Two different PSN accounts on same console playing a game simultaneously

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#1 tbsdrumer
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My roommate and I bought FIFA 11 and want to play at the same time, but using our respective PSN accounts. In other words, my roommate wants his PSN to be signed and so do I at the same time. Is this possible?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

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#2 MrSelf-Destruct
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I wish. Unfortunately the PS3 doesn't have this. Whoever is player 2 is just player 2.
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#3 MrSelf-Destruct
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Then again, it may depend on the game. I just know that on Terminator Salvation my brother and I co-op'd but he couldn't use his PSN.
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#4 ChiliDragon
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You have to sign in to your account before you can load the game, and since you can only sign in to one account at the time, what you want is unfortunately not possible Sorry. :(
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#5 StealthMonkey4
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They should update this, 360 has had it since launch, I don't know why this wouldn't have been an obvious thing to include at launch.

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#6 hxczuner
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They should update this, 360 has had it since launch, I don't know why this wouldn't have been an obvious thing to include at launch.

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I'm pretty sure this is another one of those things that M'soft has a patent for. I remember that they couldn't do it because of a patent issue. Not entirely sure though, I could be wrong.
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#7 dk00111
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You have to sign in to your account before you can load the game, and since you can only sign in to one account at the time, what you want is unfortunately not possible Sorry. :(ChiliDragon
That's not true. Multi-account support is left up to developers. Some games like Resistance 2 and LBP support it, but I'm not sure if FIFA does.
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#9 touchyourtoes
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That's not true. Multi-account support is left up to developers. Some games like Resistance 2 and LBP support it, but I'm not sure if FIFA does. dk00111
This is correct. A buddy and I did this on Resistance 2 co-op so that we would both level up at the same time, and both stay leveled up for next time.
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[QUOTE="dk00111"]That's not true. Multi-account support is left up to developers. Some games like Resistance 2 and LBP support it, but I'm not sure if FIFA does. touchyourtoes
This is correct. A buddy and I did this on Resistance 2 co-op so that we would both level up at the same time, and both stay leveled up for next time.

Really? I didn't know that. Why isn't this supported by more games?
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#11 MrSelf-Destruct
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[QUOTE="ChiliDragon"]You have to sign in to your account before you can load the game, and since you can only sign in to one account at the time, what you want is unfortunately not possible Sorry. :(dk00111
That's not true. Multi-account support is left up to developers. Some games like Resistance 2 and LBP support it, but I'm not sure if FIFA does.

Yeah, that's why I second guessed my first answer. I remembered my wife and I using our respective accounts on LBP.
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#12 ChiliDragon
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[QUOTE="touchyourtoes"]This is correct. A buddy and I did this on Resistance 2 co-op so that we would both level up at the same time, and both stay leveled up for next time.hxczuner
Really? I didn't know that. Why isn't this supported by more games?

I didn't know that either... and now I'm curious about the same thing. Why won't more games do it?
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#13 BoxingTheStars
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the only game i have been able to sign into my profile and my roomates profile on my ps3 at the same time is with Borderlands

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#15 MrSelf-Destruct
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[QUOTE="hxczuner"][QUOTE="touchyourtoes"]This is correct. A buddy and I did this on Resistance 2 co-op so that we would both level up at the same time, and both stay leveled up for next time.ChiliDragon
Really? I didn't know that. Why isn't this supported by more games?

I didn't know that either... and now I'm curious about the same thing. Why won't more games do it?

Because, like most neato features like that, Sony does not require it like MS does. Heck trophies weren't even required at first.
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#16 kidunique
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[QUOTE="ChiliDragon"]You have to sign in to your account before you can load the game, and since you can only sign in to one account at the time, what you want is unfortunately not possible Sorry. :(dk00111
That's not true. Multi-account support is left up to developers. Some games like Resistance 2 and LBP support it, but I'm not sure if FIFA does.

I don't recall resistance 2 being capable of this.
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#17 ChiliDragon
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Because, like most neato features like that, Sony does not require it like MS does. Heck trophies weren't even required at first. MrSelf-Destruct
I actually don't care that much about trophies. :P But I would love to be able to play for example Eternal Sonata co-op with my husband, or DeathSpank. :)
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#18 RFmyrddin
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Resistance 2 was supporting multi-account in coop mode, I confirm. If it's let to the developper, it doesn't surprise me that there's not so much game that support it. After all, online gaming is so popular that not so much people share their screen to play online...

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#19 PSP107
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Sony should make multi login accounts and custom soundtrack a piroity.
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#20 dk00111
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[QUOTE="dk00111"][QUOTE="ChiliDragon"]You have to sign in to your account before you can load the game, and since you can only sign in to one account at the time, what you want is unfortunately not possible Sorry. :(kidunique
That's not true. Multi-account support is left up to developers. Some games like Resistance 2 and LBP support it, but I'm not sure if FIFA does.

I don't recall resistance 2 being capable of this.

They patched that in after its release. As far as the reasoning goes, I don't know. Waybe it's harder to implement on PSN, or maybe developers are too lazy to do it when they aren't required to.