"SCEE deciding to miss it out this basic function is madness."

No, THIS IS SPARRRTTTAAA!!!

Seriously though its as if some one made a terrible mistake when picking the catagories, hope they fix it...

Seriously, along with this and the redesign of the Official EU forums i have to wonder who SCEE have employed?? One's guessing that they are actually a bunch of chimps, and not trained ones at that

tut europe is getting messed around again

Indeed, i think they are mad. They also missed out one of the coolest features of the new store - the preview option which the US has.

SCEE need to get some new staff. They're currently rubbish. Infact, that is too kind to describe them. They phail. Hard. At everything.

What, did you guys at psu first notice that PSN in EU sucks now? Actually I don't even want to mention EU in this whole subject because I as a Swede feel that I get all the s*** because the rest of the countries in EU S***. I mean, where does the bad taste in PS1 classics come from? I sure as h*ll didn't pick third rate titles leaving tripple A titles like Bio Hazard 1-2, Metal Gear Solid and Castlevania SOTN behind.

SCEE has more than 1 screw loose, and the F***** tin can is rolling down a pretty steap god d*** hill let me tell you. It's no wonder that every EU PSN user feels betrayed and treated like crap, it's just a given fact, THEY ARE. In North America they get AT LEAST 10-20 things EVERY WEEK, we are lucky to get 5 things a week, and what do we get? Things North America and JPN has had for at least 1 month, some things even 4 months before we get it. Now that is just plain ridiculous. And JPN even gets demos and other goodies of a game that isn't even remotly close to being released in EU (of course I'm talking about Yakuza 3 aka Kenzan). I've said this to a lot of magazines in EU and I will say it again. The peoples voice will never do anything to make SCEE take their heads out of the sand, get a clue and do something about it. Only the united power of the magazines (online/offline) stands a chance of making a change in this matter. I mean, the people at SCEE working with this must be stupid or something, at least they have no CLUE about what the people want on their PSN, if I had a job there I'd never let this kind of thing go on for a year.  

I mean, since the other regions get tripple A titles, if we can't get out own tripple A's, the least SCEE should be able to do is offer US (pun intended) the same tripple A titles and not give us crap like Syphon filter, Bandicoot, titles no one even recognizes and Cool Boarders 1... For example, everyone knows Cool Boarders 2 outperformed nr1 in every aspect, and who's idea was it to get syphon filter when even Mission Impossible beat that game, but to take an example that exists on PSN on a part that we can't get to, let's mention MGS again, almost the same type of game, and soooo much better.

Enough of this, no one is gonna do anything about it, I'm never gonna get hired by SCEE and give them work, so I'm just gonna sulk and watch how all the cool people in JPN and US has fun while I'm in awe.

I disagree with the statement that the sections on the Europe store are crazy, I find it easy to navigate... I like the new design and the different sections... Much better than the old one. Although I do have to say the US store ones do seem to be better... so...

Haven't looked much as it takes sssooooooooooooo loooooooooooong to load the images, but the categories do seem a little strange.  I'm not bothered about an a-z but i'm not bothered about genre either.  Keep it simple guys.

load times are crazy

@Chris Well I'm sorry you live in UK mate.

As for me I love the new store the load times are slow but who needs pictures to go places just read it on the side and grow up.

PSN: DarkJ3JB

Can't find myself in this bunch of ridiculous categories...

I'm european and it's true, the store is good-looking but badly made.

I'm totaly submersed in desbilieve. I simply can't believe that this store is even worse then the other. All have been said about the categories, the icons take ages to download, and the store has BUGS.

Unbelievable. This is definetly not the way to go.

Sony, please make ALL stores equal, improve loading times for the icons, and correct those BUGS!

I'm in Portugal and the US store loads faster then de EU store. Ridiculous.

@DarkJ3JB

Who needs pictures? Why there are pictures in the first place? Making things look prety is not the only objective of pictures. They help find things with just a look. The images should and must load fast.

hmmm. on the positive side: now I don't have 2 useless sub-accounts! yeah! postitive thinking for the win!

Hmm.. sounds true enough.. I just wish all the icons would show.. so please solve that first and then they can fix the rest.

Have to agree, the Euro PS Store's layout is completely counter-intuative at the moment.  If they make it like the US one I'd be happy.

lol........idiots

Arrrrr SCEE you've done it again. And by that i mean they've stuffed up again.  

who hired the dude for the EU store they need to be shot,

EU getting screwed with even more things!!

SCEE doesnt like us

I'm wondering why SONy did keep the interface the same. I mean, they can have different stores and different content, but noentheless they didn't have to go as far as different titles, and categories as well..

