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Truespeed

Member
Just tried signing into my Japan account and when I try to sign into the store I get a light blue dialog box and I'm forced back out of the store. Anyone know what it is? My password has been changed successfully.
 

angelfly

Member
Truespeed said:
Just tried signing into my Japan account and when I try to sign into the store I get a light blue dialog box and I'm forced back out of the store. Anyone know what it is? My password has been changed successfully.
"This service is not available in your country/region"

Guess Japan still has to wait.
 
painful fart said:
I have bought a PSP game (echochrome) via my PS3 PSN account, but that was ages ago and I have not registered a PSN account via my PSP.
Can I get the free PSP games somehow or am I fucked?

You should definitely be able to get those PSP games, just sign in through your PSP (or use MediaGo if you're in the US) and download away :)
 

Boss Doggie

all my loli wolf companions are so moe
The welcome back games are going to be tied to your account forever right? Because I find it weird that my WipeOut pack has the red bag icon (meaning I have gotten it) but not InFamous.
 

Replicant

Member
Ookami-kun said:
The welcome back games are going to be tied to your account forever right? Because I find it weird that my WipeOut pack has the red bag icon (meaning I have gotten it) but not InFamous.

As long as you have it in your download list (aka, you've red-bagged it), then yeah.
 

Whogie

Member
Enjoyed Bad Boys, but I kinda' wish I knew they'd pull movies earlier than the rest so I could have grabbed Ghost Busters.

Ookami-kun said:
But InFamous is in my download list yet it has no red bag. Weird.
It's doing the same with me, so it's not just you. I guess there's some difference in the version or something.
 

Boss Doggie

all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Also, I've asked this before, but is the "WipeOut HD Full Game unlock Entitlement" permanently there in my Services list?
 

test_account

XP-39C²
Castor Krieg said:
So you're saying you won't buy anything from PSN ever again? Also, LOL at people using CC with PSN - you're just asking for it, aren't you? It takes me 5 minutes to buy the PSN card online and get the code.
I never removed my CC info from PSN and i still havnt had any unauthorized charges to my card. Until that happen, i will keep my CC info on PSN. There isnt much money on that account and im fully insured anyway. I dont blame people for not wanting to use CC on PSN, it doesnt hurt to take precautions, but i think that there is a pretty small chance to get your card abused due to the PSN hack, and most people are insured against this type of theft anyway :)


Steroyd said:
eeewww that's why I downloaded MediaGo. :(
What is wrong with the PS Store on PSP? I've only used it a few time, but it has worked fine for me. Good download speeds as well.
 

hirokazu

Member
Steroyd said:
eeewww that's why I downloaded MediaGo. :(
Well if you're trying to get the PSP games for your Europe account, tough luck - take it or leave it.

I thought the experience was rather similar to the PS3, so I don't know what you're complaining about.
 
Have to say, inFamous is really blowing me away right now. Way better than I thought it would be. Totally loving it.

Even the occasional slowdown isn't bugging me (which normally would).

e: and to think I never would have played it if it weren't for the PSN outage. So altogether the outage was a good thing for me, since I never play online. Go figure.
 

duckroll

Member
Clearly Japan PSN is waiting for next week before coming back. Then they can say that the store has been down for 2 months! Har har. :(
 

luxarific

Nork unification denier
Yay, finally able to change my HK PSN password. The only one of my accounts that hadn't been changed. Queued up Mod Racers, the Last Guy, and Wipeout HD. Also queued up Locoroco Midnight Carnival, but it disappeared from both my cart and my "download list" history so I think I may have lost that one. Should have started downloading immediately, I think. Ah well.

