Sony's PSN Apology Includes Free Games

[NightmareTaco]

Way I see it, Sony is gonna have to start offering a paid online service, something similar to Xbox Live

Hopefully, no one listens to you. Not everything M$ does is a good idea.

 

[electric_warrior]

I hope europe gets just as good of a deal as this, I'd really like to get inFamous and LBP free

edit: we do! Wooooo! I never use PSN so I wasn't too annoyed with Sony anyway, and this is great. They haven't properly make amends yet, but this is a good start.

 

[Skyy High]

Free games ftw.

Sony knows what makes gamers happy....

 

[StrixMaxima]

I liked the offer. inFAMOUS and Wipeout HD are titles I wanted to have, so, quite good.

I really hope Sony and the rest of the industry learn the hard lessons from the last month. Everyone will profit if they do.

And to those suggesting a paid PSN, like XBL... I pity you.

 

[cross_breed]

I don't forgive you yet, Sony, but you're off to a decent start.

 

[Armored Prayer]

This is great I finally now have new games to play on my PSP.

Now only if the PSN would work for me. I thought everything is now fine, so why am I still getting the error number?

 

[Shadowfaze]

Wipeout and Dead nation for nought pennies? Excellent. I'd choose Infamous if i didn't already have it.

 

[jayblack]

Hey guys, all you who are moping around, I'll tell you there's nothing to be moping about (hey, that kinda rhymed ). I live in Germany and here Infamous and Dead Nation have been replaced by Super Stardust HD and Hustle Kings. How's that? Everyone feels better now ?

 

[punipunipyo]

It's such a small list for such huge spectrum of games out there... I was wishing that SONY would give us a bigger list, and not games that are like 2-3 years old... many people own these titles already... but again... complaining about it here won't help...

Like I said B4, shit can happen to ANYONE, SONY pissed of Hackers, and they took vengeance, that's all, they fixed, and try to make up, that's all good with me already... I've met worse companies, gift to trade loyalty is nice and all... but 2 titles, 6 sections is kinda cheap, making this gift valuable, but not heart worming, I'd go with one, but ANY GAME UNDER $70!~ but that's just me, and my thoughts over this "welcome packet"... (I just hope PSN-online game play is still free, this is why I chose PS3 instead of gay-box-live)

Does anyone know what PS+ is? having it for like a month or so only seemed like SONY think of it as a very expensive service... what's so hot about it? I'd like to know...

 

[Kecunk]

Sure wish i lived in europe because id takr Ratchet & Clank over any of the games on the north america list.

But i guess i'll just have to live with infamous and dead nation since i already have LBP and im not a fan of raceing games.

 

[PhiMed]

I already have inFAMOUS and LBP, but I'll probably take Dead Nation. I've always kind of tended towards the 360 for primarily multiplayer games because that's where my friends are for the most part, but I'll never buy another multiplayer-centric game for the PS3 again.

I had a 2/3-useless copy of Portal 2 for a month.
No multiplayer.
No free PC copy.
No steam.
Screw that.

If there are graphics-oriented single player experiences, I'll still buy for my obsidian monolith. If I even think I might want to play online, though, Gates is getting the licensing.

 

[PhiMed]

I love this. Sony winning back people for a service that is free. How many people pay for PSN plus and will them users get more stuff as they pay for the service? Not like all those people that use the free service can go else where? Where as the PSN plus subscribers can chose to not renew their subscription.

Yeah, but people can choose to play PC games (free online, unless it's a subscription game) or go to M$. I don't subscribe to plus, but I do subscribe to gold. If a lot of people like me decide to stop buying PS3 games, that's an awful lot of licensing fees gone forever.

 

[xxBucdieselxx]

Meh. Not impressed. If you are a Playstation faithful and have had your system for more than a year, chances are you have already played most of the games on the list (heck I own 3 of them). The 2 that I don't have don't entice me that much. As for the rest of it, seems like a money grab to me. Sure we'll "give" you a month of PSN Plus, just to rope you into paying for a service after the month is up. Pathetic attempt on Sonys part. I would have more respect for them if they actually did nothing, opposed to handing out dated games (at least 1 of which has a sequel that has already been release *Cough* Little Big Planet 2 *cough*). This seems like something they were forced to do (think lawyers), opposed to something they did to win their customers back.

 

[K_Dub]

Way I see it, Sony is gonna have to start offering a paid online service, something similar to Xbox Live

Hopefully, no one listens to you. Not everything M$ does is a good idea.

First off, way to take a quote and twist it way out of context.

Secondly, I never said anything along the lines of Microsoft doing everything right. They've screwed up before, and I certainly expect them to screw up again. But I believe that their online service for Xbox Live works really well. By charging $60 yearly subscriptions, Microsoft has been able to build up a strong online community and provide a strong sense of security among Xbox Live users.

And if Sony were to mimic this formula, they could produce similar results among their online community. Of course, this is by no means the best or correct way for Sony to go about handling this situation, but I believe that this would be the right general direction for them to take to ensure that this doesn't happen again.

 

[AngryFrenchCanadian]

Since I didn't get too affected by the outage, I'm glad I'll get inFAMOUS for free.

 

[Atheist.]

Own everything on that list, so I don't much care. Good for the people that don't, though.

 

[sunpop]

Well I had an xbox and it was broken and I can never forgive the high fail rate of the 360 and as the wii is a festering pool of shovelware I'll stick to the pstriple. The free games are nice sadly the only 2 actual good ones are infamous and lbp of which I already own both. Do know I'm sticking with sony for the sake that I hate the other 2 consoles more than I am mad about the loss of information. The psn being down means nothing to me it's all about if my personal information was taken.

The rest of this comes off more as a trick to get people to subscribe to psplus and the movie rental with the "free" trial offers kind of how cable companies give you hbo and cinemax free for 90 days and then hope you want to keep it for a few hundred dollars more.

In short this is a rather piss poor apology and looks more like a scam to make up the money and avoid legal action by saying they tried to make it up and saying we are just greedy. Bad show sony very bad.

 

[xxBucdieselxx]

In short this is a rather piss poor apology and looks more like a scam to make up the money and avoid legal action by saying they tried to make it up and saying we are just greedy. Bad show sony very bad.

Exactly!

 

[Super Six One]

Rachet and Clank for me. And Wipeout, own INfamous and LBP never looked appealing to me. Does anyone have anything good to say about Dead Nation, i just looked it up and it looks kinda suckish.

 

[katsabas]

I have three of these games and have done a review on Wipeout HD Fury. All jokes aside, if I didn't have Infamous and Wipeout this would be a no-brainer. If anyone wants to buy it, I suggest you take a look at what you are getting for free.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/326.188900-Katsabas-Reviews-Wipeout-HD-Fury