Sony now requires online check in for purchased PSN games

[TheRealSamusAran]

Chrkeller said:

TheRealSamusAran said:

Isn't it "one time" every time you purchase a new game? If you check-in, then buy another game and try to use that exploit, what do you think will happen?

"In the former case, respectfully, what's so wrong about that?"

And even in that case, it's as wrong as Nintendo going after piracy. There has been so much discourse about we not owning console X, Y or Z, but here is a clear example of Sony telling us what we can't do with the console we paid for. And before anyone says that refunding a digital game and keeping it is stealing, tell me, what downloading a ROM is then?

And btw, the only PlayStation I have is an old PS2 from a bygone era. I just want to see public discourse about something being consistent for once.

Nintendo isn't wrong for going after piracy and downloading roms is piracy.  

My view is something like pirating S1 or S2 games is flatly stealing.  I think downloading older games that are not reasonably available is still technically piracy but has an edge of justification.   One those games are not being sold new anymore, thus revenue back to the developers is not circumvented.  Two, reasonable access.  I wanted to play Soul Blazer earlier this year, not a whole lot of options.   

As for consistency, here you go.  MS, Sony, Nintendo, Steam, Epic all have a right to prevent piracy and there isn't anything wrong with a harmless internet background check that has zero impact on 99.9% of gamers.  

Which is a thing they don't do, Nintendo only tackles on Switch piracy, and they're on their right to do so. My personal views on piracy is that I don't care if someone does it or not, but it objectively *does* hurt sales of modern games (which yes, it is a thing that piracy advocates claim that it doesn't happen), and game companies are in their right to fight against it. Having to online check every new game for 30 days is still not great.