Will Playstation’s “Welcome Back” Appreciation Program be enough for you?

Sony is telling everyone that the Playstation Network should be seeing functionality return within the week for certain services. They will be implementing a phased roll out during the first week in May. In a post on the Playstation blog they announced that we will see a return of during the initial phase.

[NukaCola]

I, like any normal human gamer, am glad to know the PSN will be back up. All the bullcrap that the media wants to make up can shove it. Turning a good thing into another problem. Like the news today on bin Lade. Headlines reading OSAMA DEAD BUT THE WAR WILL GO ON, or IS OSAMA'S DEATH GOING TO END THE TERRORISM? It's crap like this that keeps the world from peace. Media is the number one reason that happiness is overshadowed by misery, and that is cause misery gets the ratings. I have not seen one article that says "YEAH FOR PSN!, IT'S COMING BACK!" or "PS3 GAMERS CAN BE HAPPY TO GAME ONLINE AGAIN!" Just BS articles to brew up fear and doubt. What ever. I will just be happy to sync up my trophies for the SP of Portal 2 and Mass Effect 2.

[tehpees3]

I completely agree. it is enough for me. Sony try their best to keep the network as safe as it can be. I wonder how people would have reacted if it was xbox live that was hacked

its just the typical internet reaction. these journalists coming on putting a spin on something. PSN is a safe as it can be. the fact is the hackers took advantage of a situation that people were aware of at the time. they struck while the iron was hot

[Istanbull]

Why won't it be enough? They're already doing everything they can, you should be glad you get anything free from Sony in the first place!

[Perjoss]

I dont really mind what they do, the PSN downtime has not affected me too much as I hardly use my PS3 apart from the odd exclusive game.

[Vitalogy]

To be honest it would be enough already if they just provide more security from now on, I really don't care about the rest, just want to be safe with me data there.

[Jac5al]

I just want PSN back online.

[ThatCanadianGuy]

I know right.I could care less about anything else, just let me freakin play DCUO again.Im craving it!

Although, just had an idea! It would be pretty cool if they gave Warhawk away as a free download to everyone on PSN.I mean..let's be honest, the game is a few years old, doubt its bringing in much revenue now.Would be a great way to say sorry, get more fans for warhawk & lead to a great starhawk reveal mid-may (supposedly)

[Vherostar]

I agree and they didnt even have to do a welcome pack the fact any site says is it good enough shows how biased they can be. It's not like people pay for PSN is it? I mean sure I get PS+ but with monthly updates only it doesn't really affect plus members.

[Baba1906]

agree, i just want to play k3 again. dont care about the free stuff, its cool though.

[Dazel]

While my daughter will be glad to play LBP2 again, Sony can go #@$% themselves as far as I'm concerned. They've caused me to much hassle and I might play games purchased in a shop, I will NEVER trust them with my credit card details.

[rustyspoon80]

Then just use a pre-pay PSN card. They're usually cheaper the their PSN value so you save money.
I for 1, have been lost in Fallout: New Vegas so haven't missed online.

[KwietStorm]

So then just game and don't worry about your credit card. What's the problem? Gaming isn't a pay to play service.

[Dazel]

My problem is having to cancel my credit card and juggle my finances just before I went away on holiday because Sony dropped the ball.

[fedexas]

Direct your anger at the hackers that did this. No matter how secure a network may be, it's not immune against attacks. The blame should not be completely placed on Sony.

[PlayerX]

Not really. It's a cheap marketing ploy.

[OmegaSlayer]

Yes, much more than they had to do, since Sony was victim as well.

[Rybakov]

i don't care as long as they get it back up and are more cautious in the future

any word on what this free download is yet? don't really care for the ps+ membership cause im not signing back up so i wont download any of the free stuff cause it isn't free

[KwietStorm]

You're not paying for it, but it isn't free? Mindfcuk.

[Rybakov]

no you pay 15 bucks a month for the "free" ps+ game....the only way to play the ps+ game after your sub ends is to renew and pay another 15 bucks......not free

[slaton24]

dude the free game is what u dont keep everything else you do...ps+ is free so just enjoy it. And it is free for free ps+ stuff I am sure you can beat a game and unlock all or most trophies b4 30 days are up

[KwietStorm]

Where are you getting $15 a month from? It's either $18 for 3 months or $50 for a year, plus 3 free months, which is what I have. The games you get for free are free, period. You can't argue that. You're paying for the service. The free games are part of that service, so when you stop paying, you can't play them anymore. That doesn't make them any less free.

[HeavenlySnipes]

What else could they do? Give free games for life? They dont have to give us back shit (unless money was stolen from you) and they decided to give everyone free Music service, PSN+ and a free download. More than enough. Now I can get the second KZ3 map pack for free (DLC dowloads are free right?) and I got the first for free also. :D

[Jonah_Reese]

Oh My God me and my friends were talking about that. Gonna be the first thing we Tackle.

[Jonah_Reese]

*Sigh* Will you (and any other site) stop asking this repetitive question if we say no or yes(Probably not)? This reminds me of GT5, I could not wait for it to come out so I wouldn't have to look, glance or read any more horribly redundant articles. Although I'm pretty sure we'll see the obligatory "PSN, one year after the Hack" article or "PSN, Has it been treating you well? No, We Don't Care, We Just Need a Conduit to Hate On It!" < Okay we won't see that one (Not from this site at least) but you get it.

[Masterchef2007]

Just getting PSN back up and running with an increased level of security is more than enough for me.

[Solidestchimp]

ofcourse it will be enuf, i have had my details taken once before while its bad. All i did was go to my bank close that card down and my new card is here now rdy for the psn to return, the media and blog sites have made this worse than it was but i saw that comeing its the media ffs lol anyway cant wait to try socom online when psn is bk up :)

[earbus]

I would have been happy if i still had a ps3 i do miss the media functions plays any file 3 and a half years i didnt buy anything of psn we had no cards for ages in australia.

[Veneno]

PSN + is cool but I would much have rather gotten like a $10 credit so that we all could use it for what we want. because when Plus expires we are left with nothing.

[Guitardr85]

Well considering that the media blew this thing completely out of proportion, yeah I will play on the PSN again...

...Just as millions of people continue to play on the 360 despite the red ring of death fiasco. At least I don't have to buy an entirely new system, lol

[thricet]

I'll just be happy to have it back up and running not being able to play online has just made gaming kinda boring.