PSA: There's a wallet limit on PSN and it isn't very high.

[Seijuro]

I have €100 already in my PSN wallet, and wanted to top up for the PSN christmas sale to get some PS5 games because I got gifted an Amazon voucher. So I bought another €100 topup for my wallet, went to enter the code... and got greeted by a message that I can't use the code because it would put my wallet over the limit.
So the PSN wallet can't carry €200? Wtf is this? Best thing is it doesn't even tell you what the limit is. And I can't find an option to raise my wallet limit either - help is appreciated.

 

[Ahti]

The limit is 150 bucks afaik.

 

[Stowaway Silfer]

The limit is 150 bucks afaik.

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Yeah this

 

[Mahonay]

Probably connected to financial regulations.

 

[ghostcrew]

I didn't realise that there was a £150 limit until I bought a load of credit earlier this year in anticipation of my PS5. Suddenly wouldn't let me input any more codes and I've been sat on a couple of unused £45 PSN codes every since (in the Notes app on my phone) hoping they don't expire if they're not used within x months or something.

Dunno if there's a specific reason but I don't think other platforms have this limit. Maybe related to hacked accounts/people stealing credit for FIFA mtx or something? Trying to limit damage that can be done?

It's pretty annoying anyway.

 

[ProstatePuncher]

Can't raise it, ToS says you can't use the wallet like a bank account, so Sony probably don't want idiots doing that if they were to have an infinite size. Max is 140 GBP, 150 EUR.

 

[CHC]

Welp there go my retirement plans

 

[anderson64]

Thanks

 

[Seijuro]

The limit is 150 bucks afaik.

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Thanks. The universe seems to want me to preorder Miles Morales lol.

I didn't realise that there was a £150 limit until I bought a load of credit earlier this year in anticipation of my PS5. Suddenly wouldn't let me input any more codes and I've been sat on a couple of unused £45 PSN codes every since (in the Notes app on my phone) hoping they don't expire if they're not used within x months or something.

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My biggest fear is that I sit on the code for 2 months and when I try to redeem it tells me it's either already used or already taken...

 

[Flandy]

The limit is 150 bucks afaik.

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Thanks. The universe seems to want me to preorder Miles Morales lol.



My biggest fear is that I sit on the code for 2 months and when I try to redeem it tells me it's either already used or already taken...

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It's not 150
I have 200 USD in my PSN wallet right now
The limit used to be 150 but must have been removed at some point

 

[Zaimokuza]

Does that mean that there aren't items/bundles/extrafan editions that cost more than 150€? That seems unexpectedly low

 

[ghostcrew]

It's not 150
I have 200 USD in my PSN wallet right now
The limit used to be 150 but must have been removed at some point

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I think it depends on the region. It's definitely 150 in GBP

 

[JaseC64]

This was my beef with the store. The wallet monetary limit and the item limit. If I recall its 10 items max in your cart at a time. Sucks because it limits you to that amount if you have a coupon code for discount.

 

[IIFloodyII]

I thought it was $250, but yeah it probably should tell you or just higher or remove it. 1 of those it's not really a problem until it is things. Never like sitting on a pre-paid.

 

[Deleted member 18400]

Yeah I found this out one year when I went to put a bunch of PSN credit on my account from birthdays and Christmas gifts.

 

[Deleted member 9857]

yeah it's $250 in America

and eShop is $200 IIRC

 

[ScreamingTrees]

With a digital game costing €80, you can't even have enough in your wallet for 2 games!

 

[ItIsOkBro]

stealth brag thread

 

[TheAggroCraig]

Seems like a good way to have fewer angry parents

 

[wrowa]

Seems reasonable to me, honestly.

 

[Jaded Alyx]

yeah it's $250 in America

and eShop is $200 IIRC

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Yep.

Steam is apparently $2000 lol

 

[Traxus]

Nice try OP, I'm not telling you my PSN wallet amount.

 

[Hovahtsug]

I had no ideia about this limit.

 

[Loud Wrong]

Used to be 150 in America, but as others said, it recently went to 175, and now 250.

 

[Mastermind]

They should at least make a $1000 at this point to cover the multiple SUPER MEGA ULTRA DELUXE Preorders that are announced per year.

 

[Ricky]

I'm more bothered by the fact that you can't preorder more than one game at a time.

 

[The Pet of the Month]

I didn't realise that there was a £150 limit until I bought a load of credit earlier this year in anticipation of my PS5. Suddenly wouldn't let me input any more codes and I've been sat on a couple of unused £45 PSN codes every since (in the Notes app on my phone) hoping they don't expire if they're not used within x months or something.

Dunno if there's a specific reason but I don't think other platforms have this limit. Maybe related to hacked accounts/people stealing credit for FIFA mtx or something? Trying to limit damage that can be done?

It's pretty annoying anyway.

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No idea about UK rules but in the US store gift cards don't expire. VISA gift cards that expire, depending on your state and the company holding the funds, can let you retrieve lost funds either by paying a fee or simply having a chat with support.

So don't worry about expirations. Worry about me getting into your notes app ;)

 

[Deleted member 5725]

Does this mean you can't buy 3 full priced games (exceeding the limit) at the same time even if using PayPal? Or is this just a Wallet specific thing?

