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 Posted: Tue, 29th Mar 2016 19:54 Post subject: [PS4] Buying PSN account, what's the risk? |
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Hello, i see lots of options of buying games for much cheaper,
The deal is you buy an account with games, sites like psngames.org or forums like MPGH from private persons.
My question is what's the worst case scenario? Can my PS4 gets some kind of ban? Or only the account i'd buy can get ban?
Someone tried this?
Thanks.
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| Posted: Tue, 29th Mar 2016 20:55 Post subject: |
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dont think they would ban a console, but it should be easy af for the original owner to get his acc back from sony (doesnt matter if that seller sells his account and wants to fuck you or if its a scammer which deals with stolen accounts and that original owner gets it back from sony). and in every way you are the fucked one cause its not allowed to buy/sell accounts and only you will lose money
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| Posted: Tue, 29th Mar 2016 21:21 Post subject: |
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Thanks for the reply mate. The thing is that i don't care about maybe losing the account, i'm afraid to get some kind of ban and my PS4 won't work online anymore, can this happen?
I see 3-4 games for 10-15 USD, so even if it will not work it's not a big deal, but having a PS4 without online is very bad.
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| Posted: Tue, 29th Mar 2016 21:26 Post subject: |
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From my experience with account buying on PS3 and X360; the only "danger" is the account being banned, which will happen fairly quickly, but as long as you keep the account on your system then the downloaded titles will still work. I can't, with any degree of confidence, claim it's *exactly* the same on PS4 and XO... but I don't believe it's all that different.
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| Posted: Tue, 29th Mar 2016 21:56 Post subject: |
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Big risk of losing your money. I bought fifa 15 on an account then they changed the password and I couldn't play it . EBay account deleted
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| Posted: Tue, 29th Mar 2016 22:06 Post subject: |
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| hitmanuk wrote: | | Big risk of losing your money. I bought fifa 15 on an account then they changed the password and I couldn't play it . EBay account deleted |
You don't need to be logged into THAT account to play games, do you? Why would a password change affect you? It doesn't on PS360.. even if the accounts are banned, or password changed, you can still play titles downloaded from it by using your own account. If they (being MS/Sony) really has changed it now so that you need to be logged into that account in order to play... then yeah.. fuck that, don't bother. Waste of money as it *will* eventually be either banned or recovered, if it was hacked.
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| Posted: Tue, 29th Mar 2016 23:22 Post subject: |
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Yes the worst that will happen is account ban.
Console ban CAN happen but they won't do it for this.
Also @sabin1981, while you could keep accounts on PS360, you can't do that on PS4 anymore since firmware 2.0 (unless you keep it offline, then it won't do the check) : from times to times (around every week), the PS4 checks all accounts and sees if you still have access to them.
If not, it will deactivate itself.
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| Posted: Tue, 29th Mar 2016 23:25 Post subject: |
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Ah, that's a huge shame. In that case.. I definitely recommend against account buying unless it's from someone you know and trust to not fuck you over.
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| Posted: Wed, 30th Mar 2016 02:38 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Wed, 30th Mar 2016 18:08 Post subject: Re: [PS4] Buying PSN account, what's the risk? |
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| Adebisi wrote: | Hello, i see lots of options of buying games for much cheaper,
The deal is you buy an account with games, sites like psngames.org or forums like MPGH from private persons.
My question is what's the worst case scenario? Can my PS4 gets some kind of ban? Or only the account i'd buy can get ban?
Someone tried this?
Thanks. |
I've been buying primary account games for about a year now (with primary account game bought, you can play the game on your account normally..if you buy secondary account game you can only play the game on the account you have been given..that is why secondary account games tend to be even cheaper than the primary account ones)..because the ordinary price is just too high..you can normally buy 3 primary account games opposed to 1 original..and so far the experience for me has been good.
So far I bought:
Hitman: Full experience (still working; bough from http://discountdigitalgames.co.uk/)
Assassins Creed: Syndicate (still working; bought from http://discountdigitalgames.co.uk/)
Until Dawn (not working anymore, stopped working after less than a month; bough from http://www.consogame.com/; i definitely don't recommend this site)
Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor (still working; bought from Ebay)
Far Cry 4 (still working; bough from Ebay)
Assassins Creed: Unity (not working anymore; bough from Ebay)
Grand Theft Auto V (still working; bough from Ebay)
Batman: Arkham Knight (not working anymore; bought from Ebay; for compensation of the game not working anymore, the buyer gave me Dragon Ball: Xenoverse / secondary account, which is still working)
From the beginning I bough games from Ebay, because there was a huge selection of them there..but in the recent months, that has declined rapidly..and I don't know why, maybe Ebay changed the policy or something..so I was forced to find a replacement for Ebay..and so far I've bought 3 games from other sites..1 was from "http://www.consogame.com/" and 2 from "http://discountdigitalgames.co.uk/"..and I definitely wouldn't recommend the first link..because the game stopped working in less than a month..so I would recommend you to buy games from the second link..perfect experience with them so far 
PS: also to answer your other questions..no your normal account cannot get banned for you buying primary account games..what can only happen is, that the game you've bought will maybe stop working in the future..because the account trough which you are playing your game has been blocked, or the seller has changed the content on the account, or the seller has changed password of the account etc...but this most likely won't happen
Last edited by Ic3man_SLO on Wed, 30th Mar 2016 19:29; edited 2 times in total
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| Posted: Wed, 30th Mar 2016 22:32 Post subject: |
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Obviously you can still buy legit DLC on your main account as long as it s from the same game region.
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