“Heads-up” PlayStation Store update 5th December 2012

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Next point, when will the following PSP games be avavible on the Store? The ones whit (VITA) is not vita compatible.
Final Fantasy Crisis Core
Ghost in the Shell: Stand alone Complex
Invizimals
Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleap
PoPoLoCrois
Tales of Eternia
Tales of the World Radiant Mythology
Thrillville
Valkyria Chronicles 2 (Not Vita Compatible)
Valkyrie Profile Lenneth

Third:
Cross Region Gifting. WHEN?

For those having trouble with LIMBO.

Instead of going under PS+, try under SEARCH. Proceed to checkout and it will download the free trial (should be about 93MB) Then during gameplay, press start and choose ‘purchase full game upgrade.’

Bizarrely it should take you to a page that looks like the old store, and then it should, as long as your a PS+ member, show that the upgrade is free. I downloaded it (about 6KB) and it worked fine.

Hope it does for you too, but hey this is SCEE were talking about remember. And oh yeah, why is this down to me and others to pass on. it seems blog staff clock off at 4.38pm. Nice.

@ JediKnight246
thnx for info on ME, but when you say it has trophies i am hoping you mean it has proper ones, i mean i am happy to have access to the game, but the thought of spending 50plus hours for 12 bronze trophies, it would spoil it somehow, similar to RE4.. i would really of enjoyed it more with No trophies, guess they have become as important as some aspects/missions of the actual game itself, which has surely got to be wrong. think that finding a good game that also has sensible trophy requirements is getting harder every year. Anyway as i said the game itself is whats important.

Also @ Store team, is it true that ME3 has Increased in price, actually Tripled ?.. Surely that is a mistake.? however if it isn’t then i am totally disgusted, i mean i can get what you say about publishers telling You to set Their rrp in your own store, with new games, think it is spineless, (hehe, digital, spineless.. never mind) but i Get it. I will Not accept this excuse for a price increase though. So can we, or i have some answer over this please. as really. really want to hear the answer for this one. thank you.

Hm, never played a Monster Hunter. Which one of those is considered the best? Are they still good enough to feed my Vita?

@Plus
I want Limbo and the monthly avatars.

@ Marky264 & Dermado.
Cheers for that. Yes it was part of the WBP. I will have a look at my account management later on and sort that out. You can always rely on the community .
Thanks again

Oh and for those looking for the Limbo Trial and unlock version at 95MB, i found it in the unique games section. Sony should make more effort to make things simple for people because we shouldn’t have to second guess what genre they decide to classify a game as.

I just had a few questions and ideas. Is the new store going to be optimized to be as fast as the old store? will you add a sort by game name to the sort options so content for each game is grouped together. A crash reporting system would be great since it does crash back to xmb at times and would help you squash bugs.

Any plans to release I am an Air Traffic Controller Airport Hero Haneda in Europe?

*sigh* Now Store is loading slow. -__-

Hmmm, yet another screw up for the new store. Purchased all items available for Plus this week and for some reason the purchase went through but the items don’t appear in my download list and I can’t add items to my cart again.

Any answers???

Great, more issues with the Store this time running REAL slow.

All Stars Racing Transformed is no longer on the Vita store. Was it released early by mistake (retail release is Friday), and will it show up again with a reasonable price?

Hey Jawad,
great update for PS+, even though i have all ps3 content
i’ve got one question for you: will there be any offer on The Walking Dead or Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD before the end of the year???

thanks in advance

God the new store is so -ing awful and slow.

And we still want that -ing SingStar malware gone!

@AsmodeanBT:
Sometimes it won’t even load at all. -___-

I’m still having problems obtaining LIMBO. Could really do with some help here!

I download the trail of the game a long time ago and played it and deleted it. Now we’re at this point where I want to get the free game with PS+. But every time I go to download the game from wherever I locate it on the Store, it already has the symbol saying I’ve purchased it in the past, and when I do go to download it, it only downloads the 6kb trial and not the demo. Obviously I deleted the demo after I played it last year. I don’t understand why it isn’t re-downloading the demo for me. I’ve tried deleting every save data related to LIMBO on my PS3, but still it only downloads the trial every time I download LIMBO off PSN.

