Details of The Welcome Back Programme for SCEE Users

Now that certain PSN services have been restored and gamers are once again enjoying online gaming, it seems a good time to confirm what is being offered as part of the Welcome Back programme.

[LOGICWINS]

Infamous 1? Just as expected :)

In the words of Ric Flair: WOOOOOO!!

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[user858621]

I shall be getting this since I dont own the game and borrowed it from a mate ages ago

[NewZealander]

out of that list the only game i own is infamous, so maybe i should get little big planet and quest for booty? any suggestions?

[user858621]

quest for booty is really really short it length (1-1 1/2 hours) so unless your a heavy rnc fan dont bother, little big planets a good choice its a solid platformer with millions of levels, dead nation looks really cool (think a top down left for dead)

[dc1]

Quest for booty is a 7-9 hour game. Im not sure what 335 is referencing.

[AAACE5]

Infamous and Wipeout for me!

...I'll let the kids get LBP.

[stevenhiggster]

@NewZealander.

As an owner of all of those games, I would have to strongly recommend Wipeout and Dead Nation. Just my opinion but they are both amazing games, far better than a lot of full priced releases!

[stevenhiggster]

Good choices, kinda expected WarHawk though to drum up some more interest for StarHawk.
Personally I've got all of these (except Mod Nation PSP which I will be getting thank you) but I'm not bothered, I'm just glad to have it back and have my PS+ extended by 60 days free!
And to anyone who hasn't got Dead Nation yet, WHY? And now you have no excuse, it is awesome!

[rmatott]

And to anyone who hasn't got Dead Nation yet, WHY? And now you have no excuse, it is awesome!

thats the first thing i said when i saw dead nation was one of the games, like yesss more people to play online with!

[popup]

I wish it was just credit. I have all the offered games :(

[TheFreak]

I feel you I have all of them too this sucks. Was afraid this would happen. They should have offered us to buy whatever we wanted to inside a price range. Happy I got 60 days of ps+ though.

[Baba1906]

same here. i have all the of games... kinda sucks...

[Information Minister]

What happens if you have a European account, but live in NA and vice-versa? Do you get to download free games on all your accounts?

The simple thought of getting Super Stardust, inFamous, LBP and Dead Nation, all for free... It makes my heart beat way faster than it should!

[MintBerryCrunch]

from what im hearing, you had to have had the acct active since april 20th, 2011 for it to work on other accounts

if you made one right now, it wouldnt work

[Pandemic]

What if you have 2 PSN accounts.. Double the games?

[hamburger123]

Im gettin infamous and dead nation finally

[FamilyGuy]

This is a hard decision :/

The only game I already own is InFamous.
I really want Dead Nation and Super Stardust HD (always loved its look) but it seems silly to chose those two over LBP which has hours of endless game play options as well as being a full retail title compared to the two PSN games.

I wonder what's on offer for the Japanese PSN...

[Prcko]

OMG
Infamous and dead nation is my pick,Sony you rock,and i mean you are the bestttt!!!

[PS3n360]

those are my two picks also. I am surprised and stoked that we are getting 2 games for waiting out this event. No way in hell MS would have offered up full games. We got one arcade game when live went down over Christmas a while back and we pay for live.

[user9422077]

Always wanted to play Dead Nation; nice one, Sony.

[DWOM]

same here! I own Infamous already, so I'll be grabbing Dead Nation and Little Big Planet.

[PirateThom]

Dead Nation for me... I have all the other games...

LittleBigPlanet and Killzone Liberation on PSP, I guess...

Edit: Although, the page cannot be found...

[Super-Brad]

Yeah, I'm taking a guess but I reckon there was issues with the content again, the EU team have been saying all day that there is legal issues facing giving the content away in each European country.

The only game I want of that list is Dead Nation, it's the only one I haven't got too.

[SCThor]

Here, the us version:

http://blog.us.playstation....

[grailly]

That's kinda the problem with what they are offering...except for dead nation, there's nothing for PS+ subscribers; littlebipplanet and infamous were given out free with a PS+ yearly subsription(chances were, you already had one of them) wipeout was given out on the first month of PS+ subscription.

I guess I'll settle for dead nation and PSP games, I was hoping for warhawk, I'm a bit dissapointed. at least PS+ subscribers get 60 days more.

