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Kudistos Megistos on 29 April 2011

I'm jumping ship. Gonna do all my gaming on PC from now on.

Or rather, I'm going to play retro games on emulators, plus whatever non-FPS games that get a decent PC port and tickle my fancy.

This fiasco has been the latest in a long line of disappointments this generation. I'm just glad that the only thing I bought on PSN was Valkyria Chronicles DLC (worth every single penny; one of the few recent games that I've really enjoyed), and that the card I bought it with has expired.

The lack of appealing games means that I just don't think shelling out on a console is worth it any more.



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cory.ok on 29 April 2011

wont change anything for me



Mad55 on 29 April 2011

well i have all 3 consoles and ill say mistakes happen and as long as im good me and sony are good.



Kasz216 on 29 April 2011
badgenome said:

Oh, I'm pretty fucking annoyed with Sony, but when I know I'm not going to turn my nose up at Uncharted 3 or Last Guardian or Yakuza: Of The End (if Sega does the right thing) when they release, what's even the point of pretending I'm going to step out on them now? Besides, owning a Sony console means knowing you're going to have to deal with Sony's fuck ups at some point. I knew what I was getting into when I bought this thing, more or less.

Yeah, I agree with this.

Well, i'm not even annoyed at Sony though because I'm pretty easy going. 

I was slightly annoyed I only got an email like mid day yesterday, but outside that... don't really care.

The only thing I find funny is the people going out of their way to defend sony... some going so far as to suggest sony might be lieing about how serious it is.

Sony screwed up... if you don't care... then don't care.  Don't pretend they didn't screw up or come up with convoluted reasons for why they didn't... just ignore it and actually don't care.



Kasz216 on 29 April 2011

Also, don't be afraid to use your Credit Cards.  Honestly you have much more to worry about from the stuff Sony lost for sure then your Credit Card.   I mean your Credit Card gets some charges on it that you didn't pay for... you dispute them... and it's done.

I mean, that happened to me on my debit card and they fowarded me the money right away while they did their investigation.

 

You've got more to worry about with people opening up new Credit Cards with your name and stuff like that.



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Ajescent on 29 April 2011
Kasz216 said:

Also, don't be afraid to use your Credit Cards.  Honestly you have much more to worry about from the stuff Sony lost for sure then your Credit Card.   I mean your Credit Card gets some charges on it that you didn't pay for... you dispute them... and it's done.

I mean, that happened to me on my debit card and they fowarded me the money right away while they did their investigation.

 

You've got more to worry about with people opening up new Credit Cards with your name and stuff like that.

Another reason why I stopped using my credit cards is because if I look hard enough, I tend to find psn cards for cheap e.g I needed 2 £20 cards to buy my psn plus subscription, after shopping around, I managed to get them for about £18.50 each (If I knew they were being discontinued, I would have bought more ¬_¬).

In summary, when buying games, it's cheaper for me to use PSN cards than my credit cards.



PS One/2/p/3slim/Vita owner. I survived the Apocalyps3/Collaps3 and all I got was this lousy signature.


Xbox One: What are you doing Dave?

loves2splooge on 29 April 2011

I'm still going to use PSN. But I'm only going to use prepaid PSN cards from now on. And I'm going to obviously change my PSN password, check to see if I registered a credit card on there and delete it and see if I can change my personal details to fake ones (so as long as I don't use my credit card on PSN I'd imagine that I'd be able to use a fake profile). I can't trust Sony ever again with my personal and CC info (I don't think I registered the card with the account but I did use it to buy PSN games).

On a side note, I removed my credit card from Xbox Live. I won't be using my credit card on XBL either. I'll buy the prepaid cards only. I have to be more selective about who I trust with that information. I don't give my credit card to ebayers or the smaller companies unless they don't have Pay Pal. With Sony being a huge multinational conglomorate, I thought they could be trusted. Whenever the PayPal option shows up, I will make sure to use PayPal for online purchases (God help me if they got compromised too). The Skype on Android app recently had a breach but luckily I use PayPal to buy Skype Credit. I'm more concerned about the possibility of identity theft though (if it's possible with the info that they do have that is).



Kasz216 on 29 April 2011
Ajescent said:
Kasz216 said:

Also, don't be afraid to use your Credit Cards.  Honestly you have much more to worry about from the stuff Sony lost for sure then your Credit Card.   I mean your Credit Card gets some charges on it that you didn't pay for... you dispute them... and it's done.

I mean, that happened to me on my debit card and they fowarded me the money right away while they did their investigation.

 

You've got more to worry about with people opening up new Credit Cards with your name and stuff like that.

Another reason why I stopped using my credit cards is because if I look hard enough, I tend to find psn cards for cheap e.g I needed 2 £20 cards to buy my psn plus subscription, after shopping around, I managed to get them for about £18.50 each (If I knew they were being discontinued, I would have bought more ¬_¬).

In summary, when buying games, it's cheaper for me to use PSN cards than my credit cards.

Yeah, I've noticed that too, just saying though, there really isn't much worry about people stealing your CC info.



pitzy272 on 29 April 2011
Kudistos Megistos said:

I'm jumping ship. Gonna do all my gaming on PC from now on.

Or rather, I'm going to play retro games on emulators, plus whatever non-FPS games that get a decent PC port and tickle my fancy.

This fiasco has been the latest in a long line of disappointments this generation. I'm just glad that the only thing I bought on PSN was Valkyria Chronicles DLC (worth every single penny; one of the few recent games that I've really enjoyed), and that the card I bought it with has expired.

The lack of appealing games means that I just don't think shelling out on a console is worth it any more.


Yeah I could've guessed this one



badgenome on 30 April 2011
Kasz216 said:

Also, don't be afraid to use your Credit Cards.  Honestly you have much more to worry about from the stuff Sony lost for sure then your Credit Card.   I mean your Credit Card gets some charges on it that you didn't pay for... you dispute them... and it's done.

I mean, that happened to me on my debit card and they fowarded me the money right away while they did their investigation.

 

You've got more to worry about with people opening up new Credit Cards with your name and stuff like that.

Yeah, fraud on an existing card should be the least of anyone's worries. There's definitely a safety in numbers aspect here. If you dispute a charge and have Playstation Network charges on previous statements, your credit card company is going to take your word for it. Chase's fraud prevention system in particular seems to have a hair trigger, anyway. They freeze my card until I verify that all my charges are legitimate about every two months or so for no apparent reason. (Must be all that online porn.)