{"id":3479,"date":"2011-06-03T21:18:37","date_gmt":"2011-06-04T02:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/?p=3479"},"modified":"2011-06-03T21:18:37","modified_gmt":"2011-06-04T02:18:37","slug":"sony-welcome-back-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2011\/06\/03\/sony-welcome-back-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony &#8211; Welcome Back Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that Sony just cannot catch a break.  They were doomed to criticism over the hack attacks, and rightfully so on several levels.  Being hacked, poor communication, not being exactly forthcoming, and so on; one nasty little cluster that has probably cost Sony a load of creditability and serious buckets of cash.<\/p>\n<p>In an attempt to make amends, Sony is offering a \u2018welcome back\u2019 package that went live early today.  Of course Sony, in their <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.us.playstation.com\/2011\/06\/03\/welcome-back\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/blog.us.playstation.com\/2011\/06\/03\/welcome-back\/', 'ongoing series of blunders');\" target=\"_blank\">ongoing series of blunders<\/a>, did not anticipate volume and user demand.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>UPDATE: Due to high traffic on PlayStation Store, you may encounter error messages or issues. We advise you to check back a little later and try again.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks Sony.  Love the errors.  Even if I cannot use the \u2018welcome back\u2019 games (more on that in thirty seconds), I at least would like to be able to get into the f\u2019ing store.  Not so much; really appreciate this \u2018welcome back, you cannot enter the PSN store\u2019 at the start of my gaming weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Making matters just silly, the \u2018welcome back\u2019 package just could not please everyone.  Some consider the free games weak; others already own much of the content.  [Raises hand]  One would think it would be reasonable for Sony to check previous store purchases and offer a voucher or even a discount for some other produce.  That would be too much to ask. \u00a0Does everyone really have to get their \u2018welcome back\u2019 package today? \u00a0Good grief!<\/p>\n<p>If I were into things like saying \u2018fail\u2019 then this one would be rather epic.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that Sony just cannot catch a break. They were doomed to criticism over the hack attacks, and rightfully so on several levels. Being hacked, poor communication, not being exactly forthcoming, and so on; one nasty little cluster that has probably cost Sony a load of creditability and serious buckets of cash. In an &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2011\/06\/03\/sony-welcome-back-issues\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sony &#8211; Welcome Back Issues<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,26],"class_list":["post-3479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-ps3","tag-psn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3480,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3479\/revisions\/3480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}