PSN Sub Account – How To Add a New User

So, you want to add a new PSN ID account to someone. How do you do it for a minor now? You add them via a Master Account. That’s as has been … but it’s not doable the way you might have done it before, or maybe you have never done it and you want to now do it.

Sub Accounts are given to minors. Parents are who are the Master Account holders that a Sub Account will be under. Seems straightforward. It’s not.

You can start a new id sign up on the PS3, you will not be able to complete the subaccount on the PS3 though. You have to get an email with a link to continue on a PC.

When you, the Master Account, gets the email you will click the link provided and the place online it takes you will just show you the Server Maintenance page … since the attack earlier in 2011 that’s that. It’s a dead end.

You can try to access your account on PSN on your PC … same result.

So what do you need to do to get a subaccount created and WORKING as well?

account.qriocity.com

Go there. Sign in as the Master Account with your PSN credentials (It’s a Sony site) You will then be able to see lots of info you never saw before. Your devices which have been activated with a PSN ID will show up there. My account shows 2 PS3’s and 4 PSP’s. It’s right, plus wrong. Unfortunately there was a problem with my sons PSP 3000 and we exchanged it at Best Buy for a new one. Wiped it of account and games. Whoops! Forgot to “deactivate” it. So someday that will bite us in the butt. Right now it’s not, but depending on how it works about PS VITAS later, it may.

Under the ACCOUNT area you can view and edit many details of your Master Account, including Sub Accounts. The disconnect I have with Sony is the management of these Sub Accounts.

You can’t add an account fully this way. You can add them to your account. You can then try to login to PSN on either the PSP, the PS3 or the PC on their site. All three will tell you that the account is not usable on PSN. and then “Go to: register.qriocity.com.” Thus, you are starting a PSN ID sign in for the Sub Account, looks the same to you there as any others you have active, but it’s still not ready. Nothing there will link you to “what you should do next if you want to use this Sub Account with PSN, i.e. PS3 or PSP.”

What do you REALLY need to do before attempting to logon to PSN?

Logout of qriocity after you created the Sub Account. Sign in again, but this time as the Sub Account. Click on each of the tabs in the account area and do what you need to. You need to get a PSN ID, that’s where you do it. Also, you have to defitely, after the PSN ID is obtained, click on DEVICES and PS3 (or whatever is applicable to you) and finally, that is where you will be presented with something you may have encounter online looking for help. THAT is the place where the “update account for PSN” is located. ONLY on the NEW Sub Accounts PS3 area. NOT your Master Account. You have nothing to do with it. Ridiculous, but true, except for the fact of this: you have to provide MASTER CREDENTIALS to get the PSN ID and to “activate it with PSN” as well. But you can’t do it from your Master Account. It’s stupid.

There is also no way to move a Sub Account to a Master Account, and I am hoping they will figure that out and fix it before too long, so that my children, as they grow up, can keep their darn’ed PSN ID’s if they want to. Without being under my PSN ID’s albotros forever circling above them the rest of their lives.

What’s the point of an ID if you can’t use it like a human: protected as a child, emmancipated from that protection once 18 or 21 or 25, or SOMETIME at the least, by choice or by force.

A billion hoops to jump through getting my new 11 year old a PSN ID. It’s the age restriction I have placed on my children for getting one. I gave my older two ones in the past, before the hacked PSN thing, and it wasn’t this hard to get it going. I banged my head over this and never found ALL the information in ONE spot. Maybe everyone knows that you have to do stuff like this, except for now the only route is through qriocity and many people don’t know that, but once there, adding an account, they KNOW enough to look deep into the Sub Account instead of their Master Account … anyhow, that’s the case, and it’s not that I didn’t do it on both sides of the issue, I did, just never clicked the PS3 under DEVICES on my Sub Account login for my son. I mean, the disconnect was there since I never had to do that with anyone else, as that sort of info wasn’t on PSN when I signed them up long ago.

Long and short of it is, my 11 year old now has a PSN ID and it’s working. Great. He’s happy, but only after I nearly tore my hair out, and he was agitated ’cause he was waiting for it all morning after finding out about it, and it didn’t work and I was frustrated and he got that way and it just wasn’t fun.

Now it is. Hope this helps someone else.

I’ll try to change this post later by adding numbered easy to follow directions, instead of just having the rhetoric version.