Sony rolls out Welcome Back Program (was: PlayStation Store Returns)

[METALPUNKS]

Oh god I didn't know we can lose data when we update. I've never had that happen to me. If lost my trophies I haven't synced I would be so frustrated. Many people say they are just pointless virtual rewards but I disagree. I enjoy getting trophies and comparing them to friends. Guess we will see like you said.

Let me say something about companys losing money from all this. You'd have to be totally out of it if you didn't think they could lose profits from this. The hackers really put a hurting on everyone throughout all of this. Now Sony is only hurting themselves by being so secretive with what's going on. Sure they are working deals with massive companys like Activision but they are forgetting about the little fish that in my opinion keep the wheels turning. These small time developers are starting to have less and less faith in Sony. These poor guys put everything they have into the games they make. These games are made with blood sweat and tears. I just feel like Sony should at least keep them up to date, from what I've seen it looks like they are in the dark as much as us. For gosh sakes Sony we keep your company alive, without us you are nothing. I bet you at least 60% of Sonys profits come from gaming, if not more. I wouldn't care so much if they would just treat us with some respect. Stop with the crappy updates. Maybe they are just protecting us from the truth but for them to totally make us wait on their every word is wrong. I don't care what they say, they know more than what they're claiming to know. A company that huge knows exactly what's going on after three weeks of being in this outage. Why is it so hard for people to believe that a multi billion dollar company isn't handling things the right way. They do not become as big as they are without playing dirty, right now they are in the mud smearing it all over eachothers faces, we can all see that.

Let's see what kind of lame update we get next. Let me just say this again. I don't care if it takes 6 months to fix this problem, let us know so we can make a decision on what we as costumers would like to do. We know what they are doing. They are giving us false hope and with false hope their still is hope and that's what they want us to have. Not because they care so much about us or because they understand we are growing impatient. The real reason is simple. If they would have told us from day 1 it was going to take almost a month there would have been a much larger number of people that would have abandoned Sony. So for them to say "a coupe days" "not much longer" and "very soon" they are just stalling, they want us to have that false hope that things will be ok soon. That's where the anger comes in, how many times do they think they can get away with that, apparently as many as they like because we are still sticking around, that's not our stupiditiy that's us backing the company that we love just like they should do for us. Also just note the US government doesn't get involved unless people are being screwed, they are the only ones aloud to do the screwing.

One question sorta of topic. What would actually happen if they ever found the hackers?

[nerzdadestroyer]

hay hay hay hay hay hay hay! they just had something bad happen they didn't expect, they just got HACKED. its like when a friend is annoyed because of being ripped off at a market or something like that, and then he is in a mood with everyone even if its not there fault. HOW ABOUT SONY STOP TRYIN TO FIX PSN FOR YOU AND DO SOMETHING ELSE WITH THERE LIVES, also i know many people who don't need a ps3 to enjoy every day of the week. i also know people who are to busy to play on a ps3. i also know people who cant afford to have a ps3! SO STOP FREAKIN COMPLAINING AND GET OF UR **** AND DO SOMETHING ELSE THAN SIT AROUND! and to put it kindly: "I'm sure you can find a way to pass the time, how about meet up with some old friends and have a laugh. hay, come on now, don't cry! Sony are trying there best I'm sure."

sorry about that major complain, i try to be friendly but sometimes well..

[METALPUNKS]

hay hay hay hay hay hay hay! they just had something bad happen they didn't expect, they just got HACKED. its like when a friend is annoyed because of being ripped off at a market or something like that, and then he is in a mood with everyone even if its not there fault. HOW ABOUT SONY STOP TRYIN TO FIX PSN FOR YOU AND DO SOMETHING ELSE WITH THERE LIVES, also i know many people who don't need a ps3 to enjoy every day of the week. i also know people who are to busy to play on a ps3. i also know people who cant afford to have a ps3! SO STOP FREAKIN COMPLAINING AND GET OF UR **** AND DO SOMETHING ELSE THAN SIT AROUND! and to put it kindly: "I'm sure you can find a way to pass the time, how about meet up with some old friends and have a laugh. hay, come on now, don't cry! Sony are trying there best I'm sure."

sorry about that major complain, i try to be friendly but sometimes well..

