Pre-Paid PSN Cards, What GIVES?! +Petition

  • Thread starter Thread starter Paulie
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Do you want pre-paid PSN cards in the rest of the world?

  • Yes!

    Votes: 24 77.4%

  • Yes! (Not letting people say no, would only start arguments over selfishness)

    Votes: 7 22.6%
  • Total voters
    31
Just get a Credit Card, and if you can't control yourself when you're out then bolt it to the table your PS3 is on.

I've had a credit card for years, and I've never paid any interest on it, ever. And I'm a 20 year old male.

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I'm pretty sure you can buy Visa Gift Cards from Myer here too.
 
with the upcoming psp rumoured to only have flash memory and no actual game discs i would think sony will launch pre-paid psn cards at the launch of that. if they do not it will be a massive blow as anyone without a visa card (ie most under 18s) will not be able to buy games easily
 
GTP_ENERGIYA
Paulie, You can get a DEBIT MASTER CARD which i have & you can only use it if you have money in your bank account so you dont need to pay anything back, beside it's your money your using, not the banks & it works fine in the playstation store & probably everywere else. Just ask your bank mate.

GTP_ENERGIYA
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Discussion is needed with my bank (AGAIN).:lol:
 
Paulie
Discussion is needed with my bank (AGAIN).:lol:
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You go and tell them Paulie, give them what for. :sly: By the way I voted in your poll ( petition ), you know I want PSN cards aswell, come on Sony sort yourselves out.
 
Yep, makes me angry as hell that they don't do that (so I import my games from us and buy us psn cards, lol) xD
 
Jeremy Ricci
Because it's easier to coordinate one region that uses the same currency, as opposed to setting up a system over dozens of countries with different laws, etc?
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Fair point, but I will now ask, why the US? There's a clear bias somewhere towards the US over the rest of the world which is just plain unfair.
 
Dragonistic
Fair point, but I will now ask, why the US? There's a clear bias somewhere towards the US over the rest of the world which is just plain unfair.
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I would assume it's because the US is one large market, and probably the biggest market along with Europe.

Thing is, in Europe, they have to coordinate a lot more, work out legal issues, etc. In the US (a market just as large as Europe) they only have to deal with one country's laws.

Basically, it is much easier and beneficial to do. It doesn't really have to do with bias, it was just easily attainable, at least more so than EU at this point.
 
I'd understand it more, but surely the US could use credit and debit cards just as easily plus we have a seperate store so they could just give us cards with a fixxed value e.g. £5 because £5 will buy just as much on a German PSN in the EU PSStore. So far as I know, the prices don't change in relation to changing exchanges rates, not on the PS Store anyway. It won't matter to me in a few weeks as I want to set up a debit card now I'm old enough, but imagine all the possible purchases they're losing from 12-16 year old gamers who can't get there parents to buy the things for them.

Even setting up seperate ones for different country can't be to harmful, or at least the major ones such as the UK, Australia and anywhere using the Euro. I hear alot of people on various games complaining that they can't get the DLC because they don't have a valid card (they do have cards of some variety but PSN won't accept them) and I've heard plenty of occasions when they 'borrow' other peoples PSN to download DLC without paying because they can't get it themselves when they desperately want that extra expansion.
 
Europe is now pretty much one big market with one currency almost everywhere (with a few notable exceptions, among them the UK) so I don't think pre -paid PSN cards in euros would be much trouble.

Anyway, I don't see why they are needed, unless they're meant for kids. Personaly I use a "secondary" credit card that has a very low credit-limit (350 euros, I think). It was "given" to me with membership of the portuguese automobile club and, in fact, it's my member's card that is, at the same time, a credit card.

But, even if they're meant for kids, there's no use really. Kids can't have main accounts (unless they lie about their age) and the owner of the main account that runs their sub accounts has the option to set a monthly limit for how much they can spend.
 
I was told that Debit Mastercards work on PSN, which is what I'm getting some time this week now.👍
 
Mastercards should work, as will any of the Visa/Visa Delta/etc cards. There should be a list somewhere, provided by Sony would be good customer service. They do say that no debit card is 100% compatible and isn't supported. You do need to make sure you put in the right details.
 

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