its been a week or so after the PSN restoration was completed and i, like some people have more than on account which tempted me into downloading more games,and since im such a cheep bastard ive downloaded a total of 6 PS3 games and still waiting for 2(japan). 
the reason i haven't owned them before was due to me living in a country where everything cool or new costs 400%than it does in the US/UK...and for now ive enjoyed every second.so what about you?

I think it was a win for both me and Sony. I just finished up Infamous and had a great time with it. A great game, especially for the price. It also left me ready to dive in for more, which means Sony will probably get another sale for Infamous 2 soon.

Pretty neat.
 
I would of liked Uncharted 1 but hey, whatever.

I wanted to play inFamous and LittleBigPlanet and I got both for free. Good deal for me. Also enjoyed the free 30 days of PS+ so I could finish the Sam and Max season I started before my subscription lapsed.

That is really nice of them to do and playing Wipeout HD is a blast with friends.

Decent enough. I owned 3 of the 5 free games they gave out, and I had already sort of had my fill of 1 of the others after borrowing it from a friend. So I would have appreciated a larger selection, but I'm not about to complain about free stuff. Now maybe I'll finish Infamous. Wipeout will probably go unplayed, though.

has any one used the psn+ for the spring offers? 
i have downloaded every free game i could press on. 
does anyone remember JAMES POND? horrifyingly addicting

I wasn't expecting anything so I guess it's better then nothing, but I was not a fan of he selection. LBP was the only one that even remotely interested me. Of course though, my PS3 YLOD on me a few weeks ago so I'm fucked out of getting any of that stuff anyway, but when it looked like I was going to get it it didn't blow my mind.

I've been playing LittleBigPlanet all day 
 
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Not sure if I"m in the minority but I was underwhelmed. LittleBigPlanet instead of the sequel? No Uncharted 2? They offer Infamous and Wipeout but I already have those. Then they offer a free 30 day subscription to PSPlus, which isn't really that generous because they basically want you to use it and say "hey this is cool let me hop on full time".

I have all the PS3 games on the welcome back deal, and I rarely use my PSP, but I never actually once wanted to use my PS3 during the shutdown (not a problem with the console, just was busy finishing up school and had bought most recent multiplatform games for 360), so loading up my PS3 to play InFamous 2 and getting free stuff felt pretty nice. That free welcome back dynamic 8-bit theme you get is pretty awesome.

I'm really happy with what I got from the Welcome Back package. I got..

• Infamous
• Ratchet & Clank Quest for Booty
• Burnout Paradise
• Little Big Planet PSP
• Modnation Racers PSP
• Streets of Rage 2

...all for free.

You can't really argue with that lot, if you don't already own them of course. I've been ABSOLUTELY hooked on Burnout Paradise since I got it and am thoroughly enjoying my time with Infamous. I think it's worked out pretty well for Sony in my case too, as I'll be subscribing to (at least) the 90 day PS+ program once mine has expired. Seriously, I'd pay almost £11.99 just to keep Burnout, never mind the three months of stuff that is still to come. Looking forward to seeing what comes in July's PS+ update.

I'm really happy. I'd completely fallen out of love with my PS3 for the past year or so. My Xbox was getting all my attention and I don't think I'd bought a PS game since Heavy Rain. Totally back in it to win it now, though.

note: anything downloaded or bought using the PSN+ will expire in the end of the subscription. which disappointed me a bit...

I didn't own any of the games, so I was happy. Why would I complain about free shit, even if I already had it?
 
@kishinfoulux said:

Not sure if I"m in the minority but I was underwhelmed. LittleBigPlanet instead of the sequel? No Uncharted 2? They offer Infamous and Wipeout but I already have those. Then they offer a free 30 day subscription to PSPlus, which isn't really that generous because they basically want you to use it and say "hey this is cool let me hop on full time".

I didn't own any of the games, so I was happy. Why would I complain about free shit, even if I already had it?
 
