms.

[gaffyh]

But PSN uses dedicated servers, maybe they still need to add more servers for the Network as a whole, even if the game is using P2P?

[evrfighter]

what part of p2p don't you understand?

read a little on what a dedicated server is

[infamous-butcher]

Hopefully its something to do with the Video store that suposed to be comming to the EU.

[Marquis_de_Sade]

Only 1st party, and selected 3rd party games have dedicated servers on the PSN, not every game. MW2 is P2P.

[Commodore]

I'm not taking my PS3 offline, I should be good.

[4pocalyps3]

yeah but u might b the only person on psn lol. im not too fussed ill be in a lecture during that time. but should be home just after to kick ass on mw2.

[evilmonkey501]

means that you don't have a choice.You will be disconnected automatically from psn, along with the other 28 million of us.

[Darkfocus]

actually if your logged in when psn gos down you will remain logged in and can play games that don't use psns servers (MW2) its only the store and your friends list you won't be able to access.

[evilmonkey501]

learned something new today.

[playstation123]

You never know, they took it down before and added the update at night.

[Blaster_Master]

Yeah , you should be fine as long as you log in before the maintenance starts. BTW, 8 am to 11 am is more then 15 mins. There are some real but holes on this website. Going off on others because they are pisses about this makes you an even bigger ass.

[Soldierone]

If I read it correctly the maintance will be two hours, but the downtime will only be 15 minutes. The 15 minutes is all we will know about, probably them reseting the servers...

[kalebgray92]

reading fail thought it would be 3 hours

[SolidSystem]

just in time for mw2....
-_-

[YLOD Service Tech]

PSN is very inconsistent with this. Very unstable. I guess that's what you get for a free POS service.

[ExPresident]

Yeah cause I don't remember a ton of people paying for a service and getting shafted around the holidays last year......oh wait that was the 360 users.

But keep paying for what you call a great service.

[shazui123]

they service the PSN, giving us dedicated servers and a more stable online experience with no lag for free. 360 users are shafted having to pay out their ass for what is most of the time a laggy experience

[YLOD Service Tech]

PSN lag free? Don't make me laugh.

And FYI ExPresident that was 2 years ago not last year's Christmas.

[ExPresident]

PSN isn't lag free but neither is LIVE so don't kid yourself.

And that may have been 2 years ago but I was assuming they'd have the same problems this year.

[Chubear]

So you're actually saying you have a problem with servers being maintained? LMAO! WOW, MS has you nutbags by the balls! Free online gaming with server maintainance and that's horrible but downed serves for weeks for a paid service is an excellent job well done. lol

Look very carefully 360fans, this is how you're supposed to take care of your dedicated server service.

[JonnyBigBoss]

Sounds good.

[Treylove99]

as usual you are making love to your ps3 again aren't you? Come on you can tell us. Every peice of ps3 news has you saying, yeah, or all right, thats the best, i love it, oh yeah, mmmmm uuuu yeah.

[Blackcanary]

lol

[ExPresident]

Its 15 minutes so who cares. On top of that I highly doubt its a Firmware update considering there haven't been any heads up of one coming, and Sony has already said there won't be anymore this year.

On top of that didn't IW confirm there's no party/cross game chat support for MW2 on the 360? I thought they said its only the in-game chat available, and if thats true why would Sony even bother putting up Cross game chat tomorrow?

Its PSN maintenance, for roughly 15 minutes.

[killzowner]

nice counter RROD service tech, you just further insulted your console of choice. Xbox live is MUCH laggier than PSN, you guys dont even get dedicated servers half the time xD To say PSN has lag issues is a joke

[YLOD Service Tech]

PSN still lags with dedicated servers. Fail.

[ExPresident]

@ YLOD Tech Service - You pay for a laggy service. Fail harder k?

[ps360master]

right when cod is out.......lol hopefully it wont long
you get what you don't pay for.

[Fishy Fingers]

PSblog mentioned something modern warfare 2 coming to the PSN on Tuesday, I guess this might be related. I'll be playing single player or at work anyway. If MP is what you want just make sure you don't log off and you'll be fine.

Roll on midnight!

[killzowner]

someone cant get over XBL's lag problems xD

[Mikelarry]

dont actually mind, will be playing MW2 single player and getting some trophies.

[AliTheBrit19]

Wow, Correct me if I am wrong here

But does this mean that PSN will be down for the launch of/just after the biggest online game of the year arrives?

ouch?...

[user858621]

....... for 15 minutes

[TheTeam06]

1. For 15 minutes

2. I'll probably be in class, and almost everyone else SHOULD be at work.

3. Use those 15 minutes to play a bit of campaign and get comfortable with controls or, get this, do something productive with your life... be we all know that'll never happen.

[LoLZoRz]

its only fu*king 15 minutes wtf is wrong with u guys LOL

[Tomkar]

15 minutes is the whole world for these nerds! Get a life, everybody loves videogames but not come on, 15 minutes! Really?

[dkgshiz]

OMFG! My life is video games!!!!! haha, jk. You bots are such losers. My god its just for a little while.

