With today marking the 11th day of the Playstation Network being offline, it finally just hit me just how much I rely on the online capabilities of my Playstation in order to have fun. Strangely enough, it wasn’t even the fact that I haven’t been able to test my Mortal Kombat skills out on some worthy online challengers; it happened when I actually wanted to download something from the Playstation Store, something I rarely ever do.

My roommate and I have been on a huge Marvel fix lately (it probably has something to do with getting excited for all the movies coming out this summer), so naturally, we have been playing the Ultimate Alliance series pretty nonstop. For a while, every spare chance we got between classes and studying, we would play until we went to sleep; my roommate as Wolverine, and me as Colossus. It took us about 10 hours to beat the first game, and after about a week I finally made it down to Gamestop to purchase the sequel, which neither of us had played before.

When we arrived at the point early in the second game where you could assemble your own team, I was just about heart broken that they hadn’t included Colossus in the sequel. I almost didn’t even want to progress forward in the game, seeing as I would have to settle for a lesser character of my liking. Luckily for me though, I had remembered browsing over a character pack for Ultimate Alliance 2 quite some time ago, and although I could not remember what heroes were included in this download, I quickly headed to the Playstation Store to make the quick download. Well, I tried to anyways.

Like thousands of other gamers, upon trying to access the Playstation Store, I was greeted with the friendly message informing me that the network is currently unavailable. Of course I became frustrated, but not with Sony. I immediately got pretty irritated just thinking about those people who forced Sony to shut down the network. I guess they didn’t think how many people would be affected by their actions towards Sony. Hopefully Sony is able to get this whole thing straightened out by May 4th, the date they said the Playstation Network would be back online.