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The Deal with PSN Game Sharing
Topic Started: Sunday Jan 10 2010, 09:50 PM (105 Views)
King Hiss
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I discovered over the holidays that our concept of how game sharing on the PS3 works is actually incorrect.

The way I thought it worked, and the way alot of people seem to think it works, is that when you buy a PSN game, you get 5 copies to play with. That way you can set up your profile on a friends PS3 and play your game over his place, or you might have multiple PS3's. If I've shared a game out, I make sure I only do it twice so that I still have a few for myself when I get a 2nd PS3 or one dies and I have to replace it.

Turns out that's wrong!

I did indeed recently get my second PS3, and I also bought one for my parent for Xmas with PlayTV. It was when I went to put a couple of games on the parental's machine that I was told I couldn't because my account was already activated on 5 PS3's.

So it's not the actual games that can be in 5 places at once, it's your whole account.

That removes alot of micromanagement, and I guess if you've been nice enough to share accounts with others, you may as well go crazy.
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So Necris has one of my shared copies out of 5. Which by the way didnt work SOCOM supposedly was shareable (I think) and Necris couldnt get it to work, seemed locked to my account.

Can you de-register them and re-register?

Bit like iTunes DRM music being locked to 5 machines, though you can reset the entire lot to start again.
Edited by JAMSIN, Sunday Jan 10 2010, 09:56 PM.


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I think it's a different situation for the big games, like Socom and Warhawk.

They say you have to deactivate your account to get one back, but as far as I know, they just have to delete your profile.
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Still better than the 360 though. My brother in law bought a PS3 recently, and I at least got to share a bunch of games to it that I though my sister would like....
yo listen up here's a story
about a little guy that lives in a blue world
and all day and all night and everything he sees
is just blue like him inside and outside
blue his house with a blue little window
and a blue corvette
and everything is blue for him and hisself
and everybody around
cos he ain't got nobody to listen to

i'm blue da ba dee da ba die...
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Can i confirm hiss, does that mean i can now steal everything off of your account?

Also does anyone know if there is a way to get ff8 of the us psn?
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You may as well. No one else other than those that already have my account are gonna be able to get to them. I'll have to change my password for you though.
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Dunno bout FF8 but i recently got FF7 from a mate off PSN :D
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