The PlayStation Network “Welcome Back” program has now expired. If you’ll remember, PlayStation offered up a decent selection of games from which you could pick two for the PS3 and two for PSP – included in the options was the brilliant WipEout HD – as a result of their devastating network hack.
This expiry, though, has caused a bit of a stir. Seems like Sony have pulled the games first thing on the 3rd (as the clock struck midnight) rather than letting gamers choose their titles during today, as you might expect. In the US, the wording said “through July 3rd” which we’re guessing means ‘inclusive of’.
Here in the UK the press release stated ’30 days’, and it went live on the 3rd of June…
One forum user (on Slickdeals) called Sony’s customer helpline to complain, and SCEA’s Jeff Rubenstein was the target of a few questions on Twitter. “It ended today,” he said, speaking to a journalist rather blunty. “There were 30 days to claim it, not sure why people decided to wait. We were clear from the outset.”
I’m assuming most readers here will have already got their games, but did anyone who left it until the last minute feel a bit cheesed off when the games weren’t on the store today?
e8
Ther three movies(which weren’t well advertised by sony.) were F Fantasy – spirts within, Res Evil – degeneration, which i dloaded but yet to watch Res & the above mentioned zombie flick. Luckily i got my freebies & spread it over two account. A shame for anyone who missed out.
RUnsane
Alright, I can understand the procrastinators loosing out………but this morning when I reviewed the limited selections BECAUSE I HAVE BEEN OUT OF TOWN for June, I could easily see that the games where available. When I went to download them this afternoon, they were gone. Total and complete horse pucky, manure #@$% !!! I didn’t have my console packed with my work supplies, TSA would probably have a field day with it anyway. So I’m screwed?? Thanks SONY, I hope you get hacked again. This is crap! Only wanted the Mod-Racers for my grandkids. What a pisser
BrainDiver
Stop complaining. That’s your problem, has nothing to do with Sony. I find it hard to believe someone behaving so immaturely could have grand-kids.
moshi
Personally I think your making it up just to ruffle some feathers.
fattyuk
Mod nation racers was on the PSP you do know that yer.
BrainDiver
I don’t see how anyone could complain. We should just be happy we got such great games to begin with.
moshi
I would take a look at the older article just to see how wrong your faith in people is ha-ha.
BrainDiver
My nihilistic persuasion is back in full force ;)
John Malcolm
I didn’t get any games, through my own choice. There was nothing I really fancied – I’d purchased WipEout on disc, then traded it a few months later – and also I’m on a 10GB/month contract with BT (cheap) so a large game download would hit me.
I got caught with the Free Portal 2 For Your PC (my main PC is too old to run P2, but at least I expected to see the title screen…) when the download almost took up my entire month’s limit in a few hours… Yes, I did go over that month, and all for nothing, so I’m more careful now!
ron_mcphatty
I hate people who moan because they’ve missed the boat. One of the GB Olympic sailors WHO WAS KNIGHTED did the same thing because he left his ticket application too late! That’s a really poor example to set and the press loved it. Morons!
Peter Rushton
I couldn’t ever get the plus feature on one of my accounts which was annoying as it was my main account :\
hol
Strange, near everyone I know had got their freebies within the first week, so if you missed out, oh well never mind.
The Lone Steven
Sony have just annouced that they will extend it untill the 5th of July. Unless your internet has been down for the past month. I can’t imogen why you wouldn’t have downloaded them by now. Of course there will be people who will complain about this and not provided a decent reason.
moshi
Why you dragging poor Imogen into this, surely she has had a enough of a rough time of late with Mr Giggs without getting the blame for this.
threelions_66
I’m surprised more people on my friends list didn’t go for plus, they’ve missed out now.
Peco
Noooooooooo! I need another 25 days! :(