Hope you enjoy the video guys. Before anyone asks, the other 2 accounts on the PS4 are my old one and a friends, not customers of my trophy service :) Time Stamps: 00:18 - What are Blank Accounts and why are they so helpful. 06:45 - Explanation of how they work. 10:34 - Demonstration of how they work (including relevant info regarding console activation).
StayPationt Trophies : Wow thats awesome. Can we use the backup ps4 to external hdd with all these accounts? in that way, we can backup the blank accounts, signin to an account, sync, dn restore the blank accounts from hdd, link another account, rinse and repeat, therefore, all my friends having the plats from a same blank account. can we do it?
I've never really dealt with backing up accounts but I VERY much doubt it or that would have totally broken the trophy system years ago and we would all know about it. I'm guessing you probably need the account to be a PSN one to be able to back it up if that is a feature.
StayPationt Trophies: Thank you for this very informative video! I didn't know you could do this with your PS3 and PS4 system until now. I may give this feature a go as I become more serious as a trophy hunter.
Tried it out and it worked, although I got an error when signing in to the test account(my first account which is now retired) but after I backed out the old account was there and the trophies were transferred. Already set up Blank Users with Sly character faces for Yooka-Laylee(which I will give to my fourth account as I already have gotten some trophies on my 100% completion account), Persona 5 and Dragon Quest Heroes 2 when I get it in May.
It doesn't matter if you have already earned some trophies on the account. If you earn them again on a blank account and sync them to the account that already has a few it will simply use the earliest time stamp (I believe its the earliest, or maybe the first one to have been synced)
Excellent technique - I often feel I have to finish games that I started and realize I don't like at all... this way I can try games with no negative consequences
I've only just started trophy hunting and I absolutely love it :) my first platinum was the inner world such a easy platinum and I enjoyed playing the game , I also suffer from anxiety and collecting trophies and earning platinum's help me with my Anxiety ^__^
Hey Tom. Have you explained setting up other region accounts and how to go about buying other region games and playing them on your primary account. I'd love to see a video on this topic. Maybe this series...
First things first... "How To Be A Trophy Hunter" series is well detailed and so much educated!!! As a newfresh subscriber to your channel, I wish you'll continue this series in the future!!! Now, the thing you mentioned about deleting games from the trophy list with 0% completion blow my mind, but also concerns me!!! I have my PSN account for all those years, and the past two years I realised some things about "Blank Accounts", even though I had no idea there was a name for that process!!! So with the excitement of downloading free demos from the PS Store, there were also games that were transferred to my trophy list which until to this day I have them with 0% completion!!! I'm not the kind of trophy hunter that will care much for his completion percentage since in the past I purchased games with trophies being unobtainable and I was aware of it, BUT it annoys me having games in my trophy list that was never my option to have them there!!! Now here's my question to this topic... Is there any risks to this option??? I'm asking because I made the mistake to have my PSN ID with my name, and now I don't want to change it because it will affect my PS3 games, so if I do delete the 0% completion games from my trophy list, will that affect anything similar??? Thanks in advance!!! :) !!!
Thanks for this comprehensive video. I wish I knew this information sooner. Keep up the great work I really enjoy all your videos as you explain everything in detail and make everything so easy
Once again, thanks for being so helpful to us trophy hunters! Though personally, I don't see myself ever using this trick. I like having all of my trophies listed on my PSN, even if I barely make any progress on it: feels like a large list of games I've played, and how long I've played them. So I'm content with having a bunch of low % lists on my profile. I can understand why others would like this trick, but nah, I feel like if I used it, it would go against my reason for trophy hunting.
Ye thats fair enough, for a lot of people their account is a display of the games they've played and for how long so they want all of them to be included :)
Have heard you talk about blank accounts before but never really understood how they worked... until now! :) This is great. Will be able to play a ton of games now that I already own (mostly via PS+) that I had avoided due to the potential low completion rate. Cheer Tom
This is very useful, very beneficial to know because I have wasted unfinished trophies that I will never compete because I lost interest because as you say its "long wind" or grinding perhaps.
The only games I don't go for are games I dont like and games that are "beat the game x amount of times" because I enjoy playing a game once from start to finish and do anything and everything in the game!
Thanks for all your effort and time and research gone into these videos. Ignore the haters, you're doing great work here. I (and many others) really appreciate your work! :D
Tom, I don't know if you are aware of this or not. But there's a maximum number of lifetime (total) users/accounts (including deleted ones) on each console. The number is 64 on PS3 and you can look it up online for confirmation. There's currently no known limit on PS4 but I'm pretty sure there is as this was put in place to prevent account/console sharing. I thought this was an important point to know even if the limit is very high. Lastly, I would like to thank you for the amazing work you've been doing. I've stumbled into your channel by accident few months ago and I am a fan ever since. Keep up the good work.
Is this limit only for accounts you create on the consoles itself? What if you create those accounts on your PC (which is what I'm usually doing because it's faster) and then log in on the console? Does it still decrease the number of total accounts for the console? Regarding the PS3, Sony actually says "The maximum number of Sony Entertainment Network accounts that can be *created* on a single PS3 system is 64." So maybe only those accounts that were *created* on the console itself are considered? @Samsung 3.0 Note/Tab If you use blank accounts for most new games as described in the video, you'll surely hit 100+ sooner or later.
