They use station cash on both PSN and PC. They said it was a work around for having sales on PSN. Now we get 50% sales very couple of month.
Subscribe has nothing to do with this. You just pay $10-$15 a month on PSN, its autopay. Right now there is a special for 3 months for $30.
Thanks. So Station Cash is the stuff that's always been available on PC, and now PS players can also buy it too?
What about the err, "Console Cash"? Did they finally do away with that? Here's my issue. When I looked in to subscribing, the subscription included 500 Console Cash every month. Sweet. The thing is, Console Cash bought all the same stuff for all the same prices, but Console Cash could only be spent at these stupid vending machines, while Station Cash could be spent while standing in the middle of the street. So that was sort of a kick in the nuts right there.
But to add insult to injury, the two forms of cash, while equivalent, are completely incompatible with each other. SC can't be used in the CC store, and CC can't be used in the SC store, even though you're buying the same stuff. Even that wouldn't be so bad, but I could only buy SC, not CC, but my "allowance" was always in the form of CC.
So let's say I just got my 500 CC allowance, and I also have 500 SC in my pocket that I'd already purchased. If I want something that costs 1000 Cash, I'm unable to buy it, because I only have 500 of a given type. My only options are to come out of pocket for more SC, or sit on my thumb for a month while I wait for another dose of CC.
When I asked about it on the official forums a few months ago, I was told that CC came to be because SCE and SOE couldn't come to an agreement on selling SC on PSN. Okay, fine, but after that was all sorted out, why keep the incompatible CC around, when they could've easily just converted everything to SC? It just felt like an extra slap in the face to console users, for no good reason that I could determine. So yeah, no subbing for me.
So have they finally done away with the Console Cash, or will I still be a second-class citizen?