 

[Seijuro]

I'm more bothered by the fact that you can't preorder more than one game at a time.

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I'm pretty sure I preordered 2 games at around same time last year that both released months later. Don't know if you can preorder 3 or more though, but maybe this also differs from country to country (as the wallet limit seems to).

Does this mean you can't buy 3 full priced games (exceeding the limit) at the same time even if using PayPal? Or is this just a Wallet specific thing?

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Can't imagine it won't work with Paypal or credit card, I guess the restriction applies to the wallet itself.

 

[ghostcrew]

Does this mean you can't buy 3 full priced games (exceeding the limit) at the same time even if using PayPal? Or is this just a Wallet specific thing?

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It's just a wallet thing. Literally how much PSN credit you can have stored in your wallet.

 

[Cornbread78]

Money laundering......

 

[Deleted member 5725]

Can't imagine it won't work with Paypal or credit card, I guess the restriction applies to the wallet itself.

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It's just a wallet thing. Literally how much PSN credit you can have stored in your wallet.

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Thanks.

 

[Kaswa101]

This happened to me too lol. The limit is definitely $250 for US PSN

 

[Deleted member 5604]

I don't care about the wallet limit much, but that 10 item cart limit is super annoying.

 

[Loud Wrong]

Does this mean you can't buy 3 full priced games (exceeding the limit) at the same time even if using PayPal? Or is this just a Wallet specific thing?

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In the US it pulls the money immediately, so you can pre-order as much as you want. In Europe I believe they allow refunds, which could limit the number of games you can pre-order at once.

 

[Justified]

Can't raise it, ToS says you can't use the wallet like a bank account, so Sony probably don't want idiots doing that if they were to have an infinite size. Max is 140 GBP, 150 EUR.

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Reminds me of that thread a long time ago, where the person was using Gamestop Pre-orders as a bank account lol

 

[Alek]

Reminds me of that thread a long time ago, where the person was using Gamestop Pre-orders as a bank account lol

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What? How?

In fairness when I was younger I used to preorder everything. Then the preorders for games I changed my mind about I would cash in towards a game that I did. I worked okay, and if I had a month or so where I was short I could cash in a few preorders for games I wanted less etc. So I suppose I kind of did the same, but I only ever had £100-200 ish in preorders at any one time.

 

[Deleted member 5725]

In the US it pulls the money immediately, so you can pre-order as much as you want. In Europe I believe they allow refunds, which could limit the number of games you can pre-order at once.

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I'm in Europe. I'm planning to buy some games for over 200 euros at PS5 launch with a 25% discount code, so I hope it's gonna be possible.

 

[Syncro]

I think it depends on the region. It's definitely 150 in GBP

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Are you sure it's £150? During the summer I believed it was £150 due to Google results and I ended up not being able to redeem a card when I was just over £100. I found out the limit is now only £120 - https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/g...subscription-voucher-code-on-master-account-/

There is a trick I used to redeem some cards when I hit the limit which was to preorder a game on the store so it uses your credit up which then allows you to add some more credit. You can then cancel the preorder for that game sometime later.

 

[Jawmuncher]

What? How?

In fairness when I was younger I used to preorder everything. Then the preorders for games I changed my mind about I would cash in towards a game that I did. I worked okay, and if I had a month or so where I was short I could cash in a few preorders for games I wanted less etc. So I suppose I kind of did the same, but I only ever had £100-200 ish in preorders at any one time.

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Classic

 

[Justified]

What? How?

In fairness when I was younger I used to preorder everything. Then the preorders for games I changed my mind about I would cash in towards a game that I did. I worked okay, and if I had a month or so where I was short I could cash in a few preorders for games I wanted less etc. So I suppose I kind of did the same, but I only ever had £100-200 ish in preorders at any one time.

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Using the same method you did because they couldnt open a real bank account so stored the money in pre-orders

 

[Alek]

Using the same method you did because they couldnt open a real bank account so stored the money in pre-orders

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But unless I'm missing something it's not a very good bank account because you can't cash out? At least in the UK you could shift a preorder for store credit, but you couldn't convert it to cash.

I used to like the physicality of having pre-orders like that personally. I had a pin-board in my room and I divided it up into 12 months and then pinned all of the preorder slips into their appropriate section. I'd move them around as games got delayed and whatnot. It was a neat way of tracking all of the games I was interested in.

Shame that none of the digital stores have a system that emulates that. I would love to be able to preorder / wishlist games on Steam or PSN and have them displayed in a calendar view.

 

[Justified]

But unless I'm missing something it's not a very good bank account because you can't cash out? At least in the UK you could shift a preorder for store credit, but you couldn't convert it to cash.

I used to like the physicality of having pre-orders like that personally. I had a pin-board in my room and I divided it up into 12 months and then pinned all of the preorder slips into their appropriate section. I'd move them around as games got delayed and whatnot. It was a neat way of tracking all of the games I was interested in.

Shame that none of the digital stores have a system that emulates that. I would love to be able to preorder / wishlist games on Steam or PSN and have them displayed in a calendar view.

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I guess at one point you could

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