I've only been trophy hunting for about 9 months now (with a lot of help from your guides). Got my first platinum in July 2016, and got my 30th today. Since then I've wished my % was higher. Now I know this little trick I can get it higher (not 100% but that's fine). Thanks
Thanks to this, I'm able to try out every game I wouldn't have otherwise. I tried 10 second ninja x and god it is tough, so tough I'm shocked there is no platinum! I won't devote my time and energy into beating this one...
I watched your video but it feels wierd to delete the main account . So i have a more specific question . Got a blank account as you showed . I replayed an easy game ... access denied . So i have it platinum on my main account and now on a blank one . If i follow the instructions .. i delete the main account ... reload it on the blank one and then will have this game twice platinumed ( if this word exist ) on my main account along all the other trophies . Am i correct or did i miss something ..?? Cheers mate
does doing this delete all your save data not in the cloud? Also does this delete screenshots and videos you have taken in games? I mean all this from your main account when you delete it?
but what happens if you create a blank account, play a game, earn a trophy, but later find you dont like the game or dont want to go after all the trophies, and you delete that blank account. what happens to that trophy?
Thank you for your video series about trophies! I really enjoyed watching it. I would consider myself a completionist and I'm always trying to 100% games when I can (even games I don't necessarily like too much if it's not too painful), but at the same time I feel like my trophies are also kind of part of my gaming life and that includes incomplete games as well. There is always a reason why some games are not completed, right? I agree that from a visual standpoint it looks annoying and too often I had thoughts about starting over because I got some games on my list which I can never complete due to server shutdowns or games that I simply got tired of at that moment or because certain circumstances in life got in the way, and haven't touched them since then. But another way to think of it is that my trophy list shows what I've played, tried, liked, disliked, achieved or not achieved in the past, making it my personal gaming history. Manipulating it with the help of blank accounts would distort my own history and hide facts. I even started to collect unearned trophies for games I can't fully complete anymore, to simply get as much as I can. Yeah, it's visually nice and pretty to have a continuous 100% completion, but is it really natural? And at the same time I would still be aware of the fact that there were games I played or tried but didn't manage/want to achieve 100% or games that I disliked, so I tricked the system and basically hid the fact that I spent time with those games while still knowing I did. It's a bit unnatural, in my opinion. When I started to think of it that way, it eased my trophy ocd a bit and I'm getting much less frequent thoughts about starting over and dropping my almost 10-year old account. Think of your account and trophy list a bit like of a relationship with someone you fell in love with. You don't just love the person for their looks, but you love the person for what's inside with all their flaws and imperfections and you stay with them despite all tragedies that might have happened in the past. So for anyone else having the same dilemma and constantly considering starting over and abandoning their accounts they've worked so hard on for all those years.. Be honest and true to yourself and your trophies, try to accept your natural progression and history, see the positive things in it and don't let the flaws eat you up. :) (I could have worded all this better but English is not my first language, lol)
not sure if i asked this before.. but let's say you have 10% completion on a game on your main account. and you do 70% on a separate blank account. what happens if you then sign in to your own with the new tophies? will the 10% ones be overridden? or ignored?
No. If you earn the same trophy twice the one that was synced to your account first will be the one that's staying. The new one will be overwritten once you log into your account on your blank account. As for the trophies you hadn't earned before, those will be synced to your account. I've not tried this with a blank account but I do have 2 PS4s and have forgotten to sync trophies before playing a game and thus earning a trophy I had already gotten on the other PS4. Essentially the same thing.
Can anyone confirm if it works? I earned a lot of trophies for a game on a blank account and want to start with that game's online trophies but I can't sync it together yet because I'm also busy with a game on my main account.
Hello mate .. i have 2 questions for you How is it possible to get twice or even 3 times the same platinum with only one game Secondly , do you know how i could get my trophies from my ps3 knowing that it s not the same ps name ?
so its like you are adding you psn to this account which then syncs back with the one additional game. so there is no way of losing your main account or any information
I hate how people made accounts and never used them or just played a couple games on them then never used it again cause that took a lot of names which I wanted when I got my Ps
Something to be careful of when doing this is to not wait too long before you sync the trophies to your account!! I can't stress this enough, your account is going to look very funky if you wait too long and people might suspect you of cheating. This is especially true if you play a lot of games in between or you got several blank accounts lined up like this at the same time. The more it happens, the more suspicious it will look, even if it's totally legit. Just a friendly warning! :)
son on the ps3 1 i create a blank acount get the trophies, 2 get the trophies, 3 log my PSN user on my blanck account ? (in the case of the ps3, it saids than it will delete the games if i deleite my account.)
Make sure to upload your save files and sync your trophies before deleting your account. Does it delete your downloads too does it? It's been so long since I've used it on PS3 I forget.
There’s not a way to back up a save file on your blank account correct? I tried to copy saved file to a USB and it prompted me to sign into an account. Is there a way I can save my files on the blank account?
46 platinums in... and I didn't know about blank accounts. I don't really care about my completion percentage, but I would've done this for games I just wanted to try out only. Old video, but it was a good one. Would it still work if I just use one blank account for multiple games?
Hmm.. as well as saved data it says screenshots and video clips are also deleted along with the user. is there anyway to back those up also? Sorry if i missed something.
I have a question here before doing this. Ok let's say I have pictures in a folder and a background on my main account will I lose all that when I delete it off my PS4 or do I need to make a backup save?
wow this is a game changer 😁 I'm gonna use this! thanks for the guide!! are you gonna do a guide for having different region accounts? would love an Asian account!
That's fine. There used to occasionally be some issues on PS3 if you didn't sync the existing trophies first etc but that was the same as earning some on one console and some on another, there was never a permanent issue though. On PS4 it works perfectly.
