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!
thanks Sony! no hard feelings!
Sony the promotion is a fabulous idea. I only have one small problem. I’m In Florida and still can not play games online or access the Playstation Store. Is there anybody else in the same situation?
I’m still thinking about buying a 360. My bro can’t even log into his account. He never got a message to reset his password. Each time he tries to reset his password via email, he gets an error. Fix this crap!
And nice job picking all of the games I already own. Why not store credit? Whatever Sony, you suck
maybe sony should give a 50% off sale on the entire store for the first two week to all psn users as well the welcome package that sould make everybody happy customers and game developers
YAY! Give it up to sony for letting us have OLD games! I love you sony! you guys are WACK!
dead cell mybe he put a FAKE email in his psn id cause then you can go to yahoo or what ever you used and make an account with that same name and email and you will get a email to reset it lol! thats what my sis did :)
you guys are [DELETED] saying the welcome baqck packagage isnt enough. what if sony said to [DELETED] with our customers and didnt give you any thing free after they got their online back. how would u like it then huh?
@4024
ok i understand in some ways but if u was a true fan of ps u whant ask or throw a fit becase of the games they ofer us i have seen u put down ps and the way they handel this i did get frustrted about the info not being ther but it dos take time and take time to get the info they need so if u what to put them down go get a xbox or a wii i thank what they afer is good enafe for me and i am glade psn is back up now they card of whated to put psn up the same time the store whad be up but they didnt
infected they lost enough money and those games arnt going to sell milloins EVer agan so it will be ok to give them away think about it if psn gave the new games that are popular away they would lose BILLOINS :D
Thanks Sony!
btw everyone who is saying they want more GTFO
awsomemike i aggre
That’s what im talking about!!!.
their appreciation for your waiting isnt enough for you huh? how bout giving you NOTHING!!!
awesome! can’t wait!
if they gave me nothing then i wouldent care because haveing the psn up after my bday and all the new games i got kz3 ruse lb2 and 50$ psn card is enough for me!!!
Really if everyone wants more then i say give us nothing
THANK YOU SONY! TWO OF THESE GAMES FOR FREE IS AMAZING THANK YOU WAY BETTER THAN I EXPECTED THANK YOU
Sony’s given all of us years of entertainment, are down for one month, offer free stuff for their one muckup in how many years? and you all become greedy, spoiled brats. if you’re really loyal ps fans, you dont expect anything. you merely thank Sony for their years of entertainment, and go about your real life.
@luke no, im talking about the people who arent giving any appreciation to sonys gifts
omg thanks sony
THAAAAANK YOU derkapitan.
Sony, So what about those of us who have 40+ games on the ps3 already?
I have a great idea.. How about offering us a voucher to get 1 Free Game at any gamestop, or Walmart.
That right there will make me 100% happy.
Dont offer us last years titles for free, NO ONE PLAYS THOSE ANYMORE!
lukecs1s, I was only offering a suggestion that would pacify those who didn’t want to go the DDL route with games like InFamous and Little Big Planet. I just prefer having the discs as opposed to the DDL. I am certainly grateful that the PSN is back on, and that Sony is offering these things on the fly. I’m probably going to go with the non-retail games like Super Stardust HD and the like, and reclaim InFamous and LBP on disc in the future.
add me
Cool list an all. But I have purchased all of these games already. Is there not any alternatative for that kind of situation.
@4031
well the cc numbers was not took ok the rest of it u can block and haker also got in to 4 outher plases after psn
so they was pro hakers not the normel ones
whats everyone going to get dead nation and wipe out im going to get those since i had infamous and have lbp2
Well Gee… Some Crappy games and some probably even worse rentals over a weekend. All I had was a PSP but still sold it and all other Sony Gear I ever had…. See Ya later Sony!
is Ok For Me!!!! LBP and Killzone
Dead Nation: I already bought the game…
inFAMOUS: I already bought the physical game…
LittleBigPlanet: I already bought the physical game…
Super Stardust HD: This was free content from the PS+, which I pay for…
Wipeout HD + Fury: The only game I don’t have, and those who started their PS+ early also had it for free..
Man, I understand those are pretty awesome freebies, but man, There is almost nothing for me since I already have everything… Can’t we select one more month of PS+ instead of a game if we have them all? I gain almost nothing from the outbreak personally, and it’s the same for all hardcore who bought those games… This make good plan are for people who like ps3, but not for the hardcore fans, who lost the same but gained nothing out of this..
People who bought all of those should be able to choose to have 1 more month per games they won’t download (ex: we have 2 PS3 free games on the list, so if we have all of those, we could have 2 months of PS+ instead, which is worth 6$ anyway, which is far less than the value of the game anyway)…
thanks for all the information since this whole thing started i was surprised to hear that the psn was back i saw it on youtube and i checked right away and it was on i can’t wait till the psn store comes so i can redeem my preorder code can’t wait :D
i hate greedy people
to those who got their information stolen, let us not forget the DAMAGE that has been caused. Sony needs to reward us for letting us down, not informing us, and keeping us in the dark. For those of you who can settle on the backside of Sonys nuts and snuff the fromunda cheese, thats you. But I want rewarded for my patience, and i want sony to know that they have loyal fans, and i want sony to be as loyal as we are.
here’s a question i would like answered . will the older umd’s for the psp EVER be put on the psn? i lost a lot of great games cause i switched to the psp go.
@4150
later
I don’t expect anything, although I appreciate the gesture. I just want the store back up so I can get the latest Fallout DLC. I’ve heard it wont be up in increments til’ later this Month. Bummer, if true.
Hey! what about Asia?.. get it back online!
darker if your talking about psp only then ok but ps3 titles are awsome! infamous lbp are two AMAZEING games played them both probly going to get infamous 2 and i have lbp2
Games are old and i own 4 of em………and have for a while. hell, id settle for a $40 store credit instead of these “awesome” titles
Sony oughta just mail you all tampons & kleenex. just sayin’
i murderously mutilated those hackers in their sleep
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DerKapitan knows what hes talkin about. the rest of u are probably like 7 year olds and have had psn for only a few months. dont judge something that u dont know much about.
Excellent but what about the customers outside USA… we need some bonus pack or game pack free…
Isnt fair only for US residents…!!!!
sen, you are getting a free mounth of ps+ and all the time you missed even if you have it allready so every one Does get something oh and a prem mounth of quiroicity
its not that people want more its they want to be compensated for losing all of our information and making us the consumers very upset and the fact that alot of us had to get new credit cards. i for one dont care since i dont do a ton of gaming anymore. got a family and other things in life that are way more important then gaming!
DerKaptin – People like you that swing from the hairs of sonys stinkys are the same ones who will take doodoo in a bag and eat it if sony gave it to you. You’re pathetic.
blue fuel this is the amarican serv theres diffrent servs go to one of them if your so worried :P
my psn account is like three years old and i loveit
i got my ps3 about a week before the hack i was like NOOOOOOO!!!! but it’s back up now so im glad these are very nice gifts and they didnt have to give us anything