[mastiffchild]

Thing is most people whowant Plus and feel they would get something out of it already subscribe so you could say that subscribers are getting the better deal as they're getting 60 days of something they WANT whereas I'm still not that bothered about the 30 days I'm getting(it's a nice gesture, don't get me wrong, I'm just not able to get through all my disc based games so finding time for more downloads is beyond me anyway)as I won't use them i any great way-won't have time to make it worthwhile which s why I don't already have a sub.Betas are the only tempting thing, for me, about Plus and, again, time is too short for me.

Point is Plus subscribers were always likely to have played whatever games they lsited and with 77million accounts just what did we think was going to happen? Your 40 days or so(or close to)you're getting fre for something you would otherwise have paid for is a better deal than me getting something I could afford but just don't want. It's the same thing as people not liking the games on pffer because they've played them already in my mind because I just don't care about Plus. If I did I'd sub and this would be a great deal for myt I think.

Either way Sony are offering something for othing and it's churlish to say otherwise and I've been amazed at the vitriol on the blog comments. Some people are so perfect in their own worlds that they are hapy to say they DESERVE better from a service they don't even pay for? It's a goodwill gesture, there were always going to be people who'd bought the damn games(I own ALL the PSP games for example but I won't cry about it-might download them and sell my hard copies but I'll get sod all-maybe most for MNR and LBP?)but, seriously, woldn't that be the same whatever games they picked? The only way round it would be to settle on an amount in each country that bus a particular average game and deposit that amount in local currency in PSN accounts, no? But even then it's not going to please everyone ands would be difficult to arrange.

Can't we just accet they're trying to say thankyou for our patience and leave it at that? I'd have been ecstatic with PSP games I didn't own but I happen to be unlucky this time. So be it. didn't care about Plus either? Not going to moan. It's a gesture and a nice one, a bigger one than they needed to make and people knocking them has knocked my faith in the nature of gamers. I thought we had better manners. This could have happened a thousand times(hacks) and the company woud keep it quiet so I think we're lucky to be getting anything-even information about the hhack. I seriously doubt we get to know about a fanction of what goes on day to day in the world opf our info being hacked and nicked from "trusted" companies. At least Sony ave cleared it all up for us and offered an olive branch-they didn;'t need to ye so many of us are complaining it isn't enough or the right one. FFS. Grow some class. This isn't about being a fanby but understanding what happened here-they already lost billions and we lost, erm, nothing.

[mastiffchild]

Sorry for the aimless ranting but going to the blog wound me up-not aimedat anyone here at all-just a few idiots there moaning about it being too little and too late and that Sony didn;t appreciate their loyalty. Sony can't please everyone and not to understand that or accept when you might be ess fortunate than the next guy is to be blind to the important point here:they didn't HAVE to do anything for regular PSN users and for Plus users they only really had to make up their days. They offer more than they had to. End of story. Why moan about it? If you're lucky and well off enough and have enough time to have bought and playued all the games already then I think yor life has already got a bit of good fortune, don't you?

Sony just lost, and is still,losing, billions. some of us cry because Sony hasn't chosen the right sodding games? Really?

[extermin8or]

the blog posts been deleted

[Nitrowolf2]

yeah that sucks

[PirateThom]

Nick had said it was delayed due to some issues of finalisation... maybe someone just jumped the gun with this...

[FAGOL]

Dead Nation and Infamous for me. Sucks for anyone who has all of these games already though.

[chaos999]

Yeah.. -.-

Maybe they deleted the post after the protests and they'll change somethings.

[Neo Nugget]

lol, I don't think so.

[jack_burt0n]

couple psp games for me, just want the store and plus renewal.

[militant07]

Wipeout HD/Fury
Ratchet and Clank: Quest for Booty

[dorron]

Wipeout and Dead Nation for me then, as I already own the others...

[SockMaster]

Damn, i was hoping they would put in Warkhawk and M.A.G thats a really shame because they only game that peaks my interest is INFAMOUS and i already have done three playthroughs on that, just my opinion really i heard lots of good things about LBP, i have 3 of the PSN games mentioned, Looks like Dead Nation and LBP for me! Anywho enough complaing free gift is free!

