Ever since Sony got hacked by some very savvy criminals, the PSN was knocked out of commission for practically six weeks. As a special bonus, Sony is giving away two free games (of its choosing) to PSN users, and it is also giving away one free month of PSN+ to all users. I think to myself, "Great, this might be the time to download a few free titles."
Well, I started the process yesterday, and I have yet to finish it. I haven't finished the process because the PSN is still a little bit cracked and unstable by all the security patches and upgrades. I knew something was wrong with the network when, every other page, I continually kept getting "error codes" that would kick me back to the previous page. I somehow successfully downloaded my first free title without too much difficulty. The strange thing is my first free game took a long time to download. It only started coming down the pipe with any mentionable speed when I put the download in the background and exited the PSN store.
But hey, that worked. Today I picked my second game, and I got that same error code right at the moment I chose my game. Well, the PSN thinks I downloaded my second game, so now I am completely unable to download the second game that was given to me because some network can't get its act together yet. I'm a bit miffed, but at the same time, it was legitimate free media, so I really can't complain too much about it, right? I still wanted my second free game, but at the sme time I knew I was screwed if I was going through the PSN, so I thought that I would email them to try and rectify my situation. Of course the regular internet I use so much is having issues of its own.
I copy down the customer service hotlink through the PSN, and I attempt to actually email that company through their messaging system on their web site. Well...since I block so much shit using Firefox plug-ins, the secure web page had to be reloaded six times -- after each plug-in was disabled -- just so I could request an other attempt at downloading my second game! Even then, I never found that little code that was being blocked, so I had to open up my plug-in tab, disable everything, reload the browser, and submit my request. It was so bureaucratic. AND THEN, after all that unnecessary bullshit, the goddamn website still demands proof that I am an actual human by throwing forth a damn "captcha" screen.
Incredibly, half of the captcha image was in goddamn Chinese characters! So I guess I'm supposed to...I don't know...hunt-and-peg some goddamn keyboard combination to try to guess this captcha. I had to refresh the captcha three times to get to something I could actually fucking type! *URGH* I think it is...interesting...how Sony goes balls-deep to prevent scammers from barraging their services with spam, but yet actual customers have to deal with actual spam from Sony.
Then again, hopefully I do get my free second game.
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