Gamers slam Sony for ‘terrible’ PSN outage compensation as they suddenly realise certain users are excluded from offer

PLAYSTATION owners are furious aft realising immoderate users won't beryllium entitled to immoderate compensation astatine each pursuing a disastrous planetary outage implicit the weekend.

Millions were near incapable to entree online contented and play multiplayer games for much than 12 hours.

Sony said the lengthy PSN glitch was caused by an "operational issue".

To apologise for the inconvenience, PS Plus subscribers were offered 5 further days of entree to the work for free.

But fans person slammed the "terrible" connection arsenic those who don't subscribe to PS Plus were affected excessively yet they won't person thing for the inconvenience.

This includes radical being locked retired of integer games and immense free-to-play hits similar Fortnite and Roblox.

"Any crippled bought integer couldn’t beryllium accessed," 1 frustrated gamer wrote connected X.

"The ps5 integer was a media presumption alternatively of a PlayStation for 20 hours !

"Games that don’t necessitate online similar rocket league Fortnite Roblox etc couldn’t beryllium played online.

"All of that deserves a compensation. I bought my console."

Another fumed connected Reddit: "I don't person ps positive but inactive couldn't play the games I wanted to, conjecture I'm a f***ing 2nd people citizen."

A 3rd added: "No playstation players could entree games.

"I couldn’t entree fortnite for example. But lone radical with playstation positive are getting compensation, not america others who besides experienced outage."

It's not the archetypal clip PS5 and PS4 players person faced magnitude downtime, having been deed by a akin contented backmost successful October.

The PlayStation Network also went offline for thousands of gamers successful May 2022.

However, it is not the longest outage successful past with the "external intrusion" forcing the PSN to unopen for 23 days backmost successful 2011.