Upcoming Change To PlayStation 3 And PSP Game Content On PlayStation Network

from bad to worse sony… you can’t “change the rules while the championship is goign on”… totally unfair… and i’am waiting for my payday voucher…

About time Sony took these measures to counteract game-sharing. Well done guys!

@39 “I thought Sony does their job for peoples entertainment and not for their wallet.”

Why on Earth would you ever think that about a big electronics corporation.

This seems a fair move, no real reason to hate it at the moment, unless you’re a filthy game-sharer. We’ll see how they handle it.

I just realized the best thing about this. Hopefully no more private messages from greedy game-sharer’s, who can’t understand some people don’t feel like giving away their PSN account info to strangers.

Now if Sony would add the possibility to do gifts and do sales bundles, like Steam, we are getting close to something really great-

QUESTION

Do minis and PS1 games get 4 activations across, 2 PS3′s and 2 PSP’s and in the future across 2 Vita’s ???

Please answer.

the funny thing is that on the us blog nothing is mentioned… is it only for european users? I know that the Europeans are “League 2 citizens” in sony eyes but… this is too much…

This doesnt really bother me at all, however, im sure it will to some people.

I just have 1 question:

You say 2x PSP and 2x PS3

Can both apply to the same item?
I.E. PS One games. I have a PSP and a PS3, and have been thinging of getting a PS3 for my holiday house.

In short, Can a game go on 2x PS3′s and 1xPSP?

Deactivating systems via WWW is really awesome news!

““Sony Computer Entertainment plans to provide a new PlayStation Network account management website where users will be able to deactivate particular devices attached to their PlayStation Network account via their PC.””

Who thought it was a good idea to bring the change in at the point where you only ‘plan’ to have the website? The website and the change should be done at the same time, surely?

You guys don’t understand you can deactivate dead systems now?

Silver & White PS3s November 15th eh!

Also, now that i’ve had some caffeine & understood the statement, I think it’s great!

This needed to happen to stop all those gamesharing stealing peasants!

God news. Just saw a site the other day where people game share their games so they just pay 1/5 of the price. Sucks for them!!!

@nightmare966 noooo lol. How?

I’m in the same boat as a lot of people here, multiple PS3′s, some faulty some good, PSP’s and I had planned on getting a Vita.

I wont bother.

So, now I have to retire my PSP1000 for good? I can’t use PSN content on it even if want to?

Apple actively encourages me to upgrade my hardware every year, and they don’t punish me for it. Why are you doing the opposite Sony?

I sold my last ps3 without deactivating the account, what can I do can I still dezctivate that.

Why don’t people read the post You will be able to de-activate old PS3s from the new site when it launches. Any games you have bought before the change can still be used on up to 5 systems. New purchases can only be used on 2. Simple

People are using still-activated YLOD machines as an excuse (or are not reading the details before commenting), the new policy isn’t being applied retrospectively, it only covers purchases made from 18 Nov 2011 onwards. If your old PS3 is really dead then it won’t be coming back from the grave to download your future purchases, will it? Sarcasm aside, I DO feel for those with dead machines; I was lucky enough to reverse my YLOD using a hairdryer so I had chance to deactivate it (and then sell it to Gamestation).

Glad that Sony will be launching a better web administration interface, hopefully they’ll also add in functionality to browse and purchase items from the Store which is a handy facility the Xbox crowd have. However they should plan it carefully, I’d rather they kept on top of security than give the hackers another route into the PSN.

Ha ha ha! Because I am at work and read the first bit and panic lol –

“Sony Computer Entertainment plans to provide a new PlayStation Network account management website where users will be able to deactivate particular devices attached to their PlayStation Network account via their PC.”

Sweet been waiting for this for 4 years! Thanks

I dont honestly see why I should buy Sonys next console. When they keep removing everything that is good with it.

[Deleted] :\ ar least lower the prices cause it’s freaking high. i have 2 other ps3 systems. so if i got a ps vita and i want to download a game that support the ps vita then i can’t ? you want me to buy the games all over again ? :\ i don’t want to deactivate anything because me and my brothers use those. i don’t wanna buy a game three times just for my brothers to play it too :\ i’m not rich :\ i guess i’m not going to buy the ps vita. oh well.

@ Griffisu. Have you only got 1 PSP? If so this won’t affect you

@ CMJE96. When the website is up you’ll be able to deactivate your old PS3. Until then you can do nothing about it.

I just don’t get this Sony’s policy of downgrading. First they dropped the PS2 emulation, then Other OS support, then free on-line gaming and now this. They are trying real hard to make PS3 less appealing!

How about sometimes adding something?

I’ve got no issues with this change as long as the new account management website is up and running prior to the 18th. That way I can finally deactivate my original 60 gig PS3 that Sony took off me when it suffered Blu-Ray drive failure and the 60 gig refurb they gave me that suffered YLoD after about 14 months.

winge, winge, winge, if you don’t actually own 3 active ps3′s I don’t see what the issue is

They did add something, they added a webpage where you can control your activations.
Why did they lower the limit from 5 to 2, because greedy game-sharer’s was abusing the system.

Unless you are a greedy game-sharer or owns three PS3′s ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh1jB4hVJRg ), this is only a good change with the new site to control activations.

nice point.. every update from sony seems to remove features… I’m tired of this… we have waited years for the cross chat, you gave us hope and than you said that the free ram is not enough for that… the next update will remove the possibility to view blu-ray movies?

As long as I can still share my DLCs between local accounts, and as long as I can activate/deactivate my systems via a web account manager, I’m ok with that. I’m not much into game-sharing.

