It doesn't concern me either way - For most part, I'm more interested in this as a social experiement - Those who've studied psychology may know of the little experiment that (is commonly) run with kids at a table and told that they can take as many of the candy as they can with a percentage of candy being topped up every so often, however, if it ever hits empty at any given point, the exercise is stopped.
I don't have a lot of money, but social experiments like this one are interesting, and worth dropping the odd amount in.
That and it does prove that (if it falls through) that it can't and it won't work. From my perspective, this makes it highly amusing when people complain about the cost of DLC - I can point at this experiment and prove that simply put, people are too selfish and/or disorganised to mitigate this problem.
I will have to ask for two things however.
- I'll need someone else to make the account in preparation (Mostly cause I take a LONG time to fumble through registration.) although I will be checking if it's empty. I've been in the business too long to explicitly trust anyone. I would suggest making the account address one exclusively for this project, and letting me know about access to the e-mail, so I can commence monitoring.
I won't accept an account without a) an e-mail I can access, and b) an account I can verify as completely new and empty.
- I will need a few days (apparently Japan Codes likes taking its time I'm waiting for the 10000 yen order for my account to clear and that was popped a couple of days ago), and I can't begin the commit process until well, I get a code to throw in. I'll estimate a week, to say the least, although it may be longer if Japan Codes proves to be a dud and I have to sue to get the money back.
To be clear, there will be a running balance of 5000 yen to start, and I will provide that with no strings attached. If I throw in anything else, it'd be at my whim, and I will keep access exclusively for this reason alone apart from account management. (Besides, what else am I going to do with TWO accounts with im@s 2 DLC unlocked on them, really? If I want to port my im@s stuff, I can just use my regular account.)
If you somehow trust me enough, you can always provide additional codes, but I think this would be better addressed when the account is provided to you for the loan that you can add any funds as necessary.
Credit cards should NOT be attached to the account at any time.
Other conditions:
I WILL NOT be actually purchasing any DLC on the account (Mostly because I suspect that Sony WILL get suspicious if they find two sets of DLC on the one console) and the only thing I'll do is do revokes on request (other than any code additions).
It'll also mean that you'll have to decide for yourselves just what DLC to purchase. It'll also mean that with the initial 5000 yen in there, that I will be entrusting you (as in the users) what DLC you purchase initially.
(Which is another reason why I'm willing to chip my money into the idea - It gives me a GOOD idea what DLC is popular at any given time depending on how organised people get into obtaining certain items)
For all I know, you may turn around and purchase softcore porn from PSN instead, and although highly amusing, it will mean that well, the experiment's already failed since well, I can't really trust you at the very start.
The password will be a variation of the current user assigned, and to clarify, yes, this means the password will be changing. A LOT. For tracking purposes, I will also suggest the person who last used it post here confirming the date of the account handover.
If nothing else, I believe in utter ruthlessness when it comes to theft. In short, if you participate and try to steal anything, you WILL be run out of town on a rail. You can stay, but the theft will be clear for everyone to see.
If interest is sufficent and the conditions are met I will commence the experiment.
