ilpalazzo150 Posted April 1, 2021 Share Posted April 1, 2021 (edited) 5 minutes ago, Caquis_1 said: The thing is I talked with the live chat yesterday and the lady told me that they do not longer support PS3 problems... Yeeeeeah, I'm experiencing that first-hand now, too. Currently on live chat and nearly blew a gasket when I read the person has no idea about PS3 now. Right now they're apparently "getting more information about data." Edited April 1, 2021 by ilpalazzo150 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilpalazzo150 Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 And now I'm blocked from starting a new chat. Wonderful. I'm done with this for today, but man, oh, man...what a disaster. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnowxSakura Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 For those having download issues, try downloading from the download list in account management>transaction history. Kept getting errors in the store, but it worked fine from the download list 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayvis Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 3 minutes ago, SnowxSakura said: For those having download issues, try downloading from the download list in account management>transaction history. Kept getting errors in the store, but it worked fine from the download list I get the same error when trying to download from my download list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post baboon_overlord Posted April 2, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted April 2, 2021 (edited) 3 hours ago, SuperSmexy500 said: It's almost definitely an issue with PSN, been noticing looooads of threads about this on other sites since yesterday: Hide contents https://www.reddit.com/r/PS3/comments/mhckqo/downloads_not_working/ https://www.reddit.com/r/PS3/comments/mi4ue6/ps3_not_downloading_dlc/ https://www.reddit.com/r/PS3/comments/mi3xpz/so_whats_up_with_psn_right_now_i_cant_download/ https://www.reddit.com/r/PS3/comments/mi16zg/did_psn_shut_down_for_anyone_else/ https://www.reddit.com/r/PS3/comments/mhhtin/anyone_else_cant_download_ps3_games/ https://www.reddit.com/r/PS3/comments/mgrxth/cant_install_game_on_my_ps3_error_code_80029509/ https://www.reddit.com/r/PS3/comments/m6pzks/is_anyone_one_able_to_download_games_to_the_ps3/ https://www.reddit.com/r/PS3/comments/mgyjge/anyone_else_getting_error_80029509_when/ https://www.reddit.com/r/PS3/comments/mhnxsc/installs_stopped_working_error_code_80029509/ https://www.reddit.com/r/PS3/comments/mhjhta/anyone_know_how_to_fix_error_code_80029509/ https://www.reddit.com/r/PS3/comments/mgrhb0/error_80029509_when_trying_to_install_minecraft/ https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/927750-playstation-3/79379482 I may be flogging a dead horse here following my other recent posts, but if, as some people have suggested on this thread, this is due to too many people trying to download things at once, what we have here is a supply and demand issue. In commodities, there is a an inverse proportion to supply and demand. If there is too much of something, prices fall, if there is too little of something, prices rise. By not marketing the PS3 and Vita games, and regularly discounting them, we now have an almost unheard of phenomenon whereby there is an infinite supply (games are digital and can be issued to an infinite number of buyers) but the market won't bear the prices. For example, why would you pay £22 for all the Dragon Age II DLC when you know you could buy it all for probably six pounds just over two years ago? Sony have created a ridiculous situation whereby there are many buyers but no-one actually buys because the cost of the product is too high. I spend an hour reading about economics every day, and have done for the past fourteen years (I trade Forex, cryptos, Futures and CFDs) and I cannot recall a time when something like this has happened. I mean, you can look at luxury goods as an example. Those are never heavily discounted but the discount market is entirely covered by the knock-off market (e.g. fake Rolexes). Since no knock-offs exist generally for PS3 and (to a lesser extent) Vita, Sony holds a monopoly on a commodity with an infinite supply, but never lowers the prices. This is ludicrous. I'm pretty certain no economic term exists for this phenomena so I am hereby coining the term "economic Mexican standoff". Sony refuse to budge on prices, and gamers refuse to buy because they know the prices are too high. By closing the Stores they have forced the issue. Coercion? That is certainly one way of ending an economic Mexican standoff. Anyway, economics is exceedingly boring for most people. I am going to monitor this thread and check the links you posted tomorrow. We are getting to a point where we need to start bombarding Sony with complaints. Management is clearly incompetent now. The fish rots from the head down. Anyone who is familiar with my posts on here knows the disdain I have for big corporations. You can call/email/live chat customer service all you like but I 100% guarantee there is no mechanism for these people to convey problems up the chain of command. I see this on a daily basis. I am telling you right now that YOU are more qualified and are more knowledgeable about PlayStation and their products than any customer service rep. Case in point. I had a major glitch/bug in Uncharted: Nathan Drake Collection. I emailed Naughty Dog and had zero reply. Then I got on with PS UK support. I told them that Naughty Dog weren't