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veritaz on 01 April 2014
shikamaru317 said:

So, there is always-online DRM for digital downloads on PS4 but not for disc-based games? If this is true that's pretty bad PR for Sony after what they pulled at E3. Wouldn't really surprise me, not the first time that Sony has expressed interest in DRM, they even held a patent for disc-based DRM at one point.

http://www.techspot.com/news/51227-sony-applies-for-rfid-drm-patent-that-would-block-used-games.html


No. It's the same as it has always been. Companies get patents all the time, doesn't mean they actually do anything with it. 



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DarkD on 01 April 2014

I was thinking that they just left the option open to the developers. Clearly it hasn't been implemented console wide, but is there anything stopping developers from instituting their own always online?



Devil_Survivor on 01 April 2014

This thread is the best laugh I had in a long time lol. For the lack fact checking in the article and the Sony super fans come to damage control in their usually name calling way :P.



 

shadow_satey on 01 April 2014
Devil_Survivor said:
This thread is the best laugh I had in a long time lol. For the lack fact checking in the article and the Sony super fans come to damage control in their usually name calling way :P.


Sony fan here. Didn't name call, only performed an experiment. I wanted to know myself. :)



wyluzuj on 01 April 2014
Wanderlei said:

"A video is circulating which displays a PS4 user irritated that his games could not be played without an internet connection. He attempts to play Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, Sound Shapes, and Flower…

Each of the titles refuse to launch, instead displaying a message stating: “Cannot start the application. The PS4 is not connected to the internet and cannot verify the license for the application”

http://www.developer-tech.com/news/2014/mar/31/drm-gate-year-later-and-its-sonys-turn/

 


So you don't see the difference between Disc-Games and PSN-Download (digital only) Games ?

So it's not an "alwys onlie" DRM after all ...



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Devil_Survivor on 01 April 2014
shadow_satey said:
Devil_Survivor said:
This thread is the best laugh I had in a long time lol. For the lack fact checking in the article and the Sony super fans come to damage control in their usually name calling way :P.


Sony fan here. Didn't name call, only performed an experiment. I wanted to know myself. :)


Your not who I was referring too. See the earlier comments on this page to know who I'm talking about ;). I'm also a Sony fan, just not a super fan.



 

Hynad on 01 April 2014

People having problem with digital game DRM... Were you living under a rock the whole of last gen?

Like Sony or any other publisher is going to allow people to just copy-paste any digitally downloaded games from one console to an other. ¬_¬

Some of you people are really desperate...  -__-



Porcupine_I on 01 April 2014

This is despicable!

I went and installed all my PSN games on all my friends PS4's and now they can't play them?

WTF Sony?



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- George Orwell, ‘1984’

Porcupeth on 01 April 2014

This is what MS's R&D funs are going towards? Spreading inaccurate info on Sony?



ImmortalHelixFossil on 01 April 2014
Devil_Survivor said:
shadow_satey said:
Devil_Survivor said:
This thread is the best laugh I had in a long time lol. For the lack fact checking in the article and the Sony super fans come to damage control in their usually name calling way :P.


Sony fan here. Didn't name call, only performed an experiment. I wanted to know myself. :)


Your not who I was referring too. See the earlier comments on this page to know who I'm talking about ;). I'm also a Sony fan, just not a super fan.


But but, all Sony fans are suppose to be super fans! Please :'(



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