Really don’t know what I’m missing here!

I should clarify – it’s only downloading the 6kb UNLOCK key, and not the trial demo, is what I mean. I can’t get the demo to get into the game to use the unlock key!

I have 12gb left on my PS3. The store tells me Arkham City is 7.5gb. I click on download and it says there is not enough system memory. Anybody know what thats all about?

lol monsterhunter % , almoast everybody wo needed already buy in past = why no monsterhunter portabel 3 hd ???

- wat is new lots of black empti boxes = not lovely to see wen u scrol down list

I get the feeling Jawad is hinting at spyro coming next week.

Fordhandsfree
wen u download = bigger
wen instaling = zipping in to smaller file zise

@Fordhandsfree

I’ve had this problem recently, too. I think it’s possibly because the system still needs extra space during the installation process, as it might take up a bit of extra space going from download to install.

I don’t know. But I’m guessing it’s something like that. If it makes any sort of sense :/

@ Golwar
Monster Hunter games incorporate the previous edition, and add more content and graphical updates.
Monster hunter freedom unite is the newest one and therefore the best one to get because it includes everything the previous ones do and more.
Bargain for £4. I played it 99% of the time on my PSP clocking over 300 hours easily.

Capcom wont make the new MH games for Sony anymore…..then they wonder why they did so bad financially. serves them right.

anyway, why is the store so slow? tooks like 3 minutes just adding batman to the cart.

@Fordhandsfree

You need to have double the required space free. Basically the installer and the installed game are 7.5GB each. You download the installer then it installs the game and deletes itself. The game still takes up 7.5GB in the end but you need twice that to be able to install it.

@Azuardo

You should be able to find the trial in your download list

You need twicce as much space as it says or it won’t be able to install, because the install file and the game file both take up 7.5gb, and they will be on your HDD at the same time during installation.

@Fordhandsfree

you need 15gb to dl a 7.5 gb file.

it needs space to download and then the same space again to install, once installed the downloaded file is auto deleted leaving you with the correct amount of free space

Well this is a waste of time. Guess I will just go watch TV for a bit cos can’t download anything at the moment. Not only is it slow (even slower than normal for the new store) I am getting “We’re, sorry this product cannot be purchased at this time”.

Sort it out Sony. Infact as I said before put the old store back. Nothing about this new store is an improvement to me.

@momoliet

Ok, Ive never had this issue before though with less space and bigger files. But I will clear some more room if I can manage!

Thanks

Thanks fps_d0minat0r, I’ll check it out.

I guess everyone is trying to get the new (Plus) content and that slows down the store. I wonder if that is also the reason why I see several blank fields in the new store now. The last thing that I want is the return of that plague.

will mass effect triolgy be available on store I hear in us it is as a massive 34gb

Thank you, Player42791.

I was actually doing that originally, but my downloads weren’t showing up! Turns out I have to wait about 20 seconds before they show up.

This store is unbelievably slow!

@Player42791 @hayzink

Thanks for the help guys, obviously this is the case, I must have just had the required amount in previous cases then. Ill just delete some stuff.

@Azuardo
Thanks for helping man. I tried to look into your limbo query and it does the same for me (I purchased it a while back though) Only thing I can suggest is to rummage though your DL list for the trial. This new store has took one step forwards and 2 steps back!

Yeah! The further I scroll down my download list, the longer it takes to load! It’s not loading my games halfway down AT ALL now!

I got the Store update and now it’s much slower than it was before and it wasn’t that speedy then, not only that vanquish is charging the full price and not free despite being a PS+ member same goes for limbo anyone else having these issues

What ever happened to Counter Strike: GO? Did you think we’d forget about it?

The Store needs to revert, it’s horrible and more problems keep occured EVERY TIME now. >:(

Any word on the latest Dead or Alive 5 costume DLC bundle? According to last week’s PS Store update, it was supposed to have been released then. Bundle nowhere to be seen, only the individual DLC packs were available. Same thing this week.

I’d rather not buy the costume DLCs separately, since the bulk discount is nice. Earlier DLC packs have been bundled just fine, yet suddenly there is none. What gives?

