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Surely many of you will still : last February, the PlayStation Network servers went down for 24 hours, constituting one of the longest outages in the history of the service. Once it was resolved, Sony came out and confirmed that it would compensate its s.
Due to the inconvenience and problems caused, it confirmed that it would give 5 additional days of PS Plus free of charge to all s affected by the bug. In other words, it would only compensate PlayStation Plus s, since they are the ones who saw their paid service interrupted.
However, the company did not reveal when it would start giving this compensation. So much so that currently they still have not said anything about it. Nevertheless, it seems that PlayStation has already started to work on it, as reported by different s on Reddit.
First compensations appear after PlayStation Network outage
For example, in this Reddit thread we can see a screenshot showing the 5 days that have been added to the subscription period. "5 days of additional PS Plus service have been added as compensation. Please check the Subscriptions tab in the PS Store", the message says.
However, it seems that not everyone will receive the compensation at the same time. Many s who were subscribed to PS Plus when the outage occurred have reported that they have still not received their compensation.
Therefore, we can infer that they will go little by little. Given the large number of active PS Plus subscribers (they number in the millions), it is normal that it will take a while. In any case, we recommend you keep an eye on your email in case you receive the notice.
In another thread on Reddit, a shows us an email he received from Sony when asking about the issue. After offering a cordial greeting, the team replied as follows:
We appreciate your patience as we work to provide an additional five days of PlayStation Plus to affected by the recent PlayStation Network outage. Former PlayStation Plus (whose hip expired since the outage) will receive five days of free access, corresponding to their last hip tier. These updates will be automatically applied to the 's without any action required on their part. We will provide another update once the extensions and free access have been granted
One of the biggest failures in PSN history
In of duration, this PSN service outage is considered one of the largest in history. It is not the most serious, as in 2014 they received a DDoS attack that disabled the servers for around 48 hours. On the other hand, in 2011 they suffered a large-scale attack that resulted in the data of more than 70 million s being leaked.
The other big crash that is ed is that of February 2012. After several days with connection failures, the service finally went down and did not return until 24 hours later.