@Kermit1970 I have two PSPs.

The issue is that software is being “activated” on devices, when it never shouldn’t. I shouldn’t have worry about how many activations I can use. Software should be locked to accounts and accounts should be limited to a number of devices, like Apple does. I shouldn’t have to worry about which software I activated on which device, if I can login on a given device, my software should just “work” on it.

@74 They haven’t removed anything, stop the useless whining. Your old titles still have five activations, they have simply adjusted the number of activations on new games, to avoid people abusing it, because some has been abusing it a lot.

They are even going to add a system where you can control your activations online, which is good for those with dead PS3′s.

they have removed 3 sistems activation so… YES thay remove something… an by the way no news on us Sony blog, i started to think that this is only for european users… i repeat, from bad to worse…

@76 And what about people who has more profiles on one console, like families, should content only be locked to the profile which bought it? Or what if you buy a game from another region and has to download DLC from another region, then you can’t use your DLC with your primary profile.
It’s better with a limit and then the content can be used freely on the activated systems.

And why a limit? Because or else people will abuse it and not pay for their games.

Oh well…
Things happens.

Anyway, I hope prices will fall faster than angels in Axe’s adds, or we will see a new movie spin off:

“Day the PSN stopped”.

I said it.

I’m not sharing paid nor activated content with any friends. Only with girlfriend and friends on MY systems. I bought 2 ps3, 1 psp, and planned to buy a vita, and now you’re telling me I WILL NEED TO BUY 2 TIMES or moremy games and content, even if i’m the unique user, playing on 1 system at a time? You’re kidding right? What kind of backstab is that? The more we support your company, the more you want money from us? What kind of logic is that? At least, give us 3 activations, don’t act like [Deleted].

I agree with Griffisu, this is just gonna make things messy. Why not just save this stuff for the next console.
The new system is gonna have to allow you to manage activations for each and every item now – which is stupid.

@78 But what the hell do you need five activations for? Do you own FIVE PS3′s and FIVE PSP’s? I’m guessing you are breaking PSN terms of agreement by doing gamesharing and that’s why you are whining so much. Then admit you are gamesharing and I can understand your whining.

If you don’t gameshare and don’t own more then two PS3′s (which pretty much nobody does), this is only an advantage.

I own 4 PS3 and 3 PSP consoles and soon to be a vita and I can only use content I buy on 2 of each system. Well looks like I won’t be buying any new content. Also will the vita count as a PSP activation or will we get 2 for that as well?

Not happy, not happy at all. This is not right, if you have more than 2 ps3′s in your house showing loyalty to playstation you are going to start making me pay for the same things twice? I have playstation 3 systems in my house, 3 psps, and 2 vitas when they come out. I am not happy that i will have to pay twice for the dlc/ content on all my ps3s. Is there no way you can get more if you provide proof of more than 2 systems? and that they are your accounts on ps3?

greedy gamers ? lol the only one who’s greedy are the companies who’s selling their degital games for more than $40. DLC at day 1 of the game release.online pass. that’s greed :\

Im all for this but why not roll it out when you have the website up and running allowing users to deactivate their (in my case, dead) PS3′s. Not point rolling something out that is only half functional.

This sucks. One of the things I like about PSN is that I don’t have to worry about activations. At the moment, I own a PSP and a PS3. Without a doubt, I will get a Vita in the future, and I imagine I’ll later be upgrading to a new model. But if I do that, I have to deactivate one of my handhelds already.

That shouldn’t be neccessary. Game-sharing may not be fair to developers, but adding restrictions like this is not fair to legitimate customers.

I’ll seriously have to reconsider buying PSN games in the future.

gd i hate ppl asking me for th map packs….. James does this mean i can deactivate my aaccount from my YLOD 60gig ps3…??? plz

I don’t get those people saying they’ve got activations on YLOD PS3 they can’t deactivate – I was burgled and had PS3 and PSP stolen – a quick call to PS Customer Services and they were able to reset ALL activations for my PS account, and then all I had to do was activate my replacements.

That said, a website would be easier, so kudos for that.

A little sad to see this change come in, but it’s those pirates *cough* I mean game-sharers that have spoiled it for everyone else.

To the few who are asking why this hasn’t been mentioned on the US blog, it is probably because this has only just been announced, and most of the US is still in bed, or just starting their day’s work.

I anticipate once Sony US start posting updates for 4th Nov, that this will be one of them.

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Oh for F sake. Quit whining you gamesharing morons. It’s incredibly childish. Preventing gamesharing is a GOOD thing, anyone thinking otherwise should be sued for practicing piracy.

And why is it so hard to actually READ the whole article? It clearly says they now have a website where you can de-activate your system.

But it seems to be the case nowadays that teenagers complain about everything. GROW UP!

Wait does this mean that the 5 activated PS3 systems is now finished, if that is then this sucks

@88 – The difference is, you were burgled. I expect they asked you for a crime reference number? Thus you had evidence of the loss of units.

They refused to deactivate my YLOD unit unless I sent it to them to be replaced (for a small cost of £140). The fact that I chose to actually buy a slim instead was not good enough – Sony wanted me to return the faulty unit, and told me that as I still had activations left I should just use them.

Now, for the past few months, I have intended to purchase another unit for my home, but have no activations left due to multiple locked-out units (from YLOD or returns to stores due to faults). Again, Sony don’t want to know. At least now I will have control over my activations.

“users will be able to deactivate particular devices attached to their PlayStation Network account via their PC.”

What the post doesn’t say is what the particular devices are.

I already sold an old PS3 but forgot to deactivate my account. Will I be able to deactivate it using the new system?