Hanrahain Posted February 24, 2018 Share Posted February 24, 2018 I created a boosting session a few days ago to knock out some quick co-op trophies. Someone joins and we set a time. A day later I get a message from him/her saying "Hey, I know that you're most likely going to say no, but I still want to try. I was looking to expand my gaming experience by playing different kinds of games. I noticed you have a fairly large collection of games logged on your profile and I was curious. Would you like to game share with me to help me expand my gaming experience. I won't mess with your account or anything, just want to download and play some games that I don't have. Thanks". I respond with "I'm sorry but I'm not comfortable with that", and he/she responds with "Do you know if your friend would be ok with game sharing". What I want to know is why would anyone fall for this and think that giving a complete stranger your account information is a good idea? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Skirra Posted February 24, 2018 Share Posted February 24, 2018 There was a guy in this battlefield boosting group I was in as well who tried the same thing, trying to get free DLC from us. I called him out on it ( also saying to warn others that for him to be able to play the DLC on his account, he'd have to make his PS4 the primary console on YOUR account, which you cannot change for 6 months). He left a few minutes later without saying anything. Any account sharing, unless you are absolutely trusted with the other, is always a stupid idea. Hence why it is also not allowed on this site. Even worse: what if your creditcard / paypal is added to your PSN and he goes nuts downloading all kinds of stuff? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GT__Jedi Posted February 24, 2018 Share Posted February 24, 2018 Been there. Just said no. Eventually had to block them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Dr_Mayus Posted February 24, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted February 24, 2018 Because a lot of people hear "free games" and think "ok" Then they post on here and say "I WAS HACKED...HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN" 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Intresseklubben Posted February 24, 2018 Share Posted February 24, 2018 5 minutes ago, Dr_Mayus said: Because a lot of people hear "free games" and think "ok" Then they post on here and say "I WAS HACKED...HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN" Very sad but true. Don’t gameshare unless they are family (that’s not frowned upon right?). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Elvick_ Posted February 24, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted February 24, 2018 10 minutes ago, Intresseklubben said: Very sad but true. Don’t gameshare unless they are family (that’s not frowned upon right?). I wouldn't game share with anybody. Not even family. Family can screw you over too. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaivRules Posted February 24, 2018 Share Posted February 24, 2018 9 minutes ago, Intresseklubben said: Very sad but true. Don’t gameshare unless they are family (that’s not frowned upon right?). ALL account sharing (in the sense we are talking about) is frowned upon. Sony’s family accounts are really the closest thing to sanctioned account sharing. Or you can be like us old foggies and amass a physical collection and lend games out to real life friends and family. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Intresseklubben Posted February 24, 2018 Share Posted February 24, 2018 41 minutes ago, DaivRules said: ALL account sharing (in the sense we are talking about) is frowned upon. Sony’s family accounts are really the closest thing to sanctioned account sharing. Or you can be like us old foggies and amass a physical collection and lend games out to real life friends and family. Good to know. Haven’t game shared with anybody since my family knows nothing and have no interest in games. If they ever change their minds it’s good to know what’s right. Son get your own games damn it! (me in 10 years). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnowxSakura Posted February 24, 2018 Share Posted February 24, 2018 Report the messages if they were sent over psn 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HardXDXtraga Posted February 24, 2018 Share Posted February 24, 2018 Never had this happen but in 3 different occasions people tried to give me 10€ psn cards and all I had to do was give them my info, I guess I only find nice people ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidson2004 Posted February 24, 2018 Share Posted February 24, 2018 I don't GameShare at all period!! If you want to play that game so bad, go get it yourself. I've gotten several messages asking me if I want to loan them my account, I said no and they were blocked instantly. Even a few friends of mine wanted me to share my account with them because I have a few games they've always wanted to play, but was too cheap to get it themselves, told them no. In the age of gaming that we're living in, its WAY too easy to run off with someone's info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nightstream88 Posted February 24, 2018 Share Posted February 24, 2018 I don't gameshare with anybody And if anyone ask I usually report their account and block them luckily I think that has only happened once. Not trusting anyone with my account, not even family members. