Sony is currently hosting a press conference in Japan detailing the changes and details of the "Welcome Back" program that will be providing compensation to affected users during the PlayStation outage.
First of all, what will you be getting out of this? Details are still coming in, but everyone will get 30 days of PSN+ for free (current subscribers will get 30 additional days for free), and Music Unlimited subscribers will get 30 additional days of service as well. They mentioned providing additional "premium content" as well, although those plans aren't completely clear right now.
Sony hopes to restore service by next week for online gaming to PS3 and PSP users, and to have the full service, including the PlayStation Store and Qriocity, back online by the end of the month.
We'll have more information soon, so stay tuned.
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KilltheCableBill
PSN Still down with no end in site. If your like me and you rely on the PS3 for Hulu then this means your TV programing is down as well. Now is the time to look into Free broadcast TV. Mohu makes an incredible Indoor Antenna and it only costs $44. Most people are unaware that it's now possible to receive FREE High Definition and Digital broadcasts over-the-air (OTA) using a simple antenna connected to your television set! Go to www.KilltheCableBill.com to get your 5$ Off - Promo Code for the #1 Selling Indoor Antenna on Amazon.
Patrickster
This is a effing joke! Sony has really screwed the pooch on this one. They've definitely lost me as a customer. I'll still use my PS3 for Blu Ray, but as far as games go HELL NO!
Stayblazed69
I'm sorry that is just pathetic, they need 20 do more they put our livelyhood at risk. Our credit history in jeopordy! And that's it! C'mon man u can do better!
kinghunter64
I don't know why everyone is whining, I've been having a blast with portal and mortal kombat.
Fuwachan
For anyone who misunderstood this,
Only the PSN online game play will be turned on and possibly the PSN Store, they need to make sure that it wont be hacked first off. The Play Station + and Qriocity (These are the two that store your credit card number.) will be turned on as soon as they are once again secure. So either by the 3rd or the 4th online play will be turned back on. So just be patient with Sony, they want to make sure your information is secure, if you do not want your credit card in danger of being stolen use PSN cards it's much safer and useful than you may think.
macross2012
WOW so no PSN for another 30 days.. thats really bad..
blu6tynine
i really don't understand why everyone is getting so worked up about what they are giving everyone for free, if they give something take it its free don't understand the problem. The main thing that needs to be thought about is that everyone is playing online for FREE! for you to expect that something like this would never happen is stupid. if there's gonna be better security and better online play then we will have to start paying for online play just like Xbox live then when something like this happens all the keyboard gangsters can come out and continue their bitching in till then stop whining.
Griever2112
wow... the end of May really... I'm so glad now I got rid of my PS3 cause for a single hacker or a collective of hackers to bring down the PSN for 6 weeks they are either the greatest hackers in the world of Sony had some really crappy security.
go2gurl
I was just watching the news about the death of Bin Laden and had a thought...Some of the same offices that were crucial in bringing down Bin Laden are now going after the person or persons that hacked PlayStation Network. I wonder if that same thought has crossed their minds yet and if they've decided to reevaluate their decision making skills....Just wondering
go2gurl
I was just watching the news about the death of Osama Bin Laden and had a thought...some of the same offices that were going after Bin Laden are the same offices that will be going after the person/persons that hacked the PlayStaion Network. I wonder if the same thought has crossed their minds and if they're reevaluating their decision making skills. Just a thought...
YoureSoFunny
Well I was playing on XboxLive when this happened, my friend called me saying OMG, did you hear about the news, psn has been hacked you can't get online I was like, Oh.well just come over if you want to play MortalKombat I have chips dips drinks let's party it up like the good old days before online gaming! Ha
D10078
Sorry to say on here but my 360 has seen more playtime than my PS3 in past few weeks. Just get it going again, have some contacts to eraticate!
Nightmare_Elite7
The way i see it the playstation plus subs have nothing to gain, by the time playstation store is up a month would have gone by which is a month of wasted playstation plus... so sony what do the plus users get? nothing but what we already paid for?
erosennin987
osamas dead, listen to this! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =IhnUgAaea4M&feature=playe r_embedded
lvlulel
it will be back up running by the end of may?........... wow.......
i guess.....
since it's been down i've gotten into other cool offline games(borderland, darksiders, finished black ops story mode)
gaining alot of trophies to show of..........LOL
ShinjiEx
F PS+ & whatever that other thing is no one uses
DCUO is all that matters we pay the most $15 every month!
XXXSpartan118XXX
I feel bad for those who are paying for DCUniverse because that's a week of a months $14.99 you're not getting back. At least PSN is gonna be up soon and Sony and Microsoft fanboys can stop trolling youtube, g4, ign and other sites.
mEm00t
Thats garbage free psn? for one month? wow and then if i want to acess anything i get during that month i have to subscribe so then sony just gets more of my money how stupid do they think i am?
fullsailgamer88
So check this out. First off I want to start by saying that I am a PS3 owner and I love Sony, but the reason why their internet is free is because they share the same online servers as the PCs do. PCs get hacked all the time, and it is much harder to monitor your servers when they are so widely used. Microsoft uses their own servers and that is why they charge for their online. They have to pay to use their own servers that are not used for anything but Xbox live. Sony does not have to pay anything. Also, and you can look this up if you do not believe me, but the Xbox live runs at 324 mbs per second, while the PS3 runs at 54 mbs per second. This is why it takes so long for us to install games, and other demos from online. While I will always stay loyal to Sony because of their wonderful first party titles, and their low failure rates with their consoles. I will say that the online internet service is not where they shine. This might be changing soon when they get this back up. (at least I hope so)
lildreamz
why is everyone getting mad at sony. it is not their fault that hackers hacked their servers. in my opinion the hackers should have hacked microsoft for charging people to play online. we already pay for the internet. why pay more just to play online?
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