StayPationt Trophies so now does handle the older trophies that were earned first? Does it overwrite them so to speak once you log your guest account into your existing psn?
I never used blank accounts, but they do exactly what I expected. My completion is about 90% without ever using one. I'm not too worried about it, some incomplete games here and there are acceptable. With that said, while they are without a doubt useful for completionists, I don't think I'll be using many blank accounts in the future. I'm too much of a casual gamer to care. But it was a highly informational video. Well done, this should be a great help to aspiring and experienced trophy hunters alike who care about their completion percentage.
Thanks bud. And ye I rarely use the feature, it's just nice to know its an option. For instance I really fancied playing Trackmania Turbo but didn't want to feel pressured into trying to platinum it so I blanked it :P Most games I play on my account straight out of the gate though.
Understandable. By the way, I didn't know about time stamps on PS4. I always wondered what would happen on PS4 since I got some missing time stamps by letting my sister play some games on her PS3, then sync the trophies to my account. I have to thank her for one game at 1%, another one at around 5% and one or two Assassin's Creed II trophies... Not sure if it was worth it. It messed up more than I expected. Now it says I earned my first trophy in Assassin's Creed II and also overwrote my time stamps for all trophies she earned that were already on my account with a missing time stamp. My real first trophy is from Final Fantasy XIII. While it can be useful, one shouldn't get careless. At least on PS3, this can mess up completion times, time stamps and the order in which trophies were earned. No idea about PS4, but it can't hurt to be careful. Here's how I got my missing time stamps: Earn trophies -> sync trophies-> let my sister play the games on a blank account & earn the same trophies again -> sync trophies -> Congrats to messed up time stamps. Does it always create missing time stamps on PS3?
I think your issue is unrelated. I believe playing on a console without a time set can cause missing stamps. I have used blank accounts for years on PS3 as well and have never had a missing time stamp. I don't think it was the use of a blank account that caused it to be honest.
Fatality Shift It's super easy. Just make a new email, use it to register a new PSN account with a fake UK address (or create one online using an address creator) and obviously set your country to United Kingdom. Then you'll need to buy credit to use in the store (as you can't use a non UK bank card in the UK store) so just buy a UK PSN card from somewhere like CD Keys/Play Asia/PC Game Supply, redeem the code and you're good to go and spend some £'s 🎮🇬🇧. Activate as primary to play any games on your main account, gain trophies etc. DLC will be affected by region, so keep that in mind if considering a game you may want to purchase DLC for. Stick to your country for purchasing any games you want DLC for.
I'm very interested in learning how Stacking works...i.e. US and UK games on my US account. If you have the ability to do a video on that I think it would be helpful for a number of people. Thanks! Keep up the very useful and informative videos.
Sometimes I look at my low completion trophy list and see them as to-do lists I don't mind people seeing those because eventually I'll get back to them I'm just going to keep one account but thank you for telling me about this I don't mind people seeing my trophy list with 1% maybe 5% trophies because I'm getting back to them I'm just enjoying the games I got I have hundreds of games in my collection I went back to Skyrim and I got 100% of the trophies including the DLC ones and now I'm interested in going back to Fallout 4 and getting the platinum in that that's why I never sell or trade in my games because I may want to go back to those games eventually I'm going to go back to my PS3 as well and try to get as many trophies as possible.
StayPationt, I have two other accounts on my system where I have trophies and plats from other games, but the problem is they are actual accounts with their own profiles. Is there a way I can transfer those platinum's to my main account?
Okay thanks. I do have another question that isn't related. I want to do a live stream on my PS4 but I don't own any of the popular games. I own all the popular games from last year and the year before, but when I play them live people come on and stay for like less than a minute and it's frustrating. Do you have any tips?
So for game sharing, will I have to activate/deactivate everytime I want to use a blank account ? My trophy account lives on a console, that it is not the primary PS4.
Oh yeah, one more question! I have trophies on a game in my main account. If I use a Blank User to get the platinum on that game, could I transfer it over and if so, will the trophies I earned earlier on the main account be overwritten?
That's good to know! Thanks! ^_^ Oh, by the by, I do want to add in the catch you failed to mention - to do anything online, you need to have a subscription to Playstation Plus. So you cannot upload your saves to the online servers unless you get a subscription to Plus, though I think you can still transfer them to an external device thanks to the 4.5 Patch.
Thats actually irrelevant because a blank account is completely offline anyway so PS Plus or no PS Plus has no bearing on it, its impossible to upload either way :)
I'm not talking about uploading saves from your blank account, I'm talking about uploading saves from your main account because you have to delete it from your PS4 to sync the blank account to it. If your main account is connected, they won't let you upload to the cloud if you're aren't a PS Plus member.
Ahh I see! Sorry ye you're right, that goes without saying I guess but is of course a valid point to remember. And ye you can upload to a thumb drive or something now :)
Would this work, if I had some gameplay on my main account for a game... say Skyrim SE... opened a blank to get plat, then will it override on my main?
i am do a Blank Accounts i am do GRIM FANDANGO REMASTERED and i may do all the drive club like it as will i have plat drive club can i do the dlc on blank account
I treat my games like girlfriends. I only chose the ones I can commit too. If its not what I expected, I still try 100%. Sometimes I go back cause I can do more to earn a true 100%. At the end of the day, I don't try games out. I make choices based on my hypothesis of the game. The longest I've taken to 100% a game was 2.5 years lol
Motorstorm R.C. I wasn't fond of the Camera and control style, although I love racing games. It took me 2 years and 7 months to complete as I gave up and returned down the line. Google me as SourAyy and the first link is my trophy list and account.