@kishinfoulux said:

Not sure if I"m in the minority but I was underwhelmed. LittleBigPlanet instead of the sequel? No Uncharted 2? They offer Infamous and Wipeout but I already have those. Then they offer a free 30 day subscription to PSPlus, which isn't really that generous because they basically want you to use it and say "hey this is cool let me hop on full time".

I'm not sure if this is "facepalm" worthy or not... It's clear that they're using the program to drum up interest for the sequel, and there's no sense in them losing good sales for games that are still practically at full retail value (as LBP2 is and I'm pretty sure Uncharted 2 GOTY is)... Instead, they use GH games that aren't worth much money, because in doing so, it's basically nuked the used game market for those 5 games and they are now practically worthless.

I just started the downloads for Ratchet and inFamous. Pretty happy about that.

@bibamatt: How did you get Burnout free, I looked at it and it was not. And yes I had the PSN+ offer activated already.

I didn't own any of the games, so I was happy. Why would I complain about free shit, even if I already had it?
 
@kishinfoulux said:

Not sure if I"m in the minority but I was underwhelmed. LittleBigPlanet instead of the sequel? No Uncharted 2? They offer Infamous and Wipeout but I already have those. Then they offer a free 30 day subscription to PSPlus, which isn't really that generous because they basically want you to use it and say "hey this is cool let me hop on full time".

I'm not sure if this is "facepalm" worthy or not... It's clear that they're using the program to drum up interest for the sequel, and there's no sense in them losing good sales for games that are still practically at full retail value (as LBP2 is and I'm pretty sure Uncharted 2 GOTY is)... Instead, they use GH games that aren't worth much money, because in doing so, it's basically nuked the used game market for those 5 games and they are now practically worthless.

It took about an hour and a half to download Wipeout HD which is fucking ridiculous (it's a little over 1GB) and around forty minutes to download Fury, but whatever, it's free so I can't complain.  My one complaint is that I'm not interested in Dead Nation or Super Stardust HD and I already have LBP and inFamous...so which should I get SSHD or Dead Nation?

Cheap. Sony should have given us one NEW RELEASE for free.

@copycatzen: Maybe it's not part of PS+ in your country? I'm in the UK and there's ads for it all over the PSN store, can't miss it.

I downloaded inFamous 1, which took forever, but whatever. It's a decent game, and well worth the zero dollars. And I also got Dead Nation, which is hard, but a lot of fun. With the free PS Plus subscription I downloaded the Killzone 3 map packs for free, which are awesome. All in all, can't really complain.

I still need a way to store all that content.  My 40GB SKU is far from up to the task.

I bought a PS3 about 3 months ago, never owned one before so I never had the chance to play any of those titles. So the Welcome Back package was great for me.

It's a pretty good deal, although I already owned Infamous and Little Big Planet. Sony being hacked wasn't their fault, and it's nice they gave some free games away as an apology.

@bibamatt: Thanks for the info, it must be that. Im in the US

Not bad, but I had Infamous and LBP already. Tried Ratchet and Clank but had to turn it off after 15 minutes, cause it sucked so bad... Maybe I can tradein LBP and Nfamous for like $3 and use towards something else...

i didnt mind when the PSN outage happened because i was so consumed by Assassins Creed II and GTA IV so i didnt care whether i could play online or not.  the welcome back package is great considering i didnt feel angry about the outage.  i already own Infamous and im glad lots of people could play the game for free

Thankfully I had accounts from other parts of the world before the outage, so I got a better selection of freebies since. Sure, I already played most of the games available, but I didn't own them digitally, so that's the bigger bonus. I can now play LBP1 again, this time with my 8yo nephew who loves helping me in LBP2 (if he stops misbehaving long enough to get permission). Now if only I knew other people with PS3s that played something besides CoD so I get my Dead Nation co-op on... I gotta get a better friends list.

Edit: Apparently this is a super late reply. My bad.