Happy New Year! Since access to PlayStation Network was impacted during the holidays, we wanted to show our appreciation for your patience by offering all PlayStation Plus members that had an active membership or free trial on December 25th a membership extension of five days. The extension will be automatically applied, so no action is necessary to receive the extension. We will post additional information here on PlayStation.Blog when the extension becomes available. If your membership or trial ends before the extension is available, you will receive five days of Plus to enjoy once the extension becomes available (we will notify you when).
In addition, sometime this month we will announce that for a limited time, we will be offering a 10 percent discount code good for a one-time discount off a total cart purchase in the PlayStation Store as a thank you to all PSN members.
This discount can be used toward content available on PS Store including blockbuster new releases, award winning indie games, game add-ons and season passes, and an enormous selection of TV and Movies.
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2015/01/01/a-holiday-thank-you/#sf6690761
What are your opinions on this?
I personally feel that this is the absolute bare minimum they could've done, without getting themselves tangled up in another PSN lawsuit. Giving people a 5 days for a service that very recently used to be free, and a discount the encourage people to just hand them more money without any promise to improve their infrastructure?
Preventing DDOS-attacks is possible, but costs money. Sony is clearly not interested in doing anything else than just shutting everything down, wait for the storm to calm down and blame somebody else.
I couldn't care less for 5 days of PS+, I want them to actually prove to me that they're doing a real effort in keeping their service up. And while you're at it, fix your bandwidth problems for PSN downloads.
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