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Conina said:
Should be only a minor annoyance for most solo players. You currently can't download and install game A for a few days? It is a much bigger problem for playing multiplayer games... but in this case, a physical disc doesn't help either; they are in the same boat as the digital peasants. |
So? A problem is still a problem. And that problem doesn't exist for physical games that don't require online checks or connection, which are the vast majority of games, it's only a problem that will grow for a digital only game system.
Let's also remember recently Sony made a change, without prior announcement, so digitally bought games not checked online after day 14 after the purchase, that reach day 30 after purchase, become unplayable, they won't open anymore until they are checked online. So it's an even bigger problem in the case of a long days period downtime like what happened in 2011.
Oh, and it's also an even, even bigger problem because of the insane price increase of storage we are currently living through, so an ever growing number of people are simply letting most games they aren't currently playing unisntalled because they simply lack space to keep them downloaded and don't want to pay 4x what that extra storage used to be 9 months ago, so the likelyhood of it happening to people just keep increasing when PSN is down these days.
But let's not talk about it when it happens, specially after the company responsible for the service announced to go taking away the option that would make said problem not a problem in the first place...
Last edited by BraLoD - on 24 July 2026
