Details for PlayStation Network and Qriocity Customer Appreciation Program in North America

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Details for PlayStation Network and Qriocity Customer Appreciation Program in North America

Now that some PlayStation Network and Qriocity services have been restored and you’re once again enjoying online gaming and entertainment, we’re happy to provide details about the “Welcome Back” appreciation program for customers in North America. We developed the program as an expression of our gratitude for your patience, support and continued loyalty during the service outage. From all of us at PlayStation, thank you and welcome back!

This package will be made available to all existing registered PlayStation Network and Qriocity users in North America (US and Canada), and will be made available shortly after we have fully restored the service. More specific details about these offers and eligibility requirements will be posted as the services go live.

All PlayStation Network customers can select two PS3 games from the following list. The games will be available for 30 days shortly after PlayStation Store is restored and can be kept forever.

  • Dead Nation
  • inFAMOUS
  • LittleBigPlanet
  • Super Stardust HD
  • Wipeout HD + Fury

For PSP owners, you will be eligible to download two PSP games from the following list. The games will be available for 30 days shortly after PlayStation Store is restored and can be kept forever.

  • LittleBigPlanet (PSP)
  • ModNation Racers
  • Pursuit Force
  • Killzone Liberation
  • A selection of “On Us” rental movie titles will be available to PlayStation Network customers over one weekend, where Video Service is available. Those titles will be announced soon.
  • 30 days free PlayStation Plus membership for non PlayStation Plus subscribers.
  • Existing PlayStation Plus subscribers will receive an additional 60 days of free subscription.
  • Existing Music Unlimited Premium Trial subscription members will receive an additional 30 days of free premium subscription.
  • Additional 30 days + time lost for existing members of Music Unlimited Premium/Basic subscription free of charge for existing Premium/Basic members.
  • To welcome users Home, PlayStation Home will be offering 100 free virtual items. Additional free content will be released soon, including the next addition to the Home Mansion personal space, and Ooblag’s Alien Casino, an exclusive game.

We’d like to thank all of our publishing and development partners who’ve contributed to the Welcome Back program, including Bigbig Studios, Codeglue, Digital Leisure, Guerilla Games, Heavy Water, Housemarque, Lockwood, Loot, Mass Media, Media Molecule, SCE Cambridge Studios, SCE Studio Liverpool, SCE San Diego Studios, and Sucker Punch Productions. We couldn’t have created such a compelling package without them!

As a reminder, you will be able to access the above content shortly after services are fully restored. We are doing everything we can to make that happen as soon as possible. Please visit the following sites for more information about the Welcome Back program in Europe and Latin America.

Thank you again for your support!

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  • inFamous and LBP for me. I don’t buy that many games so free ones are appreciated.

    Anyone know if we get 2 games for each system, or just 2 on either system? PSP games are kinda crappy, so nbd if its the latter, but I’d like to know…

  • Still down huh. Heh guess we are going to find out the date of the rapture before we are told when PS Store will be open.

  • Yeah let’s give away games that everyone has already.
    I was overjoyed to hear that SONY lost almost 3 billion dollars this year. Hope you lose more market share next year. Serves you right you greedy jerks.

  • 1st off i would like to say thankyou for taking care of the problem us gamers have had… but with that said since all it seems sony is taking care of almost all types of gamers with this .. unfortanitly me and most my friends find the welcome back package useless… we play fighting and RPG games and from what is listed nothing there is for us. the Playstation Plus for 30 days is great .. but something we wouldn’t use cause we straight out buy the products we want incase we have to let our ( Plus ) membership slide cause once its over you can’t play the games you download…. i know Sony that you mean well .. but by leaving out some of the genre of gamers that you did some of them .. myself included feel insulted. Once again thank you for the thought of the welcome back program , I’m just sorry that i can’t use any of the stuff.

  • ok wait i have 2 acounts does that mean i gan get 4 games?

  • I think Sony has gone above and beyond what I personally expected! Great Job!

    I have been a loyal PS fan since the first one: playing Twisted Metal, Tomb Raider and Command & Conquer FOR HOURS!! EVEN DAYS!! I lived with several people and we would pass the controller to a roommate when one of us had to go to work.

