What is gamesharing and how to make it work.

1. GAMESHARING
What is it ?
How does it work ?
How can I do it properly ?

2. Gamesharing
What is it ?
Imagine four good friends. Jake, Tim, Ronny and Barry.
They all have a playstation 4. They each have enough money to buy a game.
Jake Tim Ronny Barry

3. Gamesharing
What is it ?
Instead of all buying the same game they all want, they decide to buy each
a different game, and only one of them takes a playstation plus subscription.
Gamesharing
doesn’t works with
physical games.

4. Gamesharing
What is it ?
By using gamesharing, they all can play each of the four games,
and even share the playstation plus subscription together.

5. Gamesharing
What is it ?
IS IT LEGAL ?
It’s not illegal. Sony has put it in their system so family and friends
don’t have to buy the same game twice to play together.
Of course, they would
prefer it that you buy
everything double…
but no, it’s not illegal !

6. Gamesharing
How does it work ?
Let’s take Tim as an example. He bought a PS4.
His accountname is “TIM” and his email is ”tim@hotmail.com”.
His password is “TIMPASS”. He activated 2-step verification.
He bought a few digital games and has a ps+ subscription.

7. 2-step verification means when someone logs into your psn,
they need a code that is send to your mobile. This protects
you from hackers, and nobody will get access to your psn
without you knowing it.

8. Gamesharing
How does it work ?
Barry creates a new user “Tim” on his ps4 with the login
information he got from Tim. By going to library / purchased,
he can see and download all Tim’s games.
If Barry would play now, he would be “Tim”
and the trophies would be Tim’s.
That’s not the best way to do it.
Barry must switch back to his own account.

9. Gamesharing
How does it work ?
A playstation account can be
activated or deactivated as primary.
To play one of your friend’s games,
you have to make his account primary on your playstation.
Deactivate Tim as primary Activate Tim as primary
Since an account can only be primary
on one console at a time, Tim needs
to deactivate it on his own console.
This causes no problem for Tim at all.
He can always play his games.

10. Gamesharing
How does it work ?
Barry has Tim’s account as primary on his playstation. Nobody
else can gameshare Tim’s games while Barry during that time.
Barry has switched back to his own account and can play all
Tim’s games, and even enjoy the playstation plus subscription.
Gamesharing allows for two people to
play simultaneous. They can even play
the same game together online.

11. Gamesharing
How can I do it properly ?
In order to get the friendliest gamesharing experience,
there are some easy rules to follow :

12. • Make a user for every gamesharer.
You have to do this anyway to gameshare.
Get used to switching accounts on the fly.
• Organise the games.
If you gameshare with many people, it’s easier for you
to know what account you must activate as primary
if you organise the games in a specific folder.
If somebody has multiple accounts, like a european
account, an american account, a hongkong account
and a japanese account, then make a seperate folder
for each account.
Gamesharing
How can I do it properly ?

13. • Deactivate primary after each gamesession.
If you keep the account primary, you hijack the console from gamesharing.
This means if Tim gameshares from Barry and leaves the primary on,
nobody else can gameshare from Barry, even if Tim’s console is off.
The right way to do it is :
• check if the owner is online or if another friend is gamesharing from him.
If not, you can log in with the gamesharer’s account.
• If you need to download games, go to the library / purchased and download
the games you want. Go to accountmanager and choose “activate as your
primary ps4” and activate. Switch to your own account and enjoy the games.
• When you finish playing :
Switch back to the gamesharer’s account.
Go to accountmanager and choose “activate as your primary ps4”
and deactivate.
• Switch back to your own account.
Gamesharing
How can I do it properly ?
Getting this screen? This means somebody else has this account
Set on primary on his ps4. You can’t play untill they deactivate it.

14. • What you can NEVER do :
• Never play as your friend’s account (unless specifically allowed).
Your trophies would be his. You could overwrite his savegames.
• Never change his password or email. This is called hacking.
If anyone does this, you would be unable to log in on your psn account.
All it takes is one phonecall to Sony to get this straight, but it’s embarassing.
• Don’t spread somebody’s login info.
You can gameshare your own account and games, but don’t start gamesharing with games that you didn’t buy yourself.
Anyway, with 2way verification this doesn’t work, as they need an sms-code to log in.
• Stay out of people’s playstation store. I don’t think anybody would like it if you spend their money.
You can’t buy stuff for yourself and you have no access to the creditcard. Simply, don’t even think about it.
• Never forget to deactivate primary after playing, otherwise you hijack the console
and keep others from gamesharing.
• Don’t scam. Scamming means being annoying at trying to get somebody to gameshare with you.
It’s a privilege if you may.
Gamesharing
How can I do it properly ?

15. • Use Fun2Share (facebook page)
Luc has gathered the gameslist of our gamesharing friends and is adding the new
games as the gamesharers keep him updated. Check the albums ! This makes it easy
to check who has what games to offer, and under what account they can be found.
Gamesharing is not a trade !
We are happy to let others enjoy our games.
But of course it’s logical most people will easier gameshare with a friend who
has games they are interested in,than to gameshare with a total stranger who has
zero games. So if you feel like buying a digital game from time to time, that’s not
such a bad idea. Sony is paying me to say this by the way  .
If there are many friends gamesharing, try to make an arrangement who plays when.
Easy when the others live in another timezone, but if for some reason you all want to
play on the same account at the same time…
Well, we’re all grownups, I think we can handle this.
Gamesharing
How can I do it properly ?

16. Enjoy gamesharing, not only to be able to play a multitude of games,
but most of all to make great new friends !