Again it's not about going out and finding something else to do. I don't care if people can't afford a ps3 or if people read a book or whatever it is. This is not the "do something else besides wait on Sony" thread. How in the world do people know what other people do in their everyday lives. Geesh today alone I've taken a hike painted my bathroom, cleaned the yard, and later going to have dinner and drinks with friends. I for one am not guilty of playing my ps3 too much, I am guilty of having my **** phone everywhere I go, that's an entirely different problem. I have maybe played my ps3 for a total of 15 hours this entire time and thats mainly to play Portal 2(best game ever by the way lol).

Now I'll say what you said

sorry about that major complain, i try to be friendly but sometimes well..:

Seriously I'm not bashing your opinion in any way. That's what these complaints are anyway right? Everyone has that right to say what's on their mind. As we can see it's definatly being said lol. It's just I don't like that I've sunk thousands of dollars into a company that when **** hits the fan they act as if we don't have all our hard earned money invested into them.

[nerzdadestroyer]

yeah portal 2 is amazin! and yeah i understand that your trying to say that this thread has been crowded with complaints and how it was meant to be a proper discussion between mature people. i is sorry. oh and i also like how i made the 'for you' huge XD. but you know "i would help you but, I'm a potato..."

[METALPUNKS]

yeah portal 2 is amazin! and yeah i understand that your trying to say that this thread has been crowded with complaints and how it was meant to be a proper discussion between mature people. i is sorry. oh and i also like how i made the 'for you' huge XD. but you know "i would help you but, I'm a potato..."

Look at this doing to us! We are being destroyed! Just kidding. Why in the world are people still writing articles that PSN will not return until May 31st. Was that not cleared up a couple days ago. It goes to show how the media always focuses on the negative. A major media monster like USA Today is still writing about the fact that the date is May31st. Wow do they even look into anything they report. Any little faith I had in News Corps had been totally thrown out the window. I'm starting to learnany things because of all this. We can see right smack in front of us how North America handles situations. They always make things worse than they are. The only time in my life that the news didn't make something look as terrible as the reality of it was Hurricane Katrina. I went there 3 days after and it was way worse then what was being shown on the news. Hmm..... I've got to stop reading news papers and watching television news. You can't trust any of them.

[nerzdadestroyer]

oh god, u gunna get delirious and hide in the corner flinching at dust and attacking your shadow with a frying pan. its a huge conspiracy! its all lies! THE END IS NIGH!!

[Rabid-Coot]

A good way to fill an hour or so. http://twitter.com/#!/fake_psn

Blah blah external site blah blah some mature content.

[Rogar]

With a problem as small as this, the phrase "live and let live" comes to mind. I'm not upset that some people aren't upset about the outage, so why are people getting upset that we are upset about it? (It's upsetting how many "upsets" I just typed.)

This is not the "do something else besides wait on Sony" thread.

Neither is it the "complain about anything vaguely related to the outage" thread.

I for one come here to get news on the outage. All these complaints are making that more difficult, but that's fine. I understand people are upset and want to complain, and I'm not upset about that. Sony has made some mistakes, sure. But it does annoy me when people overreact. People go on a tantrum based on rumours, misinformation and assumptions. It's almost as if people think Sony's doing this just to spite them.

This security breach is a huge and complicated problem, and I don't think anyone here has enough information to make any kind of judgement. And also consider this: If Sony could bring PSN back sooner, surely they would do so without your complaints. And if Sony knew exactly when PSN would be online again, surely they would tell us. There's no reason why they wouldn't.

[Creekey]

I for one come here to get news on the outage. All these complaints are making that more difficult, but that's fine.

If you really only wanted the outage news, without the opinions, I suggest going here.

[Rogar]

Nah, too much spam about other games. Like I said, I'm fine with reasonable complaints.

[METALPUNKS]

Neither is it the "complain about anything vaguely related to the outage" thread.

I for one come here to get news on the outage. All these complaints are making that more difficult, but that's fine. I understand people are upset and want to complain, and I'm not upset about that. Sony has made some mistakes, sure. But it does annoy me when people overreact. People go on a tantrum based on rumours, misinformation and assumptions. It's almost as if people think Sony's doing this just to spite them.