Yeh, its naf (categories not store lol), have the same categories as U.S, whats the point in making it any different?

There's one simple answer to all the questions and negative thinking toward EU PSN. SCEE S.U.C.K. I think that by now we all know this simple fact, SCEE have no idea about what work is, the don't know what to do and they don't know how to do it. In fact, it seems they don't know anything about anything in the gaming industry, they are a laughing stock, not only that, the embarrassed parts of Sony are embarrassed by how poorly SCEE do their work, simple because they are clueless about what their task is. So yes, this is SS*spit*SPAAAARRRTTTAAAA, they scream and go to war claiming to be in the entertainment industry, but they are going with 300 men from "Meet the spartans" and not from "300". Lets break-dance and have a screen showing what we can do, but lets not actually do it, people might think that we actually do like our fans, and we wouldn't want them to get the wrong impression, so lets make a confusing webstore and lets put ONLY BS in it so that every EU user will feel compelled to get a second and a third account in order to get the things they DO deserve. 

Totally agree with chris, pls SCEE i'm tired of this unjustice and it sucks big time.

Not only the store but the forum is getting some complaints as well.

SCEE please fix it. Don't be racist to ur own kind. give them equal store criteria to the U>S> version. Come on.

i can't see whats soo hard in making the EU store like the US one ive got both but wud save the hastle in changing accounts...

omg howd they manage tht !

can they not just keep it the same!!!!!!!

yea they need to fix it. US version is pretty much fine though...the A-Z could wait until the next update

ok....the problem with those categories are???

I would expect a system update soon to patch up all the F***ed up bugs and load times.

I really feel bad about how they do the EU customers, they deserve to have as much as we do, i dont know what sony have against you guys, but we feel for you ............ 

Hey encryptioncsta, I guess you can blame the UK store design on stupid Americans too.  Makes perfect sense...

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I don't know what SCEE has going in their heads but they need to sort it out.  I feel terrible Europe is getting boned on content and now, the PS Store.  I think Phil should have gone to SCEE and fixed them first.

I have noticed quite alot of you are saying how you hate SCEE and saying how they are stupid. But SCEE are also responsible for many of the great things that we see on the PS3.

Whoever dealt with these categories on the EU site were probably on crack or something. Why do we always get the short straw, im going to apply for a job at SCEE and sort all the sh!t out !

Yeah I got the store update yesterday had a sneaky peak and thought the categorization was bizzare in the extreme. Now having actually had a look at the USA store first hand it confirms that the Euro store is gimped compared to the USA one. Also it takes an absolute age for the images to load into their slots on the Euro store and some never do. Where as I've had absolutely no such problems with the USA store. So I know its not my connection.

I'm really impressed with the new store and all but I have to agree. Why not make the categories listed the same in every territory? There's no reason why they should be different in the first place.

Great new store!!!!

But what is going on with the menu setup????  I see the UK has been giving a crap setup!!!!!  someone seriously needs to be fired for this!!!!!

I am not a happy UK customer right now........

I agree. Sort the catagories properly.  We know that decisions like this are made by SCEA, so when they were handed over to SCEE, why was the decision even made to change them?

I really believe that SCEE don't know what the f*** they are doing.

Anyone got a green card? I'm getting tired of scee..

Old ways have resumed i see, why do we always get the bad end of the stick. Sure the store is great, a vast improvement over the old one and xbox live if they can sort the icon issues out, but the catergories are useless just like the older store. Plz sort it out!

@ Chris_Redfield

Go to h$ll Nazi

give us europeans a better stronger faster ps store

SCEE  i believe the words at the mo are F(_)k u!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pleased i aint the only one really m!ffed by this red!ck setup!!!!!!!!!

Whats with sticking all the formats together i think the b!ble would make more sense!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Glad it's had a make over as the previous design was dire. Crappy menu items though, come on SCEE - get it sorted.

Hoping the load times are just because everyone is trying the new look at the same time...

im sick of the mother fing load times on this mother fing store- Samuel Jackson (Snakes On a PlayStaion) 2005

always the worst for europe huh? can't they just have the same format as north america it's just easier to handle.................please :)

always the worst for europe huh? can't they just have the same format as north america it's just easier to handle.................please :)

Why are they using different categorizing? Just use the same on both stores (i.e. the US catergories).

Some one in SCEE needs to be fired

Finally, The thumbnails problem is gone now!

But not the categories problem.. And not the "let-us-get-stuff-before-eu-or-never-let-eu-get-it problem"..

Sort out the categories and give us High Velocity Bowling!