It seems the good folks over at Sony and Idol Minds just can’t release an update to PAIN without something breaking. Last time, the update didn’t come out for 2 days and the game was wonky. This time, network connectivity has been disabled in the game, meaning you can’t access community features or buy new characters in-game. According to developer comments on the official site:

there has been a power outage in Europe that affected the staging of content for our European brothers and sisters. This is being worked on at the moment, and as soon as it is resolved (9-10am London time is the estimate we were given), we will get the update out to Europe.

Now, they’re saying that because the update got borked in Europe, the US gamers who got the update can’t connect online. Yeah, crazy, I know. Since they plan on releasing another update for the game next week (and still more content is coming), I seriously hope this gets resolved ASAP. People can only take so much broken stuff.