Quote Originally Posted by stuscott View Post
You don't need PSN to PLAY the game - but if you are using a PS3 or PS4 to play the game, you require PSN to utilize any online features (i.e connecting to SE servers) - it was announced that Sony had rescheduled the maintenance (that was originally scheduled for Monday and was delayed because of the DDoS attack on Sunday) to today. They also stated that as long as you were already logged in before maintenance started, you'd be able to access online features (other than the Store) - they always do this.

It's not SE's responsibility to notify you of this, as it's not their network that is down.
and the "able to play if you were still logged in" isnt true on ps4.