‘Heads-Up’ PlayStation Store Update (8th October 2009)

any one kno anything about mothership zeta in AU???

hey mike what happened to the 2 R&C ACIT demos? they were suppose to be out this week.
also this is not a hit on you or anything but must be said.
when O when is sony going to treat Australia like a valued customer and not like some gum under their shoe?
i just wasted 200MB or so downloading PULSE in the hear that you have a chance to win a uncharted 2 fortune hunter edition, only to find out you have to live in the US.
great, like the US getting a exclusive play through at a cinema (something i will never see) and getting the game 9 DAYS EARLIER than i can dream about picking it up wasn’t enough of a kick in the balls.
sorry to be a sour candy, but this is really starting to IRK me, 99.9999% of things sony does is exclusive to the US.
the ps3 has been released outside the US just encase you haven’t noticed.
you dont want to know what i would do for that fortune hunter edition.
name it and i will do it!

Lol here we are begging for classics like Metal Gear Solid, Tomb Raider, Final Fantasy VIII and what do we get from our loyal European publishers? A bugs life… America gets the top, Europe the bottom, well UK is because as usual… no classic game for Holland!

America has another from origin European game in its store… Pandemonium. No publisher can tell me that it has to do with legal issues they can’t release the games over here, while they’re original European. You know what they are? Plain ass lazy! Or just say that classics don’t sell around here then at least we have some straight honesty.

hey kids, you suck
when adult gamers look at you, you are pathetic : (

it is games this is abut, you dont loos your job do to the lac of mgs
you dont have to sell your house do to the lac of resi
and wall street dont burn dovn

Why dont you foks act like normal people

by the way kids, stop the chain mail in the psn, is so lame

@1210 chain mail is becoming a real downer anymore of my friends send it to me and there history ÷)

Morning Mike, my Fallout email from yesterday was right.

“Mike Kebby, who stepped through the great door of the blog comments section and into the annals of legend.”

I’m turning into a seer

ps3 store says its not available in my country wats up wit dat?? there must have been a major glitch in the system

psn is down for maintance atm

Prinny is present in the store, but links to a no content screen. It also doesn’t display the price.
Monster Hunter Freedom Unite isn’t displayed in the bargains section.

I’m from Belgium, so it’s the at least the Belgian store that has the problem.

Could you please update the blog post when delays like this happen? It’s a bit of a chore going through the all responses (even though it’s nice to read them).

Any chance of Spotify hitting the PS3?? That would be amazing.

@AceAssassin, Generror

Sony Management have listened to Mike’s reasoned arguments that the store needs fixing and, like most management the World over, they have ignored staff who know better and decided to “work with the resources already at our disposal”, although, not wishing to seem mean spirited, they have allowed him to spend the whole of the IT budget on buying a new hamster for the PSN Store Computer.
Hence the offline period whilst Gerald the original hamster is joined by Dale a new hamster from the Australian sports science institute. Dale was top of his peer group and still holds the world record for wheel rotation when he reached and amazing 7200rpm in Cairns in 2003. His achievements were marked with a commemorative stamp issue in 2004.

yea cant download prinny… says there is no content its the game i want to download so bad XD

@X201

im not angry just said it was down

Hi Mike. just a quick question about spyro 2, will it be coming back on PSN, is anything being done with it or is it just been dropped?
Thanks in advance

Ok, maintenance on PSN seems over, thanks Mike for all your efforts! But do you know anything about the Fallout 3 DLC still not appearing in the Belgian PSN since I still can’t see it.

I can’t understand why you keep getting it in the neck Mike. It’s not your fault that there was maintenance on the store and I know you are not responsible for the content that gets added to the store, you just relay from SCEE what will be added. I got fed up reading the same rubbish people were spilling, so just skipped everything and came here. lol

Keep up the good work Mike.

And remember people, don’t hate the player, hate the game.

WHY ARE YOU NOT ANSWERING ME??? If u dont know something, tell me, please reply to comment 260. Thanks

Hi Mike,

Will Mothership Zeta be up later or do we need to wait until next week for it. I don’t see it on the store.

Hi Mike. The store seems to be back up, so I purchased some games but the fail to download on the PSP Go. Is it just a temporary glitch. I shall try again this afternoon.

For the love of god ,,,,, most people have paid top whack for fallout 3 in the first place around £40 when it came out,, it bedazzles me why someone would pay £7.99 5 TIMES!! 39.95 IN TOTAL for all the dlc’s

get this in your head people 16th Oct, THE GOTY £29.99 plus trade in old fallout 3 for money off,,

Sony dose not tell you that do they?

AND FOR GOD SAKE PUT SOME GOOD PS1 GAMES IN THE PSN STORE WHO THE HELL WOULD PLAY BUGS LIFE OMG!!

Mike, any news why the LBP Music Pack isn’t on the store?

Thanks for the quick reply.

