Sunday, July 3, 2011

PSN Welcome Back Program Over Extended

Update: Seems like all the bitching about the date actually did something, so the Welcome Back Program is now extended until 9AM PST July 5th. Now you have no excuse if you don't cash in on your free games.

Today, Sony's Welcome Back program, which lets you download several games for free, is now over. The window for downloading was open for a whole month and was supposed to end on July 3rd. When things are worded like that, one would assume that the window would close at 12:00AM July 4th--basically the end of July 3rd. But, the window was closed on July 3rd itself, meaning that those who planned to redeem Welcome Back downloads (like the free month of Playstation Plus) at the very last second are shit out of luck.

Cue the horde of angry gamers directing their rage at Sony for their piss-poor wording of July 3rd.

This is the world's smallest violin playing just for those poor gamers who didn't have the chance to download their free games. I don't think there's a more self-entitled group of consumers than gamers who will whine about every little thing that doesn't go their way, even when it comes to something like free games.