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    Sony Details PlayStation Network's 'Welcome Back' Plan

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    #101  Edited By s-a-n-JR

    Exposing more people to inFamous can only be a good thing. 

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    #102  Edited By Clubvodka

    If someone could get back to me that'd be great. Is this a download and keep forever deal? You can only play online or something? What's the catch?

    My ps3's disc drive is broken so this comes at a perfect time for me

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    #103  Edited By ShadowDoGG
    @guypussy: As a PS+ user I can tell you each will be around 8GB
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    #104  Edited By LegalBagel

    Kind of annoying the best two offerings are two games that pretty much everyone already owns and that have sequels.  Not to look a gift horse in the mouth as I'll enjoy Wipeout, but I'd prefer some cold hard cash to pick out some PSN games.  As is it mostly seems like a promo for LBP2 and Infamous 2 and the other parts of the PSN service.

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    #105  Edited By MudMan
    @cartvader said:
    @Floppypants said:
    Sony's really making a huge sacrifice giving away valueless games.
    THIS!

    inFamous is $10 LBP (w/o GOTY DLC (w00t for abbreviations)) is probably close to the same.
    Whoopty friggen doo.
    Full retail games, both highly rated.

    Huh.

    If there were olympics for bratty customer self-entitlement you just set the torch on fire by spontaneously combusting in front of it.

    The one tiny little bit of cynicism I can muster on this piece of information is that hey, giving inFamous away for free just before inFamous 2 comes out has a nice whiff of Valve-style self-promotion to it. Which is arguably not a bad thing.
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    #106  Edited By XTraFries

    very excited about free infamous. 

    It came out before I had a PS3 and I haven't gotten around to picking it up yet. Can't wait for whenever this ends up becoming available. 

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    #107  Edited By fenixrevolution

    I've been meaning to download Superstardust HD for a while, so this is good news. Not too thrilled about much else though, but it's free, so I guess I won't complain.


    Although I'd rather have a PS1 Classic over that list.
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    #108  Edited By beforet

    Not a bad selection. I would have preferred 10-30$ in the wallet, but I'll make do with Wipeout. I'm just glad PSN is finally getting back up.

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    #109  Edited By Twitchey
    @Hector: Same here. I was planning on buying it before I bought inFamous 2.
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    #110  Edited By Nomin

    Can I buy a PS3 now to get in the sweepstakes? 

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    #111  Edited By freakin9

    I like how some people think developers should suffer because PSN went down for a month.  Yeah new games aren't going to be given out for free, if this surprises you you have a serious lack of grasp on reality.  If you buy everything Sony makes the moment it comes out what do you expect.

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    #112  Edited By BradBrains
    @Garadon
    Cool, I just wish they offered ModNation on PS3. ;P
    This
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    #113  Edited By bug9329

    It is nice to get a downloaded copy of a LBP, because now I don't have to swap out  another game disk when I want to play it.

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    #114  Edited By DeepSpaceJesus

    The only game on that list that I own is LBP for the PSP, so this is pretty great news. Can't wait to play some inFamous and Wipeout. And maybe some Killzone Liberation, whatever kind of game that is.

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    #115  Edited By Branthog

    I don't really want anything from Sony, but the PSN+ thing sounds kind of lame. It sounds like something you'd be offering people *anyway*, just so you could give them a taste and get them to subscribe permanently to it.

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    #116  Edited By s-a-n-JR
    @Clubvodka said:

    If someone could get back to me that'd be great. Is this a download and keep forever deal? You can only play online or something? What's the catch?My ps3's disc drive is broken so this comes at a perfect time for me

    There doesn't seem to be a catch. The free PS3 and PSP games are separate from PSN+, meaning you'll keep them forever. I don't think you need to be online to play them as that's not usually the case with games downloaded from PSN (with a few exceptions). But if your disc drive is broken, I'd recommend getting it fixed ASAP, otherwise you're really going to miss out on a lot of great PS3 games this year. 
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    #117  Edited By lizzard2

    Well seems their download servers wont be too busy with those titles since they mostly was very popular and most people already played them :P

    I own them all except the psp games, i dont own one.
    Thanx anyway Sony ,getting psn back is good enough for me so thats ok.
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    #118  Edited By X19

    Fantastic! LBP & Infamous for me. Anyone who hasn't picked up Wipeout yet here's your chance.

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    #119  Edited By yakov456

    InFamous and LBP for me. Thanks Sony!

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    #120  Edited By Afroman269

    I rented infamous so I'll get that to play the "good" side. No complaints here.

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    #121  Edited By GrandHarrier

    Kind of a mediocre "welcome back". But free content is free. Don't think this will make it up, in my eyes, however.

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    #122  Edited By sjschmidt93

    I own all buy Wipeout, still pretty cool.

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    #123  Edited By Nictel

    Infamous and Ratchet & Clank :-D


    But like others said most of the people already have these games. A $/€50,- credit for the store would have been nicer.
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    #124  Edited By Bloodgraiv3


    I don't have a lot of those games and i've always been interested in Wipeout, can't wait.

