Welcome Back Program now live for PSN users

Does this have an expiration date?

@1. It expires on July 3rd.

It is happening some errors when you click on the links in the Welcome back content. I “bought” inFamous, the item shows as purchased but the download didn’t start :S

Yeah non of this stuff is actually accesable, the servers are completly overloaded and the store is borked.

BTW. I leave in Brazil and have an US account.
I was afraid that the content wouldn’t be available for me, but seems that Sony is considering the address registered in PSN, not the IP address of my console

Well, I guess when you have inFamous, LBP and Wipeout already, there isn’t much choice left lol. Would love if you could choose from other games sold on the store…

Which one to choose – Dead Nation or Super Stardust HD?

LBP my second choice (i already own the rest)

Well, it’s mostly “error 80710D36″ and “this content can’t be selected at this time”.
I’ve seen better offers. Like, well, actual stuff.

Well with all the error’s due to overload, I managed to get screwed out of one of my PSP games. Now the option disapeared and I can’t seem to get it.

Both PS3 games worked fine. One PSP game worked fine. But then I went to do the second PSP game, got errors had to back out and now it’s gone. Checked my cart and my download list, not there.

Fuck.

^
From the PSBlog:

“Try this:

1. On your PlayStation 3 or PlayStation Portable navigate to the PlayStation Network icon on the XMB
2. Log into your PlayStation Network account and choose Account Management > Transaction Management > Services List
3. Choose “PlayStation Network Promotions” from the list of services displayed
4. Select either “PS3 Free Games” or “PSP Free Games” and then choose “Select Content””

@9 Thanks, the same thing happened to me so I’ll use that for when the errors have stopped

@9 Thank you that worked!!!

I downloaded inFamous and Dead Nation here in EU
…on my US account I downloaded Stardust and WipEout
I get way more than I deserve

Free movie rentals too… http://psp2roundup.blogspot.com/2011/06/psns-welcome-back-offers-now-live.html

Is LBP Full or what .. !
its 2 GB and the full game has about 13~12 GB Hell the Demo was 1146 MB How the hell they named it ( FULL GAME )…

And another Q .. is LBP Or any other games Have an expiration date ?

@13 wow dude… I feel sorry for you… seriously. Who lies to get free hits *facepalm*

^ Apparently its true, from what i’m hearing in the US you can get Bad Boys, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within & Ghostbusters.

Still not working for me. :-\

I’m downloading inFamous now. It’s going to take 2,660 minutes.

Now it’s 1,000 minutes.

You will enjoy it Pat.
@ errors.
Just keep doing it, every time you get an error and it should eventually work.
I have downloaded 3 games today plus infamous 2 demo.
In Ireland btw.

Its a pretty big game Pat so it will take a while I reckon.
Then you have to install it.

I’ve downloaded Wipeout, R&C and Super Stardust. Its 2 games per account, btw. So i’ll be looking into what Japan has to offer when its up.

It’s rattling along a bit now. 400 minutes. That’s better.

How big is each game anyway? Im at the office and unable to check right now.

Still cant change my password so im locked out of PSN and my L.A. Noire DLC goodness

Bummer. I never got around to making that US account.

PASSWORD RESET FUNCTION IS BACK!! YAY! Just grabbed all the Noire DLC

PSN website seems to be nearly fully functional now.

edit: website is proper back now, I can view my trophies and everything

I got inFamous down and got the free Plus sub, but it’s not letting me take the second game. Getting lots of errors from the Store, to be honest. It must be getting really battered.

Yeh im getting constant DNS errors, going back then selecting what ever it was I was on again works after like the 3rd time.

I can’t even get into the bit with the free games at the moment. I’m downloading Magic: The Gathering from the Plus sub. I’ll try again in a bit.

You can get in, you just have to try 100 times =\

Handy hint if you’ve previously managed to select something but it bombed out before it kicked off the download. It will be in your history available off one of the icons at the top. Go there as it hides it in the store if it thinks you already have it.

Just tried looking at the PSP games. Got onto the Store, but I couldn’t see any mention of the Welcome Back Pack. And every time I tried to do anything I got an error.

Yeah you have to constantly go back in forth to refresh and hope it catches. I got the Infamous 2 demo but thats all I was able to get.

I got all the games in some form already bar one: Dead Nation. So picked that up.

Will Sony fix things cause this reall is bullshit. Two friends of mine got ‘cheated’ out of two free games, they kept getting those bullshit errors and all of a sudden the welcome back thing was gone, nothing downloaded. I myself was able to get Wipeout HD, but after that it was gone as well.

@36 let’s not jump the gun to accuse them as ‘cheaters’ due to overload.guess some people can’t hide their feelings for too long.
read what Gek added on @9 and tell it to your ill informed friends.it works

@37 no it doesn’t work. The welcome back stuff have disappeared from my account before i could download any of the games i had selected and it doesn’t show in the service list tab. So i’m a bit pissed at the moment.

What Drdamn says.
Also I tried downloading dead nation yesterday but it gave me an error.
I went to store earlier and just went to games and selected same game.
It said I had already d/L it so I just clicked d/L again and got it.
It is working albeit with bugs.
Should settle down over the weekend.

@38 for the majority of users it does work.
don’t worry you won’t be ‘cheated’ this will sorted out eventually in a few hours-days.no need to be pissed or get anxious about something you didn’t actually own to begin with which eventually you’ll get in the end.

@36, @38 Seek and you will find. From Playstation blog (already posted but anyway…) -

Q: I no longer have the option to choose my free Welcome Back games. What can I do?

A: If you navigate away from the Welcome Back section of the store without choosing your free games or exit the store completely you may need to follow the below in order to choose and download your free games.

1. On your PlayStation 3 or PlayStation Portable navigate to the PlayStation Network icon on the XMB

2. Log into your PlayStation Network account and choose Account Management > Transaction Management > Services List

3. Choose “PlayStation Network Promotions” from the list of services displayed

4. Select either “PS3 Free Games” or “PSP Free Games” and then choose “Select Content”

Worked for me like a charm

http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2011/06/03/welcome-back-content-is-available-now-frequently-asked-questions-answered/

@40
I’m not pissed about the games i didn’t get but about a service that is still not working properly. Kuddos to Sony for the free games but i’d rather have PSN working smoothly at long last.

@42 Tens of millions are trying to do the same thing at same time. Happens all the time over the internet, no need to get worked up

Follow isnstructions above and youll get your games with minimal fuss

@42 PSN is working properly,you can still play online and have access to the store
also what @43 said

Managed to download a free movie rental (Resident Evil Degeneration), but the games aren’t showing up to download again, a bit hit or miss still – but slowly getting better. All the journos flying off to the States should have eased the load a bit!