PSN

Feb. 6th, 2012 09:38 am
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I'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.

Date: 2012-02-07 05:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] owsf2000.livejournal.com
I haven't touched a single option for the settings of my LJ since I signed up. I'll take a look to see if it's an option somewhere that they turned off by default but I'm more willing to assume that they took it away from Free/Legacy accounts. I never did opt into the voluntary advertising for the "plus" members, or whatever they called it. Although they add advertisements anyway for those not logged in now.

Date: 2012-02-07 06:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kane-magus.livejournal.com
That might be it. I was going to say "No, that can't be it because I'm still using a free account too," but I forgot that I had switched to the Plus account, given it was so long ago and especially when combined with the fact that I'm using AdBlock and NoScript, thus never see any of the ads that are supposedly included with that, whether I'm logged in or not.

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