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As we reported last night, Knack is now available to pre-order through the SEN Store, and if you look further into that – in the description – you’ll notice a bit of small print regarding how many accounts you can play the game on.

"One-time license fee for play on purchasing account’s designated, primary PS4™ system and other PS4™ systems when signed in with purchasing account."

So that means you can’t share the game with your friends or family members, as you were able to on PS3, at least not unless you want them using your account to play the game, but you will be able to play the game on any PS4, just as long as you’re signed into your main account before you do so.

Essentially then, you’ll only have one system able to play the game on all accounts, rather than the current two you have with PS3, which was recently reduced from five. It’s actually quite similar to how the Xbox 360 currently works in this regard.

It makes a lot of sense, though if you’re planning to buy two or three PS4s for different family members, then you might have to rethink things when it comes to sharing – you’ll all have to use the same account to play these games.

What do you think? It seems that this new system is great in certain ways – as you’ll be able to play your games on any PS4 – but also a hinderance if you’re planning to have multiple PS4s in your household.

 

http://www.thesixthaxis.com/2013/10/16/playstation-4s-drm-locks-psn-games-to-your-account-on-other-consoles/







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expected.



Not a problem for me. As long as I can buy used and use gamefly.



 

buy physical disc for people who like to share...

as for PSN only titles, usually its alot cheaper so sorry if they still can't buy for themselves...



Canceling my pre-order for having kids... not gonna share my account with them..



 

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NiKKoM said:
Canceling my pre-order for having kids... not gonna share my account with them..

xD

This kind of DRM is expected when it comes to digital content...



So you can now play on more than 2 consoles as long as your logged in with the purchasing account on anything other than the primary console?

Or is it still 2 consoles?



Well, yeah. It's a digital purchase, this is expected, else they are just giving it away for free. 



Hmm, pie.

Not a big deal



Well, there it goes my plan to share games with a friend to play them at the same time, as i was doing with my ps3....

For me it's a big deal, understable but still disappointing.....