Fact is, current software licensing laws needs to change. Doesn’t matter whether I own a physical copy or a digital copy, a company shouldn’t be able to decide that I can’t access the product I paid for anymore.
this post was submitted on 26 Oct 2023
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What software aren’t you able to access anymore that you’ve paid for? On PlayStation and Xbox at least even if stuff gets de-listed you can still redownload if you bought it. Same with physical disks
I remember it happened to me back in PS3 days. Back then, they had the PS1 spyro games on the online store, so I used my well-saved Christmas money to buy them as an early teen. Then a few months and quite a few hours of gameplay later, I was really confused to find that I could no longer find them on my account anywhere. Not sure what happened with that licensing-wise, but I could never play the games again and I was so bummed :/
Are you sure it's not still on your account anywhere? It looks like the original is available on PSN in the US (PS3/Vita/PSP store). I never bought it cause I have it physical.
I'm kinda bored rn so let me grab my PS3 from the cupboard to check- hold on.
EDIT: can confirm they are $5.99 each on the US store. Not sure what region you are in though as licensing can vary.
I do not still have a PS3, or access to that account so I wouldn't know. Regardless of whether it's back on or not, I can only speak to the fact that it wasn't for a long period, long enough for me to have moved out and not have the PS3 any more to even check.
Glad you say it seems to be back, but I can only reference my own experience of it being taken off my account. Who knows if I'd even be able to download the republished version, for all I know I'd have to repurchase it.
Ah alright- was just trying to help if you still had the console and wanted to get your purchase back. I'm very fortunate that I have room in my apartment and can still keep everything.
I appreciate it. Yeah, I was able to take the PS2 when I left thankfully, but at the time my parents were still using the PS3 as their Blu-ray disc player so I couldn't convince them to let me have it.
Idk if it’s happened for games yet, but at least for movies it has happened. I think there was a case with Disney revoking The Lion King license from Apple, and then Apple removing the movie from users libraries.
Nintendo closing down their game shops for old hardware
Can you not re-download things you've already bought? Closing the store down doesn't usually prevent that.
Those SecuRom games I bought. No longer functional.
I know it's a joke, but that's not completly true. There are a lot game that are playable without downloading something. Does it play is a website that shows you, if your pysical version is able to play a game without downloading something.
I agree but it's getting more and more predominant unfortunately, also that's a neat website to know ty
People keep saying that they want to have the whole game on physical disks -- but I wonder how they'd react to the likes of RDR2 running from optical disks.
You are about to enter Saint Denis. Please insert disk #8. And then you have to wait for the world to pop in because rotational media is inherently slow.
FF7 Rebirth planned to comes with 2 blu-ray disks. It should copied to SSD though, no need to run it from disk all the time
Don't you remember the time when we used to install shit from those disks?
a 128 GB USB drive these days is like $9 so I don't know man
If it's not downloading the game, then it's the day 1 patch.
Day 1 patch be like