Being a free service isn't exactly a reasonable justification for "you get what you get", though. You can pay for PSN+, but either way, it's still using the sam

Being a free service isn't exactly a reasonable justification for "you get what you get", though. You can pay for PSN+, but either way, it's still using the same network service and it's the only option. It's not like there's a pay-for option that you can say "well, if you care about uptime, you should have subscribed to the pay-for PSN service". Additionally, it's the service that is essentially part of and supplemental to the entire PS3 purchase. It's great that it's free, in that you're not losing anything with the downtime, but it's not even remotely the same thing as providing some sort of a free/beta community service website that goes down and being able to say "hey, it's a free website, what do you want from us?". That said, I've been eager for PSN to get back so I can register my PS3 copy of Portal 2 to use on the PC and so that I could play Killzone. It's amusing that the only two titles I will probably buy on that platform in the entire year came out near the same time and were hindered by the outage.