This security breach is a huge and complicated problem, and I don't think anyone here has enough information to make any kind of judgement. And also consider this: If Sony could bring PSN back sooner, surely they would do so without your complaints. And if Sony knew exactly when PSN would be online again, surely they would tell us. There's no reason why they wouldn't.

Ya but it is more of the thread to come and talk about this subject regardless the topic. I actually started a thread that would focus on what people thought was wrong or right about this whole thing, it got erased and i was told to post my OPINION here instead. And for me I hate the rumors, thats not what ****** me off. It's what I see right in front of me. It's what is post on the blog that gets me going. I won't get into that, as you can see in previous posts I've made it clear how I feel lol. I know sony is working their butts off right now, I've never said anything against that. I just know what I feel and I feel we are in the dark about a lot of things. One update out of all of them were a decent update, the rest are just there to fill in blank spaces.

You have your opinion and I have mine. That the point I'm trying to make. Then there are cold hard facts right in front of you, that you can't deny.

Again let me say this because I know it's hard to get what people are feeling in a post. If I across angry I don't mean to. I'm truly sorry if you feel or felt that way. I'm just of those guys that defends in what I believe and so are you and everyone else here. So I am saying with most respect toward you and your opinion. I'm going to end this on a good note and say hope to see you soon online playing some long awaited LBP(or whatever your into). Have a great night doing what you do, I know it's not playing any online games on the Sony network lol. Who knows maybe it will be. Fingers crossed.

[Silverleon]

I MANGED To SIGN IN!
...to LBPC, turns out I was using the wrong password.

Anywho, yeah, to pass the time, anyone wanna make another guess as to when the PSN may be up? xD
(No "between today and june" things tho, state ONE day. )

[Lord-Dreamerz]

Anywho, yeah, to pass the time, anyone wanna make another guess as to when the PSN may be up? xD
(No "between today and june" things tho, state ONE day. )

A Monday in May, 2015
*mew

[METALPUNKS]

I MANGED To SIGN IN!
...to LBPC, turns out I was using the wrong password.

Anywho, yeah, to pass the time, anyone wanna make another guess as to when the PSN may be up? xD
(No "between today and june" things tho, state ONE day. )

First off you say you signed into what?

The day I choose is lucky Friday the 13th. Actually friday the 13th is really a lucky day. So ya 5/13/2011.

[zerotiger99]

A Monday in May, 2015
*mew

LOL if's it's gonna be that long then PS4 would be out lol I'm a guess May 17 when PSN back up.

[trahcwolf1234]

My guess is the date PS4 comes out, in an agreement between Sony. Micro$oft and Xbox

[kirbysmashed]

Yeah, And when the network comes back on, think of all the levels that will be published, flooding the 'moon with new content!
...maybe.

[Lockstitch]

Yeah, And when the network comes back on, think of all the levels that will be published, flooding the 'moon with new content!
...maybe.

Yeah, I've had one finished on my moon since the day after the PSN went down... I'm thinking it may be better to wait than to publish right when it comes up, b/c I imagine there will be a huge flood of levels on the cool pages... it may be easy to get buried.

[METALPUNKS]

I have a question has anyone heard if we can change our email address after all this. I know you couldn't do it before but I was thinking maybe since all this happened. I just don't want to loose everything.


Also where is Keven Butler right now?
We can use some humor right about now.
I have an idea let Kevin Butler release the blogs as video blogs, I would be much happier if he delivered the updates.

[ShiftyDog]

Yeah, I've had one finished on my moon since the day after the PSN went down... I'm thinking it may be better to wait than to publish right when it comes up, b/c I imagine there will be a huge flood of levels on the cool pages... it may be easy to get buried.

If only you get there early. LBP levels grows every 3 seconds, but since Sony cannot tell us it be activated. And if you hear a person say "Yay, it's on!", Sign in and fire it online. Hope no cheats get there before you like popular survival games and heart if you like/hate whatever.

Bet you get there and if it on cool pages, and if it is, well done.
Also if it Mm picked, Congrats