Thankyou Sony!

[GodofSackboy]

IMO LBP is the second best game this gen after MGS4

[mastiffchild]

Yeah, serously, if you HAVEN'T got LBP and this offer comes along it's like a whole lifetime of a game for nowt. You can't really beat it for value in the first place so getting it gratis would be amazing. Had they offered LBP2 on this i'd have been elated as it's the one game I've wanted badly this year and not been able to manage to afford yet. Bad times, lol!

Anyway, if you haven't got LBP it's a no brainer imho.

[SockMaster]

thanks for the reccomendation's guys, il check those bad boys out!

[rmatott]

they should have done either warhawk or MAG, those games would get huge #'s boost with all the new owners.

but i am totally cool with what they are doing, 60 extra day of plus, and infamous/LBP, owned both, sold both on ebay, now will replay them both.

[ReaperX]

I only have a 1mb connection, so no PS3 games for me. :-(
I'll be getting MNR and LBP on my PSP, though. :-)

[DarkBlood]

damn already have infamous and littlebigplanet

so i guess i'll have to pick 2 out of the 3

Wipeout HD
Quest for booty
Dead Nation

hmmmmmmm?

and damn i beleive i use my ps3 account on my psp as well so i guess i cant get some free psp games lol

[extermin8or]

I thought you would get a choice of psp games and the choice on ps3 if you have both devices...

[Rampaged Death]

Sony confirmed if you have a PSP and PS3 you get two from each list.

[Jack-H]

I may have to get Dead Nation... 1st I'll have to look and see if it has voice chat.... assuming this is for North America then it's cool they are offering a good variety of different genres...

[walken7]

Looks like this is Europe.

[Jack-H]

yeh

[walken7]

Well it wasn't N.A. and that's a fact, so suck it disagreers.

[insomnium2]

Dead Nation has voice chat. It's been updated. Anyway reading all these comments I'm baffeled. There are so many of you who don't have DN. That has got to be one of the best DL games there is.

The game is made by the same guys who made SSHD so it was a day one by default for me. Can't go wrong with these guys.

[yog-sothot]

inFamous, Dead nation... great stuff but I already have it goddamit !

Gimme a voucher on future sony releases or something :-P

[blackburn10]

Yay! more Dead Nation players to co op with.

[JonnyBigBoss]

Eye heart Sony!

[Ser]

I have all of the offered PS3 games. That kind of sucks...lol

[RankFTW]

Heh same man but what can you do. Don't have any of the PSP games though.

[timzone]

Great list. Unless you've purchased the games already.

[ZombieAssassin]

Dos the UK count for SCEE?

[Pika-pie]

Yes

[Rampaged Death]

Dead Nation, WipeOut, MNR and LBP for me.

[mastiffchild]

Snap. I've got both PSP games(got all four)but I'll get more for those two UMDs so they're what I'll chose. the PS3 games is easy as they're the only two I haven't already bought.

[VonBraunschweigg]

I'll be getting Quest for Booty, because we thank all this to a quest for booty=)

[Kahvipannu]

Damn, it's nice to be wrong sometimes, I was almost sure they wouldn't be "full" games. Good one Sony.

Hmm, I was just thinking about buying any Ratchet game, so that for sure. Now I just have to choose between Dead Nation and LBP. I don't personally care much of LPB, but my sisters kids keeps playing the demo on my ps3 when they are visiting, so I might get it for them^^

"To welcome users Home, PlayStation Home will be offering 100 free virtual items."

This is nice surprise too, since I use Home sometimes.

[gaden_malak]

I have them all, so what I am going to do is this:

Trade in LittleBigPlanet, Infamous and probably one other game I don't have for LA Noire.
Download LBP and Infamous.

Solved :-)

[MGRogue2017]

Pretty damn awesome, Thanks Sony :)

I'm having a hard time picking between Wipeout HD/Fury & LittleBigPlanet lol

Edit: Oh right.. I can have both :D

[Soplox]

what about US?

[MGRogue2017]

Here ya go

http://blog.us.playstation....

[etowntwo]

Too little, too late!!
I already sold my ps3!!

Jk.... I only play Xbox .... But I gotta admit, that's one helll of a welcoming back program.
I wonder to the gamers that have more then one account, since psn is free, can they download different free stuff for each account?

