i wonder how this affected business for lovefilm - or netflix in the states.
I think Sony have handled it as good as they can, its going to be bad press all around.
Plus some nice freebies
As a compromise for the downtime, Sony is offering all users
1 free year of identity theft protection and insurance,
two free PS3 games from a choice of 5,
and a free month to Playstation Plus
quite a decent thing to do
FOr non PS games
SOE is offering a “
welcome back” program for all Station account holders, including 30 days of free game time plus one day for each day the servers were down, or 15 more days. Players will also get 500 Station cash, SOE’s virtual currency, which can be used to purchase items in games.
Lifetime subscribers will received in-game currency instead of game time, since they are not on a monthly billing cycle.