Welcome Back, PSN
After the being hacked by some retards pretending doing that for the better of all of us, Sony had to do something in order to pay its customer a little back from what they have been suffering over the last couple of weeks. So the Welcome Back program was born.
But can you actually complain about something that is free? Well, I think yes, if it doesn’t satisfy the original intention. So what is wrong with the Welcome Back program? Simply put it is to little for those hardcore players out there suffering the most from this data security disaster.
Let’s take a look a the package that has been offered on a worldwide basis to those more than 70 million PSN users.
Two PS3 games from the following list:
- LittleBigPlanet
- Infamous
- Wipeout HD/Fury
- Ratchet and Clank: Quest for Booty
- Dead Nation
We are talking about games that have been out there for a while and for sure are owned by most of the PS3 core gamers. For me the only benefit was to get a downloadable version of LBP and inFamous that I can run directly from my HDD.
For those with PSP accounts, you will also be eligible to download two PSP games from the following list:
- LittleBigPlanet PSP
- ModNation PSP
- Pursuit Force
- Killzone Liberation
Well, the same here: old games which most of the PSP owners most probably already own. If you own them on UMD, this is your chance to get a downloadable version that eventually can be used with the new NGP aka PSVITA
- 30 days free PlayStation Plus membership for non PS Plus subscribers
Actually a nice deal for all PSN members
- Existing PlayStation Plus subscribers will be given 60 days free subscription.
I would say that this is the minimum for all Plus subscribers
- For existing Music Unlimited subscribers, you will be given 30 days free subscription.
This is actually something I don’t understand. Sony is basically extending your membership by the time the network was down. What is the benefit of that. It should have been 60 days at least.
All in all, there is nothing wrong with the Welcome Back package at all, but the games they’ve selected and the extended membership especially in the case of Qriocity is just not compelling enough for those folks that paid some good money in the past.
