How Gamesharing/Trading REALLY works [Mobile/Archive]

MSUHitman

03-06-2008, 03:49 PM

Can one person share multiple games from you? For example, my current roommate is going into the military and when he comes back he wants to get a PS3/Wii. He currently has a PSN profile as I though, although I'm the one who has bought games.

Can I then share all the PSN games I've downloaded to him if he's the only one on my share list?

rendil

03-06-2008, 09:21 PM

Thanks for the clarification - some of my friends may be picking up PS3s in the near future.

Do you happen to know how it works with master profiles? I currently have a master profile setup with 2 sub-accounts. I add money into the master account, and make purchases using that money with the all of the accounts on the system. If I want to share games, do I share the master account, or the actual account that downloaded the game?

cheezhead430

03-06-2008, 09:52 PM

screwed over by this, this should be stickied or something, cuz i think a lot of people dont know about it

Oktoberfest

03-06-2008, 10:29 PM

Are the names of the accounts that you're sharing with stored anywhere? Or are you just going to have to remember?

JMEPO

03-06-2008, 10:34 PM

Well im glad i shared with someone i liked...

Bretts31344

03-07-2008, 09:03 AM

Thanks for explaining this so well. I was confused about how this worked. My brother is getting a PS3 soon. I will let him know we can do this.

snowsquirrel

03-07-2008, 09:48 AM

I created an acount to buy the game. When I shared the game with my buddy, I just gave him all of the account info, and he logged in on that account at his house, and dl'd the games. Because this is just one account does this mean there are still four shares left? Or does it keep track of the fact that the login came from a different PS3 (i.e., mac address)?

How do I buy and download something as Bob, then download it as Sandy without paying for it? I didn't know you could do that?

~S

darken

03-07-2008, 11:31 AM

"So what do you do if you want to trade with someone other than those? You make another PSN account, which can again be shared with 4 other people.

So there isn't a game share limit, there's an account share limit. That's why I regularly share games (more than 5 times too, we tested it) with 4 of my buddies and have a seperate account for random people that may have stuff I want."

Thanks for the hard work. I do have a question about the making another account to share with more than 5.

So are you saying the if my original account is "Billy" then i share with 4 other friends, I'm done there. But then I should make another account "Jane" and I can share with another 4 more? Are you saying that Billy and Jane both have the same email address, or are you saying that they are different email addresses? Isn't the email address the key indicator of another account? If Billy and Jane are the same email address, then Jane would be the 6th user.

darken

03-07-2008, 11:42 AM

thanks alot. You've been really helpful

Snake2715

03-07-2008, 11:45 AM

Yup, you can share as much as you want to him and 3 other people. Those 4 people can download as much as you let them, whenever you let them. If you want to share games with anyone that isn't part of that initial group though you'll have to make another account.

So to clarify this... if you make another account would you then need to buy new things under that account to share? Or is the new account you made somehow tied into what you bought on your original account?

If you make another account it would seem to me that would be starting over in the sense of game purchases. Obviously your first account wouldnt go away, or lose its purchases.

Clarify this if you could.

Snake2715

03-07-2008, 11:53 AM

Freezing,

So if I was to trade with darken here. You are saying I should go make a new user of darken, or is the profile something else?

Also you had wrote this:
DO NOT DELETE THIS PROFILE AFTER THE TRADE! If you do, anything you've downloaded from that person will stop working!

From my understanding on this as I have been reading it. The games will stop working, but they are still on your hard drive... What you need to do if this happens is get ahold of the person you got the games from. Have them gie you a password, log in and download the games and heres the trick STOP the download right away. That game will be reauthorized and you can play it again, as long as you dont delete the user name.

Snake2715

03-07-2008, 12:12 PM

As for deleting the profile accidently and having your stuff not work, you'll need to get in contact with that person and redownload everything you've downloaded from him/her all over again, all the way through. Just make sure you delete the non-working stuff beforehand to be safe, since yes it'll still be on your drive, it'll just give you an error if you try to run it.

Thanks I will check it out tonight.

As to this last part, you may want to double check it. I have read in multiple places that all you must do is start the download again and then cancel the download. it will have reauthorized the original download when you do that.

smiggity

03-07-2008, 01:04 PM

So one thing I still dont understand. Is it necessary to create a second account? Couldnt you just use your main account?

smiggity

03-07-2008, 01:56 PM

Thanks for the quick reply Freezing... yeah I am a little paranoid so I just delete everything on my account before trading..It is safe, plus I hate having more than 1 account on my ps3. If anyone wants to trade, pm me...

jmillion

03-07-2008, 08:57 PM

interesting info. glad i read this 1st

MSUHitman

03-08-2008, 03:18 PM

Does Warhawk work with this and does anyone know if GT5 Prologue or SOCOM will work for this when they're released?

hone

03-09-2008, 03:42 PM

so online games don't work then I take it like warhawk. What about like Tekken: DR online, can you trade that?

imdjenk

03-14-2008, 05:16 PM

Hmm, I will be trying this although it does not seem morally responsible.

metaly

03-14-2008, 06:10 PM

I thought this looked a lot like piracy when I first heard about it, but then I read an old article (http://www.wired.com/gaming/gamingreviews/news/2006/10/71982) where Sony flat-out encouraged it:

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."
There have been a few games (the PixelJunk games, I think) where developers have come out and requested that you not gameshare, because yes, it does cut into their profits. But it's hard to argue with a Sony exec saying to go ahead with it. (Even if it's Jack Tretton.)

imdjenk

03-14-2008, 07:39 PM

I thought this looked a lot like piracy when I first heard about it, but then I read an old article (http://www.wired.com/gaming/gamingreviews/news/2006/10/71982) where Sony flat-out encouraged it:

There have been a few games (the PixelJunk games, I think) where developers have come out and requested that you not gameshare, because yes, it does cut into their profits. But it's hard to argue with a Sony exec saying to go ahead with it. (Even if it's Jack Tretton.)

A load off my conscience, thanks!

DefinedByClass13

03-15-2008, 03:52 AM

smiggity

03-15-2008, 12:08 PM

So can't you add your new account to your main account, losing one slot but allowing you to send your downloaded games from your main account over to the new one, so that the 4 people on the new account can have access to what you already have (from the main account), saving you the hassle from having to buy new games?

I am wondering the same thing, just could not figure out how to word it...

dallow

03-15-2008, 02:48 PM

Just buy the game.

DefinedByClass13

03-15-2008, 07:48 PM

I am wondering the same thing, just could not figure out how to word it...

Reading mine over while I was typing it was giving me the impression of a run-on sentence, but at least someone understood what I meant.

StrandedBrit

03-16-2008, 04:01 PM

So can't you add your new account to your main account, losing one slot but allowing you to send your downloaded games from your main account over to the new one, so that the 4 people on the new account can have access to what you already have (from the main account), saving you the hassle from having to buy the same games over?

BUMP!

I've been trying to do this for a while now, and I'll be honest and say I don't think it can be done.

... but please Freezing Alone, any definitive word?

StrandedBrit

03-16-2008, 06:36 PM

Hmm so you guys mean trading from an account that does have stuff to a new account that doesn't, so that you can then trade from that account too?

Unfortunately that wouldn't work. Any games you've aquired from trading don't show up in your download list, so no matter what the only games/content you can trade are games/content that you've bought and downloaded yourself on that particular account.

I guess there has to be a limit to what you can do with this trading system, since if it were any better the world would probably explode.

EDIT: Just wanted to say sorry for being so late to answering back. I try to check this topic at least once a day, so rest assured any questions you guys have I'll get to within 24 hours.

Cool, thanks man. I figured that was the case.