Official PSN discussion thread

[padman59]

Going go to GS tomorrow and try to pick up the $30 1yr membership. Wished they would have offered it on the PSN store but it doesn't look that way.

Amazon is supposed to be having this deal too. Don't know if it'll be a flash deal though.

[IamMedellin]

Amazon is supposed to be having this deal too. Don't know if it'll be a flash deal though.

''Good News Everyone! 1 year of PS+ is going to be $29.99 for BF at Amazon, BB, Walmart, TRU and Gamestop!''

http://us.playstation.com/black-friday-2013/?EMC=eng_psn_st-news_20131127_US&pos=b&linkname=pscomwa_b&psu=18219238

[dave]

Damn. Time to reconnect the PS3 now that I have PS plus for the PS4.

[JayDizzle]

I'm laughing right now at everyone who sold their old system.

PS+ is ridiculous in a good way.

[ryne candy]

''Good News Everyone! 1 year of PS+ is going to be $29.99 for BF at Amazon, BB, Walmart, TRU and Gamestop!''


http://us.playstation.com/black-frid...b&psu=18219238

amazon is getting some backlash...doesn't look like, which was supposed to be up by now.

edit: got it off of newegg...it's live now.

[Twigg4075]

amazon is getting some backlash...doesn't look like, which was supposed to be up by now.

edit: got it off of newegg...it's live now.

It's been on Amazon all day. I checked several times today.

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[ryne candy]

i posted the edit when I woke up. I stayed up till ~3am Central and it wasn't up...they even posted on FB about it. Looks like it went live around 3:30am...1 1/2 hrs later than they said.

[j.hen]

It wasn't worth all that mess...

I just waltzed (yes, I waltzed) right inside my local Gamestop and strolled over to the wall of PS+ time cards and paid the man.

[Twigg4075]

It wasn't worth all that mess...

I just waltzed (yes, I waltzed) right inside my local Gamestop and strolled over to the wall of PS+ time cards and paid the man.

I figured it was easier for me. I just showed some patience (which is pretty interesting for me), went on Amazon a few hours, purchased two digital codes. Never left my basement.

[ryne candy]

Next year Ill wait till the morning...Target had a bunch of them still available late afternoon.

[Twigg4075]

Ok, so I was chatting with Handle about the expanded friends list and how it seems that random friends get displayed on your PS3 since it can still only hold 100. Well, the thing is that there doesn't seem to be a rhyme or reason as to the 100 friends that show up on the PS3 side. I've been adding a lot of people and I'm approaching 200 friends. Of course that bumps off people that have been on your friends list previously. The problem is that I noticed the other day that one of my good real life friends got bumped. He and I play Madden all of the time so it wasn't like he hasn't been on his PS3 in a while or he and I haven't played any games together. I didn't realize it until we went to play an online game together and I couldn't invite him because he wasn't showing up on my list.
Handle did some checking and found an article that said that you can "protect" the people you want to keep on the PS3 side but it didn't elaborate on how and I can't seem to find any info about it.
Does anyone have a clue?

[MrBill]

Ok, so I was chatting with Handle about the expanded friends list and how it seems that random friends get displayed on your PS3 since it can still only hold 100. Well, the thing is that there doesn't seem to be a rhyme or reason as to the 100 friends that show up on the PS3 side. I've been adding a lot of people and I'm approaching 200 friends. Of course that bumps off people that have been on your friends list previously. The problem is that I noticed the other day that one of my good real life friends got bumped. He and I play Madden all of the time so it wasn't like he hasn't been on his PS3 in a while or he and I haven't played any games together. I didn't realize it until we went to play an online game together and I couldn't invite him because he wasn't showing up on my list.
Handle did some checking and found an article that said that you can "protect" the people you want to keep on the PS3 side but it didn't elaborate on how and I can't seem to find any info about it.
Does anyone have a clue?

Xbox wins

Seriously though, that is just as jacked up as not being able to send voice messages on XBL between the 360 and the Xbox One. Sony and Microsoft both rushed these consoles to market. It will be the spring before the shit is working like we expected it to at launch



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[dave]

Xbox wins

Seriously though, that is just as jacked up as not being able to send voice messages on XBL between the 360 and the Xbox One. Sony and Microsoft both rushed these consoles to market. It will be the spring before the shit is working like we expected it to at launch



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That's probably true. I'm willing to wait. Only have the ps4 right now and am ok with with ... both of these machines are nowhere near their potential. Hell, I prefer my ps3 over my ps4 as a movie player. I like my ps3 remote control and that it loads blu-rays way faster.

That said, no losing sleep over it. Both consoles will have better software (and games) by spring (like Bill says) and we will move on.

[Twigg4075]

Xbox wins

Seriously though, that is just as jacked up as not being able to send voice messages on XBL between the 360 and the Xbox One. Sony and Microsoft both rushed these consoles to market. It will be the spring before the shit is working like we expected it to at launch



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It's not really as simple as that. I understand why the PS3 has to stay at 100 because that was how the infrastructure was built. What I don't understand is how it determines who stays and who doesn't. And if you can protect people, how do you do it?

[MrBill]

It's not really as simple as that. I understand why the PS3 has to stay at 100 because that was how the infrastructure was built. What I don't understand is how it determines who stays and who doesn't. And if you can protect people, how do you do it?

But PSN and XBL are cloud networks and your console is a dumb terminal that connects to it. If they upgrade the server side, you should expect the client side to replicate that new capability.

Trust me that I know from my job that the devil is in the details and I am sure there are valid reasons why it isn't working right yet but they should have just delayed the launches until the spring. I have delayed product launches for up to a year when something was just 75% baked. Sony and MS were both petrified that the other was going to get an insurmountable head start in the next gen war.