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The PSN Nickel-and-Dime

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Since Qore was rolled out on the PlayStation Network Store earlier this year, there's been a sense of division. Qore subscribers have been the early beneficiaries of demos for SOCOM Confrontation and Valkyria Chronicles, to name a couple; while the non-Qore folks are left wondering if it's worth the extra monthly or yearly charges.

In their weekly Perspective column, Games Are Evil rants about paid themes, overpriced golf courses, and the PSN Nickel-and-Dime strategy.
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Published: 386 days 16 hours ago | Article | PlayStation 3
 
 

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Imallvol7 - 386 days 20 hours ago
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Lol at failed attempt to make PSN look bad.

Socom early was a BETA.

I agree that Qore is getting out of hand with the Valkyrie Chronicle situation, but seriously, you will get it for free in time.

PSN IS STILL FREE to play games online which is where its most important and it works Great.

And this Nickel and Dime strategy you speak of, I HATE IT. That's why I don't buy DLC and I DON'T SUPPORT IT. But why act like PSN is the only one that does this? Completely misleading article.
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killyourfm - 386 days 15 hours ago
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We're not at all trying to make the PSN look bad. If you follow Pete's Perspective, or his PS3 articles and reviews, it's completely the opposite. This is an editorial - which are typically rife with opinion.

As someone who owns both consoles, I'll be the first to admit that the XBL marketplace is the larger criminal here especially with all the ridiculous gamer images - but Pete focuses on Sony content and articles only.
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Parapraxis - 386 days 19 hours ago
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Sony is losing millions because they have decided not to charge for PSN, all PS3 owners should be greatful. I know I am.
Optional purchases are very different than having little to no choice but pay.
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thebudgetgamer - 386 days 13 hours ago
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2.1 - ^^^hell yea dude im totaly happy
xbox makes you pay for themes. THEMES SERIOUS THATS BAD

and think what you get for the money 15$ for the warhawk expansion that is enough content for a hole new game
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GWAVE - 386 days 18 hours ago
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Yes. Because Qore is required to play games online.

I believe that the so-called "PSN Nickel-and-Dime strategy" is nothing compared to the "XBL quarter-and-dollar strategy".

Guess what? I didn't spend a penny on Qore this month. You know why? Because there wasn't anything of interest to me, so I saved my money. I had a choice. But wait! I thought Microsoft was the one that doesn't want to "make our customers pay for things they don't want" (direct quote).
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Raoh - 386 days 17 hours ago
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GWAVE hit it on the nail. the qore features, demos, themes and betas etc are optional and not the only way to get those features as socom was second to beta and first went to pre orders, motorstorm 2 and naruto demos eventually came to free psn non qore users.

But CHOICE is the key word here.

you have a choice to subscribe to qore and get extra or early content.

to play online games? thats still and should be free.
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Darkseider - 386 days 16 hours ago
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4 - What a Tool
This guy is a clown to the nTH degree. He b1tches about Qore like it's a bank breaking proposition, even though it is OPTIONAL. Whereas with XBL its' $50 a yr. Yeah, I see how this is definately an impartial view... Jackass.
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ManOnFire - 386 days 15 hours ago
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5 - Qore ?
To anyone else out there that gets the Official Playstation mag.
For the last four issues they have included a code to get Qore without paying extra. When I downloaded Qore I noticed that some of the issues allowed you to dowload Calling All Cars for free ? Most of the high value stuff that is downloadable with Qore was disabled ?

I have always enjoyed getting the mag but I must confess that I think if trends with Qore continue ie betas early demos and the like I would rather put my money towards Qore than the mag.

Anyone else get the mag and is feeling the same way ?
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creeping judas - 386 days 15 hours ago
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when you look at the big picture, thru non fan boy glasses. you will see that SONY has to make money off of PSN somehow. why? if you can imagine all the work and amount of money SONY is throwing at PSN. And even more money is required to bring us HOME. Some where SONY has to recover that money.

i have yet to buy a small transaction on PSN or XBL. but i have spent money on such things as map packs, new race tracks, etc...
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killyourfm - 386 days 15 hours ago
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I agree - and Sony will ultimately emerge victorious for their efforts with PSN and HOME. But in part, I think publishers are to blame as well. Who can argue that $8 for a downloadable course in Tiger 09 is reasonable, when in reality that course should have been on the original disc.

Slightly off topic, but don't get me started on the Mega Man 9 DLC.
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bgrundman - 386 days 12 hours ago
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On the topic of the Mega Man 9 DLC, doesn't it look more like a shameless cash in, the more announcements we see?
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