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Hi, so about a year ago I purchased a PS3 from a pawn shop for around $80 and when I brought it home it was obvious that the previous owner had put a lot of time into it (it had hundreds of songs on it, a crazy amount of videos including funny YouTube vids and porn (which I’ve since deleted all of), and a few games like X-Men, MW3 Single-Player Demo, the original Neo Geo SamSho, MK Arcade Collection, Super SFII Turbo Remix, MvC Classics Demo, Bowling, etc etc). I logged into my account to play some of the games, and after an hour I started to file through and delete everything. I then deleted the original user’s account from the PS3 so that I could make it mine, which in turn made it impossible to play the games cuz the original owner was the one who had the licenses to them.

Fast-forward a year later to today when I plugged it back in, updated the system software, and then got back on to get on the PS Store. But it wasn’t letting my account sign in, and when I tried it said ”Access to Sony Entertainment Network from this system has been banned or temporarily suspended”. I have no way to log in and play the games, when I could do it perfectly well a year ago after I had made the PS3 my own and deleted the other dude’s account.

Can someone help me figure out how to correct this issue so I can play online again? Did the update I installed today have some sort of anti-modding systems that locked me out because the previous owner had modded games that I didn’t know about? I’m so confused and need help. Do I have to factory reset the PS3?

UPDATE: I contacted PS Support and the dude I was in the chat with said that it had been suspended for a reason, and then gave me this link: https://support.playstation.com/s/article/Information-on-Banned-Accounts-and-Consoles?language=en_US . Nothing came out of that.

UPDATE 2: I got mods, webMAN, and bought a new CID and replaced the old one. I then deleted all mods, and tried to get on with my account (and a different account) but the system itself is still banned. 6 hours of my life down the drain. Nothing I’ve found has worked. F.