Another version of the playstation 3 error 33 is "Unable to connect to activision servers (Error 33)." Well it does not matter whatever message you see, because they all mean the same: no online gaming for you!!!

PS3 Error 33: Whose fault?

The real score at this point is that PS3 Error 33 is a problem with the online server that is managing the online gamings. Specifically, the problem lies on the Activision server section that handle the online portion of the game. This problem is caused by over-congestion when too many players are engaged in online gaming on their servers. It seems that they have never anticipated the huge volume of players who would logged in to their site.