Are you sure this isn't against Sony's Terms of Service? I planned on using this method for Bloodborne but I'm worried that by doing so my account will be banned or put in jeopardy....
I might try this as I keep making my acc look bad with adding games that I then don't get round to finishing. I worry though,ever since I got ylod on ps3 and hadn't synchronised my latest trophies to the server,that if anything happens to the console then I've lost it all. I now tend to sync and upload my save quite often. Either way,great vid as per usual :-)
oh man, this is on ps3 too haha. Would've used it long ago, instead of being forced to play games I didn't want, or stuck with incomplete trophy lists, or deleting the original user account before synching..Btw any long term consequences on the system HD etc. Because on ps3 you had to use safemode after doing that. Btw no way around for online trophies right? They have to earned on the main account.
Of course not :) As long as they're all synced to your account. You saw me delete myself during this video. If you delete a blank account you would lose them.
Thanks for the reply! I wouldn't mind deleting a blank user if I decide not to transfer the trophies (like I fail to get the plat because it was too frustrating - wish I had learned how to do this before I created my fourth account so I didn't have to make a fifth! :( )
I can't record Vita I'm afraid. You would just reformat your Vita (after uploading your saves) then not sign into a PSN account when you're setting it up again. Then sign in when the trophies are earned. I believe it works the same but have never use it.
A warning: Some games have means of protecting themselves from blank accounts. For example, A Hat In Time can't be done this way as the game disables trophies if you play this on a blank account. I found that out the hard way. Gears for Breakfast doesn't want you to play the game on a blank account. ;p
Mind = Blown. I had no idea you could do that. I saw that you had 2 accounts labeled US and Japan... How do you set up an account in a different region, be able to play those games and get them on your original account? Is it the same?
William Loggins once you make a foreign account, you can activate that account as a primary system. then buy psn cards from that region, buy games from their store and you'll be able to access them from your main account.
What's funny is, if Sony allows us to delete trophies then ALL that talk you're talking about blank accounts should i play this is this hard or not ..all that will be gone i mean you wouldn't make this video lol
Hope you enjoy the video guys. Before anyone asks, the other 2 accounts on the PS4 are my old one and a friends, not customers of my trophy service :) Time Stamps:
00:18 - What are Blank Accounts and why are they so helpful.
06:45 - Explanation of how they work.
10:34 - Demonstration of how they work (including relevant info regarding console activation).
StayPationt Trophies : Wow thats awesome. Can we use the backup ps4 to external hdd with all these accounts? in that way, we can backup the blank accounts,
signin to an account,
sync,
dn restore the blank accounts from hdd,
link another account,
rinse and repeat,
therefore,
all my friends having the plats from a same blank account.
can we do it?
I've never really dealt with backing up accounts but I VERY much doubt it or that would have totally broken the trophy system years ago and we would all know about it. I'm guessing you probably need the account to be a PSN one to be able to back it up if that is a feature.
StayPationt Trophies: Thank you for this very informative video! I didn't know you could do this with your PS3 and PS4 system until now. I may give this feature a go as I become more serious as a trophy hunter.
Tried it out and it worked, although I got an error when signing in to the test account(my first account which is now retired) but after I backed out the old account was there and the trophies were transferred. Already set up Blank Users with Sly character faces for Yooka-Laylee(which I will give to my fourth account as I already have gotten some trophies on my 100% completion account), Persona 5 and Dragon Quest Heroes 2 when I get it in May.
It doesn't matter if you have already earned some trophies on the account. If you earn them again on a blank account and sync them to the account that already has a few it will simply use the earliest time stamp (I believe its the earliest, or maybe the first one to have been synced)
Excellent technique - I often feel I have to finish games that I started and realize I don't like at all... this way I can try games with no negative consequences
I've only just started trophy hunting and I absolutely love it :) my first platinum was the inner world such a easy platinum and I enjoyed playing the game , I also suffer from anxiety and collecting trophies and earning platinum's help me with my Anxiety ^__^
Please tell me you PS$ tag name Victoria.
Right same bro I know it’s a game and it means nothing in reality , but it’s a sense of yes I did it like u finished something’ 😁
Hey Tom. Have you explained setting up other region accounts and how to go about buying other region games and playing them on your primary account. I'd love to see a video on this topic. Maybe this series...
Its in the pipeline :)
First things first...
"How To Be A Trophy Hunter" series is well detailed and so much educated!!!
As a newfresh subscriber to your channel, I wish you'll continue this series in the future!!!
Now, the thing you mentioned about deleting games from the trophy list with 0% completion blow my mind, but also concerns me!!!
I have my PSN account for all those years, and the past two years I realised some things about "Blank Accounts", even though I had no idea there was a name for that process!!!
So with the excitement of downloading free demos from the PS Store, there were also games that were transferred to my trophy list which until to this day I have them with 0% completion!!!
I'm not the kind of trophy hunter that will care much for his completion percentage since in the past I purchased games with trophies being unobtainable and I was aware of it, BUT it annoys me having games in my trophy list that was never my option to have them there!!!
Now here's my question to this topic...
Is there any risks to this option???
I'm asking because I made the mistake to have my PSN ID with my name, and now I don't want to change it because it will affect my PS3 games, so if I do delete the 0% completion games from my trophy list, will that affect anything similar???
