You gotta love digital purchases

[esadajr]

http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/2yq8oq/my_psn_account_got_hacked_this_morning_sony/

This kind of crap is why I'm not dealing with digital purchases anymore. Even if everything goes well, sooner or latter you'll lose everything.

[Gentlegamer]

Totally agree, I have never bought anything digital except on Steam, where if my account or DRM gets borked, I can easily obtain cracks for my games.

[Necromancer]

At the very least, never give them access to your credit card or bank account and stick to pre-paid gift cards.

[poponon]

I agree I hate the new trend of pay-to-download. It doesn't feel as if you actually own anything after the transaction.

I prefer free to download, and microtransaction shop. Although most people despise this, many games have done it right without creating a pay-to-win environment.

[SignOfZeta]

I agree with the basic sentiment here but...Sony. Sony in particular is very incompetent and difficult to deal with. Nintendo and Apple are nowhere near the headache.

[poponon]

Doesn't nintendo tie downloaded games to an individual console though? And they have no user account system either. Seems pretty shit

[esadajr]

Doesn't nintendo tie downloaded games to an individual console though? And they have no user account system either. Seems pretty shit

Nintendo is also a headache (in a different way if you want). If your console breaks you're screwed.

[xelement5x]

At the very least, never give them access to your credit card or bank account and stick to pre-paid gift cards.

This is how I operate.  It is a bit of a pain in the ass to deal with cards all the time, but I never have to worry about shit like this.

[technozombie]

I have a few digital purchases on steam because they were super cheap on sale but I have the hardest time giving up my right to resell.

[ParanoiaDragon]

There's been too many games that don't have physical releases that I've wanted(Brandish, La-Mulana EX) that I can't ignore, so I've kind of gotten used to it, but it still sucks.  Thankfully, that particular Sony service has nothing to do with me, so I won't lose anything.......yet.

[TR0N]

If it's digital only i'll buy it but i do prefer physical release's more.Hackers are all ways going after sony and microsoft,just look at the lizardsqaud  It's best just to use point cards having a card on file is asking for trouble.

[esteban]

Issue was resolved.

[SignOfZeta]

Doesn't nintendo tie downloaded games to an individual console though? And they have no user account system either. Seems pretty shit

Nintendo is also a headache (in a different way if you want). If your console breaks you're screwed.

They all suck, but as I understand it, if your Nintendo machine breaks AND you send it to them to get fixed, the games will transfer to the replacement machine. Its not as free and easy as Apple's way of doing it, but its not too bad.

The fact that Nintendo's shit is more reliable than Sony and MS makes it less of a problem. If purchases made on a 360 were tied to that 360...we'd have some issues.

[esadajr]

If it's digital only i'll buy it but i do prefer physical release's more.Hackers are all ways going after sony and microsoft,just look at the lizardsqaud  It's best just to use point cards having a card on file is asking for trouble.

I still don't think lizardquad are legit. Millions of new consoles went active on Dec 25th, the infrastructures were just not ready for all those devices going online at the same time. Don't take me wrong dos attacks are still a real threat.

I agree with using "points" cards. And deplete the balance as soon as it is available.

[TR0N]

If it's digital only i'll buy it but i do prefer physical release's more.Hackers are all ways going after sony and microsoft,just look at the lizardsqaud  It's best just to use point cards having a card on file is asking for trouble.

I still don't think lizardquad are legit. Millions of new consoles went active on Dec 25th, the infrastructures were just not ready for all those devices going online at the same time. Don't take me wrong dos attacks are still a real threat.

I agree with using "points" cards. And deplete the balance as soon as it is available.

Yeah,who knows if it was them for the dos attack or just bragging rights by lizard.When psn was hacked years ago i just stuck to using point cards.