The new and “improved” store is nothing but a joke! The old one was more user friendly, simple to navigate and easy to find the content needed…….it also ran smoothly, for me the new store is buggy and slow! Where is the Limbo demo/trail? not much point in giving us the unlock seeing as there is no demo/trail to unlock!!

Resident evil 2 for vita is being looked into?honestly how long does it take. Iv been asking the same question for months.I’d understand if there was actually a problem with it, BUT there isnt

@Shadowdragoon. Valkeria Chronicles is Vita comparable. Sure I told you this last week. Not sure about the rest of your list though.

Thanks for the Resident Evil 2 reply Jawad. Appreciated.

Any update on the Limbo problem? I clicked download from the main PS+ page and it only downloaded a 6kb unlock file. Now whenever I try to download the trial it only ever redownloads the unlock. I’ve tried searching for Limbo and even browsed for it through Games -> PS3 demos but I still only get the unlock to download.

It’s somewhere in my download history as I played the demo when it first came out, but seeing as this was ages ago and I’ve downloaded a lot since then, I can’t be bothered to find it in my history (it also doesn’t help that the new PSN store is absolutely rubbish and painfully slow).

Can you FIX your store. I’ve spent the last 20 minutes trying to buy Guardians of Middle Earth and all I get are crashes. It took me 5 minuters just to find where it was on the store. What is this?

Jawad, please look into these problems:

- Store is slow or even times out
- 3 Icons are missing in PSVita games section
- Limbo trial is nowhere to be found
- Virtua Fighter 2 still has the wrong icon

Very disappointing PS+ discounts again but that’s the norm now for SCEE. Why can’t SCEE check the content before loading it onto the store. Another week of wrong prices and ripped off customers.

Right, to clarify again, for LIMBO, if you have played the demo in the past and cant download it again, log into your account, click X on account managment, go down to download history, scroll down till you see LIMBO, download it.
unless they have turbo’d the store in the last half hour its simply not working correctly, this way is considerably faster.
As for if you havent downloaded the demo in the past and are still having an issue? ell afaia no one is having that issue, but apparently going right past the description and pressing X should take you to the demo, but only if you havent dld it before.
Yes the new store sucks, yes continue complaining, but kindly stop asking if its just finding the demo that is the issue ;_;

I’m baffled that Sony doesn’t communicate more (if at all) on Mass Effect 1. This is the single most important event on PS3 this year.

2 extra things. one, Smith did you download the demo for LIMBO in the past? that seems to be the whole problem causer.
also irt to SCEE sucking, yes, yes they do, as do the awful robot replying email staff, and 3 out of the 4 people I spoke to on the phone, two managers who tried using “we are looking into it” and “we are aware of the problem and threads” (concerning Singstar being unwanted, the store sucking and something else), but the most recent one was actually super nice and tried to help, tried to get her name so I could request her in the future when crap happens, they apparently dont do that, so terribad customer service is expected ;(

Hey Jawad

I have a question for you which I asked in the Christmas deal post before this was up but I guess you haven’t seen it. One of my questions has been answered by someone else so I’ll ask the other here.

Q1 – Can we import the save file from that ME into ME2 to continue the story like the xbox done or does only the comic from ME2 make the choices?

Now I have another question which I’ve probably asked Fred ages ago but never got a reply and just remembered there now.

Q2 – Why do we have to go through a hassle with the free stuff (demos, ps+ games, etc) by putting them into the chart and then download?

For that second question it seems to be getting slower and slower each time I do that. I miss the old way when all free things was able to download straight away

Ryu, “single most important event”? only of this year? you mean this CENTURY O=!. no exagerate less >_>. The new store was more important, Singstar was more important, upping prices to make “discounts” more appealing was more important , taking money and denying content was more important, advertising discounts and getting the end date wrong yet not changing it in the forum or honouring it was more important.
heck the PS3 super hack play any game download key thing from earlier in the year was miles more important o_o.
anyway, yes they should do a LOT more testing with the store and updates, but lets face it if that were to happen it would have been pulled months ago and only returned when it didnt suck.
Something having the wrong icon is really pretty unimortant compared to the actual issues that we are still putting up with >_>.