Thanks in advance!!!
:) !!!
Thanks for this comprehensive video. I wish I knew this information sooner.
Keep up the great work I really enjoy all your videos as you explain everything in detail and make everything so easy
Thanks bud :)
Once again, thanks for being so helpful to us trophy hunters! Though personally, I don't see myself ever using this trick. I like having all of my trophies listed on my PSN, even if I barely make any progress on it: feels like a large list of games I've played, and how long I've played them. So I'm content with having a bunch of low % lists on my profile. I can understand why others would like this trick, but nah, I feel like if I used it, it would go against my reason for trophy hunting.
Ye thats fair enough, for a lot of people their account is a display of the games they've played and for how long so they want all of them to be included :)
True for me 2
Damn I miss you Tom
SO stoked for more of this series!! By far my favorite!!
Have heard you talk about blank accounts before but never really understood how they worked... until now! :) This is great. Will be able to play a ton of games now that I already own (mostly via PS+) that I had avoided due to the potential low completion rate.
Cheer Tom
Cheers*
Here to confirm this still works in April 2020
This is very useful, very beneficial to know because I have wasted unfinished trophies that I will never compete because I lost interest because as you say its "long wind" or grinding perhaps.
Awesome that's everything I need to know about blank accounts
WOW thank you so much I have never thought of this! To bad because I have tons of 5% games :(
The only games I don't go for are games I dont like and games that are "beat the game x amount of times" because I enjoy playing a game once from start to finish and do anything and everything in the game!
Thanks for all your effort and time and research gone into these videos. Ignore the haters, you're doing great work here. I (and many others) really appreciate your work! :D
Thanks, I've been using this for PS3 games and now a PS4 VR game.
It takes no real effort and you can just chill trophy hunting.
Just hit 50 platinums 😎😎😎
115.
Roof1975 I started 3 months ago.
Michael Rojas get q life dude
ScrubSlayer4 I have one :)
probs only got easy plats tell me your hardest plat
Tom, I don't know if you are aware of this or not. But there's a maximum number of lifetime (total) users/accounts (including deleted ones) on each console. The number is 64 on PS3 and you can look it up online for confirmation. There's currently no known limit on PS4 but I'm pretty sure there is as this was put in place to prevent account/console sharing. I thought this was an important point to know even if the limit is very high.
Lastly, I would like to thank you for the amazing work you've been doing. I've stumbled into your channel by accident few months ago and I am a fan ever since. Keep up the good work.
The maximum on PS4 is 100 accounts.
+Hammerhead who on earth is going to have 100 psn accounts lol
Is this limit only for accounts you create on the consoles itself? What if you create those accounts on your PC (which is what I'm usually doing because it's faster) and then log in on the console? Does it still decrease the number of total accounts for the console?
Regarding the PS3, Sony actually says "The maximum number of Sony Entertainment Network accounts that can be *created* on a single PS3 system is 64." So maybe only those accounts that were *created* on the console itself are considered?
@Samsung 3.0 Note/Tab
If you use blank accounts for most new games as described in the video, you'll surely hit 100+ sooner or later.
There is a limit on PS4. Its 16 in total!
I wish I could remove my 1% games
Play them
@@Ocelot35 lmaoo exactly
@@Ocelot35 Nah, too many games and sales to play something one doesn't enjoy.
Great information, I have 170+ plats and didn't know about the blank account. Thanks
I've only been trophy hunting for about 9 months now (with a lot of help from your guides). Got my first platinum in July 2016, and got my 30th today. Since then I've wished my % was higher. Now I know this little trick I can get it higher (not 100% but that's fine). Thanks
You're welcome, good luck :)
I’m quite new to platinum hunting. Just got my 25th with the division 2.
Thanks to this, I'm able to try out every game I wouldn't have otherwise. I tried 10 second ninja x and god it is tough, so tough I'm shocked there is no platinum! I won't devote my time and energy into beating this one...
I am pretty excited to put this method to use. I REALLY wish I knew this when I got 1% on NBA 2k16, DriveClub, etc etc.
Gordon Logan same lol
I watched your video but it feels wierd to delete the main account . So i have a more specific question . Got a blank account as you showed . I replayed an easy game ... access denied . So i have it platinum on my main account and now on a blank one . If i follow the instructions .. i delete the main account ... reload it on the blank one and then will have this game twice platinumed ( if this word exist ) on my main account along all the other trophies . Am i correct or did i miss something ..?? Cheers mate
These were nice to listen to.
Very relaxing.
Yes, the day has come to learn about blank accounts.
does doing this delete all your save data not in the cloud? Also does this delete screenshots and videos you have taken in games? I mean all this from your main account when you delete it?
Really helpful! I had no idea about this. Thanks!
but what happens if you create a blank account, play a game, earn a trophy, but later find you dont like the game or dont want to go after all the trophies, and you delete that blank account. what happens to that trophy?
I'm suprised I didn't know about the accounts that's very helpful I'm level 25 thanks
Yaasss a new episode. Liking the series!
Thank you for your video series about trophies! I really enjoyed watching it.
