I lost my account back then when the big hack happened near the end of the PS3 era. I haven’t looked back. I called, I begged, and as far as I could tell everyone else was good to go.
I only got the PS3 so I could game with my childhood friends. They eventually stopped playing together anyway after a bunch of us died off to the opioid epidemic.
Any money you spend that saves you money could be considered investing. You can get creative with considering time to be money or what you would have spent on consoles when competition doesn't exist to bring down prices long-term.
Yeah... The singleplayer games being unplayable is extremely stupid. Was going to play Dying Light, which came out a long time ago but zero games, disc or not, will start.
What's super annoying is that I only use my PS4 to stream Hulu or Mac, nothing else. But I can't even do that because I am not signed into the PS Network.