A limited-time occasion for Call Of Duty gamers will final some time longer to make up for the PlayStation outage, however the Black Ops 6 free trial has nonetheless ended.
This previous weekend was tough for lots of PlayStation customers. Any plans they needed to chill out with their PlayStation 5 have been scuppered when the whole PlayStation Network (PSN) went down for nearly 24 hours.
As such, folks couldn’t entry any video games that required a web-based connection, even ones that don’t want a PlayStation Plus subscription like Fortnite. This was irritating sufficient, however this additionally meant gamers have been pressured to overlook out on sure in-game occasions that have been taking place that weekend.
This included a particular double XP weekend for Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 and Call Of Duty: Warzone however, due to the outage, Activision has determined to maintain the occasion going for some time longer.
When does the double XP weekend for Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 finish?
Originally, the Call Of Duty double XP weekend was solely alleged to run from Thursday, February 6 to Monday, February 10. Since a big chunk of gamers couldn’t participate for nearly an entire day, the occasion has been prolonged to 10am PT / 6pm GMT on Wednesday, February 12.
The better part is that this isn’t unique to the PlayStation variations of the Call Of Duty video games both. Players on Xbox and PC may reap the benefits of the extension.
The identical can’t be mentioned for the free trial that ran that weekend, although. Activision was providing free entry to Black Ops 6’s multiplayer and Zombies modes, however that seems to have wrapped up on February 10 as scheduled with no point out of an extension.
This comes after Capcom equally opted to increase its open beta for Monster Hunter Wilds. While the current beta session ended on February 10 as supposed, a second one scheduled for this weekend will now final for an additional 24 hours throughout all platforms.
As for Sony itself, it has apologised for the community points by gifting PlayStation Plus subscribers with 5 additional days free of charge. However, it’s provided no such apology reward to non-subscribers and a variety of PlayStation homeowners weren’t pleased with Sony’s extremely obscure rationalization for what prompted the outage within the first place.
The complete state of affairs has additionally highlighted the dangers of an all-digital future for gaming because it wasn’t simply on-line video games that have been affected. Some customers couldn’t entry their digital libraries, that means they have been unable to play any of their video games even offline.
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