PlayStation Network Service Erratic
See Full ImageOr so it seems, according to various reports and complaints around the Internet.
It began yesterday and may have continued into today (I can connect just fine, for the record), and Sony hasn't yet tossed out a comment concerning the issue. ...maybe because there is no issue, but we can't be sure.
This unscheduled downtime has apparently caused some annoyed users to encounter the dreaded "8071053D" and "80023102" errors, but it's hard to tell how widespread the problem is. It doesn't seem to be restricted to a particular location or region, although we do know the Network was down in Europe for scheduled maintenance. For now, we're just going to assume these are minor hiccups and everything should be running along smoothly in a matter of hours. But if you're really peeved, you could always try contacting Sony.
As usual, when something like this happens, everyone hearkens back to the April 2011 debacle, which is probably expected. We'll have to go a long way before everyone can finally leave that behind for good.
Tags: psn, playstation network, psn outage, psn down, sony
6/21/2012 9:13:06 PM Ben Dutka
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Comments (37 posts)
firesoul453
Thursday, June 21, 2012 @ 9:58:04 PM
So many things I want to buy!
So far I bought lemmings, Festival of Blood, and 1942: Joint Strike
Also want to save some for Full frontal assault when it comes out?
Anyone have any suggestions?
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CanadianGuy420
Thursday, June 21, 2012 @ 10:46:09 PM
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Helghast
Thursday, June 21, 2012 @ 10:49:17 PM
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firesoul453
Thursday, June 21, 2012 @ 11:02:08 PM
But I you can get the free PSN credit after getting a Playstation Visa.
Not sure what it takes to qualify but I did, and had to make one purchase (bought a candy bard at kroger) and after the charge went though (took about a week or so) I got 5000 rewards points.
I don't plan on ever using the card again (maybe once a month to get a better credit score but I prefer my cash back credit card) and I'll definetly pay it off every month (no interest).
You can use the 5000 points for whatever on sony rewards (almost got jak and daxter collection) and hey its free
also you get 10 points for every dollar on psn so spen $100 and you can get $10 free.
So anyway, I hope the PSN problems go away (and they have completely for me) because I have lots to download!
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Jed
Friday, June 22, 2012 @ 1:28:34 AM
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Excelsior1
Friday, June 22, 2012 @ 10:23:44 AM
The same complaints that were leveled at Heavy Rain for being more of interactive movie with controller prompts than an actual game could be leveled at The Walking Dead so be advised of that. The Walking Dead is more about suspense, drama, story, and character interactions. It does a great job at hitting on all those points. The production values and voice acting are strong. Hard to believe the same developer who made the dissapointing Jurasic Park game that had God awful characters and lame story/writing turned out such a quality title with great characters amd story. No way the same writers that handled JP wrote this compelling narritive and dialogue.
Anyways I felt the the desperation of the characters and really felt like I was in a zombie apocolypse. The survimg humans are defintely a desperate bunch and behave in a very believeable manner.
Okay about this PSN outage. It's true it's happening and the first thing stated when I called Sony was the network is down. When I tried to log on I got a prompt to reset my password but when I clicked on it nothing would happen. It was down most of the day. Sony had NO answers as to why the network was down and no estimate as to when service would be restored. That sounded eerily familar to me somehow.
When I got back on PSN one of my friends popped off on Sony and said he called them to say take your welcome back pack and stick it and fix your damn network. This guy was from England and told me the network was down for many of them closer to two months last year. So naturally the PSN outage from last year was more tramatic for him. I took this guy at as word when he said he had problems way accross the pond so to speak.
He did say some of his friends were able to log on when he called them but some could not like him. So erratic outages that hit some gamers but missed others seems to an accurate description. Anyways. the British can be pretty damn blunt when they are annoyed but I kind of like it. No BS or spin to deal with. Definitely not as touchy/feely as Americans for the most part.
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CanadianGuy420
Friday, June 22, 2012 @ 12:46:44 PM
but once i started and saw how emotional the story was gonna be and all the QTDM (quick time decision making) i loved it. i wish there were more games like that i really love them.