[TheTeam06]

I think it's weird they say they can't wait 15 minutes to play a multiplayer AND SINGLEPLAYER game, but they can wait, what, 4 years for a console that should've been fixed by Microsoft years ago.. which still hasn't happened.

[dkgshiz]

What a long time.... NOT!

[ShiftyTheSniper]

Or is it universal taking place at the GMT time? If its universally done at the same exact time, this means West Coast is from 12am-3am, East Coast is 3-6am if I'm not mistaken.
Being from West Coast and going to get the game at midnight launch, I find the time they chose to do it rather amusing. That is of course unless it is 8am-11am for all timezones.

I thought the whole 8-11 is more like the 15 mins could occur at any time during this period...Kinda like when Cable guy says he'll be there between 12-4pm.

Regardless, 15 mins is basically 1 playthrough of SpecOps in splitscreen w my friend who's coming over...no biggie.

[Pillville]

Can you get Einstein on the phone and ask how to take down an entire network but only make it effect certain people at certain times?

But to answer your question:
PSN does not have a network per timezone, otherwise you'd only be able to play against people in your timezone. I'm sure there are sections of the network they can update and take down while other parts are left up, but I doubt it's timezone specific.

Someone who knows more is free to correct me and make a smart ass remark about my answer.

[ShiftyTheSniper]

In hindsight, that was quite a dumb@ss question on my part. Can't believe I actually didn't think that through. But then there are people that have left comments here who didn't think the whole GMT thing through either (unless of course they are all from the UK). East Coast gamers won't be affected at all by this then, as it'll be 3am-6am, unless of course midnight buyers plan to stay up all night. Cheers Pill, you actually gave me a good chuckle at myself...

[chanto23]

and it wasn't animated themes...maybe this maintenance has something to do with it

[OmarJA]

The retarded bots are in-secured about the PSN being better than Live.

[BreakNeckSpeed]

It Only does Everything !

Edit : Oops

[Irish-Republican]

ill be in school so doesnt matter that much to me

[yorkie]

I want a refund on my annual subscription fee immediately. Oh wait a moment........................ ........

[dpatterson14]

I know right? PSN needs to get their act together. I ain't paying $50 bucks a year for them to sit on their as*.

[gumgum99]

lol, are you being sarcastic? ^_^

[devilhunterx]

I rather have a "15 minute off for maintenance" on a FREE service than a "week off without any reason" on a PAID one.

[Smokzdaizm]

Anyway that happen one time in XBL's history because of a overload of new accounts (something PSN wouldn't know anything about), and I've had XBL since almost and have not had ANY problems at all. I play online with a group of 8 friends almost on a daily basis and we ALL have both systems and we ALWAYS buy multiplats for the 360 because of XBL because we CAN ACTUALLY speak to each other now isn't something

[devilhunterx]

So your point was ... ?

[BaSeBaLlKiD721]

They took PSN down on the launch day for COD4 and now they're doing it again for MW2. I wonder if it has to do something with IW's COD games or its just a coincidence...

[peeps]

perhaps ensuring the servers are all set for the load of users that are suddenly gonna be playing mw2? lol i mean atm theres around 50,000 online and this is before the games even been officially released

[InFAMOUS1]

You know seriously for a bunch of *gamers* you guys are very well misinformed! First @19: PSN conducts maintence EVERY tuesday at the same time, although sometimes the network is down the whole time. Major games release TUESDAYS, therefore COD4 was released on a Tuesday in 2007... Second @ 19.1: COD4 runs on the new IW2.0 servers using P2P... Sony has nothing to do with hosting/servers for this game. If anyone has to update the servers for the large influx of players its goin to be IW, and I would imagine they are prepared for 10+ million in the first 48hours.

[maverick1191]

you seriously cant survive without psn for 15mins? your all sad

and to say psn is laggy you played a online game like kz2 or resistnace 2?

you 360 owners where down for a while during christmas and YOU all had to pay for it LMAO

and YLOD stop making new accounts and giving yourself bubbles and agrees shows you have no life if your making 2 or 3 accounts

[dkgshiz]

are the bots. There the only ones who cant handle it. What a bunch of sad losers :) I would be surprised if any of the bots on here even play games. I think they just get a hard on to smack talk the PS3.

[PS3GamerFix]

Word is that only the PSN store will be unavailable but general online should be unaffected. Has this been the case in the past during maintenance???

[-Alpha]

I notice that the site is the European PS site, maybe NA is safe

[InFAMOUS1]

yes and no. The PSN will be down for users for about 15mins, and the PS Store will be down the whole time. The only thing people might have trouble with is accessing DOWNLOADED games, or BETAs.. As those games need to pass the authentication servers and they are USUALLY down through out the entire process

[-Alpha]

Yeah good job Sony, make it happen right when the most anticipated multi-platform game this year is released.

I'm going to be so mad because I can't even go to the midnight launch so I'll have to get it in the morning and if I can't sign in that means I wont even be able to play the single player because I wont collect the trophies and I won't be able to play split-screen because no one will be home-- ARGH!

[Soldierone]

You can still get trophies...It just wont register with the server until its back online.