I would consider myself a completionist and I'm always trying to 100% games when I can (even games I don't necessarily like too much if it's not too painful), but at the same time I feel like my trophies are also kind of part of my gaming life and that includes incomplete games as well. There is always a reason why some games are not completed, right? I agree that from a visual standpoint it looks annoying and too often I had thoughts about starting over because I got some games on my list which I can never complete due to server shutdowns or games that I simply got tired of at that moment or because certain circumstances in life got in the way, and haven't touched them since then. But another way to think of it is that my trophy list shows what I've played, tried, liked, disliked, achieved or not achieved in the past, making it my personal gaming history. Manipulating it with the help of blank accounts would distort my own history and hide facts. I even started to collect unearned trophies for games I can't fully complete anymore, to simply get as much as I can. Yeah, it's visually nice and pretty to have a continuous 100% completion, but is it really natural? And at the same time I would still be aware of the fact that there were games I played or tried but didn't manage/want to achieve 100% or games that I disliked, so I tricked the system and basically hid the fact that I spent time with those games while still knowing I did. It's a bit unnatural, in my opinion. When I started to think of it that way, it eased my trophy ocd a bit and I'm getting much less frequent thoughts about starting over and dropping my almost 10-year old account. Think of your account and trophy list a bit like of a relationship with someone you fell in love with. You don't just love the person for their looks, but you love the person for what's inside with all their flaws and imperfections and you stay with them despite all tragedies that might have happened in the past.
So for anyone else having the same dilemma and constantly considering starting over and abandoning their accounts they've worked so hard on for all those years.. Be honest and true to yourself and your trophies, try to accept your natural progression and history, see the positive things in it and don't let the flaws eat you up. :)
(I could have worded all this better but English is not my first language, lol)
not sure if i asked this before.. but let's say you have 10% completion on a game on your main account. and you do 70% on a separate blank account. what happens if you then sign in to your own with the new tophies? will the 10% ones be overridden? or ignored?
I have this same question. Were you able to find out?
No. If you earn the same trophy twice the one that was synced to your account first will be the one that's staying. The new one will be overwritten once you log into your account on your blank account. As for the trophies you hadn't earned before, those will be synced to your account. I've not tried this with a blank account but I do have 2 PS4s and have forgotten to sync trophies before playing a game and thus earning a trophy I had already gotten on the other PS4. Essentially the same thing.
Can anyone confirm if it works?
I earned a lot of trophies for a game on a blank account and want to start with that game's online trophies but I can't sync it together yet because I'm also busy with a game on my main account.
This is amazing and will help me a lot with RDR 2
Hello mate .. i have 2 questions for you
How is it possible to get twice or even 3 times the same platinum with only one game
Secondly , do you know how i could get my trophies from my ps3 knowing that it s not the same ps name ?
Its different consoles -PS3, PS Vita or different region accounts. But not for all games. There are games that have only 1 platinum for all platforms.
Not a feature I'd use, but very interesting. Didn't know you could do that.
Good video.
so its like you are adding you psn to this account which then syncs back with the one additional game. so there is no way of losing your main account or any information
I hate how people made accounts and never used them or just played a couple games on them then never used it again cause that took a lot of names which I wanted when I got my Ps
If an account haven’t been active for more than four years, contact ps and they will review it and delete it
Something to be careful of when doing this is to not wait too long before you sync the trophies to your account!! I can't stress this enough, your account is going to look very funky if you wait too long and people might suspect you of cheating. This is especially true if you play a lot of games in between or you got several blank accounts lined up like this at the same time. The more it happens, the more suspicious it will look, even if it's totally legit. Just a friendly warning! :)
Multiplayer trophies can be done on the blank account? Or just the offline trophies 🤔
son on the ps3 1 i create a blank acount get the trophies, 2 get the trophies, 3 log my PSN user on my blanck account ? (in the case of the ps3, it saids than it will delete the games if i deleite my account.)
Make sure to upload your save files and sync your trophies before deleting your account. Does it delete your downloads too does it? It's been so long since I've used it on PS3 I forget.
Does this still work with playstation updates since this video was made
There’s not a way to back up a save file on your blank account correct? I tried to copy saved file to a USB and it prompted me to sign into an account. Is there a way I can save my files on the blank account?
Will do this asap it's a couple of games that I tried and didn't like I can't delete it because I got 1 trophy
I had no idea! Thanks a million xx
how do i transfer one individual trophy list to my new account?
You mean from a blank or from an existing PSN account? You can't transfer trophies once they are linked to a PSN account unfortunately :(
great guide as usual, thanks a lot!
46 platinums in... and I didn't know about blank accounts. I don't really care about my completion percentage, but I would've done this for games I just wanted to try out only. Old video, but it was a good one. Would it still work if I just use one blank account for multiple games?
Really interesting ... cheers mate
your probably already on the case but there's a us psn flash sale:)
Jason Healy is it good for once..
Ye I see :) Thats my weekend gone ;) lol. Probably sort out a video tomorrow, too tired today lol
Better, but still not as good as good as the EU Easter Sale (imo)
Hmm.. as well as saved data it says screenshots and video clips are also deleted along with the user. is there anyway to back those up also? Sorry if i missed something.
I have a question here before doing this.
Ok let's say I have pictures in a folder and a background on my main account will I lose all that when I delete it off my PS4 or do I need to make a backup save?
So would the DeponiaGuide account be deleted now?
wow this is a game changer 😁 I'm gonna use this! thanks for the guide!! are you gonna do a guide for having different region accounts? would love an Asian account!
Why does the Deponia trophies not show up on PSN Profiles ?
They do :)
Is it another account ? I don't see it here: psnprofiles.com/Stay-Pationt
I'm content with my mediocre game completion lol I do play a few easy games but I'm more of a challenge guy!
thank you so much for the info, this chanel its awesome!
What happens if you have some trophies already earned on your main account, then earn the rest on a blank account and try to log in?
