PSN outage means even Xbox fans benefit from extended Call Of Duty event

A limited-time event for Call Of Duty players will last a while longer to make up for the PlayStation outage, but the Black Ops 6 free trial has still ended. This past weekend was rough for a lot of PlayStation users. Any plans they had to relax with their PlayStation 5 were scuppered when the entire PlayStation Network (PSN) went down for almost 24 hours. As such, people couldn’t access any games that required an online connection, even ones that don’t need a PlayStation Plus subscription like Fortnite. This was frustrating enough, but this also meant players were forced to miss out on certain in-game events that were happening that weekend.

This included a special double XP weekend for Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 and Call Of Duty: Warzone but, because of the outage, Activision has decided to keep the event going for a while longer. Originally, the Call Of Duty double XP weekend was only supposed to run from Thursday, February 6 to Monday, February 10. Since a large chunk of players couldn’t take part for almost a whole day, the event has been extended to 10am PT / 6pm GMT on Wednesday, February 12.

The best part is this isn’t exclusive to the PlayStation versions of the Call Of Duty games either. Players on Xbox and PC can also take advantage of the extension. The same can’t be said for the free trial that ran that weekend, though. Activision was offering free access to Black Ops 6’s multiplayer and Zombies modes, but that appears to have wrapped up on February 10 as scheduled with no mention of an extension.

This comes after Capcom similarly opted to extend its open beta for Monster Hunter Wilds. While the recent beta session ended on February 10 as intended, a second one scheduled for this weekend will now last for an extra 24 hours across all platforms. As for Sony itself, it has apologised for the network issues by gifting PlayStation Plus subscribers with five extra days for free. However, it’s offered no such apology gift to non-subscribers and a number of PlayStation owners weren’t happy with Sony’s incredibly vague explanation for what caused the outage in the first place.

The whole situation has also highlighted the risks of an all-digital future for gaming since it wasn’t just online games that were affected. Some users couldn’t access their digital libraries, meaning they were unable to play any of their games even offline. Email gamecentral@metro.co.uk, leave a comment below, follow us on Twitter, and sign-up to our newsletter. To submit Inbox letters and Reader’s Features more easily, without the need to send an email, just use our Submit Stuff page here.

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