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PSN Game Sharing NOT Illegal - Jul.-4th-2008 19:49:42

sonarus

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Alright, some people seem to think that sharing games on psn is illegal. Hell i thought it was illegal at some point but the truth is, its not.

Sony locks the games they don't want shared like Warhawk, GT5 e.t.c. and it appears after the 2.4 update, those locks have been removed so you can now game share warhawk and GT5. Before if you tried to play those games on a different account than the one that purchased the game it wouldn't let you but now you can.

Yes i know it FEELS dirty but its not. In fact Sony encourages you to share games

http://www.wired.com/gaming/gamingreviews/news/2006/10/71982

That was just before PS3 launched. Facts in bold

Sony also plans to offer a wide variety of small downloadable games through a digital delivery service called PlayStation Store. At the Gamers' Day event, there were long lines in front of the playable version of flOw, a slow-paced action title with mellow music and surreal graphics, based on a popular free web game.
Many of the event's attendees noticed that Sony's other downloadable offerings seemed designed to mimic the games on Microsoft's service. Sony's shooter, Blast Factor, bore more than a passing resemblance to Geometry Wars, the best-selling title on Xbox Live. (Senseless PS3 hating)

Sony announced that players who download games from PlayStation's online shop can share them on up to five other PS3 machines.
If a player logs into his PlayStation 3 account on a friend's system, he can download any game he has already purchased. "You can send that content to four other friends for that initial investment," said Tretton. "We want to get the game in as many hands as possible."
"It's not about generating profits at each and every interaction with the consumer," he said. "I think that really offsets the argument that says, 'Wow, that's a really pricey system.'

Yea so game sharing isn't illegal and this thread should not be locked

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RE: PSN Game Sharing NOT Illegal - Jul.-4th-2008 19:51:32

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Nice find Sonarus,I feel less like a thief now for getting COD4 maps from a friend.

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RE: PSN Game Sharing NOT Illegal - Jul.-4th-2008 19:54:53

AuToFiRE

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anyone want to give me SSHD? maybe warhawk..

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RE: PSN Game Sharing NOT Illegal - Jul.-4th-2008 20:00:43

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I have no PS Store in my country (Malta) and unable to buy add ons for my games (Warhawk expansions, COD4 Map set. NG content etc)

Someone share :P lol

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RE: PSN Game Sharing NOT Illegal - Jul.-4th-2008 20:17:05

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wait so i can share warhawk now!? really !? can any of you guys confirm this, because if true, megaton for PS3 users who own 2 PS3s!

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RE: PSN Game Sharing NOT Illegal - Jul.-4th-2008 20:22:29

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Yes it is true. You can now play it on an account different from the one you purchased with. Same with GT5. It appears this occured with the 2.4 updat

Gun Senshi i would share with you but i already have 5 ppl leeching off me.

I want us to play tekken dammit.
I'll try to get someone off my list so you can get tekken

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RE: PSN Game Sharing NOT Illegal - Jul.-4th-2008 20:24:33

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quote:

ORIGINAL: sonarus

Yes it is true. You can now play it on an account different from the one you purchased with. Same with GT5. It appears this occured with the 2.4 updat

Gun Senshi i would share with you but i already have 5 ppl leeching off me.

I want us to play tekken dammit.
I'll try to get someone off my list so you can get tekken

but btu what about me? i dont even have a credit card

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RE: PSN Game Sharing NOT Illegal - Jul.-4th-2008 20:27:16

sonarus

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I think they sell psn cards at meijer now. Wait till after E3 i'm sure there will be some announcement. Senshi lives in malta and he has no ps store there and he can't dwnload stuff of other stores

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RE: PSN Game Sharing NOT Illegal - Jul.-4th-2008 20:51:20

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Friken guy....

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RE: PSN Game Sharing NOT Illegal - Jul.-4th-2008 21:50:38

AuToFiRE

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i want psn cards now!

