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!
DerKapitan, No problem. Thanks for the clarification.
That makes up for it, a choice of 2 of 5 games that suck. 30 days of playstation plus. If I wanted Playstation Plus, I would have bought it to begin with. This isn’t an apology. This is a giant marketing ploy. Thanks a lot Sony. What a waste. I should have bought a WII.
Hey there are many of us who DO NOT have these games and as has been said before if PSN were give us credit or PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED content they would much more money than they can afford to lose and possibly end up charging for a currently FREE service just make revenue back
Unless you do play in which case hit me up with a friend request!
@Elvick_ . Send them a brand new system and they charge you $50 and send you a busted up old used one. No thanks. Refund only.
Sounds like a cool package, but i have all those games already for the PS3. Can u please add a couple of more games or something? because i feel like its not fair to me=[….PLEASE I’M A LOYAL CUSTOMER I BROUGHT OVER 5 GAMES BECAUSE OF THE OUTRAGE AND BEAT THEM ALL. I AM NOT TRYING TO BE UNGRATEFUL BUT I REALLY FEEL LIKE ITS UNFAIR TO ME
Awesome!
I am most likely going to get InFAMOUS but is it worth it to get Little Big Planet if I already own Little Big Planet 2? If it is not worth it, what else should I get? (I have neither of these games and have never tried any of them btw)
Damn it i haave all these games
My question regarding the loyalty program is this. In our household we presently have 2 Active PS3 Consoles and 2 active PSP consoles. And we currently has 4 PSN accounts in use – that being said, with the Loyalty program is it per Console, per Account or per household?
For Example, am I only entitled to Two games on either PS3 or PSP only or will I be allowed more?
Infamous 2 and Stardust or Dead Nation…
Thanx Sony!
All’s forgiven.
when will the playstation store be back up so i can play dc universe
Thank you sony with your hard work!
GOOD STUFF SONY…LOVING THIS
i like how people think sony owes them stuff when it wasnt there fault talk about greedy sure its nice but people need to lay off with o man i already own this be happy that there trying and if so sell the 2 dam games and sownload them for free and make a profit
hey add me to play some black ops or nba 2k11.
jp71395
sooo… what about those of us who already own all the games? what do we get? we should still get something, otherwise it’s not fair.
Thank you sony!!! I’ve been waiting 24 days to play on PSN and offline was soooo boring to play on…
Go SONY! Complainers = NOOBS AND XBOYS! This is awsome!
I own 4/5 games listed. So Dead Nation I’m getting. Then I just need to figure out which game i want a copy on my HDD. I think i’m leaning towards LBP.
Do I get the psp games 2? hmmm
thx for fixing it
to all people who say that they have the games already a suggestion would be to download the game n jus trade in ur disc to gamestop or sumthin…so then u can atleast get sumthing out of this deal…dont kno if any one brought that up or not but wit that logic atleast ull be able to get sumthing
welcome to real life, it’s not fair. lol. now that you know that, you may just survive it.
What a bunch of garbage. Those games are not even the kind of games I play. Playstation should have given everyone like $50 in free playstation credits instead of tryin to screw us over. Thanks Playstation for making it worse. I bet these movies are all gonna be movies that are free on demand if you have comcast or dish. I think I may switch to xbox atleast they dont screw you after you already been screwed
PS, wow 31 pages of comments is a bunch of comments!
PLEASE MAKE THE MOVIES GOOD!
sweet game list. glad its nothing crappy.
i hope when all is said and done that they do some serious updates to not make the service as crucial to the use of the device
sony is stupid they give us [DELETED] games i already have those games
hey does anyone know if sony is still going to do the playstation rewards? just wondering i hear about it last year and never got a chance to get into the beta.
@1537 no1 cares
Is it worth it to get LBP if I already own LB2?
so wait if i go online right now i can download two of these games?
i’m so happy that the network is back up but friday the 13 was a very bad day for me my 4yr old fat ps3 that i got new got the YLOD and to top that off all my game data was on it. i called sony about it and ask if my data would be lost if they fixed it and they said that i would lost it all. so i did the fast fix to get it working and i got my data from it, i got it on my new 320gb slim now ( i miss the old fat look and touch bottons though) but heres one more thing i could not switch over my downloaded content or delete it from my old one and cant even download it to the new one because the ps store is still down. the reason that i’m saying all of this is that sony needs 2 things:
Has anyone gotten onto the Store yet or are they going to drop this tomarrow(this week)??? anyone know
1. find a way to recover data from the hard drive, sony you losing money because people do not want to lose there data that they worked hard to earn so they fix it there self or even paying computer shop to fix it.
2. make the future slims better then the first system of its model.
sony when ever the ps4 come out, think about a disc changer like a 4 disc that would be really cool and it’s not been done before too.
one more thing, i hope that the sony ps store gets back up soon, like hours soon.
thanks sony for giving us gamers a network that is free and with great people that work at sony to make all of
Will this apply to people who first signed up after the restoration?
Not good enough SONY. Most PSN users already own these titles. I own 4 out of these 5 PS3 games. I would prefer a coupon for a free “Greatest Hits” title.
i only wish zombies map packs were free downloads. just got cod world at war.
MY COUSINS ACCOUNT AND MY BRO’S ISNT WORKING!! he has been very depressed. Can you please tell us when we will get our e-mails because they had no received it yet and everytime they sign in it says error has occured!! PLEASE HELP!!
wooo!! yes! thank u sony, i love u guys, and i love my PSN. add me on ur freinds list if u like, i always like to have new friends, (creed brothrhood online, dead space2 online, lego clone wars)
THANK YOU SONY!!! :)
@1548 Yeah, most likely. They said ALL REGISTERED accounts in NA, so that’s probably a yes.
@DewottZekrom88 its for users who suffered the downtime. not new users.
thank you sony for the free stuff! but i didn’t mind the outage because i beat oblivian totally and absolutally but thank you again for your efforts and i hope something like this never happens again
What Happen if i have all those games?
and @1491 shuddup be happy with what sony gave you crybaby
ok what about people that lost there accounts and made new ones like me do i still get the games??? i made it right when psn was back on
yo this sucks after all u give us these crappy games i already gotm all so no thanks n what about the free music u talked about for the non subscribers looks like thats not gonna happen either so after all u still prove u r worthless sony n seriously ill prefer microsoft over sony any day of the week period…
@1525
I heard from someone saying that full PSN restoration will end on May 31st so the Playstation Store will be back up by then.
sony nobody measures up to you i never lost trust in you i will always love you no matter what