[awiseman]

You, your stupid ass avatar<<see what I did there. And your your stealth trolling give xbox fans on this site a bad name. Get lost please.

On topic: Always wanted Mod Nation for my PSP so here goes!1one!1

[Der_Kommandant]

Sony rocks!

[Figboy]

I just gifted inFAMOUS 1 to a friend, so I'll be downloading that. My wife also has a PSN account, so I'll probably have her download LBP, which I was thinking of rebuying, but now we won't have to.

I was only expecting to be comped a month and the days the network has been down for my PS+ subscription, now I see a get an additional 60 days on TOP of the 30 day compensation.

DCUniverse is already comping me a month + the days that the network has been down.

Overall, I'm very satisfied with this program.

[Michael-Jackson]

Thanks Sony!

[Pandamobile]

I'll grab LBP and Infamous. Nice.

[RGB]

What a joke! I own all the PS3 games listed and the PSP selection is poor as well. Got Killzone and couldn't careless for the rest! I would of preferred £25 PSN card over this!

[liore]

SO AMERICAN USERS GET MOVIE RENTALS WHAT DO EU GET NOTHING

[Donthizz]

i have all these games,but im happy that PSN is back!

[mt]

damn, i already have all of those games too bad.

[DarK-SilV]

I have all these games ,got them on release day,can I have something else ?

[bronxsta]

Confused about something

Infamous, Dead Nation, and Killzone PSP are both starred.

In the footnotes, it says, "30 days free PlayStation Plus membership for non PS Plus subscribers"

So can you only have those games for 30 days?

[jimmywolf]

the games their offering you keep the ps plus has bonus games an content you can play for 30 days random things you keep themes pics games go away with ps +

[thor]

They are starred because they are not offered in Germany (probably banned by the draconian anti-violence laws they have). You keep the games. You don't keep free PS Plus content but that is different.

[Pika-pie]

Nice Sony... Very nice

Glad to have you back

[FlashBack]

All right , the more loyal you are to sony, the more screwed you get...really fair...

[DonnieDarko]

I have 4 accounts on my slim ps3 does that mean I could download two games on one account, another two games on the other etc? And my 60 gb launch behemoth that no longer reads blurays I guess I could do the same on that too?

[admiralvic]

-Facedesk- I got everything =[

[Ascalon94]

thats sucks for your my friend, I ahd most of those lists as well

[admiralvic]

Sorry to hear that too... I completely expected this to happen, but I was pulling for SOMETHING for that small percent that had them. Please note I would be more than happy with even an Avatar and was not expecting something huge.

[Ascalon94]

damn thats a decent list, I played the hell out of Infamous so I guess I'll get it again to play it a tad before Infamous 2 rolls out. Hmmm can't decide between LBP and WipeOut or Dead Nation

[Jack-H]

So... to anybody who has these games. Which 2 out of Infamous, Little big planet, or dead nation? I figure ya'll can offer the best advice.

[Holeran]

Infamous and Little Big Planet

[DonnieDarko]

Can u get two games for each psn account on your ps3?

[Holeran]

Wow I own every one of those games already. So I guess my present was 3 weeks away from psn? Just kick me in the groin instead.

[IHateYouFanboys]

thats a lot more than i was expecting.

ill be getting infamous/dead nation for PS3, and LBP/Modnation for PSP. glad they dont expire along with the 30 days free of PS+.

[illidari]

Am i a bad person for wanting to know if I can log into my japanese and europe accounts and download 2 games from those as well.

So you know, lets not pretend what I'm asking here, if I can download all 4 psp games?

[Whackedorange]

Guess i will be getting Dead Nation and Wipeout HD since thoose two is the only ones i dont have on that list

[Toman85]

Wipeout HD Fury and Dead Nation for me since I got all the other on discs already :)
And 60 days extra of PS+, nice one indeed :)

I like the program they have set us up with!

[-Gespenst-]

Wipeout definitely, but as for the others... meh. I'd get Quest for Booty if it wasn't so short and I hadn't already played Tools of Destruction and A Crack in Time.

Hmmm, Dead Nation looks mediocre, Infamous IS mediocre and LBP doesn't interest me...

