Sony has quietly delisted a group of ‘spam’ games from the PlayStation Store following the past weekend’s 24-hour outage. Spam games are what players refer to as “eslop” or “shovelware” – basically games that are made with low effort that somehow find their way onto digital storefronts (and without much hassle most of the time). This led some to speculate that the reason Sony has been hush-hush about the true nature of the outage might have something to do with the sudden removal of a bunch of spam games from the store.
As spotted by TrueTrophies, Sony has removed the entire game catalogue of RandomSpin Games, a company that is seemingly notorious for publishing spam games at an alarmingly frequent rate. The company’s entire library of published games has now been scrubbed from the PlayStation Store, though Sony did this quietly as to not draw attention to it for some reason.
There’s no clear connection between this random shovelware purge and the PlayStation Network outage, though you can’t help but be a bit suspicious about the timing. Unless a sudden uptick in spam games mysteriously caused PSN to crash for a prolonged period, there’s no real way of knowing what happened unless Sony discloses that information.
Players have expressed their frustration over Sony’s secrecy regarding the details of the outage, since the company hasn’t made any statement confirming the actual cause. Naturally, this made way for plenty of speculation, including the possibility that PlayStation was hacked (just like the infamous 23-day PSN outage from 2011) and that the company was trying to keep it quiet.
In related news, PlayStation made an unexpected appearance at the Super Bowl this past weekend through rapper Kendrick Lamar’s halftime show, displaying a massive stage setup featuring the iconic symbols. At least there wasn’t a sudden outage there.
Source: TrueTrophies
