The Great PlayStation Network Outage of 2025, which kept Sony’s servers out of commission for a whole day, has been the longest downtime since 2011.
While the crash left gamers from all genres and walks of life stranded, few communities suffered as much as the Monster Hunter Wilds one.
Capcom’s upcoming sequel to its hit monster-slaying franchise is set to release on February 28, but the publisher hoped to hold its second open beta test this weekend.
The idea was to make the playtest available to those who missed the first testing period. Players who participate can earn unique bonuses that will be activated once the game goes live on the last day of the month.
The untimely death of the PSN jeopardized the entire thing, locking players out of the Monster Hunter Wilds beta and causing even more frustration for those who missed it the first time around.
To avoid more heartache, Capcom has announced it is planning to add an extra day of beta testing. An official Monster Hunter social media account stated the 24-hour ‘reimbursement’ will come at a later date.
It remains unclear whether this will come at the end of the current playtest, originally scheduled to run until the end of today, or if the compensation will happen during the next playtest.
Capcom is scheduled to run a second open beta period from the 13th to the 16th of February.
Sony Responds To The Outage
While Monster Hunter Wilds players probably went through the most heartache, they are not the only ones set to receive compensation for their woes.
After remaining irritatingly quiet during the Saturday ordeal, Sony has declined to specify the reason for the outage, beyond calling it an “operational issue”.
The gaming giant has offered a gift to PSN subscribers affected, but there are some questions about how valuable that is.
If you have a valid PSN subscription, Sony has topped you up with an extra five days of service. While this is welcome news to those running short-term plans, it is somewhere between silly and entirely worthless to most of the PSN user base that has subscribed for years without a break.
