( CNN ) -- BlackBerry customers slammed by last week 's global outage are being offered free apps , not cash , as payback for their troubles . At least a dozen apps , which would cost about $ 100 on the BlackBerry App World site , will be made available in the next few weeks , according to a statement released Monday by BlackBerry maker Research In Motion . `` We truly appreciate and value our relationship with our customers , '' RIM Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis said in the statement . `` We 've worked hard to earn their trust over the past 12 years , and we 're committed to providing the high standard of reliability they expect , today and in the future . '' An October 10 failure at a data center caused outages in Europe and elsewhere , RIm said . RIM throttled service to help address the outage , which spread over the next few days to Europe , the Middle East , India , Africa , Latin America and North America . Full service was restored on Thursday , according to the company . The free apps include : . * SIMS 3 . * Bejeweled . * N.O.V.A . * Texas Hold'em Poker 2 . * Bubble Bash 2 . * Photo Editor Ultimate - Ice Cold Apps . * DriveSafe.ly Pro . * Drive Safe.ly Enterprise . * Nobex Radioâ „ ¢ Premium . * Shazam Encore . * Vlingo Plus : Virtual Assistant . More apps will be added later , according to the statement . The first ones will become available on Wednesday and they 'll stay free for the rest of the year . Business customers also will be offered a free month of technical support . The offer seemed to please at least some of BlackBerry 's roughly 70 million customers . `` Only 1 simple word for this ... AMAZING ! ! ! '' wrote one visitor to a post on the BlackBery fan site , Crackberry . `` I was n't expecting this at all , but it is welcome . '' `` Trust restored RIM ! ... , '' wrote another . `` This also tells you RIM is very , very serious with surviving . No giving up for them . '' But response was more measured among less-enthusiastic customers . `` What a useless 'compensation ' , '' wrote one commenter on the website for London 's Guardian newspaper . `` What [ if ] somebody uses their device for communications ( e.g . e-mail ) rather than using loads of apps ? The value in apps is totally worthless . '' Many had been hoping to at least be reimbursed for the amount of time their service was out . By comparison , after Sony 's PlayStation Network went down this spring , the company offered players free games , a weekend of free video rentals and a free month of PlayStation Plus , a premium subscription service offering exclusive titles , discounts and other perks . That PlayStation outage lasted the better part of a month for some customers .
BlackBerry users being offered free apps after worldwide outage . No cash back or service credit is being offered so far . Some BlackBerry users saw outages between Monday and Thursday of last week . More than $ 100 in apps will be available between Wednesday and end of the year .