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Since the old thread is dead and gone and people are starting to fill up the standard PS3 thread this one is for all of the discussion and organization of all PSN game sharing. Holy poo poo! What is game sharing? Most games on PSN, once purchased, allow you to download them on up to five different PS3s. This means that when you buy something and download it if you share your account info with four of your friends they can download it too! No this isn't illegal as Sony wants as many people as possible to play their games. Besides if five people get together to buy a game none of them were in the first place then that's still one more sale! But enough talk, have at you! You said most games are sharable. Some aren't? As of right now the only games that you can't share is Warhawk but that's loving awesome and you should buy it anyway. OK, I've got some people that want to share a game. What's the easiest way to do this? From my experience the quickest and easiest way to get a game share going is to follow these steps. As the share starter/game purchaser:
As the good friend that paid his portion of the game share:
inFrequently Asked Questions: Dodger_ posted:Does the password on the PSN Master account need to stay the same or can it be changed after you have shared with someone and they are finished downloading? Kengi posted:This will sound odd, but I'm currently under the impression that there is tax on the games, and I'm not 100% sure of why... UPDATE: Taxes may be calculated based on your location when you first signed up, not your current address. I may have signed up under Delaware which has no sales tax hence no PA tax for me now. oxy posted:What is the preferred mode of money transfer? PayPal?
shodanjr_gr posted:I am wondering, does this work if for instance the master account has a US locale and i am from the EU? Shmoogy posted:I know that you can share an account with up to 5 PS3s, but lets say that somebody decides to go in for lots of game-sharing. Is there a limit to the amount of logins that the PS3 will take before giving them any problems? I ask, because I'm going to probably partake in lots of future game shares, and it's a concern, albeit a small one. Dominic White posted:TIP! Goon Recommended PSN Games These are pretty safe bets that everyone should have in their collection: - Bionic Commando Rearmed - Burnout Paradise - Crash Commando - Gran Turismo 5 Prologue (sharable???) - GripShift - PixelJunk Monsters + Expansion - Super Stardust HD - Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix - Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection - Wipeout HD Good games that are not everyone's cup of tea: - 1942: Joint Strike - Age of Booty - Blast Factor + Advanced Research - Calling All Cars! - Echochrome - Everyday Shooter - Fatal Inertia EX - fl0w + Expansion - High Velocity Bowling - LocoRoco Cocoreccho! - Mega Man 9 - Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness: Episode 1 - Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness: Episode 2 - PixelJunk Eden - PixelJunk Racers - Piyotama - Prince of Persia Classic - Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords - Revenge of the Plague Lord - Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty - Siren - Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Remix - The Last Guy You've gotta like the genre or be in the right mood for these: - Brain Challenge - Elefunk - Geon: Emotions - Go! Puzzle - Go! Sudoku - High Stakes on the Vegas Strip: Poker Edition - Linger in Shadows - Novastrike - Nucleus - Pain + Amusement Park and retarded characters I guess - Rocketmen: Axis of Evil - Super Rub-a-Dub - Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars - Wolf of the Battlefield: Commando 3 Terrible: - Cash Guns Chaos - Go! Sports Ski - Jeopardy! - Sky Diving - Snakeball - Toy Home Oldies but goodies (maybe): - Castlevania Chronicles - Championship Sprint - Gauntlet II - Joust - Lemmings - Mortal Kombat II - Q*Bert - Rampage World Tour - Rampart - Street Fighter Alpha PSEye games: - Aquatopia - Mesmerize: Distort - Mesmerize: Trace - Operation Creature Feature - The Trials of Topoq - Tori-Emaki Warhawk: - Warhawk (buy it) - Operation: Omega Dawn - Operation: Broken Mirror - Operation: Fallen Star Yodzilla fucked around with this message at 14:50 on Dec 19, 2008 |
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To get things started here is my share group for Siren and 1942 Shmoogy Yodzilla Tenacious Dan Aardark Dominic White Everyone has paid and account info has been sent out to everyone. This was a good share. Yodzilla fucked around with this message at 14:29 on Jul 25, 2008 |
# ¿ Jul 25, 2008 13:41 |
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AWWW SMACK posted:I forget how it works now but is it that each console can share downloaded content with 5 other consoles, or is it that each PSN account can be shared with upto 5 other consoles? I've got a few different PSN accounts with downloaded content on now from different regions, some have been shared and some haven't. Just curious how it actually works. I'm getting to that! Updating the OP now. oxy posted:I'm down for doing this with some people. What is the preferred mode of money transfer paypal? That's my preferred method.
