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Hello I'm a PS3 owner and have been one for about Two and a half years now and have been a happily the owner of such a console which I bought when I had my seventeenth birthday.

My mother probably correctly and only wanted to make sure I only played games that she thought were at a suitable age rating for me (no 18's) so made herself a master account and me a sub account so that she could also make sure that she could keep an eye on the amount of money I spent on the PSN.

Now it is Two and a half years later I am having a rather large problem due to me not being able to use my account with my own banking details so I cannot buy and use my own account as I please on the PSN. As every time I wish to purchase anything I have to go through my mother's account and while normally this would not be a problem seeing as I was living with her.

From next semester I shall not be living with my mother due to me becoming a university student and moving out due to distance from the university and so not being able to place my settings on my account has gone from a minor irritant to an annoyance.

Now I was wondering if I went to the PSN help line they might be able to wave a magic admin wand and just change my account from a sub to a master but that is not possible due to their rights and privileges.

Their only solution they could think of would be for me to make a new account and make that a master but also lose all my save games, downloadable content and trophies representing no small investment of money and time in probably over £100 and hundreds of hours of game play for levelling up characters and such.

So my question is there must be a better way right?

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