Ps5 fails to deliver simple fair family account features

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#1 redphoenix80
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The ps5 game share option is as old and pointless as the ps4 version. Families with multiple consoles and multiple children aka "gamer families" want simple and fully featured family accounts. Once again Sony has failed miserably at delivering. One family account with all family members added sharing all content any member buys with each other at the same time on any console the member is logged into. No need for primary systems anymore. Scratch it! One price for PS plus for the entire family enjoyed on any console the family member is logged in. Allow all members to play the same digital games all at once with each other or all at once with whoever else. Clearly to keep abuse under control the family members should be limited to 5 or 6. Perhaps a premium price for the plus for families? Maybe $10 more a year? No family wants game sharing. Sorry not even close. I want to have my own wallet and control it and the sub accounts aka minor kids but I wanna add my mom who lives here too as an adult account and she can control her own wallet and bam anything I buy she can access and vice versa. Of course content can still be limited for kids via parental controls. This means a link of the subs to one or more possibly, adult family member who makes the parental control decisions for the fam. This is the way digital content is leaning. For example Apple Arcade family plan except allowing ALL adult members their own wallet and purchase ability. We dont wanna pay for plus 3 times in our house its outrageous and thats even after playing the set kids system as system primary game. Sony simplify and reward families with real family accounts. Also psnow family account one fair fee everyone on every console in the family gets to play all at once or otherwise. Families hold back on spending on consoles, games and dlc because they cant share with everyone and wont all buy 4 copies of the games etc.. Ps5 game share is not it.

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#2 deactivated-60bf765068a74
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holy fk dude thats one big wall of text lol can you spread stuff out a bit?

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#3 VFighter
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Sorry, but I'm not reading any of that alt.

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#4 redphoenix80
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Im a girl but sorry for no line breaks.

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#5  Edited By deactivated-618bc23e9b1c9
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I like how Microsoft handles this: Anyone who has a profile on a system can use the main account's games, subs and online subscriptions.

Same goes with Nintendo under the family plan.

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#6 faponte13
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@briguyb13:

Thats how it works on Playstation. Anyone who has an account on my ps4 can use my games.

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#8  Edited By WitIsWisdom
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Anyone can play off the main account or as a guest. However, they can't play online simultaneously without separate online pass privileges. It's exactly the same for all three consoles (PS, Xbox, Switch).

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#9 VFighter
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@redphoenix80: What does you being a "girl" have to do with a giant wall of BS text from an older alt account?

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#10 Duckyindiana
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@vfighter: And yet you came to comment why do that and not read it! You that upset he said something negative about Sony

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#11 jeffbuckley1
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At least psn is cheaper than xbox gold. Jeez 84 quid a year just for online. No wonder xbox lost the console war.

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#12 sealionact
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@jeffbuckley1: You can get a year of Live Ultimate for less than that, and that includes Xbox Live, Game pass console, EA play, Games with Gold, Xcloud, game pass for PC and a month of Disney plus for good measure.

3rd party sites still sell one year of Live for 60 quid, but it's deffo worth to upgrade to ultimate.

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#13 VFighter
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@Duckyindiana: 2019, 45 post, it's a slightly older alt account, why would I bother reading after seeing that?

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#14 sealionact
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@vfighter: She was replying to someone who called her a dude.

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#15 SheevPalpamemes
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Tl:dr

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#16 Pedro
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I am not sure how Sony drop the ball when no company offers what you are requesting OP. Please feel free to correct if I am wrong.

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#17 rzxv04
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Sony usually fails to deliver.

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#18 Telekill
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I'm not really following. As the parent, I'm the primary account on my kid's systems. I buy games under the main account and everyone has access to those games under their profile. Case in point, I bought Ghost of a Tale for my daughter digitally and downloaded it onto the PS4 she inherited from me yesterday (Christmas). She has played it on her account on the PS4. It also shows up on the PS5 under my account.

Not sure what the complaint is.

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#19 deactivated-6092a2d005fba
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@vfighter said:

Sorry, but I'm not reading any of that alt.

@vfighter said:

@redphoenix80: What does you being a "girl" have to do with a giant wall of BS text from an older alt account?

Says you're not reading a wall of text and yet call it BS, someone did read it didn't they lol.

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#20 Kaczmar
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The only limitation I have seen with my family set up is that only the PSN account tied to PS+ can use the online game save storage. Everyone else is out of luck. Which I believe is different than XBOX Live.

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#21 VFighter
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@i_p_daily: Nope, I did read somebody's take on her wall of unreadable text, and as I expected it was BS.