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RE: PSN Game Sharing NOT Illegal - Jul.-4th-2008 22:54:12

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Great find Sonarus. Some of my friends own more than one PS3 and it made them so mad that they couldn't share the game that they already paid for. Even some of my friends that owned just one couldn't play between two profiles on the same console.

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RE: PSN Game Sharing NOT Illegal - Jul.-4th-2008 22:59:24

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You heard him. Now where are my free games?

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RE: PSN Game Sharing NOT Illegal - Jul.-4th-2008 23:20:41

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Yo...I know this is a mooch but can anyone let me get warhawk....my 5 year old broke my disk a while back and I loved that game...we have come across some cash trouble so I have not been able to buy it since it broke....I know sob story but its true....Pm me if you can help...I would be greatly in dept to you!

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RE: PSN Game Sharing NOT Illegal - Jul.-4th-2008 23:27:39

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this will probably be a dumb question, but i've never downloaded someone elses game before, and i've never had a friend download one of my games. Plus, we just got trophies. If i let my friend download Super Star Dust HD from my profile to his PS3, is it just a download, or will it be on his system with my profile. Will his trophies and other things appear in my profile rather than his? I don't want to cheat him out of what he gets.

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RE: PSN Game Sharing NOT Illegal - Jul.-4th-2008 23:32:15

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You would log into your PSN on a new user account on his PS3, download the game, then leave your account there. He would pick his old user account, sign into PSN, and have access to SSHD with his own savefile, stats, etc. Just make sure he leaves an account on there with your PSN ID. He never needs to use it, it just needs to sit there. I tried to delete my friends' account and I couldn't use the COD maps, so I redid it, and left a user account with his PSN on it, and now any account on my PS3 can use those maps.

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RE: PSN Game Sharing NOT Illegal - Jul.-5th-2008 0:53:27

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This is kind of old news guys. I've bought dozens and dozens of PS3 games since launch annd can't tell you how many games I've bought on the PSN. I've shared so many games with friends that the PSN now tells me or my friends that I have to deactivate a PS3 (the game that it's on) in order to share or play the game on another console at all.

We were so baffled when we first got this message that we called Sony when it first occured and not even they knew exactly what it meant...

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RE: PSN Game Sharing NOT Illegal - Jul.-5th-2008 11:29:45

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Heads up, while Warhawk can now be shared and the other person can log in with their own credentials for their own stats, the 24 hour limit is still in place so you'll have to wait if you want to play afterwards.

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RE: PSN Game Sharing NOT Illegal - Jul.-5th-2008 11:38:18

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For the security of our members we will not allow request's for PSN gamesharing in the N4G forums.
Unless informed otherwise in the future, these requests will be removed from the boards.

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RE: PSN Game Sharing NOT Illegal - Jul.-5th-2008 12:19:53

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Yep, knew this for a long time now.

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RE: PSN Game Sharing NOT Illegal - Jul.-5th-2008 12:25:25

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quote:

sonarus

I must say nice find indeed,

Infact one of the main reasons I never bought WarHawk, was because sony would not let other names on the same PS3 play the game, it was something that I always felt was a really bad move on their part...

when I buy something I don't want restrictions on it that would not be on the Physical media.... Now I understand the problem of trying to make sure the content is not pirated, but worst then it getting pirated is pissing off the consumer with restrictions... There was a much smarter way to do it, Like locking it to the PS3.

But they choose to make it lock to one user, which was really stupid because a lot of people have different accounts on their PS3's for family brothers, etc...

So for that reason I never bought Warhawk and I never will. They can keep that game.

I now buy no games online.... all my games will be physical media only. That way I can sell them when I'm done and I can lend it to a friend If I want.

I hate restrictions on something I paid for... -just makes no sense.

****Well I haven't tried it with 2.40 but I'll take your word for it, if you say it is working and you can now share with others on your PS3 that's good, because that is really needed.****

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