Sony/PlayStation reducing game sharing from 5 to 2.

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I saw this in the Feed crawler on XPlay this past Monday. I believe they will start this Nov. 18th. They are making it more difficult to defend the PlayStation brand in this "console war".

We have 3 PS3's in our household and I was considering a fourth as the price dropped even more.
 
Sony has announce today that starting with game content purchased after November 18th that the number of devices that that content will be allowed to be activated on will be 2 devices instead of the current 5 for both PS3 and PSP. This will not affect purchased content prior to this date.

For those concerned about systems dying and being unable to deactivate their system Sony will be launching a site to allow for account management of devices to be able to deactivate them if they malfunction.
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http://e-mpire.com/content.php/1694-Sony-To-Limit-Gamesharing-Starting-This-Month

The whole gamesharing, or account sharing, is actually against the Terms of Service (you are not allowed to share your profile information with anyone) if I remember correctly. If you want to use your account on multiple systems, you have to deactivate it on one system and activate it on another.
 
There's althready something on it here 👍

I'll get my coat

@ Ace, I do gameshare, but only if it's demos and free stuff that you can't get in another region's store. I'm pretty sure that's legal if a group of friend share an account where you get US Demos from (not much stuff comes out here).
 
I'm not going to deactivate one of my PS3's every time I want to play in a different room. They set it up the way they intended.
 
What bull****. Its the **** like this from Sony that ****es me off.
 
slashfan7964
What bull****. Its the **** like this from Sony that ****es me off.
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They are following M$'s lead. Meanwhile Apple has introduced "sharing" to devices using iTunes. Seems like Sony is going the wrong direction.

You don't jack up prices and put more burden on people when are in economic struggle. Gaming is booming, despite the percentage of people missing 1,2,3 house payments, cost of food is getting stupid, and basic utility costs are on the rise due to governmental regulations.

But anyway, as long as people keep buying it, they will think we all like it.
 

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