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Program expires July 3

Full Details and Full FAQ Here READ before you post http://blog.us.playstation.com/2011/06/03/welcome-back/

(for Japanese PSN members, http://www.jp.playstation.com/psn/kansha-to-owabi.html ) Thanks Upsidedown Fuji!!

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Q: When will I have access to the Welcome Back Program?
A: The content offered as part of the Welcome Back Program is available for download today and will be available through July 3.

Q: I have both PS3 and PSP. Does this mean I will get 4 games all together?
A: Yes, as long as you were a PSN member before April 20, 2011, you’ll be able to receive up to 4 games based on the titles listed above; 2 on each platform.

Q: Are there any limitations to the PS3 and PSP games we are receiving as part of the Welcome Back Program?
A: None. These games are yours to keep.

Q: How long do I have to get into the PlayStation Store and receive my content for Welcome Back?
A: Access to the Welcome Back content will be expiring on July 3. Once this date has passed, the Welcome Back section in the PlayStation Store will be removed.

Q: When does the 30 days of my PlayStation Plus access expire?
A: Your PlayStation Plus 30-day access will expire 30 days from the date you activated it in PlayStation Store.

Q: When will (insert game here) be published?
A: Look forward to posts over the coming days that will show what content will be available at that point, or coming soon. We’re planning frequent store publishes offering lots of new content for everyone to enjoy.

[EDIT:] List of Games to Choose From:

For PS3 owners, go to the ‘Welcome Back’ section in the PlayStation Store, and select 2 titles from the following list:
Dead Nation (in Germany, Super Stardust HD; Japan, The Last Guy)
inFAMOUS (in Germany/Japan, Hustle Kings)
LittleBigPlanet (in Japan, 無限回廊 -序曲- (Echochrome) )
Ratchet and Clank: Quest for Booty (UK/EURO/AUS ONLY)
Super Stardust HD (in Japan, おいでよロコロコ!! BuuBuu Cocoreccho! (Come here Locoroco) )
Wipeout HD + Fury

For PSP owners, go to the ‘Welcome Back’ section of PlayStation Store on your PSP system and select 2 titles from the following list:
LittleBigPlanet (PSP)
ModNation Racers (in Japan, 勇者のくせになまいきだor2 PSP® the Best (Holy Invasion of Privacy. Badman! 2 *best hits) )
Pursuit Force (in Germany, Everybody's Golf 2; Japan, みんなのスッキリ (Minna no Sukiri) )
Killzone Liberation (in Germany, Buzz Junior Jungle Party; Japan, パタポン ２ ドンチャカ♪ PSP® the Best (Patapon 2) )
Loco Roco Midnight Carnival (JP ONLY)

From the old Thread: YOUR GAMES ARE NOT LOST IF THE SERVER TIMES OUT

Guys, learn to read the last page or two. If your free PS3 / PSP game Promotion disappeared, try this:

Quote:
Q: I no longer have the option to choose my free Welcome Back games. What can I do?

A: If you navigate away from the Welcome Back section of the store without choosing your free games or exit the store completely you may need to follow the below in order to choose and download your free games.

On your PlayStation 3 or PlayStation Portable navigate to the PlayStation Network icon on the XMB

Log into your PlayStation Network account and choose Account Management > Transaction Management > Services List

Choose “PlayStation Network Promotions” from the list of services displayed

Select either “PS3 Free Games” or “PSP Free Games” and then choose “Select Content”

You will be taken to the store to choose your remaining free games.

Server Load is heavy so if you can't download WAIT, you have 30 days baby.

[EDIT2:] If you have separate regional accounts made BEFORE the outage, they can also be used. So you can effectively download Welcome Back games for numerous accounts.

[EDIT3:] Free Movie Rentals are also offered as part of the program. Will update as they are found.

Japanese Rentals:

アイアンマン (Ironman)　
鉄コン筋クリート　(Tekkon Kinkreet)
時をかける少女 (Toki wo kakeru shojo)

American Rentals:

Ghostbusters
FF Spirits Within
Bad Boys

UK Rentals:

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (also available in HD)
Resident Evil: Degeneration (also available in HD)
House of the Dead II: Dead Aim (also available in HD)

Canada Rentals:

Click (also available in HD)
Hitch (also available in HD)
Underworld: Evolution (also available in HD)

German Rentails:

Mask of Zorro
Charlie's Angels
Desperado

Italy Rentals:

Bad Boys II
Hostel
Resident Evil: Apocalypse

France Rentals:

Pineapple Express
Punisher: War Zone
Step Brothers

Spain Rentals:

Hostel
Resident Evil: Apocalypse
Click

Australia Rentals:

Black Hawk Down
Hostel
You Don't Mess with the Zohan

[EDIT4:] PlayStation Home Welcome Back Package Details (Thanks Loudninja!)

