I've long been a shopper of the Xbox Marketplace and Steam, and I'm sitting here going through the Playstation Store. It said there were four free things available to Plus subscribers, so let's go see what they are?
Uh.
Well, it doesn't have an obvious category for them. You'd think if you're treating those who have dropped $50, you'd make it easy for them, right? So I go into Playstation Plus area. Well, nine categories, not sure where they are. Let's try "Playstation Plus" again. That's for subscriptions. "Games". Oh, "Free!"
But a bit of searching reveals there's more stuff that's not mentioned under the DLC category. Ooops. Oh, hey, Hard Corps: Uprising is on sale, let's try a demo-
- oh, there is no demo.
Not to say that Marketplace and Steam don't have their problems. I was recently trying to figure out if certain indie devs (Puppy Games, Mediatonic) had more games on Steam I wasn't seeing, but there's no way to show by developer or publisher, aside from the publisher packs during sales. And I know I always have to head to Cheapassgamer.com if I want to see clearly what's on sale.
But Playstation is the roughest. A lot of games don't have demos or screenshots, so best know what you're buying beforehand. Is what I want a PS1 Classic? A PSN Exclusive? A PS3 Game? A PSP Mini? It's all a bit confusing. Speaking of which, where was that category for foreign imports, I was interested in that but... it's gone? No, it's under "PS1 Classics".
If you want to shop there, you have to make me want to shop there. I just had my nose to the computer during the Steam Summer Sale, but with the Playstation Store, I feel bothered just looking at it. Someday I'll pick something up, but for today I'm grabbing my free crap and running.
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