EricHiggin said:
Well PS can make it so the disc binds to a max of 1 or 2 account's at the same time when it initially loads the game from the dock onto the handheld. If you have another friend who want's the game, you can delete/transfer the game from your account so they can load and add it to their's, but you of course cannot play anymore unless they delete/transfer it from their account. That way you can share without much hassle. This allows you to share with 1 friend at a time, but as many as you want over time, and also basically stops you from selling the game after the fact, unless it's to a retail outlet that can verify your used game has all account's open to it for the next purchaser. Maybe it also has a transfer button where you can simply input the buyers PSN ID and transfer the game account to them, otherwise people would not want to buy the game privately, not knowing if there were any account's available for it. If you could do this on the spot however, private sales could happen with some confidence, except for the possibility that the copy of the game your selling them isn't the same one that is tied to your account. That's an unlikely scenario, but possible. PS could potentially charge a small fee for this private transaction as well. I think by this time, many PS4 games will be cheap enough that people will still just buy the game directly from retail anyway. You will still get some game sharing regardless. PS5 games being new and more expensive would probably end up being shared more. |
How would that work? Do Blu-rays have a writable area when the information can be stored how often the game is activated? Blu-rays aren't unique... each Blu-ray disc of a game of the same gold master is the same. If 10 other people install/transfer the game from the same disc, the other systems wouldn't know how often it has been installed/transfered before. An account binding with Blu-rays without entering an unique code ain't possible!
