Sony now requires online check in for purchased PSN games

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TheRealSamusAran said:

Chrkeller said:

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.

You only have to check it once.

Apparently it happens in the 15h day after purchase, the game will be issued a 14 days license which, without needing internet connection later, will automatically turn into a permanent license on the system into the 15th day.

You don't need to check games for 30 days, just once.

The period is 14 days because that is the refund period for digital games, which was being sploited via support chat by jailbroken PS4s.

It's still not optimal, but it really is not the kind of problem we initially thought it was. There is no constant DRM being applied to games, at all 

IMO, this check needs to happen immediatly after you first launch the game, Sony will hardly every refund a game you have already played (extremely rare exceptions being broken mess launches like Cyberpunk 2077), so if refund will be very rare regardless, downloading the game (you'll need internet for that) and immediatly booting it up should already transition the license status from temporary to permanent, in which case that would be 100% a non issue.