    Anyways, just some food for thought: Sony doesn’t own the games that they are providing for free. I’m sure a deal had to be made with the games’ producers. Although many of us have some or all of the games being offered, the gesture itself reaffirms my continuing commitment to Sony!

  • The deal goes like this: Heres 30 days of premier service for you ( same thing the cable company does everday with HBO to get you to keep it). And as an added bonus you can have 2 of these 5 3rd tier games downloaded onto your hard drive that you have 1) already bought, 2) never bought because even at list of 20 dollars you still dont want them, and now you have the rare opportunity to download them and take up your hard drive space. Wanna bet if you except this you will check a box in terms of deal that you except this as compensation for losing all of your personal details and cc info? Im sure youll feel great if your identity gets jacked and you lose your credit rating and the hassle that goes along with that because after all – you have pac man and donkey kong on your hard drive to make you feel better. So dance around with your free lolipop in circles thinking your a winner and hope for the best in the future. Ill be getting my own credit monitoring service and Sony can keep the junk.

  • In a way they don’t need to give us anything, they where down for such a long time, think about it they lost a lot of money giving everyone 2 free games is a very nice gift. So don’t be saying “i don’t like any of those games” or “why not just give us psn cash” what there doing is great and unneeded (all they need is to not get hacked again =p). Lets all just be happy that we can play online again.

  • I agree with xxbsbxx your ps plus offer is a marketing ploy. The only game worth having in your welcome back package is infamous and most of us already own it. I downloaded Dead Nation when it frst came out huge disappointment,overhead view liken to the 80’s game contra. LBP and the others are okay if you are 10. I know you did not have to offer anything but what you did offer is nothing but marketing strategy. For those of you who say psn is free I say this, during my life I have purchased 1 playstation with 51 titles, 2ps2’s with 131 titles, 2 ps3’s with 62 titles, 1psp with 23 titles, 378 downloaded rockband songs, DLC for many of my ps3 titles I.E. assasins creed games, black ops, RDR, killzone etc. I have also purchased 3 sony large screen tv’s, 2 sony prologic receivers, 2 sony vcr’s 2 sony dvd players, and this sony laptop i am complaining with, so i think i have payed my fair share to play on the psn. My biggest complaint is with your lack of communication during the blackout. Continued

  • None of my emails were answered so I called customer service. After 13 calls a rep answered told me he had no information and hung up on me. Really sony, this is how you treat a loyal customer of 20 plus years who has spent thousands and thousands of dollars on your products. Not all your gamers are children. A large portion are adults ( I’m 45) who also buy your big ticket electronics. So don’t give me a popsicle, pat me on the head while saying ” Hey big guy you know sony loves you”. I will remain loyal to ps3 because in my opinion it’s the best system out, but your treatment of the psn community has left a very bad taste in my mouth that your sour marketing popsicle will not take away. Your treatment of the blackout and your treatment of my honest inquiries prompted me to bypass the sony section at best buy 10 days ago when i needed a new tv. I went with the LG 50 inch plasma instead of the sony.

  • Through all this complaining i forgot to mention that i entrusted you with my credit card information and you left it lying around like a pizza delivery menu. As an adult who owns my home my credit rating is everything. I appreciate the free credit monitoring but it’s like closing the barn door after the horse got out. Shame on you sony

  • Where can we see instructions on how to get the games?

  • Thats great! I just wish you guys would hurry up on bringing the store back so we can get things back to normal. I know it’s a lot of work, but my patience is wearing thin.

  • way to dig deep sony i like how most of the games cost like $1.00 multi billion dollar company and they give us some of there worst games

  • Okay…wait, wait. PS3 is a FREE online service. Why do they owe us anything at all? I lost no money, I was simply inconvenienced for a few weeks…but I could still play single player games. Yeah I feared for my info for a minute, but it is what it is.

    Now the Plus subscribers I can understand, because they optionally pay for that service. Give them back their money + a few extras (I’m not a plus member, btw).

    Now as a PR stunt they’re offering 2 free games for the PS3 & PSP, plus some whistles and bells and you ingrates are complaining? That’s absolutely laughable.

    I will gladly accept the free offers. Thank you, Sony.

