Well, I got the Mirage pack the day after release and I must say that I am rather disappointed.

5 euros for two tracks and a craft is really too much in my book, especially considering what downloadable content for other playstation 3/psp games costs. I find the edgewinter track rather uninspired, with anything below phantom it's just no challenge at all, and what is that magstrip piece of track with the wave sides about, does that serve a purpose? Vostok reef is an enjoyable track and I'm interested to see what the white edition of that track looks like. Though I must admit I'm more atracted towards the tracks already in the game than I am to Vostok Reef Black. It's good to see the price of the download packs coming down now, but 4 euros is still on the high side for me.

That said, I'd hate to have paid 5 and 4 euros now and then see the price for those packs drop to 3 or even below within a couple of months. At this point in time the extra tracks are all but useless online, yesterday I started a single race Vostok Reef online and I had to wait almost 20 minutes before a single person joined. So we played a race together, and then I waited another 10 minutes for someone to join, but there was simply noone. All this, makes me seriously doubt whether I want to buy these packs now, or just wait until more people play these tracks online.

But the biggest problem of all I have with the playstation store itself. I normally don't use Windows at all, so I had to log in on someone else's computer, which is something I definately don't like to do, especially on a site where I use my credit card. Why can't you use the playstation store on the PSP, that'd solve the problems for just about everyone, then only people who don't have windows *and* don't have a wireless access point available to them would still have problems downloading packs. But of course using someone else's internet connection is way preferable compared to using someone else's computer to log in. Plus I'm lucky to have a credit card, but I know plenty of people who don't, Sony is a big corporation, why can't they offer more than one way to do the monetary transactions. I mean in the US practically everybody has a credit card, but here in Europe this is in no way the case, having a credit card is more exception than it is the norm.