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# ¿ Jul 25, 2008 13:49 |
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^^ i'm in PA and I didn't pay any tax last night. maybe in some states?Kengi posted:Do you want to help set up these with other people, or just let us fend for ourselves? FREE FOR ALL Nah it'll organize itself soon. Aardark posted:I actually sent mine about six hours ago, you didn't receive it yet? I just got it? It says I got it at 2 in the morning but I didn't see the email until now. This new Google home page thing is really loving with Gmail. Should I send the account info to the email address you paid me from?
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# ¿ Jul 25, 2008 14:03 |
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Dodger_ posted:Does the password on the PSN Master account need to stay the same or can it be changed after you have shared with someone and they are finished downloading? You can change it. If you're sharing a game out of your master PSN account this is pretty much the way to go.
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# ¿ Jul 25, 2008 14:14 |
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shodanjr_gr posted:I am wondering, does this work if for instance the master account has a US locale and i am from the EU? If so, does anyone want to start a list for Siren (and maybe 1942)? It looks like a cool game id love to play. I might be willing to pitch in for 2 "slots" (since id like to authorize it on two PS3s). This should work fine since the sharing PSN account is the one that holds the location information not your actual PS3. The first share I did was with a guy in the US getting Tekken 5 off of the Hong Kong store. TheArtist 314 posted:So have we determined yet whether or not Siren's shareable? Yup!
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# ¿ Jul 25, 2008 14:24 |
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Kengi posted:There is a limit on the number of consoles, right? I'm asking because if shodanjr_gr wanted to use 2 PS3's, 2 slots of the 5 would be filled, right? This is correct. e: if anyone sees anything wrong with the OP please let me know
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# ¿ Jul 25, 2008 14:32 |
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Dominic White posted:One little detail of note: Only one person can be logged into a single account at any given time, so in a five-man share, try not to hog the login. Log in, start your downloads and queue them as quickly as possible, then log back into your own account and let someone else have their turn. Ooh good tip! Shmoogy posted:I know that you can share an account with up to 5 PS3s, but lets say that somebody decides to go in for lots of game-sharing. Is there a limit to the amount of logins that the PS3 will take before giving them any problems? I ask, because I'm going to probably partake in lots of future game shares, and it's a concern, albeit a small one. I don't think there's a limit. If there is I've never heard of anyone reaching it.
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# ¿ Jul 25, 2008 14:57 |
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Aardark posted:You can only share your whole account, not individual games. ngeunit1 posted:I thought then when you purchased a game on PSN, you got 5 downloads. So that each game can be downloaded 5 times, like the first step when you start a download is that you get that activating message. I might be wrong though and sorry if I am. ngeunit1 is right. The reason we create a new account for each share session is just to keep things nice and tidy. Now when you do the share you're going to have to temporarily hand over your main account to someone else so for the time that they log in and grab the download they'll have access to everything. Creating a new account for new shares gets rid of that hazard.
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# ¿ Jul 25, 2008 15:38 |
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Yeah that's fine. I just find that creating a new account is good for games that you haven't purchased yet and you've got a group of people ready to go in on. If you're sharing something you already have then yeah it's fine just to temporarily exchange info.