That's fine. There used to occasionally be some issues on PS3 if you didn't sync the existing trophies first etc but that was the same as earning some on one console and some on another, there was never a permanent issue though. On PS4 it works perfectly.
StayPationt Trophies so now does handle the older trophies that were earned first? Does it overwrite them so to speak once you log your guest account into your existing psn?
What happened to this channel? Why isnt he uploading anymore?
For people who care about this. You also lose everything in your capture gallery if you don't make a back up of that too. I learned that the hard way.
Yes of course upload anything you don't want to lose, not just saves :)
I never used blank accounts, but they do exactly what I expected.
My completion is about 90% without ever using one. I'm not too worried about it, some incomplete games here and there are acceptable. With that said, while they are without a doubt useful for completionists, I don't think I'll be using many blank accounts in the future. I'm too much of a casual gamer to care.
But it was a highly informational video. Well done, this should be a great help to aspiring and experienced trophy hunters alike who care about their completion percentage.
Thanks bud. And ye I rarely use the feature, it's just nice to know its an option. For instance I really fancied playing Trackmania Turbo but didn't want to feel pressured into trying to platinum it so I blanked it :P Most games I play on my account straight out of the gate though.
Understandable.
By the way, I didn't know about time stamps on PS4. I always wondered what would happen on PS4 since I got some missing time stamps by letting my sister play some games on her PS3, then sync the trophies to my account.
I have to thank her for one game at 1%, another one at around 5% and one or two Assassin's Creed II trophies... Not sure if it was worth it.
It messed up more than I expected. Now it says I earned my first trophy in Assassin's Creed II and also overwrote my time stamps for all trophies she earned that were already on my account with a missing time stamp. My real first trophy is from Final Fantasy XIII.
While it can be useful, one shouldn't get careless. At least on PS3, this can mess up completion times, time stamps and the order in which trophies were earned. No idea about PS4, but it can't hurt to be careful.
Here's how I got my missing time stamps:
Earn trophies -> sync trophies-> let my sister play the games on a blank account & earn the same trophies again -> sync trophies -> Congrats to messed up time stamps.
Does it always create missing time stamps on PS3?
I think your issue is unrelated. I believe playing on a console without a time set can cause missing stamps. I have used blank accounts for years on PS3 as well and have never had a missing time stamp. I don't think it was the use of a blank account that caused it to be honest.
Fatality Shift It's super easy. Just make a new email, use it to register a new PSN account with a fake UK address (or create one online using an address creator) and obviously set your country to United Kingdom. Then you'll need to buy credit to use in the store (as you can't use a non UK bank card in the UK store) so just buy a UK PSN card from somewhere like CD Keys/Play Asia/PC Game Supply, redeem the code and you're good to go and spend some £'s 🎮🇬🇧.
Activate as primary to play any games on your main account, gain trophies etc. DLC will be affected by region, so keep that in mind if considering a game you may want to purchase DLC for. Stick to your country for purchasing any games you want DLC for.
At 135 Platinum's, starting to slow down. Motivation is much lower.
Ok
So if i use a blank acc i can get the offline trophies but not the multi-player trophies?
Yes no online trophies as you're not signed into PSN.
I'm very interested in learning how Stacking works...i.e. US and UK games on my US account. If you have the ability to do a video on that I think it would be helpful for a number of people. Thanks! Keep up the very useful and informative videos.
Thats already the planned topic for (I think) the next episode :)
Excellent! Can't wait.
Sometimes I look at my low completion trophy list and see them as to-do lists I don't mind people seeing those because eventually I'll get back to them I'm just going to keep one account but thank you for telling me about this I don't mind people seeing my trophy list with 1% maybe 5% trophies because I'm getting back to them I'm just enjoying the games I got I have hundreds of games in my collection I went back to Skyrim and I got 100% of the trophies including the DLC ones and now I'm interested in going back to Fallout 4 and getting the platinum in that that's why I never sell or trade in my games because I may want to go back to those games eventually I'm going to go back to my PS3 as well and try to get as many trophies as possible.
Can you download games or download DLC using blank accounts?
ManOfDeath567 no you cant because you need a psn account for that you can download the game on your main account and enable dlc sharing
StayPationt,
I have two other accounts on my system where I have trophies and plats from other games, but the problem is they are actual accounts with their own profiles. Is there a way I can transfer those platinum's to my main account?
Unfortunately not no, sorry :( I'd love it if we could do that too!
Okay thanks.
I do have another question that isn't related. I want to do a live stream on my PS4 but I don't own any of the popular games. I own all the popular games from last year and the year before, but when I play them live people come on and stay for like less than a minute and it's frustrating. Do you have any tips?
So for game sharing, will I have to activate/deactivate everytime I want to use a blank account ? My trophy account lives on a console, that it is not the primary PS4.
You would need the account that owns the content activated to be able to play on a blank yes.
So as long as my trophy account purchased the game, a blank account can play it...right ?
Different Profile ?
psnprofiles.com/Stay-Pationt
Any account can purchase it because you can have more than one account activated on the same PS4. So you can play foreign downloads on a blank too
Thanks
Oh yeah, one more question! I have trophies on a game in my main account. If I use a Blank User to get the platinum on that game, could I transfer it over and if so, will the trophies I earned earlier on the main account be overwritten?
You can but they won't be overwritten, the time stamps will remain the same, the earlier stamps will stay.