     

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    #125  Edited By phonicpod

    It's worth pointing out that European customers only get the content for 30 days, whereas US accounts get it forever. Thanks sony! :/

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    #126  Edited By s-a-n-JR
    @phonicpod said:

    It's worth pointing out that European customers only get the content for 30 days, whereas US accounts get it forever. Thanks sony! :/

    That is incorrect. EU gets to keep the content forever as well. The selection of games is separate from PSN+.
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    #127  Edited By Mijati

    So those of us who actually have games already get... nothing?

    PSN+ member so that month isn't good for me. Own LBP, Infamous, Wipeout, And Ratchet and Clank so that leaves Deadnation? Something I couldn't care less about.
    I understand that they can't give new games away just like that but still, a little more variety would have been great.

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    #128  Edited By skipper00

    Dead Nation and Infamous! Awesome! Cant wait to see what movies they put up.

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    #130  Edited By sammo21

    Good deal but I already own every one of those games, lol.  I guess I will go with the non disc version of LBP and infamous....oh well, good one anyway Sony.

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    #131  Edited By Solh0und

    Infamous and Wipeout HD for me. I may make a EU psn account for Ratchet and Clank.


    I was planning to buy Infamous but I don't have to now.
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    #132  Edited By dezvous

    Damn there just really is no pleasing everyone. I own almost all of these games already but that doesn't upset me at all. I'm just glad to get my hands on dead nation, I was interested but after the QL it just felt like it wasn't worth it. Now since it'll be free it'll be fun to play with a friend who can take advantage of this too. 

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    #133  Edited By QKT

    i dont want those games. i have their sequels and infamous sucks. yeah brad, it sucks.

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    #134  Edited By Toxin066

    Ratchet and Clank? For the first time, I envy Europe.

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    #135  Edited By lordofultima

    Glad I never picked up Infamous now! Thanks hackers for the free awesome game!

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    #136  Edited By Gaff

    This feels like the birthday present from heil.
    Elderly relatives from God know how far away with a gift, nicely wrapped, real classy.
    "I heard you liked those video games!" Big smiles all around, your excitement is building.

    Pac-man for the 2600. A quick nudge from your mother, the sting of guilt in the back of your mind: "THANKS!"

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    #137  Edited By pandashake

    I have none of those. Can't wait to get infamous and wipeout. Infamous 2 seems more interesting now, might pay attention to it.

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    #138  Edited By DjCmeP
    @Toxin066:  You can make an European account and download it for free.
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    #139  Edited By Dreamfall31

    well...I have most of those already....

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    #140  Edited By FuzzYLemoN

    Now this is more like it.

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    #141  Edited By Maxery

    That blows. I own 4 of those games. And surprise 4 of the higher selling games Sony has. They know most people own these. Why cant they just put money in the PSN wallet. 

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    #142  Edited By sarge1445
    @QKT said:
    i dont want those games. i have their sequels and infamous sucks. yeah brad, it sucks.
    no sir you suck
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    #143  Edited By bigdaddyjack21

    I wish the US was getting Ratchet and Clank. I already beat Infamous and have LBP 2 

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    #144  Edited By evilhomer

    sweet infamous =]

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    #145  Edited By Skeetlejuice

    infamous, dead nation, lbp and modnation racers, free sony movie rentals for a weekend, a month of keep my discounted games and try out features of plus and finish the free games if i want (not to mention it's gonna be a double month of content for the free month) and a reason to fire up home with my 100 free items and check out an alien casino.

     

    gee what a shitty ass deal, sony your really bending me over a barrel

     

    i can go ahead and save myself 70 dollars (la noire w tax) and play a bunch of  stuff for free... the horror

     

    not to mention the fact i don't have to pay 60 dollars a year for the priveledge of playing game demos ala XBOX live

     

    and a good 6 months to a year of sony working their ass off giving me compelling reasons to enjoy my PS3 ohhh god their such bastards.

     

    try not to cry while you guys are all downloading your free stuff from your 3 psn accounts and duping content onto multiple ps3's you whining asshats.

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    #146  Edited By PerryVandell

    The time has come... I finally have no excuse  for not playing Wipeout HD.

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    #147  Edited By TestamentUK

    This is a very poor way to compensate Sony's core users. [Comments on EU lineup follow] LBP and Infamous are likely owned by most, Wipeout seems to have been reduced in price in various promotions, if you care about Ratchet and Clank you already own it (if you don't why would you want a game that fills the gap between the plot of two games you don't own?) and dead nation just seems to be pretty bad.


    Free is still free, but applied to a very low value proposition.

    Also, for those that asked about if they'll always be free/registering foreign accounts for game, the terms stipulate your account must have been created before the downtime.
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    #148  Edited By thebobster10

    Not TOO bad of a lineup. I am actually more interested to see what movies that they have available.

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    #149  Edited By avantegardener

    Nice, LBP and wipeout for me, being a waiter payed off, pretty much sucks for most people who actually own them.

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    #150  Edited By IshimuraD

    I'm so glad PSN is back! That Welcome Back package looks pretty good, unfortunately I have all the the North American games except for Dead Nation, which is supposed to be kind of bad. Sucks but, it must be exciting for all the people who for some reason skipped LBP and inFamous, both of which are amazing games.

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