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# ¿ Jul 25, 2008 16:06 |
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Harlock posted:On taxes, I think the inital location you set for your PSN name determines if you pay taxes or not, not the payment info you entered. When I bought SSHD on my master account, I had to pay taxes since my address listed on that account was in NJ. When we did our Siren share account last night, I didn't have to pay taxes on 1942, despite my payment info being the same, but the location of the account was different. Hmmm...I might have signed up initially in Delaware? Man that was a while ago and I lived in PA when I got my PS3 but my bills were still going to my parents house. That might be it.
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# ¿ Jul 25, 2008 16:54 |
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dongsweep posted:I remember reading from a lot of people that the online mode is laggy and completely worthless. I think they've patched it since release. A buddy of mine swears by it but I've never tried. I updated the OP with a listing of PSN games by recommendation level. Feel free to berate me now or let me know if I've missed anything.
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# ¿ Jul 25, 2008 17:15 |
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dongsweep posted:What is gripshift? This is GripShift. It's a racing/platforming game kind of like Trackmania with an absolute fuckton of stuff to do. Seriously there are so many tracks and challenges in this game it's insane. Then there's the cars and music to unlock uguu~ It's good and was one of the first games up on the PSN.
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# ¿ Jul 25, 2008 17:27 |
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^^ that's basically what it is sans the actual track building part. but trust me when i say it comes with plenty of content alreadyDiviance posted:Wolf Brigade arooo OK, there's some games I want to get that I don't have and I'd like to get some more people involved in this. I figure we don't need all five but as many as possible will do. I want to get. - PixelJunk Monsters - PixelJunk Monsters Expansion - Novastrike - (maybe Elefunk or Bolwing) Reply here if anyone's interested in getting in on this.
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# ¿ Jul 25, 2008 18:21 |
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shodanjr_gr posted:Nah, ill pass for this one, especially since Wipeout HD is coming out soonish and id rather we go splitzies on that one instead (having both seems kinda redundant to me). For what it's worth WipEout and GripShift are nothing alike. GripShift is a floaty kind of platformer with weird jumps and obstacles that has you mostly racing against the clock. There are some Mario Kart like actual races with power ups and stuff but that's almost an aside. WipEout is just pure loving futuristic ownage speed and violence hell yeah. e: no one wants to do PJM, PJM+, & Novastrike with me?
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# ¿ Jul 25, 2008 19:24 |
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dongsweep posted:Yodzilla I can share you my PJM and then we can split the cost on the expansion and novastrike if you want. That sounds good to me. If anyone else wants to jump in and split the PJM expansion and/or Novastrike I guess post here. I'm especially interested in Novastrike now that Trophies are going to be coming.
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# ¿ Jul 25, 2008 19:34 |
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Vegastar posted:EDIT: Yeah, count me in for Novastrike, too. Shmoogy posted:Basically, me too. How much would it be for PJM+, and how much extra for Novastrike? It's a topdown shooter, so similar to 1942, I guess? Which is fine by me, if it's not too much extra. Nice. It's $6 for the PJM expansion and $10 for Novastrike. I'll go ahead and buy these tonight and hand out the info. So far we've got: Yodzilla dongsweep Vegastar Shmoogy So it'll be about $3.75 each if there's five of us and $4.50 each if there's four. And if anyone really cares that much about $0.75 well drat. If any of you guys want to get the ball rolling you can send some money to choopes at gmail dot com so I can send you the download info ASAP. e: ASAP = when i get back from work
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# ¿ Jul 25, 2008 19:49 |
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Vegastar posted:Consider yourself 4.50 richer. Got it. Thanks! Still waiting on dongsweep and Shmoogy.
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# ¿ Jul 25, 2008 19:55 |
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^^ nah that's fine. if someone really needs that fifty cents they shouldn't be buying video games.Shmoogy posted:The money has been sent! Got it! Spincut posted:This is just for the PJM expansion, not the full game, yes? Well, either way put me on that list. I can always grab the regular PJM later. Cool. Send the cashola over and I'll send you the info when I get it. EDIT: could i just respond to your paypal emails with the account info?
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# ¿ Jul 25, 2008 19:59 |
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Dominic White posted:Can I get in on this one, too? I'll chip in a couple of dollars and get in on this? I already have PJM, but could use the expansion. Spincut already filled the fifth spot. Solly.
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# ¿ Jul 25, 2008 20:04 |
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No problem everyone! I'll get you the info as soon as my horrible office releases its icy grip on me.
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# ¿ Jul 25, 2008 20:13 |
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TheArtist 314 posted:I also have a quick sharing question. So I'm the main person in this group for Siren/1942. I created a new master account which I'm going to use solely for these two games, so now I have two master accounts: my own, and the Siren-share one. So once the other 4 people get to my account, I've used my 5 slots already. Does that mean I can only share with these 4 people on ALL of my accounts, or will the account activation slot thingys only apply to that one master account? Just to that one master account.
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# ¿ Jul 25, 2008 20:34 |
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Kengi posted:That's $65 total, and I'll be using a PA address, so there shouldn't be tax. There was some info posted in this thread (put into the OP) that might be to the contrary but I guess we'll find out soon enough!
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# ¿ Jul 25, 2008 20:47 |
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This thread is the forums equivalent of the stock room floor. I love it. OK my guys for the PJM expansion and Novastrike should all have the account info in their inboxes. Enjoy! Also note that you have to have the full PJM installed to download the expansion. Oh boy this is fun.
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# ¿ Jul 25, 2008 22:01 |
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Spincut posted:Okay, I e-mailed this question to you, but I might as well post it here since it might help others. Do I need the original game installed on the account that I'm receiving the expansion pack with or can I switch them between accounts somehow? It doesn't matter which account the original game was installed under as long as it is installed. You'll just get an error when you try to download if it's not.
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# ¿ Jul 25, 2008 22:10 |
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Kengi posted:So I'm trying to sign up my credit card, and it's telling me You're putting down exactly what's on your statement including your middle initial and such? I have to do that for mine everywhere.
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# ¿ Jul 25, 2008 22:53 |
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Diviance posted:If anyone else wants to trade around, I have the following stuff... I could trade you SSHD + the expansions for Wolf of the Arooo since that's the only thing you've got that I don't. I won't be around my PS3 until Monday probably though so if someone else wants to give up the goods to you before then by all means don't wait up for me. BetaTested posted:2 Questions, is Gran Turismo 5 Prologe shareable? Yod totally left it off the first post. PS1 games definitely are. As for GT5: Prologue holy crap I completely forgot about that. I really don't know if it is sharable or not but if it is I'd be totally down for that. e: i just realized i left Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Remix out of the OP. i'll update it later with PS1 games and poo poo as well in my own awesome and totally accurate quality tiers. how is Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Remix anyway?
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# ¿ Jul 26, 2008 05:23 |
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Bishy posted:GT5P wasn't sharable last I heard, but it may have changed since 2.4 if Warhawk has. Yeah Google isn't being too helpful here but I can't find any info to the contrary. And wasn't Ferrari Challenge coming to the PSN? Did I just make that up?
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# ¿ Jul 26, 2008 14:51 |
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igtenos55 posted:I know the topic isn't quite for this, sorry, but I currently have Pain + all the characters (except Nigel) on my Master Account. Is there a topic for just flat out trading or is this the only one? No no no this is the right thread. A lot of people just don't have many things to trade so they're doing groups to buy stuff from scratch. People are also setting up trades of stuff they've bought in the past on their master accounts (people like me!)
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# ¿ Jul 27, 2008 13:31 |
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Shmoogy posted:I haven't spoken to Yod in a day or two, I think he said he's going to be gone for the weekend. I was at the beach bitches! Aardark posted:Perhaps our Siren group would also be interested in getting Eden? That means: Yo I'd be totally down with this so I guess that completes our little set! Am I going to be collecting the money and buying the game again? I've got no problem with that if so. Also is there anything else that all five of us don't have and might want to buy?
