Just in time for them to take physical discs away! Edit: This is only in EU! For now.
The condition doesn’t appear in some countries, but that doesn’t mean that they won’t eventually expand it:
Notably, the clause is conspicuously absent from terms governing Mexico, the United States, and several other regions, meaning players there are not currently subject to the policy. By contrast, the provision has been enforceable in the United Kingdom and various European countries for years, though it largely escaped public notice until the recent physical-format debate brought renewed scrutiny to Sony’s digital practices.
Wow this seems like a gross overstep of boundaries . Fuckin, oh well i guess
Sony’s reminding me of their “599 US DOLLARS” era very heavily lately. Gaming has been in such a rough spot lately, it’s a shame.
The fact that digital everything has been such a clusterfuck of unwashed ass pushed me back to rock climbing. Thanks/go fuck yourself tech conglomerates! I’ve definitely drawn similar associations, Rick
I started playing ukulele because i did not feel like spending a years savings on a new gaming pc and nvidia fucked up gforce now. A recorder/flute is like 7 $. But its impossible to play silent.
It had the curse of being worth more than movies and television, so it attracted every “entertainment” investor around, demanding short term profits like movies do. Now we have giant corporations thinking they can even remotely understand what a creative medium is, and then being shocked when we don’t buy their latest “written by HR”/microtransaction bullshit. Meanwhile Indie is doing great! Surprise, creative people make good creative products.
It’s updates like this that make me wish for a ‘git diff’ of those changes.
Best we can get is Internet Archive of previous versions of the page if we’re lucky.
This is sad just because of the old names disappearing. A friend of mine killed themselves back in 2017, but we played a few games on ps4 together online back in the day. So I still scroll down to look at that old gamer tag every now and then. Its sad to think of that going away.
Y’all signed up for this shit when you bought into digital products. No amount of warning you could make it to your dumb fuck brains. You’re also still doing this shit with other services and products. We’re all being strategically boxed into a fucking cage you refuse to acknowledge because you want things so much it shuts your brain off.
Yeah, I’ve tried to warn people about Steam account dependence, but they’re somehow super-diehard over those while poking fun at Sony. There isn’t even any beneficiary system in place. Each is just a step away from being like the other… Nothing beats owning your own data.
Steam is fine, for now, but will eventually do the same shit once gabr is dead and the business side takes over everything. But that’s the trap, make conversation to a digital way of life appealing enough to starve the alternative to death, then tighten the noose.
There has not to my knowledge ever been a mass produced analog console playing analog games.
Deck of cards?
Steam is fine for you maybe, I am incensed to find out they have been engaging in price fixing and driving the price of PC games up and preventing meaningful competition. It is complete bullshit and after seeing Gabe and his underlings lie through their teeth I have zero faith in them.
But they aren’t and it’s ridiculous you spout propaganda talking points constructed by competitors of steam that can’t compete. Of all the monopolistic companies, steam is one that is least shit, and until the government gives a shit about monopolies in general, I’ll be grateful for the ones that aren’t total assholes, like nvidea and micron and Microsoft and Google and all the rest that are ignored by antitrust rules.
I love lemmy. Not even reddit is this toxic.
It’s always your fault! Never the precious billion dollar company!
The will of the consumer masses enable all of this. Make the damned sacrifice and stop giving them your fucking money.
CDs and DVDs are digital. Game cartridges are digital. I am not sure you know what digital means.
also found out switch deletes your cloud saves after a while if you stop paying
Wow, say what you want about Microsoft but the worst I had to do with my Xbox Live was repatriate it from a Russian hacker.
Huh. That’s actually a little disappointing. I have a couple of exclusives on there that I would prefer not to lose. But I also no longer own any modern PlayStation consoles, nor am I likely to in the future. So trying to decide if this is going to be the thing that makes me leave Sony for good, or if I should just make a little effort to login from time to time.
I wonder if logging into the app on your phone would take care of that requirement.
Yes.
Reminds me, I have an old ps3 with a broken disc drive in need of being jailbroken. I should get on that.
What an excellent way to convince aging gamers to just never buy from Sony again.
Yup, although I haven’t purchased a Sony product in over a decade because they started charging a monthly fee for online services I got free on PC. Funny because I was a fanboy like no other during the console wars.
I was considering buying one for GTA VI. I’ll wait for the PC release, thanks.
Time to take your ps5 offline. Obligatory fuck Sony
Unfortunately, taking it offline also won’t work, because iirc games stop working if the console hasn’t been online in a month.
The check in requirement turned out to only be for the first two weeks after buying a game, so you can’t refund the game and keep playing it offline forever.
if youre not even connected to a line, what they gonna do? wait til youre connected then trash you?
That’s good, dead accounts are a general safety risk for everyone.
What’s bad is, that they don’t (have to) refund you.Yeah there’s simply no way to disable the account without permanently removing all of their purchases from their library.
Oh well.
Seems illegal.
“How do we squander 3 decades of consumer goodwill in a week and a half?” Seriously wtf are you doing Sony
‘We need to replicate the success of Betamax and minidisc, immediately’ - exec that was never told.
