Sony Interactive Entertainment is looking to compensate players who subscribe to the service, regardless of which tier of PlayStation Plus they subscribe to.

Sony has begun issuing compensation for last month’s PlayStation Network outage. In early February, a PlayStation Network outage left PlayStation Plus users unable to play online games for nearly 24 hours. Sony announced at the time that it would provide subscribers with an additional five days of service.

The company said that this compensation would be automatically added to subscribers’ bills, although it didn’t specify when this would happen… well, we’ve had to wait until now. The compensation is now being rolled out. In Push Square’s experience, they’ve added five days to the expiry date of the last PlayStation Plus Premium payment. (Of course, this also applies to PlayStation Plus Extra and PlayStation Plus Essential subscribers!)

The March PlayStation Plus Essential games will be available later today and include Dragon Age: The Veilguard (PlayStation 5; character creator also available), Sonic Colors: Ultimate (PlayStation 4) and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection (PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4). Sony also recently announced that PlayStation 4 games will no longer be a required PlayStation Plus Essential offering from January 2026, as the focus shifts to PlayStation 5. There may still be PS4 titles later on, but the chances of that happening are diminishing.

Of course, Sony didn’t really explain why the PlayStation Network was shut down. Of course, this is still better than what happened in the spring of 2011, when the network was down for weeks (no joke: 23 days!). Ok, back in the PS3 era not everything was online, so you could play offline with physical copies, but even then Call of Duty was already very popular and had a strong multiplayer component…

At least Sony is making up for it.

Source: VGC, Push Square