You're welcome here, and I'm happy to have folks take part, really. I would offer up that many people who would like to take part in this thread do so because they are enthusiastic for the service and find it valuable. For them, a bunch of people pooping all over the service on a regular basis, contributing only negativity, is kind of a downer.
It's hard to look past it when every time new games are announced the complaining begins. It just constantly derails the thread, and serves no purpose but to vent frustration.
Hard to blame them alone, right? There are no 1 month cards in the US so Sony had to have given them to IGN...
Sony could have required that the codes not stack. Stupidity all around.IGN could have required a real email addy
How does discussion of PS+ releases derail a PS+ thread? That's what this thread is for. If it were all praise and not complaining, would you still say derail? It's the same coin, just different sides.
Criticism is good, but constantly complaining about the NA offerings in relation to EU's is starting to sound like a broken record. I bet it would be frowned upon on the Netflix thread, if we Europeans did the same every time new films were added to the service.
Except Netflix and PS+ aren't comparable. It's not a good argument.
The situation is the same for the user of the services, but I guess different rules apply for what's proper conduct, especially if the problems don't concern the NA territory. It would be good to keep in mind, that PS+ is the only thing on PSN where the Europeans get the upper hand. When it comes to everything else, we get games, DLCs, demos, films, and services less, later and at a steeper price. Yet, do we complain about it as frequently?
People also need to wake up to the fact that EU is the PlayStation brand's most valued market. Not the US. It makes sense that they have the better stuff, so deal with it.
Same here, usually. My PS3 downloads at about 1.5MB/s. Fast enough but considering that I'm on a 100mbps connection and that the console is connected via an ethernet cable, it's not really amazing.
How are they the most valued market? They have sold roughly the same amount in both, with the eu selling a few million more. Other then ps+ they treat the eu like a step child, your psn store is a joke. So no I won't "deal with it" I pay them just like the eu does and expect close to equal service.
1$=1€ so you don't pay like me...
So $10 more dollars = leagues better games? Give me a break. You pay more because of the exchange rate, just like you pay more for everything else. You EU folks really like to trumpet that $10 extra dollars as the reason you get better games, it's not.
$10 extra dollars not... but as you said we have the same amount plus few million more of $10 extra dollars...
I'm just reposting what others say, so please calm yourself down. No need for name calling or insults.
EU Plus got a lot a shit pre ICG days for not being on par with the US Plus. Ross was actually great for listening to those complains and actively went out of his way to get some parity. It seems that whatever inroads he made are being fully used even now by Chris and it shows.
I'm actually an EU Plus member
I'm actually an EU Plus member
I'm going by the fact that despite the backlash, criticism and the surveys the US team doesn't seem be able to secure content that is at least a bit below the part of the EU content.This is especially jarring when you realise that the licensing issues in the US are much easier to overcome than in the EU. In fact there doesn't even seem to be an admittance from the US team that the content they offer isn't being received as well by the people.
In the EU, when Plus was below the US standards Ross, as I've said, actively engaged with the community, listening to the feeding, admitting difficulties and tried to work around it.
A friend of mine that works in a different area at work recently got a PS3 and one of the reasons was all the stuff he'd seen on my system through PS+. He has downloaded everything he's gotten so far, just on the three month voucher, and he's pretty much said "this is great value, I'm totally getting a year when my three months are up".
As is well known among regulars, I'm a day-one subscriber in the U.S.
