Imagine playing games with your friends online and having a blast when all of a sudden this pre teen squeak of a voice shouts expletives with every other word. Apparently these 12- year old boys also know how to keep my mom happy in the bedroom and do so frequently. What’s that? Oh, I should visit noob camp this weekend so I can practice on becoming less of a noob? Fair enough. More often than not I find myself muting my headset and just play with the chat off completely. If I wanted to hear children scream and curse I would visit the local Chuck.E.Cheese and push that mouse off of the stage. So kids, if you are reading this, go to bed while adults try to have a civilized game of murder murder die die.
PlayStation will be dropping the "PlayStation Network" and "PSN" branding by September 2026, Insider Gaming has learned.
this goes hand in hand with the recent rumours about a combined sub model they are allegedly working on.
not sure what to think of it. psn was genuinely a great name for what it did, but oh well.
Dear Lord this article is written by AI, It talks circles over and over
Anywho, i wonder what they'll refer to it as , PSN just has a nice ring to it, kinda silly to erase it just cause 🤷♂️
I'm not too fond of this change. Changing established brand names in most industries doesn't always turn out well. But we'll see
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PlayStation is trying to beat last gens Xbox missteps with all these garbage announcements… I see no other reason.
Phasing out a 20 year old iconic name like this makes absolutely no sense
Experience issues with PlayStation Network being down? Get the latest updates on the reported problems and find out if you're not alone.
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I thought I was losing it. Everything is working in my house except PSN. I checked the PSN page an hour ago and it was all green checks.
I just checked again, everything is red. Says they're doing maintenance.
It finally came back up but I must say that it's really unacceptable to not be able to play my games when it's down. Also I have gain a new appreciation for physical games. I know digital keeps growing and growing but the thing is you are paging for something you don't have complete control over and that's lame.
It has been over a year since ps+ expired and i only play SP games. I only got 1 month ps+ basic back when i had to do rdr2 online trophies.
I couldn’t care less and shows sp games will always FTW
....and this is why everyone should support more than one platform. Switch has been getting more play time as a result.
Well i am locked out of my digital single player games because offline play wasn't activated and licences can't be verified. And i got no physical games. Gotta remember to activate that when it's back up.
Hopefully it comes back up soon.
I have several PS4 consoles in my house for various purposes, I'm screwed because I have such a large collection and I don't want to have redownload whenever I want to play a game. I want to fire it up, like going to a shelf, pulling a game off the shelf, putting it in the disc drive and off you go that fast. Can't do that with digital and limited HDD space. Installing a disc is faster, you don't have to worry about data caps and internet speeds, and storage space is really expensive. Xbox just allowed a 16TB HDD to be accessed by Xbox, but that 16TB is gonna cost you, even more if it's SSD, if those even exist yet.....
It is still down but if you go to settings -users and accounts- other - restore licenses i managed restore a license to a single player game. Back to replaying GOW Ragnarok.
Single player my a**
I have downloaded unicorn overlord, Spiderman 1 And many offline single player but I am getting error to restore license but psn is down in UK.
What a load of bullshit that I can't even play single player games...
Digital is future /s :@
Ask PlayStation X: "We are aware some users might be currently experiencing issues with PSN."
I'm playing Fortnite with my cousin right now, but it's the only game with servers up, the rest is working, library, store, downloads, it's just the online, which sucks, cause I wanted to play Helldivers and Phasmophobia
Saturday midday for me so no biggie Friday night would be annoying
Seems to be a big one so might extend into Saturday for the you guys
Yeah, no end in sight. I watched some KCD2 streams to pass the time. Time to call it a night 😴
Down for me but single player PS plus games still work and obviously anything I own digitally or physically so big deal
PlayStation has been hit with a worldwide outage
When PSN is down, can people even use their PS Portals locally?
I'm also near platinum in Astro but I can't even load the trophies page on the system with this issue going on.
Yea, this thing just became a paper weight. :\
I just tried, and it woke the console up out of sleep mode just fine, but it's stuck in a neverending attempt to actually connect. I've had my Portal for a bit over a month now and have absolutely loved it... but I just found my biggest dislike of this thing.