responding to my issue. They told me to "contact the publisher". I'm not joking. How can you work for PS support and not know that Naughty Dog is OWNED by YOU and that YOU are the publisher? For your biggest IP? This is the level of ignorance we are facing here. If the download issue persists, I guarantee no-one is reporting it to management. The only way we are going to get this done is by respectfully and politely spamming their social media and email addresses (I note that the UK PS marketing account could spend a Saturday last week shitposting to Bandai Namco but couldn't bother to respond to the rumours, or you know, inform the devs who are working on Vita games that they are shit out of luck in bringing their games to market in time). Spent this evening on a thread with Cowcat and Lillymo games. I'm badmouthing Sony whilst praising these guys and they are liking my tweets. I suggested that crossbuy might be the way to save these Vita games, but there is no guarantee the automatic download list add will work. So if these errors persist, let's put full court press on Sony and their social media. If they don't respond then let's go for the throat and start mass reporting this to gaming journos. They are lazy and exist to shit-stir, if enough people do it then they will react I am sure. They all lazily reported The Gamer leak as fact and here we are. Sorry for the rant but this is getting to the point of unacceptability. First Sony abandon sales and marketing for their own platforms. Then they are surprised no-one is buying anything. Then they close the old web store completely, then they give PS3 owners three months to buy any content they want, then they tell Vita gamers they have five months, and in the process shaft developers that care enough about Vita to actually be developing games for it. This is an absolute disgrace and Sony can kiss my ass if they think I'm buying a PS5 after all this. They can fuck off. XBox or retirement for me. Edited April 2, 2021 by baboon_overlord 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raidou Kuzunoha XIV Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 Well, it's not very helpful, but my spouse bought the last remaining games he wanted off the PS3 store, on both his Canadian and UK accounts. No issues whatsoever, they downloaded, installed, and all launched fine. Same goes for the last game I downloaded (but didn't buy, had already bought it ages ago) on my own PS3 (UK account). Not sure if we just got lucky, or if perhaps the issues are starting to subside. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
golden-fantasia Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 4 hours ago, ilpalazzo150 said: And now I'm blocked from starting a new chat. Wonderful. I'm done with this for today, but man, oh, man...what a disaster. I think that they blocked you because Sony doesn’t care about ps3. I don’t even know why they’re closing ps store for ps3. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smudgey5000 Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 I've been having this issue for 2 days. It's a problem with the Activation service for sure. I cannot download any games I purchased without getting the error. I cannot Deactivate or Activate consoles either. I can activate for video content just fine and can download demos and free apps like Tubi. I talked to tech support and they don't have a clue how to fix and tried shilling me to pay for PS Now. They did give me a refund on the 2 games I bought yesterday which I cannot even download. I deactivated all my consoles on the website and factory reset my console it didn't help at all and all it accomplished was deleting saves I couldn't back up because they were locked and I lost access to the games I did have installed because now I can't activate my PS3. So, I suggest if you have games installed that still work do not factory reset or deactivate your consoles via the website. I did make a brand new dummy PSN account to test and what do you know I can activate it for games just fine and was even able to download a free to play game that wouldn't download on my main account. Thanks Sony, I guess I lost access to 1000s of dollars worth of content I paid you for. I guess I was correct to switch to Xbox and PC because at least i can still access all my old games on there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
halfaworldaway Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 Looks like the store is getting hammered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
objectioner Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 (edited) What I don't understand is, is that if too many people are using the PS Store, why would this affect me being able to play games I have already downloaded? I keep getting the error that says my PS3 isn't activated when I clearly know it is. Its a good thing I didn't buy any dlc's I wanted on the ps3 store, sine I still cant download/install anything. Edited April 2, 2021 by objectioner spelling/grammer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jinxcendant-XIII Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 This happened to me yesterday, two games wouldn't download kept getting error code 80010038 everything else downloaded fine, turned my PS3 on today and its doing a file restoring operation taking forever and a day to finish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meatley Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 I have managed to get my games downloading again using this solution. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadEdders95 Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 Wait, how do you delete the store? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnowxSakura Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 7 minutes ago, MadEdders95 said: Wait, how do you delete the store? Press triangle on the store icon on the xmb and select delete. Now when you try to enter the store, it'll re-install all of the patches 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaniloSouza Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 5 hours ago, Meatley said: I have managed to get my games downloading again using this solution. It worked for me, thank you very much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smudgey5000 Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 5 hours ago, Meatley said: I have managed to get my games downloading again using this solution. Didn't work for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
halfaworldaway Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 Did anyone get an answer from Sony about this issue yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mystvayne Posted April 3, 2021 Share Posted April 3, 2021 9 hours ago, Meatley said: I have managed to get my games downloading again using this solution. This worked for me too. Thank you so much! ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baboon_overlord Posted April 3, 2021 Share Posted April 3, 2021 Sorry to everyone having problems for potentially derailing your thread BTW. I'm going to do some testing tomorrow, I have a lot of PS3 games to download. Vita isn't having any issues BTW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilpalazzo150 Posted April 3, 2021 Share Posted April 3, 2021 10 hours ago, Meatley said: I have managed to get my games downloading again using this solution. Interesting...I'll have to give this a shot later on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baboon_overlord Posted April 3, 2021 Share Posted April 3, 2021 14 hours ago, DenDigger said: The conversations i've had with them.. oh boy.. sometimes I wonder how they even got a job there in the first place.. do they even interview them? did they just pick random people off of the street or what??? Most illiterate set of individuals i've spoken with, children probably know more about PlayStation than they do! Wait until you run into EA support. I bought Dragon Age: Origins in probably the last sale ever on the PS3 Store. So, I recently bought the physical version of Dragon Age: Origins: Ultimate. The cost of all the DLC on the PS3 store was slightly less than the cost of buying everything physically again, but I knew that I could always sell the physical for a profit, with one slight problem: the EU disc won't install one DLC - Return to Ostagar - it;s a fault on the disc According to EAs official forum, what you are supposed to do in this scenario (even if it's a second hand game) is email EA and tell them the problem. They are supposed to email you back a code to get the DLC. After being passed between eight different Indian customer support reps, who each asked the exact same questions every time (I gave every piece of information possible, short of my passport and national insurance number in my original query) before they just stopped replying to me. I gave up and just bought the damned DLC, which was probably their intention in the first place. Sony are garbage tier but EA are horrific. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melodicmizery Posted April 3, 2021 Share Posted April 3, 2021 i luckily havent had this issue. ive reinstalled old games and also bought a few dlcs and a new game and everything has been ok i did have a weird glitch about 2-3 months ago where my ps store would just freeze when i opened it. i tried everything to get it to work on my phat and nothing would work. and then i checked a month later and it worked again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomadom64 Posted April 3, 2021 Share Posted April 3, 2021 (edited) So fortunately the long solution of log out, delete store, two factor on, log on, reinstall worked. But I decided to experiment a bit. So first I downloaded the remainder of what I needed through the main store, and it worked, no error code. Went to the download list to download something else that I needed that it wouldnt download earlier, worked perfectly. And then I decided to see if turning off two factor would screw it up again. And would you believe it? It brought up the error codes again. So if you do follow that method and it works, apparently dont turn off two factor authentication. Man this 'modern' game console stuff is getting more and more complicated than it needs to by the minutes. Might need to start rethinking my hobbies. Edited April 3, 2021 by tomadom64 grammar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GodL355_KniGhT01 Posted April 3, 2021 Share Posted April 3, 2021 man just purchased like 130 aus in games, and i cannot download any of them. trying a work the work around you guys mentioned now, how it works Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanctusLight Posted April 3, 2021 Share Posted April 3, 2021 Hi Guys Question to all who have Problems, do you have more then one Account on the Ps3 ( Like US,EU,Jap Acc)? Maybe its related? On all the threads about this Topic this is the only common thing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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