Because our public holidays carry over, this coming Monday will be a day that doesn’t involve getting up early, the daily commute or hurriedly walking around the office with a stack of papers so it looks like you’re actually busy working. Instead, it’s a day to spend with family, or as the case may be, playing lots of video games. Just beware, PlayStation gamers; there may or may not be PSN maintenance on Monday.
The UK PlayStation community manager Chris Owen tweeted out that PSN was set for 12-hour long maintenance on Monday evening, though shortly afterwards removed the tweet. there’s been no clarification since, so there may or may not be maintenance on Monday.
The folks at SixthAxis grabbed the tweet for posterity. That’s 17:00 to 05:00 for us in SA while the UK is on BST.
As per usual, maintenance would mean you’d be locked out of account management, the PSN and just about everything else, but if you login before the servers go down, you’ll still be able to get your multiplayer kicks.
The update, ostensibly, is to ready the network for a swathe of new features to coincide with a rumoured PlayStation 4 update that set to improve sharing and streaming functions, allow friends list sorting – and finally remove that HDCP block preventing us from capturing footage from our PlayStation 4 games. The next update though, probably still won’t include the rudimentary media playback functionality that was built in to the very first PlayStation; the ability to play Audio CD”s.
Last Updated: April 16, 2014
Alien Emperor Trevor
April 16, 2014 at 10:07
Seriously, WTF is it with these new consoles having issues with basic media playback? Are they still trying to figure out their DRM schemes?
Admiral Chief in Space
April 16, 2014 at 10:10
XD
Kromas
April 16, 2014 at 10:17
They are trying to to MGS their DRM in without a big exclamation marker form the consumers. 😛
GalacticLordCaptainAwesomeness
April 16, 2014 at 10:40
to to ?
Kromas
April 16, 2014 at 10:56
Sounds about right. Not even gonna fix the typo just so your post stays relevant. 🙂
+1
Hammersteyn
April 16, 2014 at 10:58
LOL!
Admiral Chief in Space
April 16, 2014 at 10:10
Can you play offline?
Hammersteyn
April 16, 2014 at 11:00
No because you need Origin and Steam to play……….. oh wait.
oVg Errorist
April 16, 2014 at 10:30
Drat!!! One has to play a SINGLE PLAYER game. WTF? Is this the 90s or something 😛
Hammersteyn
April 16, 2014 at 11:01
Hahahaha
Hammersteyn
April 16, 2014 at 11:01
Hahahaha
GalacticLordCaptainAwesomeness
April 16, 2014 at 10:35
Ha ha ha FFX-HD FTW…
Edit: You and your British tendencies can keep your PSN, we don’t need internet here
Hammersteyn
April 16, 2014 at 10:58
I have no Idea why I bough a R6000 console that cant even play music CD’s. What was I thinking.
CAE9872
April 16, 2014 at 10:59
Could be worse – buy a console to talk to it! And then it doesnt recognise you.
Hammersteyn
April 16, 2014 at 10:59
Hahaha
JasonDK
April 16, 2014 at 11:03
Maybe after the update we will be able to download games at speeds that exceed dial-up
JasonDK
April 16, 2014 at 11:03
Maybe after the update we will be able to download games at speeds that exceed dial-up