Sony Helping Devs Affected by PSN Outage

At least one developer has confirmed that Sony will be doing all it can to help out the developers affected by the PSN Outage. A number of downloadable games were scheduled to be released last week, including Mad Blocker Alpha from Open Emotion Studios. Paddy Murphy, CEO of Open Emotion said Sony would be helping their game with a few additional weeks of marketing in order to make up for the outage.

"Sony will be helping us retain key focus [prominent placement on the PSN Store] for an extra few weeks as they understand how something like this can affect a small dev studio like ours," said Murphy. "As it's our first week in the U.S., I'm sure it will affect sales, but we have to understand that Sony wouldn't take down the entire PSN on a whim. As long as they can give us some marketing assistance when the PSN is back up, we are sure we will be able to recoup our potential losses."

We've contacted the developers of some of the other games that were scheduled to be released but are awaiting a reply. Ubisoft, who is publishing Outland, has chosen not to comment on the situation. We'll update this story as we get more responses from developers.

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Aww thats so nice of Sony :oops:

SONY! Woo :D

Microsoft would not do that. They would buy the indie studio for cheap and then run it into the ground

This is the kind of news that a lot of gamers are unaware about. Sony was fully aware of the severity and consequences of taking down the PSN. It's just not to protect the users information, it's also developers like these, that are affected by this. This is a great initiative by Sony.

All this because a bunch of people (read DB) who think they are better than everyone else that wanted some intangible items.

Well, good. They should do that.

Thats just amazing. Theyre so nice. An amazing act of kindness from an amazing company.

Why cant Microsoft be that nice?

Microsoft would not do that. They would buy the indie studio for cheap and then run it into the ground

POPEYE1716

Microsoft would not do that. They would buy the indie studio for cheap and then run it into the ground

POPEYE1716

I know this is fanboy *****

but I still chuckled:P

Good job Sony! :)

At least you didn't force them into ahem....motion. :roll:

Doesn't matter how many weeks of ads PSN games get. I'll never put my CC # in there to buy any of them.mythrol

amen

aw, makes me feel all warm and snuggly inside :oops:.

Well that's just terrific.

Well that's just terrific.

Doolz2024

if it doesn't make you go: :oops:

then you have no heart :lol:.

Yay!

I love you Sony!

Yup. Those aren't some vague terms...

Microsoft would not do that. They would buy the indie studio for cheap and then run it into the ground

POPEYE1716

Harsh, but I lol'd. :lol:

Microsoft would not do that. They would buy the indie studio for cheap and then run it into the ground

POPEYE1716

People are cheering for Sony over additional marketing? :lol: And then say that Microsoft wouldn't do this?

People are cheering for Sony over additional marketing? :lol: And then say that Microsoft wouldn't do this?

BloodyFalcon007

Sony deserveres some undeserved praise considering the vast ammounts of malice they have had to endure from average joe lately.

lol, as if sony doesnt get a cut of those sales. What business woundnt do this? :Pnavyguy21

That's good, though obviously it's kinda necessary.

Holy crap, they based in my home town. I do NOT get to say that much with video game companies, lollocopatho

I do, except i'm stuck with Silicon Knights :(

[QUOTE="navyguy21"]lol, as if sony doesnt get a cut of those sales. What business woundnt do this? :PCajunShooter

People are cheering for Sony over additional marketing? :lol: And then say that Microsoft wouldn't do this?

BloodyFalcon007