Contents of Sony’s ‘Welcome Back’ Package Revealed

<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2011&sol;05&sol;psn&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2627" title&equals;"psn" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2011&sol;05&sol;psn&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"456" height&equals;"202" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>With the PSN outage fiasco finally coming to a close and most regions around the world reporting the network fully operational&semi; Sony still has some making up to do&period; During <a title&equals;"Sony Issues PSN Service Restoration Announcement &lpar;Video&rpar;" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;sony-issues-psn-service-restoration-announcement&sol;">Sony&&num;8217&semi;s PSN Restoration Announcement <&sol;a>they announced that they would not only be issuing a mandatory update to all PS3 users to restore the PSN services but that every user effected by the outage would receive a complimentary &&num;8216&semi;Welcome Back&&num;8217&semi; packet&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Without wasting anymore of your time reviewing the countless days and hours of this fiasco here are the contents of Sony&&num;8217&semi;s &&num;8216&semi;Welcome Back&&num;8217&semi; package or as we like to call it the &&num;8220&semi;Please don&&num;8217&semi;t hate us&&num;8221&semi; package&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>PS3 users have the choice of TWO of the following games&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<ul>&NewLine;<li>Dead Nation<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>inFAMOUS<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>LittleBigPlanet<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Super Stardust HD<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Wipeout HD &plus; Fury<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;<p>PSP users have the choice of TWO from the following list&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<ul>&NewLine;<li>LittleBigPlanet<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>ModNation Racers<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Pursuit Force<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Killzone Liberation<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;<p>In addition&comma; all users will receive the following &&num;8216&semi;free&&num;8217&semi; extras&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<ul>&NewLine;<li>A selection of &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;On Us” rental movie titles will be available to PlayStation Network customers over one weekend&comma; where Video Service is available&period; Those titles will be announced soon&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>30 days free PlayStation Plus membership for non PlayStation Plus subscribers&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Existing PlayStation Plus subscribers will receive an additional 60 days of free subscription&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Existing Music Unlimited Premium Trial subscription members will receive an additional 30 days of free premium subscription&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Additional 30 days &plus; time lost for existing members of Music Unlimited Premium&sol;Basic subscription free of charge for existing Premium&sol;Basic members&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>To welcome users Home&comma; PlayStation Home will be offering 100 free virtual items&period; Additional free content will be released soon&comma; including the next addition to the Home Mansion personal space&comma; and Ooblag’s Alien Casino&comma; an exclusive game&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;<p>As you can clearly notice the game titles aren&&num;8217&semi;t exactly the hottest games out there right now&comma; but the games are free of charge and that has to count for something&period; Plus many of the titles are pretty sought after both on the Playstation Network and in retail stores&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>What do you guys think&quest; Is this enough for almost a month&&num;8217&semi;s worth of downtime&quest; Or does it just piss you off more&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Update&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Many players are pissed that they already own the titles listed in the &&num;8216&semi;Welcome Back Package&&num;8217&semi;&period; Sony&&num;8217&semi;s answer&comma; we&&num;8217&semi;re sorry you didn&&num;8217&semi;t like our decision but we&&num;8217&semi;re sticking by it&period; The official quote came from SCEE&&num;8217&semi;s Nick Caplin who said&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I’m really sorry that there is nothing there that you want&comma;” he want to say&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We’ve tried really hard to put together a list of high quality BD games&comma; rather than simply offering cheaper PSN titles&period; The average Metacritic rating for these games is over 84&percnt;&comma; so these are high quality games&period; Unfortunately with a user base of 77m people&comma; it is really hard to offer something for everyone&period;” So there you have it&period; Sony offers an olive branch and in their words is trying their best to please everyone but even then some players strike it down as not enough&period; Just remember folks&comma; when Xbox Live went down a couple months ago&comma; a service that isn&&num;8217&semi;t free like PSN&comma; all Sony gave us was the less than awesome game <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;destructoid&period;com&sol;free-game-to-make-up-for-the-xbox-live-suckage-is-undertow-65487&period;phtml">Undertow<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Like <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;facebook&period;com&sol;pages&sol;BagoGames&sol;159779927418064&quest;ref&equals;ts">BagoGames on Facebook<&sol;a> and <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;&num;&excl;&sol;BagoGames">follow us on Twitter<&sol;a> for further updates&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;