The logistcal issue with physical PS games post 2027

[BraLoD]

xl-klaudkil said:

BraLoD said:

There is in fact a server check right now, dunno if it affects PS3, PSP or PSV, but it does affect PS4 and PS5.

But it's for a period of 30 days after the purchase of digital content, not every 30 days.

Buy a digital game on PS4 or PS5 today, deny access to internet for that system from and you'll not be able to play said game in the 31rd day after that purchase anymore.

You need to have internet connect, once, between day 15 and 30 after the purchase, otherwise the game becomes unplayable after that period.

You get a temporary 30 days license when you make the purchase. That license starts looking for a check from Sony servers after 14 days pass.

No matter how many times the system connect to the internet for 14 days, no checks will update the license status, but after 14 days it'll be looking for a one time only server check, if it connects to the internet once, no matter when, and it reaches the server, that license is replaced by a permanent license. (Probably wouldn't work during a PSN outage, even if the system does have internet).

At that point the system can remain offline forever and it'll always work. But it expires after the 30 days period otherwise. If you then connect to the internet once, even after it expired after the 30 days, it'll still update the license to its permanent status.

Unless things changed very recently again, that is how I understand they changed their policy to avoid chargebacks aimed at fooling their support chat, so that's why it doesn't update for the first 14 days.

What the actuall FUCK is that for crap, so glad i dont buy digital anymore.

Some people were able to refund a digital game through the support chat and keep the permanent license active in the system somehow (probably on hacked PS4s) so they were using it as a way to get free legal digital games (to probably sell that account later because why not keep the pirated games if you have a jailbroken console...) and that's how Sony stupidly solved that problem on their end, but created this problem for everyone else.

They did it without reporting to customers too, once people found out they got mad and eventually Sony commented on it, it happened early this year, actually.

I still believe they should be legally pressed into having this info displayed to people in every single purchase in their store, but we got even worse problems nowdays so nobody is pushing for that anymore.