Mistakes can be made, especially if they are from certain choices. If one choices the wrong option, well that’s a lesson learned from them.

One who acknowledges a mistake that has been made and takes advantage of the situation--whether it’s right or wrong through situational venues--will clearly have a cause and effect.

I just fully disagree with it. No one bashed anyone. If that’s how you felt, however, that’s a burden one can surmise and ride with.

I don’t, personally, find making any mistakes a choice. If you make it, there is a cause and an affect. Such as one would make a mistake in a Basketball game where one would pump fake a shot. Though it can come out of reaction, the defense has the option to jump or stand ground. If one player jumps, that’s a huge opening for the ball defender to net free points. A cause that had a beneficial affect for the team.

This isn’t about morality, but about the cause and effect of actions that transpired. Whether you took advantage of the situation is up to you on how you scored, but be advised that the effect is that regardless of what “good” excuse there is upon choice or who’s offended, the biggest moment of it all is that Sony made a grave mistake and Lockwood took the blunt work of their mistake.

Cause and effect.

While some people consider LKWD to be the biggest loser in it due the value involved. I’m not so sure. LKWD items were a sales of older items already bought by most “whale” and a lot of people. Place that already had time to be moneytize. nDream Inferno was a brand new space and most well informed vet had plenty of time to acquire it.

Terra gave us a very good excuse why it took so long to correct the issue. I’ll say the same thing I tell the kids at the shop. It’s not excuses I want. It’s results…

As pointed by Kass here. A thread was posted on the forum tuesday night. The thread was promptly deleted. As it’s the case whenever there is a comment about a real issue. ( I myself had 2 threads deleted in the first hour of the F13 mayhem) Why was it still available and free when Home came back online after maintenance? Around 20 hrs between the time Sony had the info in hands and the time they took it out. … Yeah I know, they have a good excuse.
Other questions puzzle me. Why is the nDream place was remove a long time before LKWD sale? Why while they removed it from the LKWD and nDream store they remained available in the estate store? I know… they have a good excuse.
In aviation there is a “fail safe/safe fail” policy. Basically it mean you take appropriate measure to make sure it doesn’t fail and if it does fail, it won’t lead to a catastrophic failure. Maybe Sony could learn a thing or two from it.
Yes I did help myself to some treats. Not much as I already own enough things/places I don’t use. Not something I’m totally comfortable with or proud of but I won’t loose sleep over it.
I can’t say I had a good time on home over the holydays vacation. Filled with giant avatars, fake mods/guides, cloner… As a matter of fact. I’ve spent christmas eve, christmas day and the following week on various forum support section helping and informing people after the account management crashed and the PSN was experiencing “latent issue”, but I’m sure Sony have a good excuse for that… Sales division did not told the network department how many PS4/PS3 units where sold over the last two months… Someone was on the wrong time zone to tell them christmas was on the 25th this year…

Yeah. Maybe taking advantange of an error is a naughty thing… but I have a good excuse.
Sony choosed to go to the lowest possible cost instead of ensuring a qulity service. Something I have to deal with myself everyday and is now the standard everywhere. Well, there is consequences to that. Deal with it.

I sinceraly hope Sony will accept it’s responsabilty and write a check to the devs involved. Instead of removing the items and fueling a backlash toward nDream and LKWD .

Thank you Sony. Apologies accepted…… *THUMP*

When Lockwood became aware of the issue, it was approaching midday in the UK, which on the west coast, was still some ungodly hour for anyone to be awake, let alone be in the office. Couple that with the fact that CES was going on in Vegas -- where Sony had a strong presence at, likely leaving just a skeleton crew in SF -- and you had the makings of a perfect storm.

I’ll be the first to admit, I knew about the free apartments and associated bundle packs that were marked as FREE. I knew it was a pricing error, because I had seen the 50% OFF advertisement from LKWD, before the error was made. I didnt have to check the forums to confirm it, although I did anyway. And ya know what….I downloaded them anyway.

Yeah, I said it. I downloaded them anyway. LOL. And I wont lose a single wink of sleep over it, either. I wont shed a single tear and I wont have it on my ever so troubled conscience.

You know how much money LKWD has made off of me in the last 5 years? HUNDREDS. Some of it was justified and priced appropriately and some of it was highway robbery, borderline scam. Buyers remorse. So, when something like this comes around…which doesnt happen too often in MY favor, mind you…I take advantage of it, when I can. They can afford to give some back.

Now, if my confession here makes me look like the only bad guy…fine, I’ll be your bad guy. I still couldnt care less…and not a single person out there can make me feel guilty for something, that wasnt even my mistake. Dont question my morals or integrity on the matter. I have none. LOL.

This makes me question when exactly did Sony know about the Free apartments? Why were they not taken out of the store before the update or even right after the update? It would have definitely been less of a loss (if any) if they had done so, am I right? In the end of the day Sony will decide and there’s nothing we can to about it. It has been very interesting seeing everyone’s views on this topic and there’s really no need to jump on each other especially over a mistake made by Sony.

However, the more crafy villains aren’t stymied so easily. They’ve doubtlessly copied the developers’ version and decompiled it, learning the commands and protocols that developers use.

I called the turn back then that we haven’t heard the last of this. Could the wrong prices be more than just a clerical error on some technician’s part? And would Sony tell us, if so?

The word must have spread fast because I received a text and several XMB messages about it, myself. (And this was at 11:30 Pacific time in the middle of the week.) Later, other people were saying that they picked up these spaces for their main account and “alternate” accounts. To me, this means the sales were much higher than they would have been at the 50% off point. If Sony reimburses Lockwood for all of the “purchases” they’ll be taking a hit for more than they should. I don’t see a good solution here, either.

Ultimately it’s Sony decision and we’ll probably never know what they decide (unless they take the spaces away from those people and then watch the forum erupt!) We are left wondering how an error like this could be made, of course.

P.S. If you’re wondering, no I didn’t take advantage of this error as I believed it was a mistake as soon as I heard about it. For another thing I already owned the ones I really wanted.

The whole episode is a pretty ambiguous situation. From a consumer’s perspective, everybody who “bought” those spaces was well within their rights to do so. From a moral perspective, most people (myself included) knew better and can do nothing but rationalise our decision at this point.

I hope that Sony does the right thing and pays off Lockwood for the debacle. They shouldn’t be on the hook for the full sale price of every item because there is no way that people would have paid for all those spaces. Still, it should turn out to be a bumper payoff for Lockwood. In fact, I can’t see how Lockwood is not contractually entitled to a hefty sum given that it’s completely the fault of SCEA.

With all that said, I’ll repeat what I posted on the Forum earlier this week. I would happily return all of those spaces if it saves some people from getting into serious trouble for the error, potentially losing their jobs.