(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); So most of us know that it's possible to activate up to 5 PlayStation 3's with the one PSN account. Apparently one person on a blog needed to have his account reset to zero PS3's so that they could activate their newest PlayStation 3 and had a really tough time trying to accomplish this.


His situation wasn't brought on by 'game sharing', but just that they liked to play their PSN games on multiple PS3's. Those PS3's of family and friends raised his number of activated PS3's. The problem came about when 4 of these PS3's received the 'YLOD' ('Yellow Light Of Death'. They were unable to deactivate any of the 4 PS3's that had their current information and account on them.


They called Sony, confident that they would be assisted in the deactivation of all PS3 systems but instead of a helpful, cheery, friendly reps, they were bombarded with questions along the lines of "why are you stealing?" and permanent-ban threats. According to the blog author they were made feel as if they had committed a crime and was being interrogated.


Eventually, after a tough time of being falsely accused of game-sharing/stealing they were granted a one-time chance to get all their PS3's reset to prevent a practically useless new PS3.


"It was quite frustrating to have threats of banning etc coming from a company that you continually dish out hundreds if not thousands of dollars for."


They were even told by one rep to "create a new account". This left many questions in the mind of this person which are along the lines of:

• Why did Sony boast “share games with up to 5 people” in the beginning to offset the price of their $600 console?
  
  
  
• Why are we not allowed to play PSN games we own on other consoles?
  
  
  
• Who are these reps to interrogate us? They are simple call center reps with god complexes now.
  
  
  
• Why make some games unshareable, while leaving the rest?

This puts doubts in my mind about what I thought about Sony. Normally the refs take kindly to enquiries of all kinds but this, I though, was unheard of. If I was the one that rang up and was in this situation I would probably have made them refs retire from the broad range of verbal abuse they would have received.


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Lol, we have the same problem. My three playstations broke all in the same month and then my cousins broke. We just re-bought the maps. No biggie.

I know its a bloody mess I had to have all the serials of the ps3's to get them to reset my account.. wasn't going to happen so just made another accountfor buying stuff.

what if you take the HDD out of the YLOD PS3 and put it in another Regualr PS3 and deactivate that account off that HDD?

Can't do that you have to format the hdd if you put it in, only way is to fix the ylod.. which I will do one day :mad:

i had 5 ps3's all with ylod they wouldnt reset it

i agree sony trying to screw everyone over:wtf:

I was going to post this

Fk i have 1 slot left...

The rep that I called was a asshole. I wanted to de-activate my old YLOD ps3 and my mates ps3 that he sold. After 30 mins of argueing he said he wouldn't do it and accused me of stealing games from the playstation store and banned all my psn accounts on my slim for 30 mins. What a bitch. But when I wanted to reset a download because I got a file size error they were all nice and reset it for me. Why is it so hard to reset an account when they reset downloads for you very quick.