Account limit reached on PSN

[02civicsi]

I got a strange message that I had reached the maximum number of PSN accounts that can be associated with a system. Anybody else run into this & how do I fix this?

 

[MidianGTX]

I'm guessing you've created a load of alt accounts for the birthday exploit or something... I didn't know there was a PSN limit though. You could probably solve this by signing into each account (assuming you know the emails & passwords you set), going to Account Management and deactivating them.

 

[Negrumir]

You can have a max of 16 accounts per PS3.

I don't even need to guess that you're duping stuff like crazy. lol

 

[Tornado]

You can only have 16 PSN accounts per PS3. After that you need to start deactivating them to add more.

 

[02civicsi]

I'm guessing you've created a load of alt accounts for the birthday exploit or something... I didn't know there was a PSN limit though. You could probably solve this by signing into each account (assuming you know the emails & passwords you set), going to Account Management and deactivating them.

Yes I was doing the birthday exploit to get the cars from the years i wanted. Thanks for the tip.

You can have a max of 16 accounts per PS3.

I don't even need to guess that you're duping stuff like crazy. lol

Look @ how many trades I've done, a big whopping two. I didn't even start trading cars until the 9th of this month.

You can only have 16 PSN accounts per PS3. After that you need to start deactivating them to add more.

Thanks again for the tip for deactivation.

 

[lawvol]

I received this same message the other day, and I thorougly researched the Playstation website and elsewhere on the net for more information. Here is what i've learned in a nutshell...

Each Playstation 3 system can have a maximum of 64 accounts per the life of the system. There is not way to delete, or otherwise disable these accounts without contacting technical support. I read several testimonials from folks who dared to call technical support to have their PSN accounts reset, and they claim that they were virtually accused of being theives, and were threatened with lifetime bans. Again... i have not tried to call them firsthand, but apparently, the PSN account limit has been in place since the PS3 was developed, and once used, can only be undone by technical support. What I would be interested to know is whether the PSN account information is tied to the system's MAC address, or whether there is a file kept on the hard drive. My guess is that the machine's MAC address is logged with the Playstation network, so a hard drive swap would likely be ineffective to reset the PSN limit back to zero.

If anyone else has tried to contact technical support, I would love to know what they are saying since the birthday exploit.