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2011/06/04/playstation-home-welcome-back-package-details/

As part of PlayStation Network’s ‘Welcome Back’ Program, PlayStation Home will be offering an enormous package to all players as a way of saying “thank you” to our community for your ongoing support. Today we will begin rolling out the first phase of this customer appreciation program, which will include 100 free items, two personal spaces, and an exclusive game available for all users to download for 30 days. Here’s what we will be giving you (and when):

100 virtual items: The 100 free virtual items package will be available starting today from the Central Plaza kiosk. This huge package includes popular clothing and furniture items and has been made possible thanks to our 3rd Party partners – including Lockwood Publishing, Heavy Water, Codeglue, Konami, Mass Media, Digital Leisure, LOOT, and Hellfire Games.

Two personal spaces: The Dragon’s Lair and the Mansion Garage – a medieval abode based upon Digital Leisure’s classic game and a luxurious, premium personal space never before released to the PlayStation Home community – will be available to all players today from the Central Plaza kiosk.

Ooblag’s Alien Casino: This is an exclusive game that will be published later this month and will be available via the PlayStation Home Navigator. Enter this interstellar casino and try your hand at Ooblag, a multiplayer game of craps…with a twist. Winners will be rewarded by being transformed into extraterrestrial high rollers while losers will be punished severely by Raaksu, the casino’s ruthless Pit Boss. As an added bonus, players that access the Ooblag Alien Casino space will be rewarded an active item version of the Ooblag game that can be played in their personal spaces.

 

[Chanser]

I'll wait you download whores.

 

[nelsonroyale]

NIce!

Infamous and Wipeout HD for me PS3

LBP and KZL for me PSP

 

[Big Papa Husker]

I'm not getting a choice to download PSP games on my UK account, but I did on my US account. Does anyone have an idea why?

 

[Shapingo]

Thanks, yeah the store is hammered.

 

[Boss Doggie]

I wonder, are there other downloaders who have their Dead Nation games glitched with no audio (as in, total silence)?

 

[BeeDog]

Sadly enough, I already had everything that was on offer, but I figured I'd grab digital copies of LBP1 and inFamous. Will also use the PS+ to grab Under Siege when the Store DDoSing is over.

 

[sixteen-bit]

Thanks for the concise OP

 

[overthehill99]

So I went to go redeem by free PS3 games, and I got inFamous first and then was going to do the same for LittleBigPlanet. I clicked the "Free PS3 Game #2" icon, selected LittleBigPlanet, and the it gave me an error. I backed out, and the "Free PS3 Game #2" was gone. Checked my download list, and LBP wasn't on there.

What should I do now?

 

[The_Darkest_Red]

So I went to go redeem by free PS3 games, and I got inFamous first and then was going to do the same for LittleBigPlanet. I clicked the "Free PS3 Game #2" icon, selected LittleBigPlanet, and the it gave me an error. I backed out, and the "Free PS3 Game #2" was gone. Checked my download list, and LBP wasn't on there.

What should I do now?

Did you try the method detailed in the OP?

 

[DMeisterJ]

So I went to go redeem by free PS3 games, and I got inFamous first and then was going to do the same for LittleBigPlanet. I clicked the "Free PS3 Game #2" icon, selected LittleBigPlanet, and the it gave me an error. I backed out, and the "Free PS3 Game #2" was gone. Checked my download list, and LBP wasn't on there.

What should I do now?

You should read the OP.

 

[MiamiWesker]

I click on the free PS Plus and it says this content cant be accessed on your account.

 

[GeoramA]

Grabbed every possible game, including all the US and EU Plus content. Smothered in games right now.

Glad I got them early. No errors and they downloaded quickly.

Will grab Echochrome and Hustle Kings when the Japan Store goes back up.

