Comments on: The New Face of the PlayStation Network Store

By: RiverCreek

RiverCreek — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 01:07:49 +0000

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I love the new store. It is nice to be able to see multiple advertisments and pricing all at once on one page.

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On the other hand I am not crazy about not being able to type in the search box. I don’t like the way you have to chose the letters individually to search for a subjec and what you are looking for does not come up. Being able to type out words seemed more detailed as to what you were looking for in the old format.

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All in all, the new store is a great improvement.

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By: ted2112

ted2112 — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 21:39:12 +0000

I loved the new store right off the bat. As used to the old store as I was and how much I hate them tinkering with stuff, the old store was bad!

By: KrazyFace

KrazyFace — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 08:19:08 +0000

That’s fair enough Bon, as you said it’s a case of just getting used to it for most of us. But I had trouble with the Plus stuff. I used to go there first every other week before looking at anything else, y’know, check the freebies. And it was easier (to me) when things were sub-categorized into stuff like avatars, themes, minis and games etc. Now it just seems to be a pot-luck-browse-fest.

Again though, I’ve only looked at the EU store so far, I might sound like a loon here if it’s different on the US Store.

By: Kassadee Marie

Kassadee Marie — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 19:45:19 +0000

If you can play Devil’s advocate, I can, too. There were 48 packs for Home in the old store, so I don’t think only the third party developer packs have been removed. I could go back to my old article and count. And by the way, these 21 “Home packs” include a bunch of video downloads that aren’t Home items, at all. I always wished that the Sony store items would be offered in the Home stores and that Home would have it’s own section in the Sony store. Now that it has, I find it to be a major disappointment.

By: BONZO

BONZO — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 18:50:33 +0000

I understand -- change sucks sometimes, the interface change is actually the reason i stopped frequenting the IGN site, that and all the pop up ads.

By: BONZO

BONZO — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 18:43:03 +0000

Im just playing devil’s advocate here, but those packs and actually anything you buy in Home is an add-on. So it makes sense to be under add-ons, before it was under new arrivals, which I don’t understand why, and there was a Home icon. The packs missing are the Hellfire packs, and the Codeglue packs, those are third party developers so there may be a legal issue to resolve between them. It takes as many steps to access them now as it did before, and it’s really easier because it is listed on the left side in subcategories, and all you have to do is hover over them to see them load up in the right side. I guess i must have a really good internet connection because I haven’t experienced any lag while navigating through the store. I frankly found them so hidden before I was annoyed i missed out on a starter pack which included stuff I had already bought. I think this is easier because it is specifically labeled Home items. The first time i saw the Home icon i thought it was to download Home itself, which i thought was there in case you deleted it, i didn’t realize it had the bundle packs until i read it on the forums.

By: BONZO

BONZO — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 18:18:28 +0000

I have to disagree with you on the Plus stuff, I was the most impressed with the organization of the Plus content. You click games, PLus, and then at the very bottom of the left menu all you have to do is hover over the option and the content refreshes on the right frame. That is far simpler than clicking into one option after another, I haven’t really had any issues with screens loading it has been very fast for me but that could be the internet connection. I do agree with you on the check out process, that was simpler before, particularly with demos. Some content just had a download option, with no check out process it seems everything needs a checkout process now. The downward arrow is the download button and it took me a few seconds to realize that because i was looking for the button that said download. The check out takes a few step but as far as everything is displayed I am lovin this.

By: Kassadee Marie

Kassadee Marie — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 18:14:52 +0000

First, the load time is way slow, But second and more importantly, Home items are located under Games>PS3 Add-ons>Home — exactly why? And third, there are only 21 packs shown; where are all of the other packs? I see the new Sony store as a Home fail.

By: Kid Fleetfoot

Kid Fleetfoot — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 15:13:36 +0000

You, Bonzo, got one thing right for sure. It ~~might~~ will take ~~some of us~~ me awhile to get used to it.

Don’t like it so far.

By: KrazyFace

KrazyFace — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 08:48:31 +0000

Hmm. Yeah, I get the whole “having to re-learn everything thing, but honestly, I found it much slower on the load-up of each screen, browsing the place for me is now a bit of a chore really. Also, Plus content seems to have been smattered around the place for some reason. Maybe I shouldn’t be commenting here on it at all since I was using the EU version. Shouldn’t make a difference? Believe me, the (old) US PSN Store was categorized in a much more logical way than its EU counterpart. Maybe that’s the case again, I should check.

For the meantime though, my chip-in is this; It’s slower to load, Plus stuff is much harder to find and the checkout screens are like talking to a geriatric: “You wanna buy this?”
“Yes please”
“ok sure… Oh! Hello! You wanna buy something?”
“Yes please, this item here”
“Alright, sure no problem, the price is uhmm…”
*stabs impatiently at X button*

“Oh hello! You wanna buy something?”