Playstation Store Updated, Heavy Rain Codes Still Not Working March 5, 2010

Well looks like those who chose to preorder Heavy Rain will have to wait for their free DLC episode just a little longer.

In the US retailers such as Amazon.com and GameStop offered customers who preordered the highly anticipated PS3 game Heavy Rain a code for the game’s first downloadable episode.  The episode, called “The Taxidermist” was announced to be downlodable on the day of the game’s release.  However, before the game’s release date several retailers announced there would be a short delay in the content until the fourth of March.  Codes were bundled with the game when people picked their Preorders up from GameStop but weren’t working at launch.  It was expected that the codes would go live around the time Amazon planned to email codes to their customers, some time on the fourth.

Amazon did email their codes as promised.  Several users on the Heavy Rain US forum have confirmed that.  The weekly Playstation Store has updated within the last few minutes (Sony only updates their store content on Thursdays).  However none of the codes either through GameStop or Amazon will work yet.  A Sony forum member said he called Sony to inquire, where he was told the content was on their servers, but the codes needed some time to be fully authorized, which could take a day.

Sony has not officially commented on if the DLC content has been delayed again.

UPDATE:  The codes are reportedly working now at around 10:30PM EST.