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Today’s PlayStation Store update looked pretty magnificent. There was the usual collection of new Rock Band and Guitar Hero III downloadable songs, some pointless-but-thanks-anyway Nascar ‘09 car skins, lots and lots of pretty wallpapers and a rather special PlayStation Home theme that, much like the one that launched on the Japanese store last week (http://sarcasticgamer.com/wp/index.php/2008/07/home-beta-hits-japan.html), gives those who download it the chance to participate in an brand new expanded beta of the application.

All looking fantastic then! Except I’m not talking about my own PlayStation Store. I’ve had to go and praise the one on the other side of the Atlantic in my constant battle to try and say something nice about Sony, and as you can probably tell, it’s not going very well.

Oh, and Qore’s out too, but that’s Qore and nobody cares. Jump time.



Yup, as usual, Europe’s getting the shaft. We’ve got that pleasant Secret Agent Clank demo, some videos, and, er, that’s it. We’ve actually, believe it or not, not even got that nice wee Home theme, or anything. As usual, we’ve got the sharp end of the stick to play with (and part of that metaphor is to be taken recently; Sony Europe seem to have poked their eyes out and gone blind, given their almost non-existent acknowledgement of the complaints of their consumer base).

Of course, we folks in Europe are being promised our own, special version of the Home beta. Unfortunately, not everybody even gets the chance to sign up. Whereas America and Japan both offer the cute little theme number (dead nice by the way, thanks SCEA) as a way of signing up to the beta, SCEE offers up no such potential entry ticket. Instead, “consumers who have been most active on PLAYSTATION Network and PLAYSTATION Store” are being handpicked by Sony’s European arm so that people who are regularly on their PS3s can contribute to the overall final version of Home just as often.

I’m sorry, but what? Let me get this straight: you’re allowing every old Joe Bloggs from Tokyo to Texas to at least have a go at getting into the expanded beta, but us Europeans are denied the privelege? Thank you once again Sony. As much fun as it is ripping into SCEE’s dreadful consumer treatment (I should really just ask for their manual on “How Not To Treat Your Fanbase” and print it out on here in full to save me the trouble) I’ve got to admit that it’s getting a little boring.

I really do sit, fingers crossed, every Thursday morning, in the hope that the week’s European Store update isn’t going to be awful. And even then, at about 7 in the evening, I sit with my fingers crossed again in the hope that the American store’s update wont be two, three, ten times as awesome as the Euro equivalent. Unfortunately, it usually is.

Oh well. At least I have something to complain about. The thing is, why do I keep doing so? Be warned, potentially tear-jerking (ie: not at all in any way) reflections follow on page two… (http://sarcasticgamer.com/wp/index.php/2008/08/ranting-about-scee-is-getting-really-old.html/2)

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