got my refurbished unit back yesterday, has 4 usb ports and looks pretty good. cant tell any differences at all. of course, i lost all of my saves and my downloaded content, but whatever.
i called up sony because all of my activations are used up to see how i could lie and get my stuff reset. the first time i tried the high road and said how i have replaced 2 systems and somehow my activations are all up.
'did you ever log on at a friends house?'
'well, i might have, but i really dont remember that happening and i dont know how i could find out if i did do that.' (truth is i shared my log in info with 3 friends, just so they could download some of the early games when they first bought their systems like blast factor and flow. i have since reset my password and none of them can log on- they dont need to steal all of my rockband music! also, two of them had their ps3s die, so you can really reset activations on a broken unit)
'thats no problem sir, we can get this all worked out. please hold'
at this point i had lots of faith and was pretty optimistic that yea, this was going to work out, completely forgetting that i had gotten this feeling when i called sony before. after about 10 minutes of holding, the operator comes back on the phone.
'sir, we cannot reset the activations for your broken systems, you have to deactivate your account from your friends playstations.'
'well, i dont really know how i am going to be able to do that, i dont even remember doing it on any other systems.'
'sorry, but that is what you're going to have to do.'
'ok.... thanks.'
so yea, screw that idea. i guess i am goign to have to go the other way and just lie my ass off, which worked for my friend. i called back 2 hours later, claiming that i had replaced my playstations and that at one point early in my gaming career i think someone got my log on information and bought some games, but i changed the password and everything is fine now, i dont know how those activations got used up. of course, they had a record of my earlier call, so they kind of questioned me about that, to which i said that i had never shared my log in information with anyone else and i had never game shared. hmmm, thats odd is the reply, and after some sitting on hold for awhile i am told i will get a call back the next day to discuss the issue further.
i am trying to hold out hope and get this stuff reset. i mean, does getting your activations reset make any difference with your limits on how many times you can download a game? if it doesnt matter, then why dont you worry more about how many times my stuff has been downloaded instead of activations. i have at least $80 in rockband songs downloaded, and they have all been activated by me and me alone. the fact that the only way i can deactivate a system is by physically getting on that system is just plain annoying.
also, anyone who wants to lecture me on using up activations and its not sonys problem and its all my own, save your breath and dont be a dick.
and I saw this:
