That could be a possibility, PS4's that show they have unlicensed games, or however the phantom license works. This would show some sort of dodgy signs (sorry people) and possibly flag those accounts to be locked?
Thanks for your response. Actually it's not easy for me to import hdd from Amazon right now, I have to buy it locally now please check these drives and tell me which one is best... I might go for 1tb 7200rpm. I am thinking of getting WD or Seagate but not sure wether they are 7200rpm or 5200rpm.
That's not true. If ghost user sending the wake-up signal to primary user of the same account, then only one phantom should get locked. As far as I know all phantoms were affected at the same time.
That should be easily testable. I'm about to leave for classes or else I would do it, but could someone test it out. Make a phantom of a demo game or something then both play it at the same time. If what I'm reading is correct, it should deactivate the phantom and cause it to get locked out.
Nah. It will format once it gets initialized.
If you are talking about D3: RoS that you bought from me - it's a half-phantom (without reset). Full phantom is on my console.
Both WD My Passport Ultra and Seagate Expansion (it's the 1tb version of the drive I recommended
) are good drives and should work perfectly with PS4. I'd go with Seagate here, because My Passport has a WD Green HDD inside, which is not so great, good but not great.
Honestly that info sounds like bullshit to me. What do they mean by two people logged onto an account at the same time. Phantom downloads the game, activates the license and never touches the account again. Also "servers detected number of consoles connected to one account", there is only one console connected/activated on one account, the whole thing is about tricking your console to not realize that it's no longer primary.
It doesn't work like that from the "admin's" side. What it assigned to a profile is not email and/or password, but the ID of a PSN account. While you have to type in these details to log into the account, the console simply checks the ID of the account, looks it up on the server and then compares the ID of the console listed as primary and the ID of your system. If they don't match, shit happens.
If this was the case, everyone should have lost their phantoms by now. I've done almost everything people have speculated on (played online, have auto upload turned on, earning trophies/synching trophies) and still have phantom access as of right now.
I got you if you still need this.
I have done pretty much everything too and phantoms still work fine...
That happened to me last night too (console getting shut off for no reason) and I couldn't figure out why it happened. I've been leaving my console in rest mode with the internet off to charge things but last night it was off for some reason, and there wasn't any sort of power loss at my house. I got the same system check but all my stuff is still good.
There could possibly still be a manual part involved in the process to test the system before they make it fully automatic. This way they can make sure they don't just deactivate half of the legit licenses. Also it could be the accounts having problem connecting with the server. We all know that network features on PS4 don't always work perfect. Often times I get padlocks over my resell games when I log onto my main and then they disappear after a while. Actually for some people phantoms got locked when a notification appeared about an update being downloaded. You mentioned trophies and playing online, however trophies are connected to your main and multiplayer is handled by the game's servers, not Sony. Downloading an update though, is handled entirely by PS servers and possibly by the phantom account as well.
There is no such thing as legit licenses, the system was not made so you would deactivate your account on the website to put the same games on two consoles if you had them, but rater allowing to recover all your licenses in case some malfuction happened to your PS4 and you had to switch to a new console with out being able to deactivate your account in the old one, this way you can set your new PS4 to be the primary system of your account.
That's not what I meant. I was talking about your game suddenly stopping in the middle of a Bloodborne boss fight and a padlock appearing over its' icon in the dashboard. You would have to either wait for your system to automatically recheck the license or perform the license restore from the settings menu.
I see what you mean, but on PS3/PSP at least -and from what I saw it didn't change on PS4-, it sends account email + password to the activation server to activate/deactivate.
)Don't think that has any bearing on it. There's been people who had old af phantoms lock, and people who had ones they made after the update lock, then there's people like me who installed the firmware as soon as it was available who haven't had anything lock.
I see, but shouldn't changing the password be enough then?I see what you mean, but on PS3/PSP at least -and from what I saw it didn't change on PS4-, it sends account email + password to the activation server to activate/deactivate.
Also, blocking the DRM server on the router should block Sony from doing shit, although you would need to unblock it every time you wanna activate/deactivate an account.... (unless they automatically lock every account that can't connect to it every now and then when logged to PSN... that's a possibility if they are smart
All of this phantom locking shows why the group that I started is still one of the best choices in gaming. We didn't lose a single game, still have everything that was available since launch, and have a huge core of gamers that love what we do.
Boosted welcome back you son of a corn how you been???