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Jawknee
Thursday, June 21, 2012 @ 9:52:16 PM
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WorldEndsWithMe
Thursday, June 21, 2012 @ 9:52:22 PM
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faraga
Friday, June 22, 2012 @ 2:40:57 AM
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CanadianGuy420
Thursday, June 21, 2012 @ 9:56:48 PM
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i'm having no trouble now though.
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BikerSaint
Thursday, June 21, 2012 @ 11:02:56 PM
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BTW, even though my computer stays logged without any problems during all these kick-off's, my 360 is constantly throwing me off all the time, & it pisses me off cause I'm usually using it to watch Netflix. Then it take up to 2-3 hours more to get back into my 360 account.
And all my stuff is hardwired direct
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Excelsior1
Friday, June 22, 2012 @ 11:03:32 AM
Can you imagine a future of gaming depending on these tempermental networks actually holding and delivering our games in some kind of cloud network? No way until service providers get the networks more stable.
The thing I hate the most is whether you call your ISP or Sony nobody ever gives you a reason why their networks are having issues for the most part. It's annoying when your network goes down but the gamer down the road isn't having problems. I have no explanation for that. Especially for a hard wired connection.
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Xombito
Thursday, June 21, 2012 @ 11:07:33 PM
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Mr Bubbles IGR
Thursday, June 21, 2012 @ 11:22:46 PM
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Clamedeus
Thursday, June 21, 2012 @ 11:30:09 PM
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CH1N00K
Thursday, June 21, 2012 @ 11:34:37 PM
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We were able to get back in eventually, but there was definitely something going on. At first we had assumed it was because we were all over the place. Linking a game with someone from Eastern US, Western Canada and Ireland can be a little interesting at times...
Had the same thing happen a little ways back with Borderlands as well, just assumed it was crappy internet connections, but I've had some weird disconnects over the last few weeks with my PS3. I'd check all my other devices and they had no problem with connecting, but the PS3 seems to be suffering a bit...
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frostface
Friday, June 22, 2012 @ 5:00:18 AM
The game's servers may of had a minor part to play when we were trying to party up, but I don't get how we'd be kicked out of the whole PSN because of a game.
Didn't get any of the error codes Ben's reporting, so can't confirm it's the same problem that affected us. But something was definitely going on with PSN. Logged in this morning (about 10mins ago) and was logged back out straight away. Logged back in just fine and still logged in now. It's just a little iffy at times. Not very reliable but hopefully just temporary.
I don't mind maintenance but it'd be nice if Sony would communicate better to us if there's downtime expected. It was the biggest failing last year during the long downtime, learn your lesson Sony. People won't hate on you for telling us something up. It's the not knowing that annoys people.
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eLLeJuss
Thursday, June 21, 2012 @ 11:37:44 PM
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matt99
Friday, June 22, 2012 @ 12:12:53 AM
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tlpn99
Friday, June 22, 2012 @ 1:42:30 AM
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MrAnonymity
Friday, June 22, 2012 @ 2:17:26 AM
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faraga
Friday, June 22, 2012 @ 2:38:33 AM
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ZenChichiri
Friday, June 22, 2012 @ 2:46:44 AM
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...damn, it says erratic.
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xenris
Friday, June 22, 2012 @ 8:41:55 AM
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Hope it gets resolved soon, Temjin and I have a long overdue Duel in VF5 :)
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Highlander
Friday, June 22, 2012 @ 9:52:33 AM
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Jawknee
Friday, June 22, 2012 @ 11:19:08 AM
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Highlander
Friday, June 22, 2012 @ 1:09:08 PM
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WorldEndsWithMe
Friday, June 22, 2012 @ 1:24:59 PM
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Jawknee
Friday, June 22, 2012 @ 2:02:47 PM
World, I'm willing to bet it's your router and not Comcast. I have similar issues with my router where it will become slow or non responsive and a simple power cycle fixes the problem. Was your router provided by Comcast? Or are you using an after market one like Linksys or Cisco?
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Underdog15
Friday, June 22, 2012 @ 2:03:53 PM
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firesoul453
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Thursday, June 21, 2012 @ 9:52:15 PM
(I also called sony for an unrelated problem and the first message said that the Playstation network was down).
Usually this doesn't effect me but I just got my free $50 PSN credit and I wanted to spend it...