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!
*I wouldn’t mind having Modnation Racers (PS3) on that list
what if we own a PSP and a PS3?
I’m pumped. Thanks again Sony!
i cant even go to the store on playstation so how will i get the games
So if a PS3 has multiple users, ALL those users get 1 month of ps plus and ALL of them get to pick from those games?
I’m so excited- just read about some of the games. I already chose the ones I want :)
PSN when are you guys giving us the free playstation plus plz respond
ah i haveall theses ……. is there anyway you can offer any addons too p.s sorry for complaining just a suggestion
I love you Sony. ’nuff said. :P
of course you cant get the games, ps store is still down. try reading. its not a long post.
Thank you very much!!
Also, It stinks having the xbox nubes think they are better at school and make fun of ps3 users D: please ask activision for us? thank yews! 8D
Ha this is pretty cool. But man I can see the bigshots at Sony hating every moment of this. That’s A LOT of money lost.
Sony has a choice of buying back my $300 system that’s brand new with 3 hours gameplay which I was never able to get online, or I can mod it and make a website to teach everyone else how to. But I guess they like modders. Oh well. Homebrew here I come!
Free games for our vulnerable information being leaked??? No thank you SONY! I prefer receiving 2 free years of credit reports….
After all, a game is boring after a month…. but trying to take unauthorized crap off of your credit takes much longer!!!
THIS IS AWESOME, INFAMOUS AND DEAD NATION, THIS IS EPIC!!! SONY FOREVER, PS3 FTW!!, i only have one game from that list mostly because the rest are all on PS Store, but Infamous was always one game i always wanted since i was a huge fan of Sly series, also dead nation i believe is a new game, for them to give it for free most have been very generous from the developers behind dead nation, u guys should support them for this bold and generous move.
yay i was going to buy infamous but now i dont
Super Stardust HD $9.99 and 4 years old.
LBP $18.00 Nearly 3 years old.
I’m not being a whiner or greedy. This list just sucks.
PSN INC could u give me a free PSN Card for my psp my ID is mad_man323 PLZ IM BEGGING I NEED MAPS PLZ………..
cool no my gf is happy and i am
Activision cares not for its consumers, it merely picks up licenses and runs them into the ground with yearly watered down releases. they wont be helping Sony lol. not now that they own Blizzard. they’re counting fat stacks from World Of Warcraft. and laughing in your face as they crank out $15 map packs.
plz plz plz plz plz……………………..
Can you please answer me this question? I bought my PS3 when I lived in Miami, but now I moved to Santo Domingo in Dominican Republic and I still have my US PSN account. Will I be included on the Welcome Back program?
Please tell me because I will be dissapointed that you aren’t supporting this Welcome Back thing worldwide. That is discriminatory.
Very unfortunate that I already own all of the PS3 games proposed…
I’m glad I didn’t buy Dead Nation and Super Stardust HD yet. Two games I was planning on buying.
*sigh* different countries will be gettting welcome back packages, this is merely the North American one.
GReat news even though I already own 4 of the five games being offered for PS3, the only one I dont have yet is Superstardust HD… Anyways, Im happy the crowd seems to be satisfied!
No offense but i would have preferred Ratchet and clank like Europe. but great job with the rest.
Hey awesome job sony i stayed loyal the whole way. Good to have you back and i can wait for the welcome back program
Congrats Sony for getting PSN Back online. I believe you guys handled this very well.
Others PSN User and myself are glad to be back online. Those who switched from
PS3 to XBox basically swithced from free to PAY TO PLAY(PTP).
I think we PSN users should get Escalation MAP Pack for COD Balck Ops for free.
And Myself with other PSN users would like Cross-Game Chatiing. It would be very conveinient
for all users.
Always Sony Listen to the people
they just might have the answer
Please Reply if you feel the same because Sony need to listen to the people the more this is spread the more Sony will see it and do something about it
Reply by putting @superninja be fore your msg
FROM THE FAQ QUESTION BLOG
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+ Kavewoman48 on May 16th, 2011 at 3:19 pm said:
I can’t believe Sony has the audacity to post and update the welcome back package before answering or dealing with any of the questions posted on this blog. Is this how it’s going to continue to be? We were kept in the dark a.k.a. hardly any updates when Sony shut down the network. Now we’ve got questions that are far more signaficant then “what are you going to give me?” but the only answers we get are “thanks it’s good to be back” and here take these free products and shut up??? C’mon my patience is already thin.
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+ Kavewoman48 on May 16th, 2011 at 10:37 am said:
I received the email and link but when I enter the numbers and letters I end up getting this message “There is a problem resetting your password. Please click the link again or copy and paste the link into an Internet browser.” I copy paste the link again and I’ve gotten the same message 20 times.
STILL WAITING FOR INFORMATION SONY………
Well I appreciate the offer of the 5 games..own Infamous… dont really care about the rest of titles. a month of ps+ will be nice..but man arent these games like 2 or 3 year old games..and i dont even use the playstation home stuff…so that’ll be quite useless to me. I just hope the 40 bucks in my wallet will still be there when the store is back up or customer sevice will for sure be hearing from me. Thanks for the 5 bucks i guess..its 5 bucks of ps+ i might have gotten anyway
Thats AWESOME!!!!!…
no no really it is!!!
they are giving me games that I already have or could care less about and 60 days of psn+ too? WOW good thing I only got a year of psn+ I am so lucky and happy happy joy joy right now.
wheres the mention about those poor [DELETED] (LIKE ME) that got DCUO and paid for a Legends plans??
oh yeah thats right, the ‘Legends” plan I guess referred too the LEGENDARY fail of PSN
anyone know what PSN ACTUALLY stands for?????
Pretty
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Network
I’m so over it
me want prototype!!!!!!!!!!!
SONY STALLION!
What about Netfix?
Sony wins again ,baby!
I think that they will start up the Store tomarrow i hope Great Job SONY!!!!!!!!!!!!! My money better be on there still or im going to be pissed!!!! I just bought $100 in PSN cards but i got 50 on right now i want to spend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
thanks Sony!
Add me on psn A_Man1995
last time before I leave work, and the whiners lol. Escalation pack is owned by Activision. take it up with them. they’ll laugh in your face.
F XBOX ALL SONY AND PSN INC THEY ARE THE BEST COMPANIES
I’ve always wanted to play infamous, now i’ll be able to, thanks Sony :]
@10 If they had given us free Black Ops Map pack they would probably go broke cause almost everyone would take that and I’m sure they owe a percentage of the sales of the map packs to Treyarch/Activision.
awesome
Lovee it sony :D
What would be really amazing is if Sony would give us our backwards compatibility back for Playstation 2 games. Now THAT would be a nice gesture and “welcome back” gift to the community.
Oh man I think I’m going with Wipeout HD for sure. I’ve wanted it for a long time but never felt like paying for it. Patience pays off! Sony thanks for the freebies. Really appreciate what you guys are doing to make up for what the hackers did.
My question is why we get different games then those in Europe? Personally I would prefer both as a option and Sony offers 6 games but thats just me.
can the downloads for the free games be activated up to 5 ps3 systems?
DUDE! IM SO HAPPY PSN IS BACK UP I WWUZ GETTIN BORED PLAYIN OFFLINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!