Can't believe the Japan Store still isn't up. :eek:
 

Kud Dukan

Member
So, I finally logged into my PSN account and downloaded my free games (Wipeout HD and Little Big Planet), I hardly ever game on my PS3, so I hadn't touched either game before. Haven't played LBP yet, but Wipeout blew my mind. So much fun. Was playing it for hours with some friends the other night. I wish I had played the game sooner...
 

duckroll

Member
Zoe said:
Just realized my Taiwan account is lost forever. Damn university emails :(

When my old PS3 died, I lost a few accounts because of fake emails + lost passwords. Lucky for me, all my accounts are under real legit emails now, so I can recover my passwords and accounts with no worry any longer!
 

john tv

Member
Is the J-Store due back soon? All of a sudden (as of an hour or two ago) I can't get online anymore. Can't even play some games - it stops at the "checking for DLC" screen and gives me an error. WTF, Sony?
 

Zomba13

Member
So... is there still no Home stuff for EU accounts? Kinda sucky that America gets a bunch of free stuff for home but we don't. (not that I ever used Home until recently. I just like free stuff)
 

krae_man

Member
Jucksalbe said:
Thanks! Everybody's Stress Buster for free, in English! :)

You could have bought all 12 games for $5 on amazon and used your free game for something else. Or not had to worry about changing which PSN account you have activated on your system.
 

InertiaXr

Member
I'm getting more and more saddened that I blew money on a PS3 before I got my new computer. After the PSN was down for a month I had to wait a an additional week to actually get any of the free stuff off the store, and after the nearly full day it took for the PS3 to download the under 2GB for Dead Nation, it now wants me to download the latest update which is nearly 200MB? Why isn't the newest version of one of the free games you're giving away already on the store? I thought the reason you deal with all the bullshit console's give you compared to computers is that it's suppose to be put disc in and play? You're giving away hundreds of thousands of these free games and I have to download it, install it, then it figures out you need a patch, then download that, then install that. Why wouldn't Sony make this as easy as they possibly could; why would I want to deal with all this on a console when it's actually easier on Steam to download and keep games updated?

Why is the wireless connection so worthless on the PS3's anyways? My computer is less than 5 feet from where my PS3 sits, both on wireless connections, and downloading from Steam tops well over 1.3MB/s while the PS3 can't seem to reach 100kb/s.
 

Jucksalbe

Banned
krae_man said:
You could have bought all 12 games for $5 on amazon and used your free game for something else. Or not had to worry about changing which PSN account you have activated on your system.

There're people to complain about everything.
As I'm not in the US I can't buy digital stuff from Amazon. I already have every other game that was given away for free. $5 is still more than free. I have to switch accounts constantly anyway because of the DLC I bought on my European account and it's not like this is the first game I ever got from the HK store.
 

Kunan

Member
I just got the email from Japanese PSN two hours ago to change my password, which let me through Sony's website after two tries. Afterwards, I was able to finally login to my Japanese PSN account! Obviously still can't access the store, as many here have pointed out. Waitin on Echochrome!! :D
 

KenOD

a kinder, gentler sort of Scrooge
Due to an email I got from them, I actually discovered a second North American account I had forgotten about. I also lost one of my Japanese accounts due to no longer having that email account (old job email).

Now if I could just figure out why I signed up for a PSN account a year before I ever bought a PS3 after I sold my first PSP.
 

alr1ght

bish gets all the credit :)
So Come on LocoRoco or Trash Box (for my English HK account)? I'll get the other from my JPN account when it comes back up, but I'm worried about language issues (assuming the JP version of each game is only in japanese).
 

dark10x

Digital Foundry pixel pusher
So the Japanese store no longer works on PS3 systems outside of Japan? When I attempt to connect it returns a message saying that it is not possible to use the service in this country or territory.

:-\

Anyone else see this?
 
dark10x said:
So the Japanese store no longer works on PS3 systems outside of Japan? When I attempt to connect it returns a message saying that it is not possible to use the service in this country or territory.

:-\

Anyone else see this?
JP store isn't back up yet.
 

TheSeks

Blinded by the luminous glory that is David Bowie's physical manifestation.
OneMoreQuestion said:
Well, I lost 6 out of my 8 accounts after the hack because I used fake emails to sign up. :p

Obviously there won't be too many cases like mine but maybe they do contribute slightly to that 10%.

I still can't even get my HK account back up via Qriocity due to the stupid server maintenance message. FFFFUUUUUCK.
 
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