Download Packs

[Kansas]

Are the download packs available in the US yet? I can't find them on the PlayStation Store.

[P52Smith]

Possibly not.
Send an email to Sony and ask (If there's a link in the PS Store use that, if not, send it to Sony generally and title it something like "USA WipEout Pulse PSP download packs") and explain what you've said here, unless someone else can suggest a better course of action.

[davidoneill]

I had a problem with the packs, I used an account to load up the Mirage packs to my memory card.

Then I created a new account which I wished to use and bought the Icaras packs with this new account and proceeded to load it up.

At start up it wouldnt load my Mirage packs so I guessed it was because of different accounts and I bought the Mirage for my new account.

It appeared to load up my previous grid for Mirage with the completed sections and the games working fine now.

Have I done something to mess up the download packs or my game?

[Frances_Penfold]

Are the download packs available in the US yet? I can't find them on the PlayStation Store.

Nope, not available in North America yet.

I gather that the Playstation Store is updated on Thursdays, and last Thursday's update did not include any DLC for Pulse.

Hopefully it will appear this coming week

[zargz]

no problems at all with the packs.
better price this time around - mirage was 45 sek, icaras - 35 sek

sek = swedish money
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[InvaderF00]

The fact they they even cost money is a little unsettling. Micro-payments are the devil... flat out. Let me get this straight... Pay $10 less for the game but charge for each 'enchancement' over the baseline which pretty much comes out to more than the full price of a psp game.
I'd rather get lump sum and free packs (a la Pure) than this. It just drives home the point that the Wii Store, Xbox Live and Playstation store are there to nickel & dime gamers to death. It makes me fear that half of a product would be released just so you can buy the other half as an add-on and the publisher can claim they are releasing downloadable content.
Sorry, I'm crotchey. I believe Studio Liverpool should get paid for their hard work, but marketing tactics just get me pissed. </rant>

[sakerbax]

why do you keep saying the packs are cheaper?
the pack brings less stuff than the first one. if they had dropped the price the first one would be cheaper as well

[P52Smith]

Would you rather pay more for the extra zone variant which is imposible above 25 and waste money or pay less for less but have everything work properly?

[Dogg Thang]

I think that's missing his point slightly. It's that it's not actually a price reduction. It's simply, as you say, 'less for less'. Most people are referring to it as almost an active price reduction on the same amount of content.

[P52Smith]

Thank you, Dogg Thang!

[Chrono]

I still get mad when I'm online and I scroll from Assegai to Piranha.

[Frances_Penfold]

So do we have any indication if the problems experienced by Dogg Thang and others are universal, or if they are somehow specific to memory cards or firmware versions or other factors?

I'd really like to get the DLC when available here in the U.S. (possibly as early as this Thursday) but these problems are making me uncertain about it...

[P52Smith]

I still get mad when I'm online and I scroll from Assegai to Piranha.

Take a bit more time then!

[borell]

There seems to be hope that I will one day be able to buy the download packs from $ony:

Wi-Fi PSP Store promised [joystiq.com]

[Chris OTR]

...I don't like the idea of paying for DLC - it's all too easy to feel that as a REAL fan you MUST go and spend XYZ in order to have the full set.

I'm going to do my best to 'vote with my feet' and not get it... It's going to be tough to hold out though!

I should add that (of course) I'm not averse to paying a fair price for my games - I just want to pay it up-front, as that way it doesn't leave a sour taste in my mouth.

[infoxicated]

I think I'm a real fan - been there, bought the t-shirt, made the website - and I'm not going to buy them. Like you said, it's best to 'vote with our feet' and I'm sure I can hold out.

[Nadia Elenova]

It's ok to pay, but how much is fair? I really don't know but I would have paid 2'99€ each pack, what do you people think about it?

[Rapier Racer]

If the packs had 4 tracks and a ship and were online like Pures then I probably would pay £3.00 for that willingly I feel that is a fair amount of content for the price, especially given the quality of those extra tracks.

So far I'm also holding out, rushed to buy the first pack then realized it wasn't so great for the cash, holding out is actually quite easy, if the ships were usable online it would be a different story though.

[KANDANG]

the harimau pack is out and orcus white is full of straights

on phantom, turbo boost at the ledge and you'll be flying past many many ramps

[Dogg Thang]

Bizarrely, the Auricom pack is out too. Last week, someone linked to the Icaras pack before I found it on the home page. So, this week, so I'd know when it was up, I just checked the same page URL but with '3' instead of '2'. And that now links to the Auricom pack. The Harimau pack is pack 4. Odd.

And a better price for the Auricom pack too.