[-Alpha]

Oh really? Ok I hope so. I remember getting a trophy in Burnout once but it never registered because I was offline. Maybe I have a bad memory I dont know.

Can anyone confirm playing offline unlocks trophies until you sign back on?

[GarandShooter]

Not with this game, but in general yes. When you click the trophy icon and it synchs with the server is when data is transferred to and from your console.

[peeps]

yeh u can get trophies offline. when you next sign in it will 'sync trohpies with server'

u can even do this manually (maybe u have too i'm not sure)

but anyway the point is that yes they will work lol

[LittleBigSackBoy]

They're just adding avatars.

[jarhead906]

If only THIS were true.

[Briefcase Joe]

The only thing you need online for is to sync up the trophies so people online can see what trophies you have. You don't need to do that if you don't want people to see what you have.

[bloodybutcher]

@alpha - i've played Demon's Souls offline few times and earned some trophies which've stayed there after going online.

[Ravenger]

Good to know:)

[jarhead906]

Let the preparation for next Firmware Update rumors to commence!

[SuperbVillain]

maybe they will be preparing for all the traffic from MW2 tomorrow =)

[TROLL EATER]

IT ONLY FAILS

[redsquad]

Going by you're name, you need to eat your own arse (you'd probably enjoy it too!)

[lh_swe]

That made laugh so hard I almost shat myself.

[skatezero246]

lol he finally admit's the 360 fails (alot)

[kevinx1000]

no MW2 online tomorrow, huh?

[dkgshiz]

plus its a tuesday. Dont you losers work?

[DeHHagen]

ONLY FOR 15mins!!
Jeez!!

[ASSASSYN 36o]

LOL! Awesome timing!

[DigitalEnemy]

Another thread has been made stating maintenace is also taking place Thursday 12th November at the same time with the following titles unavailable for online play....

Buzz! Quiz TV
Buzz! Brain of ...
Buzz! Quiz World
Singstar
MotorStorm
MotorStorm Pacific Rift
MotorStorm Arctic Edge
Wipeout HD/Fury
Killzone 2
LittleBigPlanet
Home
Formula One: Championship Edition

All Sony 1st party titles. Im sensing that the two maintenace days this week is setting up background work for a major firmware update next Tuesday. Isnt next Tuesday the day Microsoft release their Facebook/Twitter update??!!. Im guessing Sony will counter-act with their own firmware 3.10 with cross game chat?

Any one agree?

[THC CELL]

To all them that say psn fails name a xbox game that runs a game as huge as mag

[Kluv]

yikes.

[skatezero246]

don't care, I like to play through the campaign before anything else so by the time I'm done with the campaign PSN will be finished with it's update

[Dorwrath]

Oh god. COD/MW guys are gonna be complaining.

[thehitman]

Is this only for Europe or US also??

[Comet]

I could take a sh!t, make a sandwhich, and run around the house in under 15 minutes -,-

[Pumbli]

Nice, I'll be at school, no biggie.

Won't be getting MW2 'till december anyways, decided to get an extra Dualshock 3 instead of MW2 for november. This will also give me time look at some reviews to see if the game is really worth a buy. (Then there's always Brütal Legend if MW2 turns out bad)

My PS3 is too occupied with Uncharted 2 atm anyways. :P

[gameraxis]

that something to do with MW2 was the reason for this update? MW2 dynamic themes or something? i thought i remember hearing something like that circulating the interwebs...

on another note, WTF is wrong with some of you, snide remarks, bullcrap testimonies left and right on the eve of one of the biggest games of the year, can't we just get online and have a blast? (damn kids lol)

psn/ gam3raxis... hit me up if u want to blow each others heads off

[Stryfeno2]

0 minutes (XBL) > 15 minutes (PSN)

[PeptoBismol]

retard confirmed

[CernaML]

Careful, what you say may go around and come around to kick you in the sack. Wouldn't be surprised if Xbox Live crashed for another week.

[Killa Aaron]

luckily I'll be at work.

[strickers]

as long as they sort out the problems me and my friends are having.I lost my 2nd evening of play(Borderlands)due to friends list anomaly.It's better than 2 weeks at xmas,and on the whole(for those who don't own both)I've had less connection issues with PSN than Live by far.On Live Crackdown and Gears lost co op connections frequently,this rarely happens on PSN.Headsets are better on Live but in general I've found games run better on PSN,player counts are superior too.Cross Game chat is missing(not needed for me)and there's no unified party system although games like Killzone/Uncharted have them built in.

[biggame901]

Only 15 minutes, no big deal. I'll be at work and school most of the day anyways.

[volcane]

Call of Duty : Classic is coming to the PSN store. So there you go.

http://twitter.com/mikeck/s...

[gumgum99]

I still can't sign into PlayStation Network. I can sign into my account information just fine, but when I try to log in on playtation.com it has an error.

Update: I also seem to be able to log into my PSP and PS3 as well, but I still cannot log onto Playstation.com. it keeps saying "There's an error trying to authenticate you. Please try again."

[Szarky]

My PSN got hacked. Sweet. Good job Sony. YLOD and now over $30 charged to my VISA from a hacker. GO SONY!!!!