It must be a stressful 24 hours for you. You should settle down with some Jack Daniels tonight.

so mothership zeta will be on soon in australia……………….??? please confirm

Thanks for the reply Mike, and I would prefer it in English. But people from other European countries have been able to download the DLC, when looking at some of the comments on this blog, from Norway or the Netherlands for example. The Netherlands in particular as an example, since they speak Dutch just as in Belgium. Then why do they get it, but we don’t? I mean, the additional language DLC is actually working against me, since my Fallout 3 copy has the English BLES code, and I don’t want Fallout 3 in Dutch, but in English, if at all possible through PSN. So if the additional language DLC would be coming soon, then why did some of the other European “non-English speaking” countries get the English DLC anyway?

may I ask when Operation Anchorage will make it’s way onto the Norwegian store?!? Because it wasn’t there last week, and it certainly isn’t there this week either! Damn you SCEE, I wish I lived in NA – where updates are on time and contains all it’s scheduled content. -_-

Where is Topatoi Pack?

doing a good job mike. don’t sweat it

Hello PSS guys,

Could you fix some localisation mistakes, please ?
There is at least a mix between french and dutch at several places.

French “Demo”* should be “Démo” (instead of “Dèmo”)
French “Free”* should be “Gratuit” (instead of “Gratis”)
French “(Complete Game)” should be “(jeu complet)” (instead of “(Gioco completo)” for Puzzle quest: Revenge of the plague lord)
Ducth “Free” should be “Gratis” (instead of “Gratuit”)

* Blue labels at bottom-right of home page advertisement posters

Japanese store shows screenshots in the description (along with the text) of almost everything downloadable.
I think it is making the descriptions much more enjoyable, interesting and valuable. It gives a better idea of the stuff and encourages download of things that would have otherwise been overlooked.

What happened to the LBP music pack?

Then again Mike, when using the word ‘scam’ as a verb it means to be ripped off

Hmmm. Somebody’s maybe posted about this already, but anyway: I’ve had some trouble with some of the content of the most recent PSN update.

The NFS track “films” are downloading as .png images (i.e. just the thumbnails from the store).

The IL2 wallpaper “folder” is empty.

mike is the LBP music pack coming to AU or not, its just that i cant see it on our store,

so you have to pay for Army of Two: The 40th Day Theme,even tho it says its free here.

@1138 : hindahouse, I hope this DLC does not get delayed or messed up!

—-
Up next is Abbey Road, the first of three full albums scheduled for The Beatles: Rock Band this year. Beginning October 20, fans will be able to purchase the remaining 12 songs from the album that weren’t included on the game’s disc. As an added bonus, anyone who buys the album in its entirety (priced at 1360 Microsoft points, or $16.98) will get to play Abbey Road’s 16-minute B-side medley as one continuous track.

Following the release of Abbey Road is Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, which is dated for sometime in November of this year. With four songs from the album already in the game, that leaves eight tracks for DLC. Pricing was not announced for this full album bundle or for Rubber Soul, which is coming this December.

Mike, he is referring to this post on the blog. Army of Two theme is listed as free – it’s €1.99 or something in the store.

Also, why is there a localisation delay for the Fallout content? I bought my Fallout 3 copy here in the Netherlands; it comes with a Dutch manual and packaging but the game itself is fully English. So what you’re saying is that the Dutch store team is unable to translate the store description in time? Meh.

Could’ve added a demo section to the store as well while the team was rebuilding the store database last night.

There’s also an icon in the Whats New section that says ‘Playstation Forums’ – and it links to the PSN store, error 80023102.

I’m baffled to be honest.

Sorry if that has already been answered (I don’t have the courage to read 25 pages of complaints), but what the hell happened with Obscure? It was announced yesterday but now the games has disappeared of the list. ANOTHER bad surprise?

Wow look at the page number! Look at the number of comments! Look at the replies! Look at how late Mike was up replying! This has got to be a blog record?!

I can’t believe I missed a ‘lock in’ in the Store Update comments section! It normally fizzles out when I leave work so I didn’t think to check back!

Mike, I know you’re busy giving the store team a rollocking for what happened yesterday so won’t be giving anymore replies, but still it has to be said that you are a legend! Yes there are others in your team – but it is you that is the ‘face’ of the EU store and you that sits reading comments and replying to them, no matter how rude some people can be.

so we’re not getting obscure for the PSP then that was released today?

see this N4G post for a copy of this blog entry taken yesterday which seems to have included a mention of obscure.

http://www.n4g.com/News-408000.aspx

Mike. Any word on the Oddworld games? I was reading on the SixthAxis that they’ve been confirmed for the PSN

http://www.thesixthaxis.com/2009/10/08/oddworld-returning-to-pla ystation/

That for us in the UK too?

pleeeeeeeeeeeeeease anything about FIFA 10 Adidas Live Season 2.0

we paid for it last week and we can’t have it !!!!

and i waited this week update and nothing in it

*received email from Bethesda softworks* it seems that they are responsible for the delays. My apologies to the psn team regarding this.

why cant you play music on playstation store

Wow, just… wow!
I know that delays are horrible but surely you have better stuff to than camp a Store upodate?

Mike, many thanks to you and the team loving your job and responsibilities enough to work around the clock to get it fixed rather than clock off and ‘do it tommorow’. I can imagine too well the reception you must of got off your families when you got home late.

How has is the rest of the team feeling after seeing this reception?

wat the hell ps3 store for me anyway isnt workin yet other people i know r downloadin from it. sumtin wrong wit the irish store??

What happened last night, when was it updated! Also, I can’t get on the store because it says it’s not available in my country, which is a lie!

Seen as i cant see any big named PS1 classics coming soon Croc would be a nice addition