  • For those who think we are just complaining – thats ok but you are leaving a lot out of your argument. I keep hearing “they dont have to give us anything for the blackout” Youre right – they dont – and they arent doing it to be nice. They are doing it so we all dont leave and buy an xbox 360. I dont care about the blackout – I care about my personal details and credit card info being used and abused. For the youngsters who just used moms credit card this is a great deal for you because you have no credit rating or info that anyone cares about, but you are forgetting there are a LOT of adults that play as well and this effects us far more. For the adults this is a much bigger deal than a blackout and a couple of bad titles doesnt take away from that bad taste and possible future ramifications because as adults we need mortages and car loans and such that can be irrepreably damaged by this situation. Its the real life problems that are the issue not that you couldnt play your game for two weeks and because you dont have the real life issues you are happy with a couple of free 3rd tier games.

  • HEY SONY: People complaining about this list of games need to realize it’s all about minimizing your loss and that your not going to add games to it that still have potential to earn your company some cash.

    Really It’s a freaking sad excuse for “appreciation” when you say hey this games not earning like it used to so why don’t we just give it away anyway and say it’s because of what our customers had to go through with being locked out and having there info stolen. I been a big supporter of sony since the original ps1 b4 that even I was a fond consumer of sony electronics but this is distasteful to throw these out like your giving back. why nothing new why the same tired worn out old B.s. that nobody wanted before. really why would they now.

    The whole selected movies for a weekend thing…. really. what about those people that it takes a day to download a friggin movie are you really doing anybody a favor or would they just be better of going to crackle.com in their internet browser on the ps3 or googling extramina?

  • ps+ been regretting it since i wasted money on it a couple 2 to 5$ games every other month that suck, really.. really. you know your just giving more excuses for your loyal gamers/consumers to jump ship because it makes you look bad it really does. This whole time, during this whole affair i’ve been sticking up for you guys against what seems like the entire world just for you to b*tch smack me with this garbage?

    Really sony now would be the time to think more about your customers than your profits because if this is how you repay loyal fans soon you won’t have any. Why continue to sh^t on your customers? you even smile and act like it’s a good thing. Your targets for the hacking community what makes you think finally updating your security is gonna keep this from happening again? The consumers have done way more for you than you have for them so wtf. give back a little, don’t insult your intelligent customers the way you have been the way you do the preteen kiddies on here telling you good job.

  • and quit worrying so much about lost profits and start worrying about lost customers and not only that your becoming a joke all over the web especially because this appreciation garbage it’s a gd joke. don’t you still want NEW customers what are they gonna think when they work all this through there mind “Sony sucks they got hacked lost everybodys info. and tried to make up for it by giving out games nobody wanted for 30 days.” it’s fair to say in the future of gaming this whole affair has left a stain on your company that cannot be cleaned and you continue to act business as normal instead of truly making up for it you toss out old garbage and hoped we’d eat it up. I’m pist having to go through the process of finding out whether or not i been robbed 2 weeks later having to change my bank account info and my credit card and my email and my payapal and my facebook and. etc. and I’m still hear hoping you wake up and decide to really make up for it and that i’m not wrong and sony really is great but it doesn’t seem likely nor does it seem likely that i will be buying sony products in the future. You won’t read this and you won’t reply and the reason your shying away from it is because you know i am right.

  • I’m sorry. I find it hard to believe anyone complaining about free games/content/whatever is going to go to Xbox and then pay $60 for a yearly membership. Not gonna happen. I’m sure those who already left did so awhile ago. I’m pretty sure those people are on the Xbox forums whining about how they have to pay

  • How do I get the free stuff? PS — Add me on PSN. Thanks!

  • The welcome back package does suck, but they are giving us free identity theft protection and that’s kind of a big deal. Yet as a recent plus subscriber I should be compensated in the store for something I want. I should be refunded for the month I didn’t get to use. The free month isn’t good enough since the service sucks, there is not enough content.

  • Signed up for my i.d. prot. today..thanks for that sony..Now only if you will actually communicate with us. Man that would be great..thanks for a memorable Memorial Day weekend

  • i already have all of those games for the ps3 i want either crdit so i can get a diff game or im sol cause i already own those WTF i rather have lbp2 a game i dont own yet or 20$ credit

  • Nice package!!!
    Whoever is responsible for the intrusion,I think has a personal thing with sony.And if they do get caught, let’s hope the penalty matches the crime, Hackers get a kick from doing this, but should not involve innocent paying customers. Don’t forget.Anywone can get there network intruded.This time it was Sony.
    Anyway. can’t wait for the free games.

