Playstation Plus

[GhandiOwnsYou]

Your only valid complaint is that certain game saves have been locked to your particular PS3. 90% of save games can be freely copied in seconds to any flash drive you want, without necessity to back up the entire system. This means that your righteous indignation lies not with Sony or PS3, but rather with the developers that have created games that for some reason are locked to a singular system. Sony did not create Street Fighter IV's save system, or FF XIII's. While I can understand your frustration at moving these save files around, this is not the fault of Sony or PS3, but rather the developers of those given games who decided to place restrictions on those save files. Can you honestly tell me that we should blame the PS3 and PSN itself for bad decision making from game designers? It's akin to saying the Xbox 360 is a terrible console because Too Human had a horrible control scheme and Xbox didn't respond with a patch to let you manually remap the controls for all games. It's the developers job to make games that work within the framework provided by a console. The people behind the PS3 provided a not one, but two easy ways to provide both full and partial backups. The developers decided to give them the middle finger and lock those games to the systems, supposedly so they could protect the validity of their trophies. Apparently it's far more important to these developers to make sure people are legitimately earning trophies than to allow the players reasonable backup saves.

But again, this is not SONY'S issue, it's the developers.

Edit: But, if someone is genuinely peeved about this whole thing, there IS a third party workaround. http://www.ps3crunch.net/ps3saveunlocker.html will overwrite your save files lock data and allow it to be moved to a new system. It's kludgy and inconvenient, but it saves you the $5 a month and allows you to retain your righteous indignation.