PlayStation Network down for maintenance next week

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Offline Thursday afternoon until Friday morning.

Sony has scheduled announced another bout of PlayStation Network maintenance.

The service will be offline from 4.00pm on Thursday 1st March until 7.00am the following morning. PlayStation Store (PC and Console), Home, customer account management and account registration will all be unavailable.

If you're logged in at 4.00pm you will be disconnected.

The announcement on the PlayStation forum didn't mention exactly what Sony's engineers are up to.

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stephenb #1 3 months ago

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In the middle of my holiday /o\

My wife is going to expect me to do some gardening now!

Edited by stephenb at 23/02/12 @ 17:04
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scoop #2 3 months ago

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The announcement on the PlayStation forum didn't mention exactly what Sony's engineers are up to.
*quickly deletes credit card details*

Edited by scoop at 23/02/12 @ 17:14
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BAM! #3 3 months ago

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"The service will be offline from 4.00pm on Thursday 1st March until 7.00am the following morning."

Time zones might be handy.
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rockavitch #4 3 months ago

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*Cue "Again" comments... although with launch of new platform this time it shouldn't be a surprise*

Won't bother me as I'll finally be getting around to playing Mass Effect 2 by then (got back some tax money), so I'll have no need for being online. I'm somewhat OK with it even if I didn't have ME2 arriving as it's got Sony putting more urgency in to getting the PS2 games on the store, shame FFXII or Rogue Galaxy hasn't been one of them.
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captain_Carl #5 3 months ago

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Wow that is... that is LONG

That's what she said, yes

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monty2k #6 3 months ago

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@BAM:

The forum post doesn't actually state the time zone but I'm guessing GMT is a safe bet.
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maverick0182 #7 3 months ago

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Shouldn't that read 'Sony Entertainment Network' rather than 'PlayStation Network' after the recent update and name change?
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bikmate #8 3 months ago

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The PS Store opens on the 2nd of March for Hungary, so the maintenance is probably related to that.
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rockavitch #9 3 months ago

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@bikmate I wasn't aware it hadn't opened in Hungary. Although I was still registered as UK when I lived there so probably why I didn't notice, mental though that it took this long.
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axman303 #10 3 months ago

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How about they get another server that can stay online while they perform maintenance on this one?
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RevanNL #11 3 months ago

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Again!? Seriously, what the fuck are they doing every time that PSN is 'down for maintenance'?
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D_arkTrooper #12 3 months ago

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Don't balls it up this time eh Mr. Sony, there's a good chap.
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Kaminari #13 3 months ago

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@RevanNL Eating biscuits and drinking lucozade.
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cheeky-sod #14 3 months ago

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As usual.
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Syrette #15 3 months ago

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Ah, only a week or so after the release of their latest console.

Guess I'm going to have to get used to this!
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Pedrolot #16 3 months ago

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That's my weekend out the window.

Good job Sony. Dependable, arnt you?
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stemitchell #17 3 months ago

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@Pedrolot Weekend? What?

What is everyone moaning about, it's only...*counts*...15 hours? And a fair few of them we should all be tucked up in bed!
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Syrette #18 3 months ago

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@stemitchell

Everyone is moaning because this is a regular (weekly?) occurrence.
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cheeky-sod #19 3 months ago

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@stemitchell it's the fact that it's happening all the time, far too often. and i doubt people will be "tucked in bed" at 4pm.
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fletch273 #20 3 months ago

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@cheeky-sod But what he's saying is that a fair few of those hours early in the morning people will be in bed. He didn't say all of them.
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Pedrolot #21 3 months ago

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Thusrday and Friday are my weekdends...
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