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owsf2000I've been looking over the PSN store yesterday to see what's there - as since I signed up anyway to multiplayer MvC3 with Kane (When it comes down to it, I can't afford to take Sony to court even if I had a legit reason to do so AND I'm the kinda guy that will just boycott all Sony products if they fuck up sufficiently - even their headphones.) ... what was I saying again? Oh right, the PSN.
Given I will never give Sony a credit card number after their security flaws were taken to task last year, the only thing I'll be able to use to buy anything on there is the prepaid cards.
Prepaid cards are fine.
What I don't particularly like is how everything in the store that's more than 49 cents, ends with .99. So unless you're going to make 100 purchases, you'll always have unused money in there. Which sony gets to pocket of course.
Well, I'm going to be limiting myself to how much I purchase on there as per my original plan. Basically spend 50 or so dollars in the prepaid cards to have some games on the system. I would think of these games as "built in" games rather than downloads. I'm planning on making sure those games work without a required internet connection but I hit a snag in the plan.
Final Fight, one of those that did require an internet connection unnecessarily (it's an offline game primarily) does not seem to indicate this in it's description still. Originally it didn't as well, which is what caused such a shitstorm when Sony refused to refund the unhappy customers. I'll need to do a bit more research I guess and ask around.
Given I will never give Sony a credit card number after their security flaws were taken to task last year, the only thing I'll be able to use to buy anything on there is the prepaid cards.
Prepaid cards are fine.
What I don't particularly like is how everything in the store that's more than 49 cents, ends with .99. So unless you're going to make 100 purchases, you'll always have unused money in there. Which sony gets to pocket of course.
Well, I'm going to be limiting myself to how much I purchase on there as per my original plan. Basically spend 50 or so dollars in the prepaid cards to have some games on the system. I would think of these games as "built in" games rather than downloads. I'm planning on making sure those games work without a required internet connection but I hit a snag in the plan.
Final Fight, one of those that did require an internet connection unnecessarily (it's an offline game primarily) does not seem to indicate this in it's description still. Originally it didn't as well, which is what caused such a shitstorm when Sony refused to refund the unhappy customers. I'll need to do a bit more research I guess and ask around.
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Date: 2012-02-06 04:15 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-02-07 05:08 pm (UTC)Anyway... normally, if you buy something more than $5, it just adds that exact amount to your PSN wallet (or whatever they call it) which you use to buy whatever it was you were going to buy. If you want to buy something less than $5, however, and you don't already have the funds in the wallet, it automatically adds a minimum of $5 to the wallet.
So, let's say you want to buy something that costs $0.99 and your account is empty. You go through the PSN store and click on it and it brings you to the payment screen. You are now being charged $5 for the thing that costs $0.99. After you buy the thing that costs $0.99, you still have $4.01 (or however much, if tax comes into play or whatever) sitting there in your PSN account, unused. If you want to buy more $0.99 things, or something that costs up to that $4 or however much, I'm pretty sure you can use the remaining amount to do so without it adding another arbitrary $5 to the account. Otherwise, if you don't buy anything else, it's just $4 sitting on your PSN account that you can never get back. If you later buy something over $5, it just adds the exact amount minus the $4 that's already there in the PSN wallet. (Or, at least, I would assume it does that, but I've never done a transaction like that before, so I could be wrong on that.)
Why they do it, I don't know. My guess would be that there's probably some sort of bullshit fees they're trying to avoid on their end for small purchase amounts, so they just pass it on to the customer instead.
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Date: 2012-02-07 05:12 pm (UTC)no subject
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