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrQuinnsey Posted February 24, 2018 Share Posted February 24, 2018 I gameshared on my old account with a dude I hardly knew, completely ruined my account and changed everything. I’ve gameshared with one person on this account but that took a couple years for me to feel comfortable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PooPooBlast Posted February 24, 2018 Share Posted February 24, 2018 3 hours ago, Elvick_ said: I wouldn't game share with anybody. Not even family. Family can screw you over too. Really? I would except nobody in my family plays much and if they do we just share a console Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super-Fly Spider-Guy Posted February 24, 2018 Share Posted February 24, 2018 My account (usually) has a friend's PS4 set as it's main. You wanna force PS+ on us, well enjoy getting only one sub, and one I'll pick up heavily on sale only at that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zolkovo Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 I personally have a dedicated account for purchasing anything from PSN so that I can share it with my siblings without risking any unwanted trophies/games/progress on this account. The only games purchased on this account are the monthly PS+ titles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassylvania Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 Unfortunately, people fall for scams all the time. It should be common sense to never give out your account information to anyone. I don't see a problem with sharing with your family, as long as you trust them. (I'll never forget when my brother deleted my DKC2 save file when I was at 99%...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 (edited) I thought game sharing is against Sony TOS anyways. If you are reported for gamesharing and get caught, do you really want to risk your account? Edited February 26, 2018 by ERGOPROXY-DECAY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DuckSwimmer Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 I have waaaay too many friends who want to game share with me just because my library of digital games is 500+.. the only person's PS4 my account is signed on other than my own is my fiance's cause duh.. lol. I would never trust anyone with my account information because I have poured too much money into this account just to lose it all. Simply not worth it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skateak Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 (edited) 13 minutes ago, DuckSwimmer said: I have waaaay too many friends who want to game share with me just because my library of digital games is 500+.. Same here. I had someone ask me just a couple months ago. Edited February 26, 2018 by skateak 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K_Raw21 Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 This happened to me recently when I was going for my Watch Dogs platinum. The guy sent me a message after we helped each other with the tracing or tracer trophy where you had to stalk each other basically. I just ignored the message and kept it moving. As of right now he is still on my friend's list until my next sweep of deleting people to make space for any future requests or friends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil_Joker88 Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 I had twice a message asking for game sharing so a stranger could a dlc mp session i set up (i.e. Crysis 3). I said no chance. Buy the stuff yourself Two times i was asked to gameshare in general. Both times i said i barely have any digital bought game so the other one lost interest I only talked to my stepbrother about gamesharing but after seeing that any good friendship/relationship can go south i decided never do it. Wouldn't want to loose my games bought Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EAGLEIYZ Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 Back in my PS3 days me and a friend met a completely random guy in a Call of Duty game and we hit it off and played together all day. He seemed like a nice and chill guy. The next day the guy asks if either of us would be kind enough to game share with him. I said no right away because, even though he seems like a nice guy, hes still a stranger. My very naive friend, however, agreed to game share with him. I had my doubts, but everything was normal for about a week or so. Then one day I get a PSN message from my friend. The moment I opened up the message I knew everything went downhill for my buddy. It was a message filled with a bunch of random profanities mostly directed at himself. I call up my friend to find out that the guy had completely changed his password(he was able to do so because my friend uses the same PSN and email password), was harassing his friends list with disgusting messages, and used my friend's credit card attached to the PSN store to buy random stuff. According to my friend, when he called up the PlayStation service he was able to get back the money he lost and they locked his account so that the guy wouldn't be able to log in again. He eventually got his account back (surprisingly he wasn't banned for sharing accounts), but he decided to delete it and make a new one, same with his email. Lesson learned, huh? So yea, don't game share unless its a close and trusting friend or family member. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSkyKing Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 I game share with one person only, and that's myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil_Joker88 Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 (edited) 56 minutes ago, EAGLEIYZ said: Lesson learned, huh? Yep, Sony can be nice and reasonable once in a lifetime Your friend is a lucky one Edited February 26, 2018 by Evil_Joker88 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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