Sony offers 5-day PlayStation Plus Plus Plus, but doesn’t explain the 24-hour “operation issues” and Capcom expands Monster Hunter Wilds Beta to make up for downtime
Last night, the Ask PlayStation support account on Twitter announced the end of the weird PlayStation network outage this weekend, and DOT was nearly 24 hours after the issue just started. Sony offers five-day PS Plus, a paid component of PlayStation Network, as compensation, while Capcom says it may offer an extension to the Monster Hunter Wilds Beta to compensate for the outage.
On February 8, CT at 6 p.m., Weast PlayStation tweeted that PSN’s service has been restored and apologize for the inconvenience you have caused. Later that night, I asked PlayStation tweeted: “Web service has fully recovered from operational issues. We apologize for the inconvenience you have caused and thank the community for their patience. All PlayStation Plus members will automatically get Five days of service.”
OK, but what happened? Sony failed to provide any official updates or communications about the first drop to the night of February 8 that returned online later on February 7. Can’t help remembering the catastrophic PSN hack in 2011. Rumors are that this is a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack on Sony. Long-time developers and video maker Modern retro gamers believe that some of the client behaviors demonstrated by PSN during outages give the credibility of DDOS theory.
Whether Sony will provide an official explanation for what is going on remains to be seen – I am a PlayStation customer and I would rather give you peace of mind than any compensation for downtime. However, both are desirable and must be clear. Meanwhile, Capcom tweeted that it is considering providing an extended gaming window for Monster Hunter Wilds Beta, which is affected by downtime. It’s not clear whether PC players can benefit from this potential expansion, too, but I won’t hold my breath. We just need to settle for additional subscriptions that pay only for games, consoles and Internet access, and then drop the service.
