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PSN back in Europe and Australia, your password email may take some time

by Griffin McElroy on May 16th 2011 9:50AM

The select PlayStation Network services that came back online in North America over the weekend have now shaken off their bonds in a handful of other territories across the globs. Formerly jilted users living in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico and South America should now have access to online multiplayer, third-party video services and all the other reactivated features that returned this past Saturday.

Unfortunately, the flood of people who have made their first priority to change their password have overwhelmed both the PlayStation Network servers and their ISPs, leading to delays for password reset emails. If you requested a password reset and haven't heard back yet, Sony asks that you "please give it a bit of time to reach your email."

Source: PlayStation Blog on Twitter, PlayStation Blog

Tags: australia, europe, mexico, new-zealand, password, playstation, ps3, psn, psn-outage-2011, south-america

Reader Comments (26)

Yay! For everyone in the US...has Sony started with the Welcome Back thingamabob?

@ToolroomKnight
http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2011/05/16/email-password-reset-notice/#comment-145182

@ToolroomKnight

No, not until the PSN Store is restored.

I just want the the Store to be up :( that is all.

@PubeLess

No doubt. I want to redeem my kombat online pass for MK. My trial isn't gonna last forever.

Apparently Japan's on the waiting list cause their government isn't happy with the security protocols yet............so another article is undoubtably on the way.

man can't this just die already

Positive vibrations..

it was only a matter of time. you all acted childish, way to go gaming community!

@PR0F3TA

Yea, which ever guy who was complaining about Europe not getting anything, well here ya go.. still ahead of the system's native country!

Ugh. Globs of what? Sounds gross.

"Unfortunately, the flood of people who have made their first priority to change their password have overwhelmed both the PlayStation Network servers and their ISPs, leading to delays for password reset emails."

Ah, the often seen "Three Stooges Effect".

I guess Ill wait for a week before trying to get my password reseted then

Henceforth, let these three weeks of woe be known as the Dark Ages.

Why does one need a password reset email? I downloaded the update, was promptly greeted with the change your password screen, I did and signed in immediately. Changing your password is mandatory. Or is that only in NA?

@Jason B - I was wondering the exact same thing. No emails required for my console.

As far as I know, the only time you would need to have an email sent to you is if you didn't have a console handy that you had activated your account on. If your PS3 has your account(s) already activated on it (whether it was the original console you created your account on or a different one), you don't need the email.

@Jason B
It's mandatory here too, difference is that I got no option to change the password on the console. It said it MUST be done through a PC.

In all fairness, it takes a long time to type all those emails up!

Its a green light for PSN in Ireland!!!!

I just wanna forget about this whole mess and get back to playing games.

dude, getting back onto mw black ops was like a religious experience last evening...people were going nuts! I even found a small game about the network being down at http://www.kongregate.com/games/MightyRabbit/gamesnet-crisis

@boonelax85 Modern Warfare Black Ops? When did that happen?

@irotmx late last evening...I was doing some homework, and just started browsing articles on the network, and saw that some areas were up and running...jumped on, downloaded the update, and held my breath for fifteen minutes until I was finally signed in and trucking through nuketown...must admit, I was quite rusty. Are you not back on yet?

Well I'm happy that California was basically the second place up, so I was able to get my password reset email in a matter of minutes before the flood of people started coming in.

lol i still dont seem to be able to sign in, it says dns error or 800 code.
didnt happen before the outage. is psn still down or something.
plz reply

I'm back online in NZ, but I want the PSN store back already.

This sucks for me because i use fake e-mails when i make a new user. I only have one account now.

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