Generous (jeneres) adjective (of a person) showing a readiness to give more of something, as money or time, than is strictly necessary or expected.
With Microsoft announcing apps wil no longer be being behind a paywall, some people have started to say Microsoft is being generous. Microsoft is giving a refund for unused XBL because there are a lot of people who don't use the service for anything but Netflix, Hulu, etc, but this is something you'd expect a company to do. If you were to change your phone plan, cable plan, etc, for each monthly payment to be less, but you've already paid ahead, then you'd get a refund. Is it being generous that they're giving you a refund for services that you're not going to use? No. It's expected.
So anyways. I thought I'd make this thread to recognize companies that were actually generous towards gamers.
-Sony. PSN was hacked and it was down for one month. They took it down after noticing suspicious activity and like most companies didn't want to start a riot by stating such and such happened before they knew before hand, so we weren't notified until two days later. No information other than email and passwords were stolen which required a change of password, along with everyone being without the PSN for a month which is how long it took Sony to build a better securuity system around it.
Because PSN is free, no one expected anything, they were just glad they were able to get back online and play games with their friends, however, Sony apologized for the long outage and gave every PSN account three games. Two choices between a list of PS3/PSN games, and two choices from a list of PSP games. Everyone also received a free month of PS+ activated at a time of their choosing. Even though no personal info was stolen, f you lived in the US, you were also able to apply for a free year of identity theft protection with up to a million dollars in coverage per person.
-Nintendo. The 3DS was released for $249 but wasn't selling well. Within the first six months, Nintendo announced a price drop to $169. To make it up to early adopters, Nintendo announced the ambassador's program, which allowed early adopters to receive 10 free NES and 10 free GBA games later that year so long as they went to the Nintendo eshop before August 11th.
-EA. Despite all the EA hate, there's a few occassions that they've been generous. One such occassion is SimCity. Yeah they screwed up because of the always online and it constantly crashed during the first three days. But they not only got it working in four days for people who wanted to play it online, they also removed always online, as well as offering all customers who purchased a game a free game from those listed. Two of the games in the list were Dead Space 3 and Need For Speed Most Wanted, one which just came out the month prior, the other less than six months ago. If you were too young for Dead Space 3, you automatically got every other game on the list instead of just one.
EA also was a part of the Humble Bundle one month. Unlike other developers and publishers allowing you to put some of the money towards them, EA didn't have that option. 100% of what was purchased from the EA bundle went to charity. Maybe some of it had the option to go towards Humble Bundle as well, but I don't remember.
