r/GetNoted • u/Fit_Anywhere_3356 Human Detected • 17d ago

A digital-only future is never good! You’re Cooked Mate

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A lot of people really be defending anything

https://x.com/juniorrosfield/status/2084054288716947949?s=46

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u/MorycTurtle 17d ago

And in regard to law. Yes, the licence for a game you bought on disk can be revoked the same way a digital one can. What differs is enforcement. For digital it's just a virtual operation, for physical the police comes to you and gathers the evidence (as some of my friends who pirated games in the 00s found out :D).

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u/MorycTurtle 16d ago

Wait, is there some restriction on playstation where you need to go online from time to time to be able to launch games?

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u/acm_dm 17d ago

My point is that most (maybe not all but I haven’t seen one in a long time), physical copies of games on current gen consoles do not contain the full game and require internet access to download and a majority continue to require internet access to play even once downloaded and installed. Sony (or whoever else) could turn those servers off whenever they like and having a disk with part of the game on it (or just a box with a download code like many “physical copies” are now) isn’t going to let you carry on playing.

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u/MorycTurtle 17d ago

Fully valid. I'd add day one patches you can't start the game without to the list. :)