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

[Azuren]

vivster said:

Azuren said:

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.

Yeah, the implication of the bolded was an unpatched, unconnected console. If I have an unconnected console, I can run that disc no matter what. It is DRM, but a major part of DRM is keeping the physical media out of the user's hands so they can't just do whatever they want on an unpatched machine.

 

Good thing for proponents of DRM that people are so willing to forgo having a physical copy. The entire issue with P.T. is what drove me to do physical only in the first place. If P.T. was a disc, I would still be able to play it, even beyond this rumored patch if I was able to find a PS4 that wasn't connected to the internet.