PSN Down as PS5, PS4 Players Can't Log In or Play Online

Imagine paying $80 annually for this mediocre trash.
Edit: Down for 20 hours.
- I do and I’ve never had this problem. Ever. If the system goes down it’s rarely for more than a few hours, at which point i live my life, since I understand shit happens and servers sometimes fail. I dunno what your complaint is exactly but I get great value out of that yearly fee
  
  This has actually happened before multiple times. Why pay for internet usage also? You all are getting scammed. You know consoles even used to have free internet as well, the PS2 HDD glory days.
  You get zero value out of that fee, they are literally just taking your money. The fact you cannot see this is extremely sad
  
  The complaint is that online on PC is free like it should be, not this ridiculous $80/year bullshit that console manufacturers can lock you into their ecosystem and force you to do.
  If I'm paying $80/year for a service that's free on an already better platform, you'd better believe that it going down for this long (or basically at all) would be totally unacceptable.
  
  PSN being down is a tale as old as time. When the PS3 was out and before the PS4 was announced PSN had been down like at least once a month. It was well known as the least reliable gaming network. Even though Nintendo had their "Nintendo WiFi Connection" which was basically P2P and super garbage, it did not go down like PSN did.
  Xbox Live was vastly more reliable, likely because Microsoft has a better understanding of how to run a network, and they took the subscription money and reinvested it back into Xbox Live, growing and bolstering it to the point that it has its reputation for being the most reliable of the 3 gaming networks.
  
  In the distant past of like 2000, you didn't have to pay for online functionality. Also, people could host their own multiplayer servers. It was nice. Consoles and capitalism did a team-up to make things shittier for the end user, though.
  
  you pay a monthly fee for videogames just so you can not play them?

Why does this happen to Sony every few years? They expect you to pay for online and just can't get their shit together.
Good thing they stopped with the PSN requirement on PC. Imagine buying your singleplayer game and you can't play it the entire day because Sony forgot to pay their server bills.
- This hardly ever happens anymore. I remember the days of the PS3 when it felt like a weekly occurrence.
  
  Weren't they down for ~7 hours just last year?
  Not saying it happens often but having a downtime that long is unprofessional for a company that size.

Parents world-wide talk to their children for the first time!
- Only in 70 countries. No change in rest of 100+ countries.
- lol my son is acting like this is the worse thing that ever happened to him. (It might, he’s lived a pretty privileged life)

This is why I don’t play PS5 online and I have my PS3 just RSS in case
- Is reading RSS feeds on your PS3 a good substitute for playing PS5 online?
  
  I meant I have my ps3 just in case not rss lol oops I’m using it right now to play madden 25 (2014) cause the new Madden 25 won’t let me play superstar mode without a psn connection to play single player???

Looks like it's finally coming back up.
Edit: nevermind, not fully back up. Looks like some PSN services are working, but game logins are still down.
- https://status.playstation.com/en-us/
  Looks like they are down still