A major advantage a PlayStation Plus subscription offers to new owners of the PlayStation 5 is immediate access to 20 high-quality PlayStation 4 games. Games like Uncharted 4, Until Dawn, Bloodborne, God of War, and a host of other are playable at no extra cost under the ‘PlayStation Plus Collection’ umbrella. Once claimed, these games are playable across both the PlayStation 5 and the PlayStation 4. Now, Sony is permanently banning some PlayStation 5 owners for exploiting this offer.

Sony has already issued a few permanent bans to some PlayStation 5 owners who sell access to this Plus collection of games. How the PS5 owners do this is by creating listings online for fees as low as $8; and then they ask people to share their account credentials to gain access to the collection. Shared credentials can then be used to create an account on a PS5; which inadvertently gives that account instant access to the games on the originally associated PS4.

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Besides the fact that this technique is exploitative and Sony does not want to encourage it; it also has security implications. Sharing account credentials with strangers on the internet is dangerous.

As such, Sony is handing out bans to players on both sides – sellers and buyers – for mutual contribution in the shenanigan. The sellers have been banned permanently; while the buyers have been banned for two months. An account ban simply means losing access to all content tied to it including; games purchased using those credentials. For the selling parties, this means permanent loss while for people buying their services, this means that they will be able to access their content from the same account again after two months.

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