So I decided i'd go ahead and grab a couple of the free Welcome Back games that I don't have. So I do what it says and get the 4 "Free Game" things. When I hit "O" to go back, my PSN freezes and I reboot. Oh look. I can't get any of the free games now because you have to download them as soon as you get the 4 stupid coupon things. <_<

What asshat thought that was a good GUI design? <_<

So, NinjaFish, what would you like to see us discuss here exactly?

Was hoping someone would come in and prove me wrong by saying where the games move to in the Sony Store :brokencomputer:

Go to your account management and look at your services. You get two of the games, by the way.

Yeah same thing happened to me (though I got to download LBP at least)

Try customer support.

Awesome! Thanks guys

I wuv you for this :hugs:

Welcome to the darkside! dun dun duunnnnn :celebration:

Thread should now be renamed to:

Damnit. I hate love you Sony!

Try google searching. I found I was able to find my 1st free game after doing some round-about stuff I read on the PSN forums. Basically, I had to go into my account manager for my PSP and find the SCEA promotion for the free game.

But I still can't download it because I get an error. And I get an error when I try to "activate" my PSP for game content (even though I dl'd Patapon2 without a hitch last year). So, it still svcks, and Sony still svcks for the lame free games that you can't even get half the time because their servers are overloaded and hacked. I can't believe they had to take PSN down for over a month. A few days, I can understand, but they are a big company, it shouldn't have to take them a month to get things set back up.

EDIT: nevermind! Littlebig Planet is downloading! Finally! Only... over an hour to go?!

Sony probably wanted to really make sure that their system was secure (well... as best as they could make it).

Alternatively, they may have decided to rebuild portions of it to try and improve the security.

Still, it seems like an inordinate amount of time. Like, they weren't just caught with their pants down, they had no pants at all and needed to make new ones from scratch.

So many other companies/organizations that get hacked (banks, government, etc) don't have any noticeable interruption of services, they just get things fixed asap and then try to figure out what happened. I think Sony should have just put up online services but pulled the PSN-store until everyone is notified about the credit card info being stolen and they can secure the data better.

this! :deal: