(UPDATE: FAKE NEWS) New patch reportedly makes Silent Hill P.T Unplayable

[vivster]

Azuren said:

vivster said:

This has nothing to do with digital. They could just as easily disable the ability to play it if it came on a disc. In fact it would probably be even easier.

The word you're looking for is "DRM".

Wrong. With a disc, I could always put it into a console without an internet connection, and thus no patch to disable the game. While you might be able to avoid the patch with a digital copy, once it has been patched it's done and cannot be undone save for finding someone with an unpatched copy.

 

It is a DRM thing, but all games are nowadays. The difference here is being able to still run a disc as opposed to just being screwed.

If you have an internet connection to patch a game on the hard drive you can just as well receive a patch on the console that tells the console to reject the disc. It's DRM and it can affect both the game and the console that plays the disc. A disc is not safer than a game on a harddrive if you have internet connected. And both are safe without updates applied. Now of course, you could say that you can easily flash back the console to a previous OS version but at that point what are we even talking about anymore. That's a lot more hoop jumping than should be necessary and it's all due to DRM. If the console was an open platform, games on the drive would be just as salvageable as the ones on disc.