Sony Specified “Welcome Back” Program

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The company gave specifics on promised program combining free entertainment and service offerings in order to make up for almost 25 days of PSN outage caused by hacker breach of the network’s security.


Late last week the company finally began the long-anticipated process of resuming the PlayStation Network. Meanwhile, Sony has also announced its plans to restore the trust of its customers, too.

PlayStation Network users lost service on April 20th, when the company discovered the hacker attack, which resulted in the breach of the security of the network. It took several days for the company to admit that the data of more than 70 million accounts might have been compromised during the attack. The situation even caused the filing of several class-action lawsuits complaining about the Sony’s failure to properly secure customer information.

Now, in its attempt to make up for the inconvenience, the company announced the offering of a “Welcome Back” program. The latter would include free entertainment and service offerings, combined with a month of free PlayStation Plus premium service, available to all existing PSN customers. In addition, Sony promised to provide a year’s worth of identity theft protection.

The other details of the “Welcome Back” program have been unclear until now, but today the company specified what exactly it would be. It announced that any PSN customer would be offered to select 2 games from inFAMOUS, Dead Nation, LittleBigPlanet, Wipeout HD + Fury, and Super Stardust HD.

Talking about PSP owners, the company will offer them to download a couple of games from Pursuit Force, LittleBigPlanet, Killzone Liberation, and ModNation Racers. For both categories of users, the selected games would be available for a month right after PS Store is restored, and they can be kept forever.

But that is not all. The list of bonuses is long, as the program was developed as an expression of Sony’s gratitude for users’ patience, support and loyalty. Among other things, the company will enable a selection of “On Us” rental movie titles over one weekend, where Video Service is available. However, the list of titles hasn’t been announced yet. 30 days free PlayStation Plus membership will be offered to non-PSP subscribers, and 60 extra days – for existing subscribers. The offerings will also be made for Music Unlimited Premium Trial subscribers and PlayStation Home.

 
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