The player with the most trophies in the world decides to quit, and it could be because of a Sony employee

Game news The player with the most trophies in the world decides to quit, and it could be because of a Sony employee

A hellish week

Hakoom (Abdul Hakam) is well known among the PlayStation fan community. The man has won no less than 5 Guinness Records for obtaining the greatest number of Platinum trophies (more than 3,000 in 2021)rewards obtained when a game is 100% completed.

Hakoom's troubles began in September 2023, when his account was suspended. Sony has detected suspicious behavior. For example, multiple consoles connected to the same account or Platinum trophies obtained with zero hours of play. The player defends himself by explaining that the practice of “Platimium Pop” is frequent, and that “it is surprising that PlayStation is not aware of this”. “If, for example, you platinum Spider-Man on PS4 and you upgrade to PS5, you earn them (platinum points, editor's note) in one minute”.

The same week his account was suspended, someone alerted him: his personal information linked to his PSN was posted on the Internet, he had been hacked. Abdul Hakam is, at this time, excluded from the PlayStation partnership program, which allowed him to benefit from an evaluation code (reception of preview version of the games). The man then asks himself questions.

Experienced as a betrayal

According to Hakoom, there is only one explanation: his account was suspended without reason by a PlayStation employee who took the opportunity to resell his data on the market.

If your account gets banned or your email is changed for no reason, it is 100% sure that you have been robbed using this method. Your data is on the black market, there are no other explanations and it's game over for you.

The YouTuber seems to have evidence of piracy. In his video, he claims to have photos showing his account logged into an administrator computer, something that is not possible to do on just any machine. Despite multiple calls to the manufacturer's help center and presentation of evidence, the player does not receive a satisfactory response. SO, even if he has recovered his account, he decides to terminate his partnership contract with the company and to denounce on the Internet what he experienced. It is not without sadness that he makes this decision, even though he had started his race for platinum points since 2007. Obviously, these comments only relate one version of the facts, but there is little chance that PlayStation will respond publicly about this case.