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twesterm on 09 February 2009
--OkeyDokey-- said:

@ twesterm

Out of curiosity, how are you doing this when your last sign in was 19 days ago? O_o

I'm on twestermEU

 



 

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twesterm on 09 February 2009
AE86 said:

Sounds like this was largely (i.e. completely) your fault, perhaps you shouldn't be so quick to anger next time. It also sounds like you're nitpicking incredibly small things that most people would ignore.

 

Shitty design isn't my fault.  Why should I have to exit the store to check my download progress and why should it even let me blindly download a huge file 5 times?  You would think they wouldn't want that just to ease the load on their servers.



 

twesterm on 09 February 2009
madskillz said:
outlawauron said:
twesterm said:
--OkeyDokey-- said:
twesterm said:
I don't care about the speed or the content, I just hate the piss poor excuse for an interface.

You find the thing you want to download. You press "download". It downloads.

A dyslexic chimp could do that :P

Yeah, but the problem comes in where I want to download in the background and then check my progress. That's the part that is terrible.

Without someone like SSJ12 specifically telling me to leave the PS Store and go to the XMB I would have never found that because it is in no way at all intuituve. I know they tell me how to check when I download but I have always assumed they meant inside of the store and didn't even realize I have a network option in the XMB (I never really read the headings, I just look at the pictures).

It takes about the same time to pull Active downloads on 360.

Not really - just hit the Xbox button and head to Active Downloads on the far-left tab. I had to redownload a lot of crap I had on my 20gb drive. It was pretty painless.

 

 

As an added bonus, it's not in an entirely stupid spot and you don't have to exit anything!



 

twesterm on 09 February 2009
outlawauron said:
madskillz said:
outlawauron said:
twesterm said:
--OkeyDokey-- said:
twesterm said:
I don't care about the speed or the content, I just hate the piss poor excuse for an interface.

You find the thing you want to download. You press "download". It downloads.

A dyslexic chimp could do that :P

Yeah, but the problem comes in where I want to download in the background and then check my progress. That's the part that is terrible.

Without someone like SSJ12 specifically telling me to leave the PS Store and go to the XMB I would have never found that because it is in no way at all intuituve. I know they tell me how to check when I download but I have always assumed they meant inside of the store and didn't even realize I have a network option in the XMB (I never really read the headings, I just look at the pictures).

It takes about the same time to pull Active downloads on 360.

Not really - just hit the Xbox button and head to Active Downloads on the far-left tab. I had to redownload a lot of crap I had on my 20gb drive. It was pretty painless.

And all you have to do is press the Playstation button and head to download management under the network tab.

Yeah, but then you have to exit the store and then enter again.

  1. You have to exit the store
  2. Why would I think to exit the store to check my current downloads when there's a button in the store that says check your current downloads.

 



 

twesterm on 09 February 2009
AE86 said:

This is all pointless nitpicking, just download all the things you want to download, then when you leave the store you can check your progress, is it so important that you have to check your progress while you're still in the store?

Or are you just embarrased by how simple the solution was?

 

Why would I be embarrassed?  I should be embarrassed that I hate their horrible design or be embarrassed that I don't want to sit and watch a progress bar?

 



 

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--OkeyDokey-- on 09 February 2009
twesterm said:
AE86 said:

Sounds like this was largely (i.e. completely) your fault, perhaps you shouldn't be so quick to anger next time. It also sounds like you're nitpicking incredibly small things that most people would ignore.

 

Shitty design isn't my fault.  Why should I have to exit the store to check my download progress and why should it even let me blindly download a huge file 5 times?  You would think they wouldn't want that just to ease the load on their servers.

What were you doing in the Playstation store that was so important you didn't want to leave?



twesterm on 09 February 2009
--OkeyDokey-- said:
twesterm said:
AE86 said:

Sounds like this was largely (i.e. completely) your fault, perhaps you shouldn't be so quick to anger next time. It also sounds like you're nitpicking incredibly small things that most people would ignore.

 

Shitty design isn't my fault.  Why should I have to exit the store to check my download progress and why should it even let me blindly download a huge file 5 times?  You would think they wouldn't want that just to ease the load on their servers.

What were you doing in the Playstation store that was so important you didn't want to leave?

 

Looking for other stuff to download or play with (or actually anything other than watching a progress bar).



 

Sharky54 on 09 February 2009
twesterm said:
--OkeyDokey-- said:
twesterm said:
AE86 said:

Sounds like this was largely (i.e. completely) your fault, perhaps you shouldn't be so quick to anger next time. It also sounds like you're nitpicking incredibly small things that most people would ignore.

 

Shitty design isn't my fault.  Why should I have to exit the store to check my download progress and why should it even let me blindly download a huge file 5 times?  You would think they wouldn't want that just to ease the load on their servers.

What were you doing in the Playstation store that was so important you didn't want to leave?

 

Looking for other stuff to download or play with (or actually anything other than watching a progress bar).

 

Great thing about the bar. Just press the PS button and it comes up! OMG. Don't even have to stop whatever it is you are doing for more then a min. Stop complaining. Don't like it? Go back to xbox and shut up.



chukster90 on 09 February 2009

It takes like two fucking seconds to enter the store after exiting it. Anyway, it isn't rocket science to figure out that you check your download progress under the downloads tab in the XMB. I'm sure like 99.9% of PSN users knew this. Don't blame Sony for your stupidity.



twesterm on 09 February 2009
Sharky54 said:
twesterm said:
--OkeyDokey-- said:
twesterm said:
AE86 said:

Sounds like this was largely (i.e. completely) your fault, perhaps you shouldn't be so quick to anger next time. It also sounds like you're nitpicking incredibly small things that most people would ignore.

 

Shitty design isn't my fault.  Why should I have to exit the store to check my download progress and why should it even let me blindly download a huge file 5 times?  You would think they wouldn't want that just to ease the load on their servers.

What were you doing in the Playstation store that was so important you didn't want to leave?

 

Looking for other stuff to download or play with (or actually anything other than watching a progress bar).

 

Great thing about the bar. Just press the PS button and it comes up! OMG. Don't even have to stop whatever it is you are doing for more then a min. Stop complaining. Don't like it? Go back to xbox and shut up.

 

Next time you turn on your PS3, log onto the Playstation Store and bring up the XMB.  Tell me what happens.