Just in time for them to take physical discs away!
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.
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.
Good. Fuck everyone and everything.
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.
My decade old Sony boycott looks more & more prescient every week.
The last good product Sony made was the Walkman.
I should’ve listened to the haters. I got way too leveraged into Sony’s ecosystem and so now I suffer.
The good is I still have enough PC games that I actually own (well, control) to last me for years and years and years.
i bought portal2 when it came out on ps3… it also let me set up a steam account through my ps3, because that was going to be the next big thing (this was before ps+ and multiplayer was still free)
12 years later i got a PC, i downloaded steam… and when i logged in, there was portal2 waiting for me to download it.
sony can go fuck themselves
Did you actually play Portal 2? And what did you think of it?
Also not OP: It was fun. More backstory, more mechanics. I didn’t have a family to play the multiplayer co-op stuff, but it also looked fun.
Not the original commenter, but I really enjoyed it. A little bit longer than Portal with some real gems in the dialog. I would say if you enjoyed the first one, then play the second. I did not do any of the couch-co-op stuff, just the main story, so I have no idea if it’s decent.
Coop is fun, especially when you’re messing with your partner
It requires some experience with first person camera controls, though. I found out that can be a real challenge for people who don’t play a lot of video games.
You will eat nothing and you will be happy
I can’t use my account anyway since they’re insisting that I used an authenticator app for account verification when I absolutely did NOT, and they won’t give me access to my shit now.
“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.
if youre not even connected to a line, what they gonna do? wait til youre connected then trash you?
As per another comment, I didn’t know Gmail can delete an account after 2 years of inactivity. Proton mail is only 12 months on the free plan. With so many things being related to email I feel like I should have a more robust system.
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.
I’ve been a hardcore PlayStation guy since I was about 9 when I got my first console the PS1.
Crash team racing is better than Mario Kart 64
Spyro the Dragon is the best 3D platformer of the late 90s.
I’ve had a PS2… That still works 22 years later.
I was in the great wars of PS2 vs XBOX.
I like Halo 1 and 2, I like Killzone 1, 2 and 3.
I was there at the beginning.
I was there when Sony moved their PlayStation HQ from Japan to America.
I was there when the quality of good JRPGs and adventure games plummeted so we could be fed a new call of duty and FIFA every year.
These days I’m PC, PS5 and switch. I will not be buying a PS6 or a Switch 2.
It should be mentioned that… I’d rather throw myself down a cliff than buy an Xbox.
It’s not just them. I accidentally ended up in prison for 5 years and lost my Google account, and because I had 2FA set up with email and the phone number I had at the time on pretty much everything that means I also lost my steam account and pretty much every single digital account I had. Thousands of games on different storefronts.
Ironically the only single place that helped me recover my account was the kind folks at Roberts Space Industries. I was an initial backer… Maybe one day the game will be done.
Everything else I pirate now. If you don’t own it physically, you don’t own it.
An initial backer of Star Citizen who still believes in the project is worth his weight in gold-pressed latinum to Roberts Space Industries.
… I mean, I don’t. They’ve done some cool shit, but they haven’t made one actual good game much less a billion dollars worth of good games. But after losing steam, GOG, PlayStation, and Microsoft accounts I just sort of got desperate.
“Maybe one day the game will be done,” is more grace than that game deserves, as you probably are aware.
I just found out about Luanti, a voxel-engine with a bunch of different implementations. It’s free. I’m going to try that this week.
I’m PS5, Switch 2, and PC tertiary. Honestly, I regret buying the Switch 2 since I can nearly play all the same games on SW1 still.
Ill probably still get a PS6 since I already only buy digital, but having an account deleted after only 3 years is complete BS, and makes me rethink everything.
the only playstations i will be buying are ones with old and outdated firmwares and hen support
The formatting of my message got ruined… I had to use two returns or it all ended up in a giant wall of text…
(For people under 30, Return is what the Enter key is called… I don’t know what it’s called on phones… the icon on your phone that is going down and has an arrow pointing left).
Hey now, I know what it is and I am only… Oh god…
‘Return’ is a typewriter holdover for new line + carriage return, since a new line just went down without returning all the way to the start. The arrow to the right means its a ‘return’ key ;) Just turned 33 too
Ok, but the problem is the wavelength of blue light. You can’t have 4K textures and large roaming worlds and fit it on media limited to 128GB.
We don’t need 4k textures, for one. Everything’s upscaled because consoles can’t actually run shit at native resolutions, and with shit like TAA adding Vaseline to the screen, why mother with such ridiculous unoptimized assets?
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Has nothing to do with deleting accounts.
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Your disk is your fully transferable proof of purchase license. You do the base install from your disk and download the rest of the game online, as it has been for decades. We don’t really GAF about the loss of the disk, it’s the loss of the transferrable license, which they coud EASILY fix. But they won’t. They made this bed.
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And what does this have to do with Sony deleting accounts?
Note that technically the agreement says that Sony reserves the right to delete the account after 36 months, not that they’ll actually do it. It might “just” be a stupid bit of legalese to cover Sony’s ass in case they’re required to delete older data.
Of course the idea is worrying nonetheless.
note my myself: whenever entering a contract with u/ChairmanMeow@programming.dev just tell him those terms that are not in his favor are just legalese for some edge case and I certainly will voluntarily not make any use of those terms that are totally in my favor and they should not worry.
I feel like this would actually work on most people
if they can delete someones account and potentially make them buy everything again (at least that is how i think the executives must view it) why wouldnt they?
Consumer trust, most likely. You do this to 100 people and you lose far more in customers who don’t want to touch your stuff anymore.
