Just in time for them to take physical discs away! Edit: This is only in EU! For now.
No, I will lose access to Fat Princess!
Oh man I’ve got this saved on my jailbroken ps3 and it really was such a fun little game I feel like it didn’t get the attention it deserved.
The PSP sequel (fistful of cake) is pretty solid.
I didn’t even know they made one! Thank you you just gave me a new game to try
I logged into steam after like 15 years and it still worked.
Or if you are from Russia. Apparently that was never about the war 🥴
Plex lifetime pass. $45, 2011. Can’t take that away from me. I’ve got 75 TB of fuck you, Sony.
Lmao plex has been pulling anti consumer bullshit for years
Blocked
Can’t take that away from me.
Well, if it was taken away, it wouldn’t be the first time that a lifetime pass was pulled from all customers:
Or the second, or the third, or the fourth… https://dev.to/productimpossible/lifetime-subscriptions-dont-mean-what-you-think-they-mean-1hg7
But, at least Plex has honored their lifetime pass for now. That’s a good deal you got there.
once upon a time someone dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan
So, obviously, that guarantees it will definitely happen to me!
There are doing a speed run no one wants.
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.
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.
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.
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.
CDs and DVDs are digital. Game cartridges are digital. I am not sure you know what digital means.
This is for UK and EU due to GDPR that requires companies delete all user data for inactive accounts. It’s a unintended consequences of the law and other gaming companies including Xbox have similar clauses.
The law says they can’t keep your PII after you stop being a customer, not anything about linking your email address to purchases for an entirely legitimate ongoing reason.
I’m not here to defend the corporations.
Email addresses are PII under GDPR, aren’t they? So linking email addresses to purchase history is explicitly retaining PII and data about someone they can identify.
You are explicitly allowed to retain PII for critical business purposes. So in this case as a key component that the software licence is attached to they can retain it forever anyway.
Pretty sure that the gdpr specifically precludes forever retention. Data should be retained as long as is necessary and whether 1, 3, 5, 10 or however many years, sooner or later deletion is appropriate, and the timeline depends on what is reasonable.
3 years is a long time to not log in and if a court decided that it exceeded a ‘reasonable’ period for legitimate interest the fines can go to 10% of global revenue. The law encourages risk averse behaviour.
They could make a better system where the user sets the timeline but it would be impossible to predict the return.
On this one i think its probably driven by risk management not nefarious intent.
3 years is not a long time at all. I’ve been collecting games on my steam account for 19 years, and there was a period of >2 years where I didn’t use it.
i didnt touch my steam account for like 12 years… i set it up when portal2 came out on ps3, but that never went anywhere…
literally a dozen years later, i built a gaming PC and when i logged into steam, there was a portal2 license waiting for me to press download
3 years is not long at all if you factor having kids into the equation. There is not a lot, if any, time to play video games when your kids are small. Imagine having 2 kids 1-2 years apart and not finding time for gaming (on your PS) until the youngest is at least 2 years old - then you are quickly looking at 3-4 years without login.
Hah! I guess Sony argues that “who bought what” is not a “critical business purpose”…
The law cover personal data not PII and is much broader than PII that is defined under the US Office of Privacy and Open Government which has no bearing on the GDPR.
As for personal data, email addresses are covered and even user names could be considered personal data depending on if it’s linkable to a person and since your account is linked to your email and linked to you user name potentially, when they have to delete personal data the have to delete all of those foreign keys in their database that says your email once got a receipt for that game you bought digitally.
Except they don’t have to delete any of that as long as you hold ongoing software licenses with them, as that’s a legitimate interest. This is malicious compliance posing as “well they made us do it”, same as all the GDPR banners on the web.
They need to retain financial data for way longer though, and are basically allowed to store their bookkeeping stuff for forever. So they could restore accounts from that anyways. I’d argue, they could keep the account details which can be recovered from financial data under those circumstances. Which probably would be everything necessary to keep the purchased games. They’d need to delete e.g. usage data, connection data etc.
I jumped after PS3. I logged in one day to find a message that the Smash Brothers clone I enjoyed was removed from my library and the servers shut down. Just, out of nowhere. Also, the low frame rate and FOV in some games started giving me motion sickness consistently. I do miss the simplicity of owning consoles and the excitement of new hardware releases.
also found out switch deletes your cloud saves after a while if you stop paying
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.
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.
ill be sure to tell my siblings to sign into my account every 3 years. gee thanks sony. whats the fucking point of this
Preventing the recovery of temporarily abandoned accounts (like from a family member that stopped gaming some time ago), and saving a few cents in storage.
*millicents
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.
