Sony now requires online check in for purchased PSN games

[Manlytears]

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.

1 time check, it's all you need. You have 10 new games in the last 30 days? > 1 single online connection > Done, you don't need New connections.

I see no problem with this.

Imho, this thread should be locked. Rumor was debunked.

Last edited by Manlytears - on 30 April 2026