will alot of people play the vita version this month

[Z-0]

28th of Februrary, so pretty much March.

[DjDragoon]

Ok cool, well that makes me a lil happier.

[Jim]

This is still your bad reading comprehension at work...

In the very same line of text (which you blatantly pull out of context for your own means), I say "that's why you need a 2nd memory card at all". This means that I am referring in the former sentence what you would need to do should you only have one memory card (which is what most people most likely and currently have).

You on board yet, jimmy?

I can't see your image because the internet at my work blocks it. I understood what you meant from the start. It's what you said that's wrong.

"You have to format your memory card every time"

Every time you... what exactly? Surely you didn't mean you'd have to format the memory card to change PSN accounts if you only have the single card... Because bitCrusher's question was about switching between multiple memory cards. Not to steal your catchphrase, but if you were giving him advice on how to use one card... you might just have bad reading comprehension.

[Zipzo]

I can't see your image because the internet at my work blocks it. I understood what you meant from the start. It's what you said that's wrong.

"You have to format your memory card every time"

Every time you... what exactly? Surely you didn't mean you'd have to format the memory card to change PSN accounts if you only have the single card... Because bitCrusher's question was about switching between multiple memory cards. Not to steal your catchphrase, but if you were giving him advice on how to use one card... you might just have bad reading comprehension.

The first sentence was simply an explanatory sentence. Explaining why a 2nd memory card is needed in the first place...in order to ease in to the very relevant explanation meant to answer his actual question which was about the factory reset on the vita.

Even later in the exact post you quoted I say this...

I would absolutely forget about playing PSO2 until you have a 2nd memory card (an 8 gig one preferably at minimum since, I think the game itself is 4gig and a 4gb gives you like 3.7-3.9 or something), unless it's the only game you plan to play, or you live in japan or are native so therefore prefer your jp PSN.

This should be a pretty clear indication that up until this point I'm referring to situations where a hopeful vita player is expecting to play PSO2 flawlessly in tandem with their US PSN locked vita with 1 US PSN locked memory card. I'm not simply speaking independently to bitcrushers question...that's why I didn't quote him at all.

I honestly just don't see how you can confuse this. Just stop.

[Jim]

The first sentence was simply an explanatory sentence. Explaining why a 2nd memory card is needed in the first place...in order to ease in to the very relevant explanation meant to answer his actual question which was about the factory reset on the vita.

Even later in the exact post you quoted I say this...



This should be a pretty clear indication that up until this point I'm referring to situations where a hopeful vita player is expecting to play PSO2 flawlessly in tandem with their US PSN locked vita with 1 US PSN locked memory card. I'm not simply speaking independently to bitcrushers question...that's why I didn't quote him at all.

I honestly just don't see how you can confuse this. Just stop.

I'd want me to stop too if I was defending a post like #14.

You got it.

Too bad though. We didn't even get around to how wrong you were about having to reinstall your US games in post #12.

[Mio]

Excuse me as I'm totally oblivious about it and I'm kinda getting confused. If I buy a second memory card, how hard would it be to switch to a Japanese PSN account?
Also how hard is to set a Japanese PSN account?

[Jim]

IGN actually made a video of one of their people going through the whole process. It's not horrible, but it is like 5 minutes of work to get swapped between English memory card/account and Japanese.

Tutorials for making a JP PSN account are pretty easy to find. I know there's a guide on Kotaku, but that's for the PS3 interface. I'll edit this post if I find a good one for Vita.

EDIT: From what I'm seeing, it looks like you can just pick Japan as your region after you do a system format, (which you can learn to do from the IGN video I posted above) then create an account from there. Not 100% sure, so feel free to chime in on this, people. The internet I'm using right now blocks YouTube, but you might want to check there for a tutorial as well.

[Zipzo]

I'd want me to stop too if I was defending a post like #14.

You got it.

Too bad though. We didn't even get around to how wrong you were about having to reinstall your US games in post #12.

Do you even have a Vita?

And why do you black out all of your text?

Are you implying that swapping psn accounts doesn't wipe your Vita?

[Jim]

Do you even have a Vita?

And why do you black out all of your text?

Are you implying that swapping psn accounts doesn't wipe your Vita?

Yes.

Once you've been using forums for a while, it'll become clear.
There's no need to point out that you've been on PSO World for over 4 years. That sentence was facetious. So is this one, for reference.

It depends on what you mean by "wipe". Formatting your system in order to change PSN accounts does delete your PSN account from the device. It also does delete your time and date settings from the device. It does not erase your games. It does not erase your save files for your games. It does not uninstall your games. Therefore, your games do not need to be reinstalled. Contrary to what you said in post #12, once your memory cards are swapped and your PSN account is activated on the device, your games are ready to play and all of your data will be intact.

The main issue most people will have trying out PSO2 (those with Vitas) is that they pretty much have to have a whole memory card dedicated to it, since you need to be signed in to a jp PSN account, and memory cards now assign themselves to your PSN. Essentially, you have to factory reset your Vita and swap memory card every time you want to switch between your us PSN, and your jp PSN. This means reinstalling every single one of your US games and save data every time you swap back to your us PSN (can require a lot of time depending on how much a gamer you are).

I don't know about you but I have a 2nd Vita in the works because that is annoying, and would be for most anybody.

Sony for some reason has all these anti-cross region barriers in place...couldn't tell you why.

You were not talking about a single-card setup here, so that's off the table.

[Zipzo]

Yes.

Once you've been using forums for a while, it'll become clear.
There's no need to point out that you've been on PSO World for over 4 years. That sentence was facetious. So is this one, for reference.

It depends on what you mean by "wipe". Formatting your system in order to change PSN accounts does delete your PSN account from the device. It also does delete your time and date settings from the device. It does not erase your games. It does not erase your save files for your games. It does not uninstall your games. Therefore, your games do not need to be reinstalled. Contrary to what you said in post #12, once your memory cards are swapped and your PSN account is activated on the device, your games are ready to play and all of your data will be intact.



You were not talking about a single-card setup here, so that's off the table.

No kidding I was not referring to a single card setup there.

I never said it erases your saves files. I just said when you swap everything is wiped from your vita and you have to re-install it all and it can take time depending on how much of a gamer you are. This is about the part I flubbed on, because it incorrectly implies a long measure of time to the re-application of all of your apps/games.

The "re-install" of your games specifically doesn't take a lot of time after you throw in the card, but the whole process is obnoxiously cumbersome. It reorganizes your apps after re-installation as well.

All in all, you're deflecting the conversation on to a completely different subject...the fact of the matter is if you don't have a 2nd memory card, you have to reformat and delete all of your stuff every time to swap to a JP account...your first post was asking me why I said that? Because it's true. So getting a 2nd memory card is necessary. Some people know that, some people don't yet. Once people figure that out, they become less enticed to try pso2 ("friends" like other posters were talking about getting in to the game just simply because they have a vita) because they then find out that there is this mechanical process to switching to a different memory card, resetting your vita...going through the factory setup.

It's really not to be underestimated, it's an annoying process...I've done it several times.