Developer Asks PSN Users to Decide if Game Should Be Cancelled
Aside from the unrest many are feeling due to the recent PSN security breach that their personal information may have been compromised, many are wondering how the breach has affected developer’s confidence in the PlayStation Network. Will users still support and spend money on PSN enough to make their games profitable? One developer, is asking that exact question, and has thus turned to the PSN community, asking users to vote on if it’s even worth releasing their game.
redspotgames, developer of the upcoming PlayStation minis, Rush Rush Rally Racing, is asking users to vote in an online survey, to find out if there is “still confidence in Sony’s services” and if “there still a demand for new games” on the PlayStation Network.
redspotgames CEO, Max Scharl, says that “should an enormous amount of users vote against the PlayStation Network, a cancellation is likely.”
To vote in this survey, click here. We suggest you sound off in the survey and let your voice be known. Otherwise, let us know in the comments below how you feel about this situation. Will you be buying future relases from the PlayStation Network? And do you believe developers should be cancelling games due to this major data breach?
38 Responses to “Developer Asks PSN Users to Decide if Game Should Be Cancelled”
Any developer who decides to cancel on a game release for PSN because of this breach shouldn’t be making games in the first place.
Firstly 1 security breach in what 5 years of the PSN?
Not to mention the custom firmware is only quite recent in the PS3′s life anyways.
Given the homebrew on the Wii, and the modding on the 360, aren’t they worried about piracy there?
Talking about canceling games for PSN because of this one breach seems, to me, purely as a publicity stunt.
Also I haven’t hear of “Rush Rush Rally Racing” but I will just bet it’s a shit game, and the devs are doing what I said in the previous sentence.
If the Developer asked a question like the one asked in the survey, that means he didn’t have faith in his/her product nor the PlayStation Network, so he can take his game and shove it. I still have faith in Sony and their servers and will always buy games from the PSN and their Exclusives.
Bullshit.
Exactly, looks more like they want a reason to shelf the game.
I will always trust Sony, they’ve done me better than other companies anyways.
I mean, really, a company is still a company, but I’d rather stick with Sony than the competitions.
yes i will continue to buy things off of psn, but that question is irrelevant because that doesnt necessarily mean i will buy their game.
just because enough people vote that they havent lost faith in the service, that still wont mean that your game could bomb. this survey wont be a real or even a good indication relevant to your games success.
Couldn’t agree more westsiiiiiiiide. I will continue to buy from PSN and Sony, but only if it is worth my $$$. The thing is that after a breach like this PSN will be the safer network that the chumpitition. They would be foolish to allow another breach of security. Im guessing certain devs will use this as an excuse to not develop for PSN or Sony.
all i can say to these guys is, shut the hell up. i’ve never even heard of them, or any of their games. i still trust psn, even after this whole incident. if this company can’t bring themselves to do the same then they have no business making games. the fact that they’re asking gamers this makes me wonder if they even trust the them.
Of course I’ll still spend money on PSN. But not on this developers games.
Its a mini no one will buy it anyway.
Ha, most likely a glorified cell phone game anyway. At first from the title, I was worried it was a developer worth a damn. Don’t get me wrong I love a lot of the minis, but most are android/ios ports.
Damn! Y’all said it all for me.
First off, I am genuinely sympathetic for smaller devs, and larger ones alike, who were affected by this malicious act. When the network is back up, I certainly will be buying games as usual like Outland, Trine 2, Journey. But if these guys don’t want to release Rush Rush Rally Racing…I’ll just have to dig and find some way to move on with my life.
Shit, when the PSN does come back up, we’ll be what, 3 updates behind?
I wonder how we’ll get to all that sweet, sweet digital products.
Yep, I sure as hell will still continue to buy from PSN, though I might just stick to PSN cards from now on.
Sure, using my CC is so much easier, but easier isn’t always the best answer.
as far as cc’s go i gotta agree with you on that Iyashii, i think from now on i’ll be using psn cards too, just to be safe. as the saying goes “better safe then sorry”
New Internet Meme Alert:
“Better Safe than Sony.”
@Statix
lol. That’s how I read it at first.
