What's happened to the PS3 store?

[hodayathink]

Are you using a us/ntsc based store?

Yes. That's probably why it's different.

How? I can't get any more filters beyond Music and the price. I've yet to find a game-specific filter. Or is this a region-specific filter?

Goddamn Sony. They've broken the store so bad that I don't want to buy songs through there anymore.

Don't fix something if it isn't broken, Sony.

It looks like it might be US specific for now, but when I chose the "Music" section, I just scrolled down and it gave me a list of music games to filter by (which included different guitar heroes, those three rock band choices, Rocksmith, and Singstar).

[ASPMike]

I love the new store, was able to find and download all the free RB songs. IMO much better than Harmonix's sorting system. Especially when it comes down to doing special searches. If i ever get a pro guitar tho ill be stuck in the in-game store tho. lol

[Tykki-Teme]

I don't know, my main complaint is the lack of proper sorting for RB DLC (which it seems US users have). I don't really buy anything else from the store anyways.

And it might just be me, but it seems that everything is hidden deeper than what it was in the previous version. In the end, I think this will be the same as with every Facebook layout change; people complain for a while and then they forget it even happened.

[nuttzo31]

Ahh SCEE can they do no wrong?

[Bront20]

Yes. That's probably why it's different.



It looks like it might be US specific for now, but when I chose the "Music" section, I just scrolled down and it gave me a list of music games to filter by (which included different guitar heroes, those three rock band choices, Rocksmith, and Singstar).

Are you PSN+? I'm in the US, my PSN+ expired, and I can't get this working to save my life.

[hodayathink]

Are you PSN+? I'm in the US, my PSN+ expired, and I can't get this working to save my life.

Yeah, I am. I can take picture of it and post it, if you want to see what I'm talking about.

[HMXLachesis]

I would suggest going through our store rather than the PSN store. To be fair, I'm a bit biased.

[TheDescent]

You can filter beyond the "Music" filter to get to just one game (Rock Band, Rock Band Network, and Rock Band 3 & Blitz are all listed as categories). I just bought the No Doubt Singles Collection, and it took me no time at all to find.

That's because you searched for "No Doubt" and you got the pack. I tried to get The Who singles, and it gave me the 12-songs pack and the Superbowl Medley. I had to go song title by song title, and frankly, it's really, really annoying.

I would suggest going through our store rather than the PSN store. To be fair, I'm a bit biased.

Yeah, I'd like to get songs from the store but there are some problems:

If I buy the songs from Blitz, somehow my entire collection have to be reloaded, so I end up by waiting at least TWO MINUTES before the store lets me go for another song;
If I buy the songs from the PS3 Store, with packs there's no problem, but when I go for singles I can't just queue them, buy everything at once and then download the songs at once. I have to pick the song, buy It, waiting for the screen to upload, actually buying it, downloading it, waiting for the game to load (few secs, but it's damn annoying) and go for another song. I litterally spend more than 30 mins for getting 6 to 8 songs (the average number of items I get every week).
The thing that annoy me most it's the fact that I have to check the status of the downloaded items every 4 minutes, so I can't do much else while waiting.

[hodayathink]

That's because you searched for "No Doubt" and you got the pack. I tried to get The Who singles, and it gave me the 12-songs pack and the Superbowl Medley. I had to go song title by song title, and frankly, it's really, really annoying.

No, I didn't. I went to Music, went down to the "Rock Band" filter, filtered by price ($5-$10), and scrolled down to No Doubt. Only took a couple minutes. If I had searched for No Doubt specifically, it probably would have been faster, but I was trying to get a feel for the new store by browsing around it a little.

[peterock2007]

I would suggest going through our store rather than the PSN store. To be fair, I'm a bit biased.

I actually wish the pro upgrades could be found on the PSN store so I didn't have to deal with the boot, 15 minute dlc reload that seems to happen to me all the time. Try buying 5 upgrades, when three of the upgrades take you 45 minutes to purchase.


While the PSN is not perfect, moving around the menus and clicking categories is much faster on PSN the load earlier songs or hat ever button that seems to get expodentially slower inversely proportional to the amount of a hurry that I'm in.

I love rb3, but the actual RB store I despise.