(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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Tbh, I don't blame sony for questioning them. Four YLODs sounds like bullshit to me and they were gamesharing, they gameshared with friends, not with their own PS3s. The whole idea of gamesharing is so you can play it in YOUR own consoles.

my 8 ps3 broke and sony did it no problem for me, but i dont take shit from them

MBO = , Sony just trying to screw everyone over.

my ps3 broke 3 times and they gave me shit

idk many people that gameshare 5 times tho and i heard that if you send your ps3 to sony it deletes the psn info automaticaly so there would be no reasosn to call now but idk when this was. They should have sued lol

haha...oh man this reminds me of the time when i had 5 ps3s reset last year. Then again, I proved them that I owned 5 ps3s and returned em for various reasons =P u get my pic.

I've experienced this problem with Sony myself. I've gameshared with my friends over the past 3 years but most of them got YLOD or sold their PS3's. I phoned Sony, hoping they would deactivate my account on 1 system. That was my YLOD PS3. The bastards told me they wouldn't do it. After a lengthy rant, they still didn't have any of it and the ****s told me I would have to make a new account to download £200 of shit I once had. On top of that I had to buy a new PS3. Which cost £300! I am currently buying the games on my new PS3 that I had bought over the last 3 years from the PSN store now. What this experience has teached me is that Sony are slimey ****ing corporal dickheads! They don't give a shit about their products once they've been sold. If they ever bring out a PS4, I'm going to have a real long think on whether I would get the console. Sorry for the vulgar language but I saw this thread as the perfect opportunity to let out my frustration.

Agreed.

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I think it depends who you are on call with, I doubt all the representatives would be such assholes.