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!
for the comments about wanting to get free add-ons, i have a feeling sony employees will not read up to 5000 comments
@JH to compinsate for something maybe
men thanks sony i really appriciate that.
@Vinland_Krauser vou ignorar mesmo
o resto, pq vc deve pensar que sou um desses pirralhos.
procure saber o assunto antes, ou ainda nao
sabe que a Sony nao vai dar porcaria nenhuma pra America Latina toda?
simplesmente fomos igorados e vao usar filtro de IP
pra impedir da gente usar o tal “welcome pack”
obrigado por me avisar dos PSN Cards…..
Still i dont meet that many people on here that are down or at the least know what the hell im talking about lol add me i play all FPS’s and anything else i can get ahold of
sony has a big massive peepee becareful or sony’s massive peepee will invade all your holes ;)
i want pie, add me
Yo sony, put the store back so i could flip those birds yes yes y’all.
Im down with the clown til’ I’m dead in the ground.
Awesome Sony! I love my PS3
Thank’s a lot for the free games Sony, can’t wait till the stores is up so I can actually get them (Or however you get them) However, It’s depressing to scroll around this menu to see ungrateful people wanting more or saying stuff like “I got these games, this is like a middle finger to my face” I thought, why? Seriously. Anyway, thanks again!
so when will the store be up so we can get all the free stuff that is being promised?
all your Orifice belong to us
once the store gets back online these blogs will probably become a ghost town~
Kind of a (really ) dumb question , when is the store going to be back up and why was it taken down aka “under maintenance”? only reason i ask is because i need to access a part of the store to enable a part of some games ex: mortal kombat online feature and pre-order items. I’m in no big hurry or rush to do so but just wanted to know.
@5537 im be down im be down
they said it would be 2 more weeks right
the ps store will be put for atleast a week why do you guys keep on repeating the same questions over and over? this is getting stupid and ridiculous
There is a user out there who said almost the same things I was saying, on the day of the outage I tried to register for PSN only to find that Playstation Network was not working. I hope that I recieve this package too
i have not seen one comment from sony yet so you can prob stop asking questions
@boondox30
LMAO at spending $200 on PS Home stuff. Are you rich or something?
I never played little big planet…….whats so special about it
ok im out if you want add me i play all FPS’s OP’S and Brink im doing now
sweet since i don’t own many games( wishing I could aquire a backwards compatible one still since I play a lot of the ps2 games still.
Sadly I just set my cousin’s ps3 up online like 2-3 days I think befoer it all crashed lol I now got ot go back over and set it back up with new password and such if he not messed it all up.I wonder how much longer it all will be down for the store and such I had some credit and hope it still there.
When is PSN store gonna be back???
Sony is never going to reply to this, they never replyed to the other updates
@JH50
When does the ps store come back online
THANKS SONY
FOR IGNORE ALL SOUTH AMERICA
AND TREAT US LIKE NOTHING
Allright for real this time im done i swear i will not be pulled back into this blackhole blog (Copyright by samurai_sniper) great song title ha
WHERE THE F**K IS MY CROSS GAME CHAT >=(
i think you need a nice cold beer
Sounds amazing sony. I am dissapointed in the whole situation but this totally makes it better. thank you for caring about the customer sony. keep up the good work.
@5505 Sony doesn’t control anything with Black Ops servers, not lag, or 4x XP weekends.
@south i dont know its going to be out for atleast a week if youve been following sony’s “timeline” ;)
AleAC77, dosen’t the rest of the world do the same in regard to south america? lol jk i think brazilian ladies are hawt
Wow Sony I didn’t expect you guys to give us this much, maybe a few
$10 games, but not full length games like the ones your givn out now. Thank u about a gazzilion times over.
Also, I agree with whoever said they don’t fel at all bad for the unthoughtful gamers who switched blindly
To xbox. They were really being rash, plus they must be missing out now :)
oh one last thing why would you be in the North American blog post complaining about not getting a South American welcome package just curious
No im not rich. There were like 6 homes i liked and a woman needs alot of clothes lol.
@samurai ROFL was wondering the same thing
boondox30, i thought it was shoes lol
AleAC77, try sending Sony an email instead of spamming their blog.
yea if your going to spam the blog at least mak it interesting like me
Well shoes yes for all the outfits lol.
crap i got pulled into the blackhole blog again Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo
emails to sony are no good, just an automated response with no bearing to the problem
Guess its going to be a while before i could flip those birds huh Sony ? yes yes y’all.
I love shoes and bags
lol this blog is addicting
I dont have any bags on PS Home. I do have an ice cream cone though lol.
@ Deadly its like ive known all of you for no time at… all wait a min