we were playing with game sharing a bit of Wednesday night and it doesn’t quite seem to work on Ps5 the way we expected it to (put that over the door as it seems to be the PS5 mission statement frankly, but anyway..)
Firstly to share play with someone you have to be in a voice chat with them, then one person has to share their screen THEN share play becomes available. when you do that you get two options - ‘play as me’, or ‘play with me’. I suspect the first one is what I remember share play as being; basically letting someone else play a game on your console. We tried the ‘play with me’ and I was doing a ‘couch co op’ session with @Gordon, but it only seems to allow you to do that if both players have the game you want to play installed already i.e. you can’t use it to invite a player into a ‘shared couch co op’ session in a game only one of you owns.
So it’s useful, but there are limits.
As to people getting banned for basically ‘renting’ their PSN account out, I’m not shedding any tears frankly, that’s so obviously out of order they have no real excuse.
The point though that unlocking a Playstation Plus collection game on P5 basically just adds it to someone’s ‘bought games’ list so it can then be played on PS4 as well… That’s on Sony. Their system obviously is doing the least effort thing in terms of allocating the game license and that’s on them. If you say to someone ‘play these games for free’, that’s exactly what they are going to do. As long as you have to have an account on a PS5 to add the game in the first place, they kind of don’t have grounds for complaint if people are doing something they’d simply expect to be able to do.