That's good to know! Thanks! ^_^
Oh, by the by, I do want to add in the catch you failed to mention - to do anything online, you need to have a subscription to Playstation Plus. So you cannot upload your saves to the online servers unless you get a subscription to Plus, though I think you can still transfer them to an external device thanks to the 4.5 Patch.
Thats actually irrelevant because a blank account is completely offline anyway so PS Plus or no PS Plus has no bearing on it, its impossible to upload either way :)
I'm not talking about uploading saves from your blank account, I'm talking about uploading saves from your main account because you have to delete it from your PS4 to sync the blank account to it. If your main account is connected, they won't let you upload to the cloud if you're aren't a PS Plus member.
Ahh I see! Sorry ye you're right, that goes without saying I guess but is of course a valid point to remember. And ye you can upload to a thumb drive or something now :)
Thanks, love all your videos! btw, are you planning to make a guide for Enigmatis? It's on sale right now in the EU (you probably know)
Would this work, if I had some gameplay on my main account for a game... say Skyrim SE... opened a blank to get plat, then will it override on my main?
Saiman No I had this exact same question.. anyone know what would happen?
i am do a Blank Accounts i am do GRIM FANDANGO REMASTERED and i may do all the drive club like it as will i have plat drive club can i do the dlc on blank account
There would be no point if the game is already in your collection
i have 100% complete driveclub
I treat my games like girlfriends. I only chose the ones I can commit too. If its not what I expected, I still try 100%. Sometimes I go back cause I can do more to earn a true 100%. At the end of the day, I don't try games out. I make choices based on my hypothesis of the game. The longest I've taken to 100% a game was 2.5 years lol
Which game was it?
Motorstorm R.C. I wasn't fond of the Camera and control style, although I love racing games. It took me 2 years and 7 months to complete as I gave up and returned down the line. Google me as SourAyy and the first link is my trophy list and account.
Can u do that when there both PSN accounts?
How do you mean?
thanks bro, you just saved my ASS on my way to platnium re:2
Re2 is a great game to platinum. Re7 too ❤️
yes a new vid to the series :)
:)
Are you sure this isn't against Sony's Terms of Service? I planned on using this method for Bloodborne but I'm worried that by doing so my account will be banned or put in jeopardy....
Luke Phillips Why would it be, the trophies are still legit.
could u do grim fandango remastered as another awsome trophy guide
I might try this as I keep making my acc look bad with adding games that I then don't get round to finishing. I worry though,ever since I got ylod on ps3 and hadn't synchronised my latest trophies to the server,that if anything happens to the console then I've lost it all. I now tend to sync and upload my save quite often. Either way,great vid as per usual :-)
Ironically I have never had a console YLOD and I've had 6 or 7 PS3's and 3 PS4's :)
can I have a other psn acc and transfer those trophies to my main acc
oh man, this is on ps3 too haha. Would've used it long ago, instead of being forced to play games I didn't want, or stuck with incomplete trophy lists, or deleting the original user account before synching..Btw any long term consequences on the system HD etc.
Because on ps3 you had to use safemode after doing that. Btw no way around for online trophies right? They have to earned on the main account.
Will deleting your account delete all of your trophies?
Of course not :) As long as they're all synced to your account. You saw me delete myself during this video. If you delete a blank account you would lose them.
Thanks for the reply! I wouldn't mind deleting a blank user if I decide not to transfer the trophies (like I fail to get the plat because it was too frustrating - wish I had learned how to do this before I created my fourth account so I didn't have to make a fifth! :( )
You delete blank accounts in the same way as deleting any account, under the user menu in the settings
this is very helpful info i just subscribe and i Like it
can you do Blank Accounts on ps vita
I believe so yes but you could only play retail games on it.
can you do a video on it and i have 4 retail
I can't record Vita I'm afraid. You would just reformat your Vita (after uploading your saves) then not sign into a PSN account when you're setting it up again. Then sign in when the trophies are earned. I believe it works the same but have never use it.
Good to see you've bought a razor ;)
112 platinums and i had no idea about this! Thank you! Btw what happened to the beard? =>
It comes and goes :)
But what is the point?
A warning: Some games have means of protecting themselves from blank accounts. For example, A Hat In Time can't be done this way as the game disables trophies if you play this on a blank account. I found that out the hard way. Gears for Breakfast doesn't want you to play the game on a blank account. ;p
Thank you ma brother, the effort you put in your videos help me the fuck a lot.
Greetings from Portugal
Mind = Blown. I had no idea you could do that. I saw that you had 2 accounts labeled US and Japan... How do you set up an account in a different region, be able to play those games and get them on your original account? Is it the same?
William Loggins once you make a foreign account, you can activate that account as a primary system. then buy psn cards from that region, buy games from their store and you'll be able to access them from your main account.
Thanks! The "sales" on the NA store are crap; I gotta get some of those EU discounts.
William Loggins no worries. and yeah, the eu sales are great most of the time. hopefully you find some sales you like :)
Just saw a website with your name on it about paying for trophies. is that legit?
If it's the site linked in the description then yes :)
StayPationt Trophies
cool. I'll have to check into that. thanks for the reply.
All I do when I don't want someone to see my low percentage trophies is hide them.
You spelled "patient" wrong.
That haircut suits you man!
Found your How To Be A Trophy Hunter to
Great! Then in 100 years it will all be forgotten
I do NOT do the Do or Die Crap.
What's funny is, if Sony allows us to delete trophies then ALL that talk you're talking about blank accounts should i play this is this hard or not ..all that will be gone i mean you wouldn't make this video lol
Ye they'll never do that though :P