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[IDKFA]

I hope this is not a trend. Companies having "accidents" and losing everyone's digital purchases.

That would be shitty.

It would be a way to make some serious money by forcing people to buy the games again.

I could see this being a legit money making spinner in the near digital only future.

 

[Boss Mog]

As somebody who goes 100% physical unless it's DLC or some really cheap PSN deal (under 10 bucks), I'm kind of happy about this. I'm sure they'll get their shit back eventually, but it exposes the flaws of digital and not actually owning things.

 

[angrod14]

It would be a way to make some serious money by forcing people to buy the games again.

I could see this being a legit money making spinner in the near digital only future.

More like a way to lose costumers and get some serious class action lawsuits all over the place.

 

[{insert code here}]

Having a fire or flood at your place that destroys all your crap is statistically more likely to happen than some phantom bug that might or might not exist that maybe removes some games from your library you can probably get back after talking with support. I get the people that prefer a physical collection, but using this as an excuse why digital is bad in general is kinda silly.

Insurance would cover fire or flood damage/loss. No insurance for loss of digital property.

 

[RoadHazard]

Reminds me of an issue I had in late 2022. BTW.....do not try to get help from "PlayStation Experts". They are useless.

Holy shit, we now know your first name. Hey Chris.

 

[adamsapple]

Holy shit, we now know your first name. Hey Chris.

 

[Topher]

Holy shit, we now know your first name. Hey Chris.

Technically, you know the rest of my first name. ChrisTOPHER

But everyone calls me Topher, even at work

 

[FeralEcho]

I found the bug they refuse to patch out! Some weird character model fuckery.

At least you can now skip the bug sections with the all new Spiderman 2 hack mode included officially in the new patch.Thank You Insomniac,so considerate!

 

[Varteras]

Technically, you know the rest of my first name. ChrisTOPHER

But everyone calls me Topher, even at work

Ha Ha! Now it's only a matter of time before we figure out who you are! Just gotta knock on the doors of the 2.2 million dudes in the US named Chris. Unless you're British. Oh god. You're not British, are you? I don't think we can be friends if you are...

 

[Topher]

Ha Ha! Now it's only a matter of time before we figure out who you are! Just gotta knock on the doors of the 2.2 million dudes in the US named Chris. Unless you're British. Oh god. You're not British, are you? I don't think we can be friends if you are...

Nah..

 

[Varteras]

Nah..

 

[Nonehxc]

Ha Ha! Now it's only a matter of time before we figure out who you are! Just gotta knock on the doors of the 2.2 million dudes in the US named Chris. Unless you're British. Oh god. You're not British, are you? I don't think we can be friends if you are...

Inb4 we d0x him and unveil his account as one of the high ranking mods at Reeee

 

[FeralEcho]

Technically, you know the rest of my first name. ChrisTOPHER

But everyone calls me Topher, even at work

It was right there in the name all along.

 

[RoadHazard]

Technically, you know the rest of my first name. ChrisTOPHER

But everyone calls me Topher, even at work

Consider my mind blown.

 

[Topher]

Inb4 we d0x him and unveil his account as one of the high ranking mods at Reeee

 

[Fermbiz]

Could this the reason why Stellar Blade demo is gone??

 

[StereoVsn]

 

[HAYA8U5A]

 

[Syphon Filter]

Here comes the physical dinosaurs, not realsing that many disks require online or important patches and disk rot is a thing.

 

[Naked Lunch]

Stop buying digital shit.
The only excuse is convenience of not swapping a disc. Cause it sure as hell ain't any cheaper like you would imagine - which you would think would be the first PRO of going all digital. But as gaming suckers- we can't even fight back on prices, and everyone is cool cause ya know- swapping a disc is tough.

Nevermind actual ownership, trading in, selling, borrowing, using as a coaster, frisbee. You know shit i can do when i own a product i paid $70 for.
Look at UbiSoft's recent comments if you dont think we are being played for fools. Microsoft is the tip of the sword on the topic.

Its not worth the loss of everything and the complete control of the console owner. Wake up people

Explain day one mega patches for a vast majority of games these days.
What are you going to do when the servers for those patches are gone?
Your discs are a frisbee day one.

There is no right answer here - gaming is just fucked - and has been for a long long time now.
Physical isnt the answer either.

 

[ArtHands]

Wow 300+ Playstation titles inaccessible. I wonder if his issue got resolved.

And that reddit thread got deleted by the PS5 mods

 

[Kilau]

Quick, someone try "restore license", for science!

I’ve had this issue for a while, tried the license restore but it did nothing.

 

[Deerock71]

That's one hell of a bug. PS owners now keeping all of their receipts as proof of ownership. LOL

I've got a feeling Sony will be like this: