[Santiako]

It's been around a year since the PSN hack and downtime and I'm curious to see if it affected people's way of buying things on the console. I don't have a ps3 but my brother and a couple of friends do, since the hack my friends stopped using their credit cards (they buy prepaid cards now) and my brother stopped buying things altogether. Did it affect you? Have you changed the way you buy things on the ps3 and other devices?

[Derrick01]

It has. I buy stuff through PSN cards or not at all now. It's a bit of a hassle since Amazon doesn't sell digital PSN cards anymore but I make it work.

[Galvanise_]

If anything I've probably bought more than I ever did. All of my Vita purchases are downloads, for instance. I'm still a PlayStation Plus subscriber and I've kept my card details saved to make things easy for me.

[Zeouterlimits]

It's been around a year since the PSN hack and downtime and I'm curious to see if it affected people's way of buying things on the console. I don't have a ps3 but my brother and a couple of friends do, since the hack my friends stopped using their credit cards (they buy prepaid cards now) and my brother stopped buying things altogether. Did it affect you? Have you changed the way you buy things on the ps3 and other devices?

It reminded me to be concious of such things, have used cards on PS3 since. Nearly always used them on 360 anyway, thanks to points and live being generally cheaper that way.

[LiquidMetal14]

Nothing has changed for me. Still shop with PSN cards mainly.

[Combichristoffersen]

Not really. It's business as usual for me, I use my credit card. I just wish there was actually something I'd want to buy on the PSN store. Like Tomba/Tombi or Klonoa.

[Jibbed]

I sold my PS3 right before the whole hack thing surfaced, glad I somehow nailed the timing.

[Galvanise_]

Not really. It's business as usual for me, I use my credit card. I just wish there was actually something I'd want to buy on the PSN store. Like Tomba/Tombi or Klonoa.

Good news. It entered submission a while back. Legal clearance might have happened by now. I hope its soon.

[Combichristoffersen]

Good news. It entered submission a while back. Legal clearance might have happened by now. I hope its soon.

I know they mentioned it sometime last year, but considering how godawfully slow Sony are about such things, I guess they might get it onto the store for the PS5 launch ._.

[herod]

I stopped using it after. A few months later I sold my PS3.

[burnfout]

Didn't change anything.

Still have plus and my creditcard on PSN. I don't really care that much and want the convenience

[DonMigs85]

I still buy stuff even since the horrible 2-activation limit was put in place.

[Meisadragon]

I always delete the CC info after a purchase on PSN, so it did affect me a little bit. Earlier I didn't really care about all that. I have also removed my CC info from XBL. I think it's better to be safe than sorry.

[Metalmurphy]

I already used pre-paid debit cards so nothing changed.

[Yjynx]

nothing changed.

[Joni]

I'm buying more, but that is because I got PlayStation Plus a month before the hack. I know I can trust them to announce any hacks in the future so I can cancel my credit card on time. And if there were fraudulent charges, I would have proof. Compared to for instance VGP.ca that tried to hide it, I prefer that.

[Corto]

I now resort to PSN cards. But what really affected my buying habits, at least in terms of quantity, was the change on the PSN TOS to limit number of activations. I only buy now games that I feel completely reassured that I will enjoy. Zero risk.

[marcurius]

Still have my debit card linked to it, so no.

[CerebralTiger]

Hasn't changed anything for me. Still buy games using PSN cards.

[Kyoufu]

Nothing changed. I use a credit card for domestic region and PSN card for foreign.

[The Omega Man]

such a big security breach, did they ever find/capture the people responsible for this? last thing I remember was that Sony was working with some security department to find the hackers and bring them to justice, that was like 8~9 months ago.

[Carl]

Nope. Still spend as much as i always did, and my debit card is on file. Been PS+ subscriber since Day 1.

[NeoUltima]

Make sure to delete my card info after buying something. Though I did that before too. I just don't forget to do it as much now.

[Felix Lighter]

It convinced me to finally start using Keypass. I wasn't a heavy PSN purchaser but since I stupidly used the same password for almost all of my services, I needed to take the time to limit the impact of these shitty situations.

[Sylver]

I do the same as before. Enter credit (debit) card, buy the stuff, delete credit (debit) card.

[Ondore]

Only used PSN cards to begin with. It helps that I can go down to the corner store at the end of my street and get them.

[entrement]

nothing changed.

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That said I don't but much stuff from PSN in the first place.

[Madridy]

I bought more games post-hack than pre-hack. Mainly due to PS+ and other seasonal sales.

[Kazuma Kiryu]

It's been around a year since the PSN hack and downtime and I'm curious to see if it affected people's way of buying things on the console. I don't have a ps3 but my brother and a couple of friends do, since the hack my friends stopped using their credit cards (they buy prepaid cards now) and my brother stopped buying things altogether. Did it affect you? Have you changed the way you buy things on the ps3 and other devices?

didn't change anything. i only use prepaid credit cards online (prepaid might not be the correct term) and i use keypass to create random passwords everytime (although some sites i create my own password for memorization purposes), so the hack didn't bother me one bit :)

[JADS]

Switched to a prepaid credit card for PSN and XBL.

[thiscoldblack]

I started using PSN cards after the hack, but I ended up going back to CC recently. If I only want to buy a $5.99 game, I don't have to buy a $10 card and have that remaining balance there for weeks. Plus, the convenience of just buying without going to a third party site to buy a digital card, etc.

For XBL, I have always used prepaid cards. I just don't trust MS with my card. Too many bad stories about trying to have it removed from your account. I never had an issue or heard anything like that from Sony, so I trust them more about using my CC.

[Blizniak]

I still delete my CC info after every transaction because I share all my stuff with a friend as we split everything but I did that even before the hack so no, nothing has changed for me.

[HyperMusic]

I will admit to buying less since the hack happened as it was convenient to have my card on my account. Now I use pre-paid cards but I really don't buy much on PSN, Journey was the last thing I bought.

[Atolm]

Pre-paid cards only for me, before and after the hack. For the same money you get a nice BR case! :P

[Abylim]

Nothing changed for me. Changed my PSN password a few times, though.

[snap0212]

I use the prepaid cards instead of my credit card. I don't trust any video game company enough to give them my cc information. Sony was hacked but took them too long to be completely open about it and people are still getting hacked on Xbox Live left and right (and neither EA nor Microsoft do anything about it). Neither company seems to really care.

[Endo Punk]

Ive always used prepaid cards so it never really affected me. I buy as much games as I did before the hack, which is not much.

[Curufinwe]

I never put my CC number in again, and since the hack I have bought one $20 card at Walgreens and used it to buy Dead Space 2 DLC and Persona 3 FES.

But I have no concern about leaving value on my PSN account. Unlike the 360 where I make sure my MS Points balance is zero in case I get FIFA-hacked. And obviously they don't have my CC either.

[DeathNote]

I use my credit card still. At the time of the hack, the one on there was expired.

[RoadDogg]

I won't buy anything off of PSN now (prepaid card or not) and won't buy a Vita or PS4. At least not until they have price drops. I normally buy every console at launch. This generation was the worst for burning me as a customer. MS with their horrible failure rate killed the 360 for me before 2 years and this hack for Sony products as a whole.

[R_thanatos]

Nothing changed for me .

i bought with psn cards before and now i still do .. i was psn + before that incent and i still am .

i even made a Hk account

[Joni]

such a big security breach, did they ever find/capture the people responsible for this? last thing I remember was that Sony was working with some security department to find the hackers and bring them to justice, that was like 8~9 months ago.

LulzSec and Anon members got arrested in the UK, the US and Spain. They were suspects for one of the Sony hacks, but no details on which one. (PSN, SOny Pictures, ...)

[vazel]

Even before the hack I tried making my purchases through Amazon's PSN store but then they stopped selling PSN stuff. So now I have no choice but to buy through PSN directly. I like limiting my online purchases through as few avenues as possible so I hope Amazon brings back their PSN store.

[slider]

I'm lazy and continue on as before the hack. Had the enforced password change but that's it.

Hope all stays rosey in the land of slider.

[Adamm]

Nothings changed. Used my CC before & still use it now :)

[Zeer0id]

i just don't save my credit card info anymore. that's all. i also tend to use PSN cards more often, but it's to my benefit really. I should have done that all along, credit card security notwithstanding. (i can accumulate best buy rewards points when i buy cards, and even redeem coupons for them)

[TheBioLover]

Wow, it's really been a year? Seems like yesterday all those Microsoft and Nintendo fanboys were gloating their arses off.

[test_account]

Nothing changed for me. I didnt remove my creditcard or anything. One year later (damn, time goes fast!), i still havnt noticed anything suspicious on my bank transcript, so i'll contunie to use it as before.

[Phoenician_Viking]

I deleted my CC info, and i only use PSN cards now. So yeah, it changed.

[slaughterking]

I always used prepaid cards and that's what I still do. If there's stuff on the PSN I want I still buy it without hesitation.