  • i agree with this : I just have one thing to say.

    Anyone who seriously thinks this is a good deal is fooling themselves.

    – Games were selected that people don’t own or don’t care to play. This should have been “choose any ONE free PS3 and/or PSP game from the library. Any game that’s currently for sale on PlayStation network is free for you to keep.” That way, people can choose from games they don’t own as well as games they would enjoy. None of those games have any appeal whatsoever to me. I also agree with the suggestion that you just get account credit that never expires or maybe a gift card for PS Store worth $50 (which effectively costs Sony pennies).

    – For the PSP: Pursuit Force? Really? A game that’s…what…6 years old? How about something released in the past year?

    Decent they did something, but come on now. The way they did it basically guarantees they’re not providing full compensation.

  • WTF SONY I agree with guy he has the right idea:

    I just have one thing to say.

    Anyone who seriously thinks this is a good deal is fooling themselves.

    – Games were selected that people don’t own or don’t care to play. This should have been “choose any ONE free PS3 and/or PSP game from the library. Any game that’s currently for sale on PlayStation network is free for you to keep.” That way, people can choose from games they don’t own as well as games they would enjoy. None of those games have any appeal whatsoever to me. I also agree with the suggestion that you just get account credit that never expires or maybe a gift card for PS Store worth $50 (which effectively costs Sony pennies).

    – For the PSP: Pursuit Force? Really? A game that’s…what…6 years old? How about something released in the past year?

    Decent they did something, but come on now. The way they did it basically guarantees they’re not providing full compensation.

  • Shadowz_Rebirth

    Its awesome were getting all this stuff for free… im alright with all the stuff sony gives me :) THANKSSONY

  • Thank you Sony… and I’m sorry… Thank you. :)

  • Is Wipeout HD+ fury a game or a show?

  • We all are dying to know when this will be released. Its been weeks since PSN was restored and you said soon after all services have been restored. Well it sure looks like it has all been restored…….so where is it Sony???

  • as far as i can tell the store is still down

  • On another note. Sony I know that you said you will be bringing the store back up on the 31st. My question is, Is that still the target date? I don’t want the 31st to roll around and be dissapointed. I have a nice little list of things that I need to purchase. If you know that you will not make that date how about a heads up. No hurry, get it done right. Just wanting to get an estimate as to when I can help fix your $3Billion loss. Thank you.

  • well xbox 360 here i come since sony cant get themselves together, i wouldnt have been so angry if sony would have told us an exact date, but kept all ps3 users hoping and checking for the day ps3 store would be up . . . . thanks alot -____-

  • i had a old account but my email got mest up so i made a new one will i still get these free stuff?? and wen will we know we will get this will playstaion send us a message?????

  • The Game Selection SuX…Didn’t Take Long To Come Up With This Junkie Compensation I Assume Sony?…30 Days Of PS+ Is A Marketing Gimmick…I Don’t Own The Games But I Know Alot Do…Although I’d Prefer Some Other Game In The PS Store…I Hear Alot Of BS That Sony Don’t Owe Uz Anything? Even Though 95% Of The People Saying That Crap Aren’t Going To Save Sony Money By Declining The Free Games/30 Day Playstation Plus Subscription Or AllclearID….No Their Going To Sit Here And Try To Make Themselvez Look Good Then Come The Day They’ll Be Downloading Themselves 2 Free Games As Well Just Like Everyone Elze Who Are Settling For This Garbage

  • Which Since Its DLC Its Just Data So Really Their Losing Nothing To Margin…Xbox Owns Online But I’d Never Dream Of Switching While Being Forced To Pay Online For It…Both Companies Sony & Microsoft Should Be Making Enough Money Alone To Pay For Free Online Play It Should Come With The System…Sony Took The Ps3 Backwards Compatibility Away Which Is One Of The ReeZeNz I Hope They Lose MillionZ…Heck You Guys Can’t Even Make A FF7 Remake? No Not Like The Crappy FF Games Square Enix Makes…Squaresoft..Even Though You Know It Would Make You Billions Of Dollars You Guys Are Ignorant If You Have That Much Money Then Why Am I Getting This Poor Excuse Of Compensation? Don’t Tell Me You Been Working Around The Clocks Either Its Been A Month And The Network Isn’t Fully Functional Quit Taking Weekends Off This Is A Business

  • Wasn’t Our Compensation Package Discussed 2 Weeks Ago? I Assume Your Not Going To Add Onto It Despite Making Us Wait…Um 2 Weeks More?

