Earlier today we brought news that Sony would be providing a year’s free identity theft insurance to US PSN users in the wake of the recent attacks, and the company have now given a bit of an update on how that will work here in the EU.
Writing on the PlayStation Blog, Nick Caplin, SCEE Head of Communications had this to say:
As I have explained previously, creating a similar [identity theft protection] offering for the many countries within the SCEE region is a very complicated process. Each country has a different way of handling identity theft; some offer relatively sophisticated services whilst others are much more modest.
We are currently in the process of identifying how we manage this situation and once the programme is ready to launch, we will provide details of exactly which services are available in each country and explain how to sign up. We hope to do this early next week.
Caplin also gave a little more information of what exactly will make up the ‘Welcome Back’ package that will go live when the Network returns. PS3 users will be able to choose two games from a list of five, whilst PSP users will be able to choose two from a list of four. It’s unclear if the PS3 games will be full downloads like the ones that have recently begun appearing on the Store, or just the smaller PSN titles, and equally it’s not mentioned if those who own a PS3 and PSP will be entitled to both offers, a choice between them, or a mix of the two. The package has previously been confirmed to include a free 30 days of PlayStation Plus and extensions to Plus and Qriocity subscriptions.
As far as when the Network itself will be back up, Caplin gave no further information: “Please be assured that we are continuing to work around the clock to have some PlayStation Network and Qriocity services restored and will provide you with specific details shortly.” The last we heard, the plan was to get limited access online by the end of this week.
Source: EU PS Blog
Peter Rushton
I’m guessing a first party title is at least 1 of the 5 ;)
Aquastyle
That’s very generous of them, looking forward to this!
Love you Sony…
The Lone Steven
I hope the list of games are decent and are not shovelware.I wonder if Sony were able to get a 3rd party game added to the list. I really hope GOW is on the list.Hang on what if someone has up to 6 accounts on their PS3,does that mean they would get 12 games free then?
Sympozium
Hopefully Monster Hunter and Monster Hunter.. there must be more adhoc partyiers *coughs
Wonder if it’ll be new games?… like Under Siege was supposed to be released around the time of the hack I think?
kivi95
Why the hell would they do that? 5years of devolepen time and then just give it a way for FREE? They can’t give us things that sells great so they would lose even more money.That would be too generous and dumb.The game will probably be at newest a few month but probably 2010-2009 games.
Monster Hunter would be a great option as a psp game but i really think this will be first-party games.
hazelam
i’ve been missing out on my comics, and compensation there? ^_^
gaffers101
More than happy with that.
Origami Killer
much thanks sony though, nice way to make up for it :) very much appreciated
Danny-c-2k9
Ooh :D
Jim H [Teabags]
Just traded my PSP in last weekend. Will punch myself in the balls if I’m offered some free games. Not too hard though, I can still have them on my HDD for when I buy an NGP :)
TURRICAN-808
I’m thinking that the offer will be delivered in an email verification process linked to your created PSN account. The email would include
a) details of how to change your PSN password
b) a code to selelct 2 of 5 games etc
This might re-establish to SONY which of the 77million PSN accounts are genuine