@potatoseal great! Glad your region is working. Mine's still stuck in "Connecting". :\
Yea weird, my Portal wouldn't connect until I actually restarted the Portal. It's working fine now! 🔥
No it still needs to use you PlayStation account authentication to connect the two systems. Both ends need to be able to talk to PlayStation authentication servers to verify your identity prior to connection. It's a good thing I guess as you wouldn't want a unauthorised connection to your console
There's a alternative remote play app on the app store that allows it but it's not going to help you with the portal right now
Im able to connect using my PS Portal but all my games have the "License cannot be verified...." error.
And here I just dusted off my PS4 the past week after not touching it for over 3 years and now I can't even play an offline visual novel (World End Syndrome), lol
Same here! I went to Twitter to check up on progress for WEP and apparently it's on the backburner for the moment while the production team works on a spin-off that takes place in the same universe as WES. I did get the platinum trophy though. Now I'm working on Steins;Gate Elite which I should have gone through years ago because the anime adaptation is what got me into anime to begin with, lol.
Yeah it’s been 3 hours as of this writing. No official word on the cause that I know of.
Verizon had outages across the US yesterday. Probably still do bit it didn't effect me. Wonder if this is related or just a coincidence.
I can see people in my friend list playing, its not everyone just like other times. I don't mind I got other things I can do in this world we call life. It's funny on Twitter cause they all use the same excuse "oh just got off work and just wanna play". Also I like free stuff compensation would be great, I prepared for it to go down so I can get more out of it compensation
Just checked and it seems Xbox is also down, is this ddos? Downdetector has quite a few people posting about both platforms and also for Verizon as well
yeh its been down for hours now.
everytime it goes down, i get ptsd from 2011 haha
3 weeks.
Free stuff at the expense of 3 months without PSN. No online play, no access to digital games .....
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Ain't talking that long, 24hrs is the limit. 24hrs should be that compensation time. 3 weeks I'm strong enough to handle it but its not worth it at 3 months bruh. 24hrs
@exterminator it was easier to stomach back then sure but at least there's still disc based games and games you have on your system will still load just fine unlike Xbox there's no check in to validate licences it just plays locally if it's not expired
I really hate that crap too but the one thing I see in common with your issue and everyone else are that no one remembers that you can mute these individuals.I do it all the time.
If someone is playing music or generally being a douche, he get's the mute boot. When I'm playing, half the match is hearing everyone else telling the obnoxious idiot to be quiet. All they need to do is mute the guy.
I really think there a few people who actually like it so they can spend the whole game arguing with each other. Otherwise, why not mute them. It doesn't make sense.
I'd take local multiplayer over online any day, and it pains me that this addition is so scarce when back in the ps2/Xbox/GC days it was a standard feature. It will probably only get worse next gen with all the social bs taking priority.
the only MP i enjoyed was KZ2 and Resistance 2 8 player co-op
otherwise usually i don't even go online, hopefully with ps4/xbox one playing online will become a better experience
I haven't played online in awhile. Most of the people I did game online with game at night and now that I work nights it makes it impossible to play with them. I hate gaming with random people because you either run into the idiots mentioned in the article or you have people who won't communicate together and then blame everyone else but their own lacking as to why they lost. Hopefully soon I can get back up with my friends because yes we mostly do mute the other team and generally we communicate well.
Also the download situation is supposed to be better on XBOX One and PS4 so if maybe something can be done about the idiots (which I highly doubt) maybe then we can all get along and just have fun online.
I play online almost every day. I usually get a few games of zombies in, a lil TDM MW3, a lil Borderlands 2, A little bit of this, a little bit of that and i find my self muting almost everybody. I no longer use a head set due to the the bickering and complaining. I just don't want to hear it anymore. I also dont want everybody and there mom hearing my conversations or Girlfriend talking dirty or my kids laughing at either me or others misfortune. My kids have been wanting to use headsets and ive refused to let them use them. My oldest loves to laugh at others while yelling FAIL!. I think most of the issues online are due to bad parenting. Ive already agreed to let him use a headset with the PS4 but i have been teaching him about headset etiquette. He has started realizing what he was saying out loud and i point out " what if others heard you saying that" and hes noticing other peoples rude conversations online too. Once i let him loose on the community i feel he will be ready to have mature conversations and proper communication with his team mates. If others took this approach im sure the online community would be a better place. I guess what im saying is teach your kids not to be d!cks.. lol