PS Plus compensation is being paid to PlayStation players now for free

Compensation for last month’s PlayStation Network fiasco is finally being sent out, so here’s how to check if you’ve received yours.

Nearly a month after the PlayStation Network suffered another major outage, players are only now being reimbursed for the inconvenience.

On February 8, the service went down for almost 24 hours, leaving people unable to play online games like Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6, which require a PS Plus subscription, along with some games that don’t, like Fortnite and Roblox. It also affected the PlayStation Store and prevented some people from accessing their digital library of games entirely.

To restore some goodwill, Sony promised to gift all PS Plus subscribers five additional days for free – something which is now being rolled out to players.

While Sony hasn’t made any announcement in regards to the rollout (which isn’t exactly unusual for them nowadays) several players on Reddit have reported being sent their compensation.

You should receive your five additional days of PS Plus automatically. It’s important to note you’re only entitled to compensation if you were subscribed to PS Plus during the time of the outage (February 8), so anyone without a subscription at that time is out of luck.

Some players, however, have apparently received the compensation despite not being affected, so it might be worth checking if you’ve had free days added anyway.

To check if you’ve received your five extra days, login to the PS Store here. Once you’re logged in, click on your avatar icon in the top right-hand corner, and select ‘Subscriptions Management’.

If the next payment date on your subscription is five days later than the expiry date on your most recent PS Plus payment receipt (which you can find in your inbox), then you have received your compensation.

If you haven’t yet received it, don’t panic. It seems Sony is in the process of doling them out to players, so check back in the coming days.

As for why the outage happened, Sony has only cited a vague ‘operational issue’ as the cause, which isn’t exactly reassuring. This isn’t the first time PSN has crumbled to its knees either, after the network went down for 23 days in April 2011.

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