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  • people need to stop acting like brats when it comes to the free game thing. I know your upset that its not new cooler games but you sould be happy that thay could give us free games at all,because moste games are made frum diferent compinys so, psn hast to make a agrement with those compinys so we can have some free stuf, and im shur that thay had to pay them to do that so thay lost alot of money, so thay gave us what thay could just be happy you got anyting. I also know alot of you are upset about the persanal info deal hay I am to but as sune as psn fownd out thay whore hackt thay made shure to let people know you need to chang your creditcard onfo and other stuff. thay could have told know one and try to cover it up. so be glad thay told us this as soon as thay figerd out whats up. thank you psn for leting us know. just be glad psn network is back every one mist it so injoy it in sted of complanig.

  • Are the games for PS3 disc based or downloads?

  • I can’t believe you ungrateful ingrates are complaining. You feel you deserve more for a service you don’t pay for? So what, you purchase a lot of Sony merchandise. I buy nothing but Nissan, by your logic they should buy my gas. Xbox owners im sure purchase a lot of Microsoft marchandise, they still have to pay. As for you had your information stolen, yes Sony should’ve protected it better but, it isn’t like they didn’t have any protection on it. Also, if you read the paper or watch the news, assuming you can comprehend what they say, Identity Theft is the highest crime commited in the world right now. If your information is on the internet then it is exposed. All it takes is a team who knows what they are doing to get it.

  • Sony does offer PSN cards, that way people who don’t trust the internet can purchase things without put their information on there. Also food for thought, what about all of the tellers, cashiers, waitresses/waiters, ect. that you hand your credit card to they can get your information too, and YOU gave it to them. Who whould you blame then? Probably that company. If you “adults” don’t want your credit affected by this then cancel your card and get a new one. It is that simple. You act like you have never lost a card or had one stolen. Quit being a bunch of babies. Just because you own all of the games doesn’t mean anything. Trade in the ones that have the highest trade in value. InFamous and LBP both have a $20 trade in value where I live, and I already traded them in.

  • Also they can’t offer games that they don’t own. These developing companies came to them and said “Hey we do a lot of business with yall and would like to offer these games in a package when the network comes back online.” You don’t think about that. As for your ignorant FF7 idea, Sony does not make games. Developing companies do, like Rockstar, Trearch, Bungie, InfinityWard,…… just to name a few. If you think programming isn’t hard and that they aren’t working day and night.

  • Then tell me what this says: 01100110010101100100001101001011011110100100111101010110010010010100011101001110010011110101001101000001010011100101010101100110010101100100001101001011010101000110011101000101010101010110000101101100010010010100011001000101. That is only seven words and took two min. They have years worth of this to desypher, in order to find where the intrusion was. I truly would have hated to had that job at that point. So in short think before you speak, letting the entire world know of your ignorance.

  • I was gonna say you must work for sony,but you think they’re looking through binary so you obviously don’t know what you’re talking about.

  • i own these though :(

  • keep it up sony!

  • mephistopholes73

    THE NETWORK IS DOWN AGAIN!!!! THEY MIGHT BE PUTTING THE STORE BACK UP TONIGHT!!!!! FREE STUFF WOOOOOOHOOOOOOOO!!!!!

  • let’s see here did anyone here have to pay for their monthly psn subscription…..no? that means it’s free.

    xbox users pay 60 bucks a year for their service, so if something like this happens microsoft has to reimburse them for lost time and money.

    sony didn’t need to do this but they chose to because good PR never hurts. If they were truly greedy then they’d offer only two games and nothing else,

    so question is what do you think would make everyone happy?

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