Oh good. The PS+ discount applies to Under Siege, so I am going to get fiscal reimbursement for what I spent trying to get it a month ago. That makes my personal compensation complete.
Also, who here is feeling trusting towards PSN? Are you thinking it's safe and are ready to buy, or have recent rumours of more hacking on the way deterred you? I'm certainly looking at using vouchers rather than card for a good while at least.
If I didn't trust PSN now, then I might as well stop using credit cards anywhere online altogether. My trust is yet to go down, as I have yet to see any evidence that credit card information was actually stolen. And I've just been on holiday using my credit card in various places abroad without any issues either, all the while getting prompt sms messages from my 50 cent/month subscription to getting notifications of successful transactions.
Nice to see that the very well reviewed Magic game is free on PSN. I've had some issues with timeouts appearing here and there but downloads themselves work fine, so the bottleneck does not seem to be bandwidth (I've downloaded about 4GB from the store as fast as I ever have, with the Infamous 2 demo at 2.5gb, Outland, and that Magic game) , but only the Store content interface and database that seems to be getting hammered. I get occasional errors and timeouts in there, but fortunately they seem to be such that actually getting to the content and putting it into my download queue works fine. It is also important to note by the way that over here we are having a bank holiday, so lots of people are home and when the store went live this morning everyone started downloading asap.
I haven't been able to properly access the store for songs from within Rockband 3 this morning, but I'll try again later to see if matters have improved there.
And yeah, the welcome back programme games are not up yet. I think that's probably a wise decision. Same for Modnation Racers, and a few other things. They're definitely planning to pace things out over the next weeks a little.
By the way if you have two Move controllers and don't have The Fight yet, there's a free demo up which allows you to pound a practice doll freely. That should certainly give you an indication of whether or not this is something for you.
