PlayStation apparently forcing 30 day license verification on new purchases

[Kovlak]

Or you won't be able to play them, either physical or digital, on the console. Forcing you to be online and keep updating your console like a good boy, rolling along with whatever the changes PlayStation decides to make to their ecosystem, including with age verification.

PlayStation hasn't confirmed yet, but nobody makes a timer for nothing.

So many Ls from PlayStation this year! Seems like a world record!

 

[Aldia Aldia]

And here I thought they couldn't outdo their bullshit.

 

[Tortuga]

Yep i heard about this
It's not only for PS5 but also for PS4, from what i understand it's only for digital games and only for new i think you old games are fine but not sure

Either way this shit smells like class action lawsuit
Only thing i can recommend is to not update and stay on low firmware for now
And if you on ps4, jailbreak and fuck sony

 

[Dyne]

This is really terrible.
I'm just going to unplug my ps5 from the internet for now and hope they change their mind. Good thing I dont really play online using my ps5.

 

[-------]

That doesn't sound good. I don't quite understand what Sony is trying to achieve with such ideas. But I think they'll regret that soon enough.

 

[Mr. SyS]

Remember what Microsoft tried to do in 2013? The one gaffe that I don't think they've been able to fully recover from? What handed them the loss that generation? I remember.

 

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

It's all in the letters.

PS.

PSN.

FU.

 

[Janunba88]

Wasn't age verification enough? I swear, every day they give more and more reasons to believe in the phrase "You'll own nothing and be happy" and make people choose the "seven seas" way of acquire something.

 

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

Remember what Microsoft tried to do in 2013? The one gaffe that I don't think they've been able to fully recover from? What handed them the loss that generation? I remember.

They threw so much shade at Microsoft, you'd think there was an eclipse going.

Turns out, they were just buying sympathy points while letting someone else take the fall and moving in for the kill.

 

[G.L.a.D.O.S.]

This actually has a lot more to do with stopping jailbreaking and piracy of the PS5 and future consoles. Many of the games being targeted have Lua and other exploits. Now, you have to update your system just to play these games, and they can patch out any new exploits that are discovered.

 

[Ilathariel]

It was already debunked, Sony made some mistake on the server side

 

[Kovlak]

This actually has a lot more to do with stopping jailbreaking and piracy of the PS5 and future consoles. Many of the games being targeted have Lua and other exploits. Now, you have to update your system just to play these games, and they can patch out any new exploits that are discovered.

Cool, but it also makes it so that I'll have to, in a month, roll along with whatever changes they make in their forced updates and in their user agreement to even log in. It's a red line for me.

I've put my console offline and I'm not buying anything else from PlayStation until this situation is made crystal clear by them.

 

[G.L.a.D.O.S.]

Cool, but it also makes it so that I'll have to, in a month, roll along with whatever changes they make in their forced updates and in their user agreement to even log in. It's a red line for me.

I didn't say I agreed with it. And if this is, in fact, true about the 30 day thing, it is absolutely a shit-tier way of doing business

 

[Kovlak]

It was already debunked, Sony made some mistake on the server side

So claimed someone unfilliated with PlayStation on the Internet.

 

[DinoRexMax DinoRexMax]

Remember what Microsoft tried to do in 2013? The one gaffe that I don't think they've been able to fully recover from? What handed them the loss that generation? I remember.

Pepperidge farms remembers, and it's crazy to think that the industry learned nothing from that stunt. But John Shareholder needs a 12th Yacht (which he can already afford, of course, but why not make the peons pay for it?) so out of fear that someone might dare purchase a product anything less than full price, everything's getting handcuffed to a central server and going digital exclusive so they can casually take it away from you with a flip of a switch.

This actually has a lot more to do with stopping jailbreaking and piracy of the PS5 and future consoles. Many of the games being targeted have Lua and other exploits. Now, you have to update your system just to play these games, and they can patch out any new exploits that are discovered.

That doesn't make it better, and it's been proven time and time again that the harder they fight against piracy, the more it inconveniences the consumer and makes them WANT to pirate. It's the same shit they pulled in the early 2000s with CD-Keys and limited installs, and we all know how that put the kabash on piracy, right?

I didn't say I agreed with it. And if this is, in fact, true about the 30 day thing, it is absolutely a shit-tier way of doing business

That's cool, we're arguing with the statement/idea, not you. Your a fren, why else would be on a game piracy preservation site?

It was already debunked, Sony made some mistake on the server side

God I hope so, last thing anybody needs is more of this.

 

[G.L.a.D.O.S.]

It seems it may have been a glitch on the server side, most likely related to new DRM they are planning to push out later in the year. It just slipped out early, if I were to make a bet.

• Accidental Trigger: The issue is believed to be an unintentional bug, potentially triggered while fixing a separate exploit, rather than an intentional change in policy.
• Status: It was described as a "misinformation machine" and potentially temporary by some, while others speculated it was a new form of DRM (Digital Rights Management).
  
  
  

 

[Kovlak]

It seems it may have been a glitch on the server side, most likely related to new DRM they are planning to push out later in the year. It just slipped out early, if I were to make a bet.

• Accidental Trigger: The issue is believed to be an unintentional bug, potentially triggered while fixing a separate exploit, rather than an intentional change in policy.
• Status: It was described as a "misinformation machine" and potentially temporary by some, while others speculated it was a new form of DRM (Digital Rights Management).
  
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I'll be waiting for an official reply by PlayStation. And I'll stop investing on PlayStation if that is really coming to effect.

 

[G.L.a.D.O.S.]

I'll be waiting for an official reply by PlayStation. And I'll stop investing on PlayStation if that is really coming to effect.

Understandable, and take my post with a grain of salt.
I can only go by the information I found, how true any of it is, is anyone's guess.

 

[SpcDaicon]

It would be really bad if the Playstation actually had games

But seriously, if this is true, I'm glad I'm a PC gamer now

 

[JustLooking456]

When I bought Nier Replicant it had the 30 day countdown thing, but games I bought last year didn't. I called customer support like what the hell, and now the countdown is gone...

 

[SoThankful]

like a good boy

 

[HazardRider]

Just when I thought Microsoft was gonna take this years Darwin Award Sony makes a mad dash for it

 

[GeoHikari]

Sony is likely to create problems on the console market actually, not only making mistakes with PS5.

 

[Isegrim]

This puts a damper on plans to buy certain games I had my eye on. I will be seriously considering getting the disk version instead if this is confirmed.

I can only hope the massive backlash I see from so many content creators will force Sony to rollback this boneheaded move.

 

[ThatOneLum]

Apparently not intentional:

It's all just more rumours mind. OG Article.