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# ¿ Jul 28, 2008 02:42 |
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Dominic White posted:Regarding the Siren + 1942 + Eden + Bionic Commando group: I posted on the last page. I didn't see the Bionic Commando thing. That basically answers the question "what else can we get at the same time" though. Yeah I'm down for it. Is there anything else anyone wants in the mean time? Am I going to be handling the money collection and purchasing again?
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# ¿ Jul 28, 2008 15:04 |
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I've got both of those but if the rest of you want to split them that's OK. Is there anything that no one in our group has that they might be interested in for real cheap? Something like Elefunk or PixelJunk Racers or High Velocity Bowling or Super Puzzle Fighter?
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# ¿ Jul 28, 2008 15:11 |
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Trent-Easton posted:Though, one question : Can downloads also be shared this way? It would make Rock Band DLC way cheaper, or would give me access to much more songs without spending tons of money. Yup!
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# ¿ Jul 29, 2008 01:21 |
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Only one more day until Eden! Do the jerks in my group want to start sending me dollars so we can be ready when I get home tomorrow? Those jerks being: Shmoogy Tenacious Dan Aardark Dominic White And how much is everyone doing for a fourth of Eden + fees? Two bucks?
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# ¿ Jul 30, 2008 13:50 |
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DiminishedAngel posted:2) Shmoogy Something's not right here.
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# ¿ Jul 30, 2008 13:58 |
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Shmoogy posted:e: 4.43 after PP fees for PJE and Bionic Yeah this sounds right for my guys. Send away!
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# ¿ Jul 30, 2008 14:03 |
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Tenacious Dan posted:As you can see, I threw in a little something extra for you. Not like those other cheap bastards in our group. OH poo poo!
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# ¿ Jul 30, 2008 14:47 |
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FINALLY SOMEONE LET ME OUT OF MY CAGE NOW TIME FOR ME IS NOTHIN' CAUSE I'M COUNTING NO AGE Now where was I? Tenacious Dan posted:Hey Shmoogy, Yodzilla, Aardark, Dominic White: Good call! I'm up for that. Hey though, I think you guys all sent me money for PixelJunk Eden and Bionic Commando: Rearmed assuming that Eden was going to be $5.00 which would have made the total for the two $20.00. You guys all sent me $4.50 but since Eden was actually $10.00 that brings the total for the two games to $25.00 and with added fees... What I'm basically getting to is that you all owe me another 75 cents. If you guys want to send me payment for Ratchet & Clank before release please make it in the amount of $3.90 which will cover your slice of the pie, fees, and money owed so I don't break your knees. Shmoogy posted:Yodzilla's Soul Caliber 4 Share: Yo! So we still need one more for the Soul Calibur 4 group. I'm planning on hanging on to this game for a long while (gotta have a good fighting game) so those in the group should prolly be in it for a while too. Now I've already purchased the first costume pack. Does everyone want the $15.00 soundtrack as well. Please cast your vote here and we can get this ball rolling.
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# ¿ Aug 2, 2008 17:16 |
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gibbed posted:I'm interested in this group, what's needed? Welp, basically the idea is to be able to buy all of the DLC at a cheaper price. However, not everyone will want the soundtrack. What are your opinions on it? Since the first DLC was so drat cheap I had to move $5 to my PSN account to pay for it. This means that everyone in the group owes $1.10 and will be covered for however much DLC that five bucks can buy. When you guys in the group want in please PayPal me that amount (choopes at gmail dot com) and I'll send you the login information. Also please tell me the easiest way to get that info to you.
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# ¿ Aug 2, 2008 17:25 |
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gibbed posted:I don't care for the soundtrack personally, but am interested in the other DLC. I don't have the game yet (but plan to get it), but I will happily pitch in for DLC until then. Yeah I've talked to a few of the other guys and I get the feeling that the soundtrack isn't worth it. Well, anyone in the group is free to send me the money and I'll hook them up with the info. The old parts in this first pack are pretty neat.
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