Announcements

[Lestrade]

Hi all,

As you will have noticed, the PS Store re-launched successfully today, and we'd like to thank you for your positive feedback.

We are aware that many of you have experienced delays whilst the PS Store's thumbnail icons are being downloaded. This is a temporary consequence of a new system implementation and high global traffic levels, and will be resolved within the next few days.

Thank you for your patience and continued support!

All the best,

Lestrade 

[Oo_Alias_oO]

Wicked, will have to check that out later =D

[stephen92]

Good to see it will be fixed, thanks for telling us that your are aware of this.

[Panajev]

The design of the European version of the store, as in the way
games/demos/etc... are categorized and divided, compared to the
organizationand sorting features in the U.S. store is puzzling.

Could you address some questions for me please ?

1.) Where is a View All function ?

2.) Why is not all content related to a single game grouped together when
we view that game's page (example: people would like to look up
Pixeljunk monsters and see the game, demo*, trailer, themes, etc. and everything listed on the right) ?

3.) What is the rationale behind the decision that for the EU store we needed to use a set of categories different from:

Newest Releases -- PS Eye Games -- PSP Games -- PSone Classics -- View by Genre -- View by Title

which is the format used for the US PSN Store ? How is the current organization of the EU Store UI better than the one used by the US store to navigate and find content on the store ?

Messaggio modificato da Panajev su 15-04-2008 04:22 PM

[Sherif_129]

Cheers for the update

[DjRalford]

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Lestrade wrote:

Hi all,

As you will have noticed, the PS Store re-launched successfully today, and we'd like to thank you for your positive feedback.

We are aware that many of you have experienced delays whilst the PS Store's thumbnail icons are being downloaded. This is a temporary consequence of a new system implementation and high global traffic levels, and will be resolved within the next few days.

Thank you for your patience and continued support!

All the best,

Lestrade 

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Thanks for the info Lestrade, Just one question from me and thats when will the preview function be implimented on our EU store as i cannot find anything with a preview on there thus far.

Otherwise it's all good

[SpiderPig574]

the us store have a preview button and game demos and stuff will this be added to the uk version

[Thurnbs]

Cheers for the update, atleast you know about it.

can i have the old store back please? atleast that was easy to find your way around, less time consuming and more intuitive. Im sure that's what the new store was supposed to provide though.

All the categories need rethinking along with some sort of clue as to where you are within the store. You try going to Videos >> game trailers and knowing whether your looking at the screen for downloading games or video (yes i know you've just clicked videos but just by looking you can't tell where the hell you are).

Is it only me that finds that not being able to just keep pressing right when cycling through the icons a bit annoying. It's a bit counter intuitive to have to keep zig-zagging back and forth across a big grid of (most of the time invisible) small icons just to see what it represents..

Also why cant i choose how i want my content to be grouped/sorted?  i don't want to look at game trailers grouped by their genre, i wanna know which trailers have just been released.

Sure it looks slick but id take functionality and content over that any day (not that we had much content in the first place).

I'll try to finish on a positive note but it's hard to try and find one at the minute. The ability to download PSP games and demos is a great addition.

[Thurnbs]

Also here's an odd one for you, when quickly returning to the top menu by pressing circle, especially if your two or three levels down the "click/beep" noise when moving the cursor or pressing circle is now at a higher volume. Now that's a crazy bug for ya.

[Panajev]

Another problem related to Icons' loading and their caching is that it seems that each time the store is closed the cache is flushed and when you restart the store you have to fill the cache up again. Will this be addressed without a new FW update ?