 

[likedamaster]

Quote:
Q: I no longer have the option to choose my free Welcome Back games. What can I do?

A: If you navigate away from the Welcome Back section of the store without choosing your free games or exit the store completely you may need to follow the below in order to choose and download your free games.

On your PlayStation 3 or PlayStation Portable navigate to the PlayStation Network icon on the XMB

Log into your PlayStation Network account and choose Account Management > Transaction Management > Services List

Choose “PlayStation Network Promotions” from the list of services displayed

Select either “PS3 Free Games” or “PSP Free Games” and then choose “Select Content”

You will be taken to the store to choose your remaining free games.

Thank you for this, seriously. Wouldn't let me choose my games, so when I backed all the way out I couldn't see the list anymore. Went to Services list and kept getting an error with no list. Only got to download one single psp game. Got errors left & right. Will have to try later, seems like servers are getting ridiculously slammed.




Edit: Downloading all games currently. Also, these are the movies available for the Welcome Back program in the US:

Ghostbusters

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

Bad Boys

All in available in HD

 

[Carl]

I'm not getting a choice to download PSP games on my UK account, but I did on my US account. Does anyone have an idea why?

You have to use your PSP

 

[TheDrowningMan]

They've taken the welcome back part down now...I click on it at the storefront and only the PSN Plus icon is there.

Edit: Hmm, I see what may have happened!

 

[rac]

Well I figured since you could get both us and eu games I would finally reset my eu password. Except the link they give you to reset the password is under maintenance, just my luck.

 

[MisterAnderson]

So I'm currently downloading Infamous... says it will take 104 minutes (understandably so...the servers are probably getting pounded) but is there a way to pause and do this before I go to sleep? I want to play something online I didn't realize it would take this long but now that I've started it, I don't want to stop it if it will screw it up.

 

[Replicant]

I click on the free PS Plus and it says this content cant be accessed on your account.

It'll ALWAYS give you that message as long as the server is hammered. But it'd have been added to your account once you press that activate/download button regardless what message you got.

To check whether you have it or not, go to Account Management > Account Management > Transaction Management > Services List

 

[BannedEpisode]

Went with inFamous (Maybe I'll get to finish it this time) and Wipeout.

I didnt bother downloading any PSP games because I no longer have one.

 

[Dedication Through Light]

Heh, Ill just wait until tonight or so, everyone rushing at the same exact moment.

 

[Lagspike_exe]

Reedemed Dead Nation and Wipeout. Dead Nation is DL-ing @ 1MB/sec, from my Indian account.

 

[Rewrite]

I'll wait a week. I have everything on that welcome back package.

 

[bernardobri]

Which LBP version is the one on the PSN? The normal one or the GOTY edition?

 

[Lagspike_exe]

Can my friend log into PSN on his PSP with my PS3 PSN account and reedem the PSP games?

 

[backflip10019]

Nice!

Totally going to download Infamous and Wipeout when I get home tonight!

 

[Spwn]

The fact that you can download the games for each of your accounts should be added to the OP. So if you've got both US and EU account, you get the Welcome Back package for both. I have US, UK and EU accounts so I got pretty much everything.

Which LBP version is the one on the PSN? The normal one or the GOTY edition?

Normal.

 

[Carl]

So I'm currently downloading Infamous... says it will take 104 minutes (understandably so...the servers are probably getting pounded) but is there a way to pause and do this before I go to sleep? I want to play something online I didn't realize it would take this long but now that I've started it, I don't want to stop it if it will screw it up.

Triangle, pause download

 

[OnPoint]

Oooooh yeah

Four free games (2 PS3, 2 PSP) coming to this guy tonight

 

[Replicant]

Can my friend log into PSN on his PSP with my PS3 PSN account and reedem the PSP games?

My guess is Yes. Providing the memory card used on that PSP is yours.

 

[daffy]

Which LBP version is the one on the PSN? The normal one or the GOTY edition?

Pretty sure its the normal one

 

[Big Chungus]

which is more fun with friends?

dead nation or super stardust hd?

 

[daffy]

The fact that you can download the games for each of your accounts should be added to the OP. So if you've got both US and EU account, you get the Welcome Back package for both. I have US, UK and EU accounts so I got pretty much everything.



Normal.

Ok I'm on it. So as long as the alts were made before the outage they can be used?

