[slmbrhrt]

I think a lot of the inertia is due to the fear that deleting an account could invalidate your purchases with that account. I've bought a few games and DLC packs myself--there's a lot of content I own* that I'd suddenly lose out on. It may be chump change, but I'm not about to walk away from money I've spent in good faith.

I think at this point if Sony would give us a cut-and-run solution to let us kill our accounts but keep our purchases--they won't--we'd see a surge in account deletions, especially after today's news.

Probably worth mentioning that I don't play many online games, so most of the time when I sign on it's to buy single-player content.

[wccrawford]

Exactly right. If you delete your account, all your purchases disappear. For some of us, that's hundreds of dollars.

I won't ever hand Sony a credit card again, and I'm limiting my purchases to exclusives... And even then, I'll think long and hard before I give them the money for those.

[windsurfer]

It sounds so strange to say that your "purchases dissapear". It's as if Sony steals them from you.

Not that I'm saying they are stealing it, it just sounds surreal.

[wccrawford]

If it weren't my own action causing it, it would be exactly like Sony stealing them.

[slmbrhrt]

That's why I spelled it 'own*'.