Portable PSN ID issue/Gamertag

[Arwin]

On the subject of PSN-ids, I noticed that mine is shown now - however, it looks like the US one. I have recently logged into the US playstation server and that created an account there so I'm guessing that's where it comes from rather than the new ones on the EU server.

 

[patsu]

You may be able to get your EU Portable ID tag back by resync'ing it.

 

[Fafalada]

IMO, in-game XMB was a very *BAD* idea to begin with and customers were asking for exactly the wrong feature (or more specifically demanded a series of features that were poorly labelled as "in-game XMB").

The features were demoed long before launch, and in the few games that didn't mind loosing half the system Ram to use those awful early OS modules, it still looked like XMB, hence the name, even if it was a subset of the one you see on 'desktop'.

You're not seriously saying that someone at SCE actually decided to bring the full XMB into game because of some message board posts? Besdies it's not like the processing requirements should really be any different, XMB has that nice thing about only seeing the active menu-tree after all.

 

[patsu]

You're not seriously saying that someone at SCE actually decided to bring the full XMB into game because of some message board posts? Besdies it's not like the processing requirements should really be any different, XMB has that nice thing about only seeing the active menu-tree after all.

So is the in-game XMB the full XMB ?


Sony PR has always declared that they will add features if enough people requested for them. Although the truth is probably somewhere in-between, I'd hate to think that gamers' complains was the main reason the Batarang was still borned (despite early demo). What's the scoop there ?

I remember there were also presentations on Entitlement, Video chat (in-game ?), Home 3D Trophies, etc.
I'd love them to drop 3D trophies for other more useful rewards/awards (e.g., Home items !) but according to the Community Manager, they are still on.

So yeah, I wish Sony would gather feedback more widely. It's ok if I don't like the changes as long as most people do.

 

[wco81]

My sense is that third-parties were told not to bother or don't worry, XMB/PSN would provide a universal friends list and communication.

EA used to have their own lists and while in the lobbies of one of their games, you could see your friends and arrange games. This was on the PS2.

On the PS3, they get rid of all that (even though you could log in with your EA ID on their web sites, the one you actually log in to get into their servers). As a result, communicating on the PS3 is WORSE than it was on the PS2, for EA games.

The only way people find each other is to drop into XMB and send messages back and forth. EA used to at least support text chat while paused in-game. No you have to use XMB now, find the name of the guys you're playing with if they're not already on your list, then type a message, then wait for a reply instead of seeing the chat in one screen.

Launching games is ridiculous too. You have to use XMB to tell a guy you want to play with which game you're trying to join.

The XMB/PSN was suppose to provide a universal list and more centralized messaging. But it seems the developers just dropped whatever messaging support they used to have and assumed Sony would fill the void and what effort Sony has put in is inadequate.