{"id":7304,"date":"2015-01-02T22:14:45","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T03:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nccomputertech.com\/?p=7304"},"modified":"2015-01-02T22:14:45","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T03:14:45","slug":"sony-wants-to-make-up-for-psn-outage-offers-discounts-ps-subscription-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nccomputertech.com\/techtalk\/2015\/01\/02\/sony-wants-to-make-up-for-psn-outage-offers-discounts-ps-subscription-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony wants to make up for PSN outage, offers discounts, PS+ subscription extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techspot.com\/news\/59273-sony-wants-make-up-psn-outage-offers-discounts.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nccomputertech.com\/techtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/psn.jpg\" alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In an effort to make up for the recent PlayStation Network outage, Sony will be offering all PlayStation Plus members a five-day extension on their memberships. Terming it as an &#8220;appreciation for your patience,&#8221; the company said the extension will be available to all those who had an active membership or free trial on December 25th.<\/p>\n<p>Sony said that if your membership or trial ends before the extension is available, you&#8217;ll still be eligible for it. The extension will be automatically applied.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Sony will offer a 10 percent discount code good for a one-time discount off a total cart purchase in the PlayStation Store. You can use it toward content available on the PS Store, including games, season passes, add-ons, TV series, or movies.<\/p>\n<p>Like the membership extension, there&#8217;s no set date yet on when the discount will be made available though it&#8217;s expected to happen sometime this month.<\/p>\n<p>Both, The PlayStation Network and Microsoft&#8217;s Xbox Live were targeted with a malicious distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on Christmas Eve. A hacker group named Lizard Squad, that had pledged to take down the services on Christmas Day, took credit for the attack which lasted for about three days.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techspot.com\/news\/59273-sony-wants-make-up-psn-outage-offers-discounts.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sony wants to make up for PSN outage, offers discounts, PS+ subscription extension &#8211; TechSpot<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to make up for the recent PlayStation Network outage, Sony will be offering all PlayStation Plus members [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[787,834,1002],"class_list":["post-7304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-outage","tag-playstation","tag-sony"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/papNkV-1TO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7276,"url":"https:\/\/nccomputertech.com\/techtalk\/2014\/12\/29\/sony-playstation-network-is-back-online-now-really\/","url_meta":{"origin":7304,"position":0},"title":"Sony: PlayStation Network is back online now, really","author":"NCCT","date":"December 29, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"After giving gamers false hope on Saturday, Sony now says its PlayStation Network has been fully restored after a Christmas Day attack that knocked it offline for about three days. 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