Don’t Outsmart Sony: Abuse of PS Plus Collection Free Games Activation on PS4 Punished

Together with the start of sales Playstation 5 company Sony launched a new program as part of its subscription service called PlayStation Plus Collection… The essence of the system is extremely simple – all owners PS5with the standard PS Plus plan, in addition to the usual privileges, they get 20 free extra games for PlayStation 4including hits like God of war, Persona 5, The last of us remastered, and many others.

An attractive offer officially passes by players on PS4, but here cunning gamers have found a loophole – by activating the games mentioned above on your account via PS5, you can access them including on PS4

Taking into account such a simple manipulation, many users PS4not planning to buy PS5 in the near future, they began to ask the owners of the new console “activate” for them PlayStation Plus Collection… Someone agreed to the request without any selfish intent, and some began to take money for it and even post ads on trading floors.

For a while, such an algorithm seemed quite viable, but what was happening, apparently, did not like the management very much. Sony

Messages began to appear on the network that activation abuse PlayStation Plus Collection with one PS5 leads to blocking both the account of the owner of the new console and the profile of the person with PS4, to whom he tried to open access to a set of free games

Russian premiere of the console Playstation 5 took place November 19

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According to the latest information, profile locks are caused by an internal security system Sony, launched under a number of conditions, including the activation of content in PS Store on one console from multiple accounts (over 50) registered in different regions

A similar system was implemented by technical specialists Sony in order to secure profiles to which unauthorized access could be obtained. Accounts through which “purchases” are made are blocked for up to two months, in turn “home“the account gets a permanent ban

As a result, activate PlayStation Plus Collection it is quite possible for your friends on several profiles, without fear of falling under a wave of blocking.

If it detects abuse of dozens of accounts, Sony’s security system will respond accordingly.

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