UPDATE: Beginning today, we will take similar measures in the United States, and we will continue to take appropriate action to do our part to help ensure internet stability as this unprecedented situation continues to evolve. We are grateful for the role we play in helping deliver a sense of community and entertainment in these very trying times. Thank you again for your support, your patience, and for being part of the PlayStation community. Please stay home and stay safe.
Playing videogames enables players all over the world to connect with friends and family and enjoy much needed entertainment during these uncertain times. Sony Interactive Entertainment is working with internet service providers in Europe to manage download traffic to help preserve access for the entire internet community.
We believe it is important to do our part to address internet stability concerns as an unprecedented number of people are practicing social distancing and are becoming more reliant on internet access.
Players may experience somewhat slower or delayed game downloads but will still enjoy robust gameplay. We appreciate the support and understanding from our community, and their doing their part, as we take these measures in an effort to preserve access for everyone.
SONY, as a loyal fan since before you entered video games, I stand behind the decision. I’m happy to do my part, and we’ll come out the other side of this.
I’m not staying home if it’s gonna take 4 days to download a game….now I understand why Gameslop said they were essential 🤣🤣🤣🤣
It’s been more than 6 hours that my PSN doesn’t work. It’s impossible to get support also (every support’s page doesn’t work). Whats is going on???
Bring back the Playstation Community app that let me communicate with my squad worldwide. Bring Communities from ps4 to ps5. Behemoth Squad. Socom please.
Why would you restrict an already restricted access to your network. My Xbox One X will connect at 300+ mbps but I can hardly ever get 100mbps and usually it is a lot less with my PS4 Pro that is hardwired with cat6. Usually it will be more like 30 to 50mbps. This is why I stick to my Xbox.
No free online during corentine
Thank you PlayStation, need make sure everything ok ❤
A total overreaction in the US and no need for it. Many of us are going digital for new releases because of physical copy delays and now these games will take forever to download. RE3 and FF7 could take longer than the two day pre-load at this rate.
Thanks for nothing!
Connection already throttled. Now connections will be throttled even more. lol, feels bad man.
Regardless of the fact, y’all stay safe outchea ya here?!
LOL – throttle a slow connection…nice I already have a super slow connection cause I cant get anything else where I live, what is your excuse Sony?
What do you do with all of that PS+ money? Shouldn’t you have upgraded the network to handle massive traffic flows by now? Go digital, oh yea, digital is the way LMAO Yea so I could still wait for the game (or drive to walmart/target/etc since everything is supposed to be shut down so of course everything is open) and get it faster than trying to download. Hopefully people see why digital is NOT the way just yet.
I understand everything but it is already an exaggeration that the 81 MB file from the Internet disk would be downloaded 1 hour !!!! do something with it !!!!
so **** stupid sony My internet is ****, and you reduce the internet to download, apart from the online service, it leaves a lot to be desired, nor do they give plus in quarantine, but on top of that they come out that the internet will decrease, and now as I download playstation plus games, they have killed your own creation, and the last thing is quarantined in everything and the service they are giving from ps4 is bad, there are no excuses.
Thank you @jryan Jim Ryan for taking that public stance. I work for a Multi-Service Operator serving the DoD overseas. ActiVision’s complete disregard for their social responsibility in releasing a 20GB patch today is appalling. Reasonable regular updates deployed via micro-services approach is the responsible way to keep apps up to date while ensuring stability and limiting transit data.
I have two days trying yo download call of duty , the internet is Extreme slow.
Your decision is ridiculous from my point of view, people will prefer to go out into the street than sit at home and use a very slow Sony server
Hello, give us 35% discount coupon for inconvenience
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That’s an additional % for PS+ on top of sales right? 😧 Don’t hold your breath, some companies don’t care about their customers.