Sony is in knee-high shit right now.
Someone haxx their interwebz and stole PSN user's account info, credit card information, and addresses.This will reportedly cost Sony over $24 Billion.Goodbye PSN. I love you.Without you, I shall never know how to love again.R.I.P.
@Kabob: I guess the good news is that the newer games allow guests to play in multiplayer as well.
However, then you cant save your own stats and achievements ;)Achievements are the issue for me. I like earning achievements and it extremely annoys me that so many games have multiplayer only achievements that I can't earn. Then by the time I do get to play multiplayer it's going to be tough/impossible to earn them just due to the age of the games.
It's the principal of it. You're paying them to, effectively, point you to somebody else, so you can use your own internet connection. They don't allow free DLC, they advertise on the service (that you're already paying for), and they charge for useless novelty items. There's pretty much no reason to charge at all, never mind charge $60, when the costs per-person are orders of magnitude less than the cut they take from a single piece of DLC. No, it's not a great deal of money, but that doesn't mean they're not scraping you for everything they can get.
The only reason I got XBL is because of the deals.
I got mine for $50 plus a free Halo: Reach game. The deal is over now, but I thought it was a good deal, even though the game is not the greatest anyway.@Alert
You should have gotten the 360 when they had the deal to get Alan Wake and Forza Motorsport 2.Both are awesome games.Someone is sueing Sony because their user info was stolen.
lol, 24 billion? Goodbye PS3.
The funny thing was that I was about to change my obvious 'real name' in account settings because somebody was threatening to hack me (destroyed them in their own convoluted private match, 'CoD), when PSN shut down.They said they needed only my name, but I didn't think my username… So I really hope Anon is just giving out the profiles without divulging CC shit like that. They certainly cost Sony enough like this. D:24 billion is the maximum amount they would owe, it would never be that high though seeing as it was measured by the number of accounts, not number of users. [link]
Bah, everything important is encrypted (ie: credit card details) or hashed (ie: passwords), about the only thing meaningful that anyone will get out of it is email addresses, assuming they aren't encrypted too. People seem to assume that it is the end of the world the moment anyone gets any data nowadays, truth is, just about everything server side for most services are encrypted.