Sony’s PlayStation Network went down over the weekend. Servers were down for roughly 24 hours and PlayStation gamers were unable to play most of their games, including single-player titles that still require an online connection to work.

Predictably, there’s quite a bit of unhappiness around the response here. Just a cursory glance through the replies to the announcement from Sony support gives you a good flavor of the disgruntled gamers out there. The main theme is ‘just five days, what about a month?’ – or ‘why aren’t you giving us a free game instead?’

Sony blamed an operational issue for the 20-hour service outage, which affected console gamers on the PlayStation Network over the weekend.

The PlayStation Network (PSN) experienced a significant global outage over the weekend, affecting countless users worldwide. The disruption began on Friday evening and persisted until Saturday evening in the United States.