 

[The_Darkest_Red]

Can my friend log into PSN on his PSP with my PS3 PSN account and reedem the PSP games?

He would probably have to link your account to his PSP before he could play them which would make it impossible for him to play all of the games he's purchased under his PSN account. That's just a guess, though.

 

[Grisby]

I'll be waiting although I'll only be DL'ing the PSP stuff (Have everything else, ). Good deal on Sony's part.

 

[boredofcanada]

so is everything else available? like black ops escalation and killzone 3 maps?

 

[Adam Prime]

Don't bother even trying.

There's SO many errors right now, they're getting hammered. It's best just to wait, unless you have the paintence to re-click through all the errors to get where you need. The only thing that has worked has been the PS Plus, all the free game errors keep timing out and error'ing on me.

Anyways, cool I'm glad that it's up. And yes all the PS Plus offers are up as well, Sonic 2 and Comet Crash are the two free games at the moment.

EDIT: Damn Infamous is SEVEN GBs!

 

[Why would you do that?]

Thanks for that part in the OP. In a mad dash to try to get the store to respond, I made my Free PS3 game 1 disappear.

One thing I love about the PS3 - I already downloaded the WipEout HD demo, I don't have to download the entire game again to unlock it!


Now I just need to choose between Dead Nation and Infamous. Any ideas?

Don't bother even trying.

There's SO many errors right now, they're getting hammered. It's best just to wait, unless you have the paintence to re-click through all the errors to get where you need. The only thing that has worked has been the PS Plus, all the free game errors keep timing out and error'ing on me.

Pushing Circle and X for a couple seconds will get me in any menu, even with all the errors.

 

[Lagspike_exe]

He would probably have to link your account to his PSP before he could play them which would make it impossible for him to play all of the games he's purchased under his PSN account. That's just a guess, though.

He doesn't have a PSN account, so I guess I'll give him my secondary one.

 

[bernardobri]

The fact that you can download the games for each of your accounts should be added to the OP. So if you've got both US and EU account, you get the Welcome Back package for both. I have US, UK and EU accounts so I got pretty much everything.

Normal.

Pretty sure its the normal one

Well then, now the debate is between Dead Nation and Super Stardust HD... Which one is more compatible with single player experience and a few occasional times of local multiplayer?

 

[DUN GOOFD]

get PS+ on 1 account now, then on july 2 get it on another.

2 months of PlayStation Plus!

 

[masterkajo]

Japanese store not up yet? I got an email to change my password but when I follow the link it tells me the site is doing maintenance.

 

[Carl]

He would probably have to link your account to his PSP before he could play them which would make it impossible for him to play all of the games he's purchased under his PSN account. That's just a guess, though.

Bingo.

 

[slayzz]

Too many people trying to download today, I'll probably wait a day or two before trying.

 

[jetsetfluken]

This is bullshit, the Store was timing out and incredibly laggy, now I just got screwed out of 1 of the PSP games. Apparently it redeemed itself and then only PSP Game 2 was available.

WTF? Thought they'd have their servers under control for this.

 

[sazabirules]

This is bullshit, the Store was timing out and incredibly laggy, now I just got screwed out of 1 of the PSP games. Apparently it redeemed itself and then only PSP Game 2 was available.

WTF? Thought they'd have their servers under control for this.

Read the OP and try the method through Account Management.

 

[Replicant]

This is bullshit, the Store was timing out and incredibly laggy, now I just got screwed out of 1 of the PSP games. Apparently it redeemed itself and then only PSP Game 2 was available.

WTF? Thought they'd have their servers under control for this.

READ THE OP!!! Your game is not lost.

 

[rainking187]

I wonder, are there other downloaders who have their Dead Nation games glitched with no audio (as in, total silence)?

Audio is working fine for me, sorry.

 

[Adam Prime]

This is bullshit, the Store was timing out and incredibly laggy, now I just got screwed out of 1 of the PSP games. Apparently it redeemed itself and then only PSP Game 2 was available.

WTF? Thought they'd have their servers under control for this.

Another victim. Read the OP.


This thread is going to be horse shit once it hits page two. "OMG MY DOWNLOADS DISAPPEARED!"

 

[daffy]

Well then, now the debate is between Dead Nation and Super Stardust HD... Which one is more compatible with single player experience and a few occasional times of local multiplayer?

I would say SSHD.