Actually your assumption about PSN Cards is misplaced, CC companies work to get your money back if their is provable fraud involved, not so with PSN Cards since those funds sit in your “Wallet” and if stolen are harder to be replaced because you already paid full price for the card so read ALL the print of Sony’s legal obligations if the funds are stolen or you loose the card…
There are many posts in the old forums about this….
i guess it would probably be best to say there are pro’s and cons on both ends when you think about it. the one thing i don’t like about having to prove fraud with credit cards at least with mine, is they always ask for proof, then they go to the company that the stuff was bought from. as well and ask them for proof of purchase. things like this has happened to me twice which is why i stopped with cc’s for awhile, but also there is the point that with psn cards that you mentioned. but i would still rather deal with a psn card. but thats just my opinion.
The real problem is verifying the digital purchase even using a look for an IP address doesn’t work 100% of the time too. Most banks ask for a proof of purchase that most digital sites can’t provide or for that matter ofter refund to begin with. Sony offers refunds on PS cards or the amount that is in the wallet. As far as Credit Cards goes I heard had that the card info stored on PSN is encrypted and does not include the CID number. Without the CID the card number is useless
@defjam: Your correct, Sony did not use the CID or Security Code so that number was never available if someone did hack in to get that information so the card numbers are less valuable.
Well for starters, I can avoid the hassle of proving and dealing with fraedulant charges.
And personally, I barely ever leave money in my walled from PSN cards.
Sure, I may have a bit left over, but we talking <$10 generally.
Hell, I may just delete my CC# from my account once I'm done, since I use it only about once a week anyways lol.
Honestly, I would rather lose $20 from a PSN card, and ONLY $20 than to risk having my CC# stolen and lose much more than that since a CC can be reused and a PSN card is no good once its empty. And besides, like someone else said, I generally don’t leave more than a few bucks in my wallet when I used a PSN card.
I say bother developing it now redspotgames. You just ruined your chances of anyone buying it.
Rush Rush Rally Racing? Really? The name sucked.
They were gonna go with Super Fantastic Crazy Enjoy Car Vroom Party Party. So I consider this and upgrade.
LOL nice response!
I would so buy that game. But if it doesn’t have the name then I’m not particularly interested.
don’t bother*
(is that edit button coming?)
i agree rush rush rally racing? wth?
I Understand where they’re coming from and where Customers are coming from. But i’m not concerned about it. i still have my faith in sony and im still gonna buy games from the Playstation store. but if people aren’t gonna buy dlcs for games and stuff they might as well buy an xbox and then when that system gets hacked they’ll play the wii & then just stop playing peroid
the thing is the xbox has been hacked before, yet nobody seemed to give a damn
Of COURSE I’ll keep buying PSN games! People who are scared to buy things digitally now are either dumb, or they’re stealth Xbox trolls.
Even if you’re SOOOOO SCARED to enter your credit card information, you can still head over to Gamestop or Amazon and buy a prepaid PSN $20 or $50 card, and fund your PSN account THAT way to make purchases. NO CREDIT CARD REQUIRED.
Hell yeah! Go to Gamestop I need the work lol!
I hate minis, so I don’t give a shit. But seriously, this is a stupid reason to thrown money out.
If anyone of you actually buy this story and think they wouldn’t release the game, you are an idiot. This is purely a PUBLICITY STUNT, and guess what? its working perfectly because we are all talking about Rush Rush Racing whereas before most of us would have never even glanced twice at it.
too bad for them it’s creating negative publicity according to every comment in this thread…therefore defeating your logic. Also, publicity like this is only going to further damage Sony’s reputation with those ignorant enough to already have doubts about them and the PSN…which doesn’t help anyone.
I still am behind sony and my PS3, shit happens! But just because a developer releases a DLC Game doesn’t mean it will be an instant buy from everyone! This title being a mini will not get my purchase, I never buy mini’s. So I would say don’t release I could care less. But will still buy the good shit and play online on PS3 only!
Any developer that doubts PSN because of this one incident will never get another cent of my money. Being in the industry they should understand above all others that this stuff can happen to anyone at any time. All it takes is a dedicated enough hacker to make it happen. Not to mention a develop making comments like this will only add to the paranoia of the already large masses of ignorant people out there who believe this is all Sony’s fault….if you’re going to stop having faith in Sony and the PSN then you should also quit using your credit cards altogether because, like I’ve already said in numerous places, things like this have already happened to VISA’s and Mastercards own systems.
Yes, I will still purchase games off of the psn store albeit with the preloaded cards from gamestop
because I don’t give into terrorism and now homeland security is involved as they should be to bring these criminals in on terrorism charges.
http://kotaku.com/#!5797288/playstation-network-attack-now-has-the-attention-of-us-homeland-security