[LoneWanderer09]

THANK YOU SONY

[getnsome]

do we lose the "free" games after our 30 day ps+ subscription?

[FrigidDARKNESS]

DEAD NATION IS COOL BUT THE OTHER STUFF THEY'RE GIVING DOR GREE SUCKS. I HAVE THOSE GANES.

[ikral]

I´ve played LBP and Infamous, so I´m getting Quest for Booty and Dead Nation. Really thought they will give some cheaper games, this is pretty good list.

[AntiHeroComplex]

Dead nation + infamous for me ... alrdy have LBP, not sure i want wipeout HD

[Blitzkid]

i am very disappointed!!!!!!!! inFamous and Dead Nation not for germany?? why?

[MasterCornholio]

I always wanted Wipeout. Plus Dead nation seems like a cool game.

[ndl1531]

dang this is great imfamous and lbp or wipeout for me dam and to that piece of trash VOJKAN i read ur comments magget and ur a f@cken fool haha coming on here crying cuz ur precious ms isn't giving u $hit what jealous much fanboy? gtfo of here worm

[SicilianGunner]

be thankful they giving us anything at all... thanks sony great list im getting infamous and dead nation :D oh and modnation racer and pursuit for psp

[mrmancs]

great i payed for dead nation, do i get a f**kin refund sony? reli pized of with selection, they should have provided big sized demos of new un-released future titles ,not ones that ppl have allready or played, or payed for!! mad!!

[Duxer]

LittleBigPlanet is the best game for the PS3 IMO. So it's a treat for those who don't have it yet. You'll can get an infinite hours of play out of it.

[Tommykrem]

Well, people are doomed to be upset when there's that few alternatives. I'm happy though, because I don't have Dead Nation and I have a PSP

[SwampCroc]

It's a cool incentive... I mean I can understand how some people already have the games... But, like me... I don't have Dead Nation or inFAMOUS... so I'll grab them up...

I was thinking they were going to like slash prices or something across the board... like all PSclassics at 2.99 or something.. since they are anywhere from 4.99 to 9.99... I dunno... I was just trading ideas with a friend..

but this and the 30 day trial of PSN+ is fine with me... I still have $20 in my wallet... so when the store is back up.. I'm ready to shop.

[Mister_G]

Can't believe people are complaining about this.

What did you expect? Portal 2, Uncharted 2, God of war 3 for free???

Sony didn't have to give us anything.

Surprised people aren't complaining about lack of cross-game chat which was rumoured, even though Sony never said it would be included in this rebuild.

I'm just glad to be back to normal :)

[lareka]

They could`ve loaded psn credits to our wallets and let us decide what to buy

[Mister_G]

Great idea! :D

[Pl4sm4]

I WANT CROSS GAME VOICE CHAT >>>> its soo useful .... please c'mon that is simple to make and update it in 1 day .... dont worry that xbox live has it ... that was the only good idea about xbox live .... lols

[Mister_G]

Does Xbox hold the patent on that though? Like it does for custom in-game music (I know some PS3 games have that, but it's on a game by game basis, devs have to include it, but on Xbox it's on all).

[lareka]

I wish they loaded free credits to the accounts instead of selecting specific games. By my way we`d be able to purchase the games, add-ons, donwloadable content whenever we want and whatever we want !

[Colmshan1990]

I can’t believe people are complaining.
This really is way above and beyond what I was expecting and hoping for.
While I do own 4 out of the 5 PS3 games, and 2 of the 4 PSP games, I am delighted to be getting inFamous (never had that before), and Little Big Planet (time to trade my disc) onto my hard-drive. I have Wipeout, it’s one of my favourite games, Ratchet is as charming and fun as always, and Dead Nation is releatively recent, and the little I’ve played of it was quite good.
As for the PSP, I have LBP and Killzone, but that still doesn’t leave me sure of what to get. I’ll definitely get Modnation Racers, and then do I get Pursuit Force, or do I look ahead to the NGP and upgrade my UMD to digital? And if so, which one?
I’m delighted with the choices available to me.

[SpinalRemains138]

I still cant access the store. I get nothing :(

[Morgue]

Don't you get an extended warranty on your PS3 when you sign up for Plus but it only covers the Slim model?