r/technology • u/Federal-Block-3275 • Aug 25 '26
Hardware Sony reminds players they don't actually own the PlayStation games they purchased
https://www.techspot.com/news/113603-sony-reminds-players-they-dont-actually-own-playstation.html2.8k
u/Key-Leader8955 Aug 25 '26
They shouldn’t be allowed to use the word buy then. Let’s stop letting companies redefine words to suit them.
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u/ProgrammerNo3423 Aug 25 '26
I'd love to see that world actually. Imagine if they were required by law to say "rent". Like rent this game. Or maybe "buy license". People might still pay though, but damm that would be a major turnoff for most people.
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u/chiksahlube Aug 25 '26
"License lease."
Would be the appropriate term.
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u/Healthy_Turnip7352 Aug 26 '26
is it that sony licenses it also? that's why they remove it?
if that's the case, they need to legally change it so that users who buy it forever, can keep it forever.
"buy forever" should not mean "buy for a limited time period."
that would make it like my All You Can Eat buffet, which allows you to eat unlimited food up to a certain not-unlimited limit.
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u/Giatoxiclok Aug 26 '26
Wellllll, you see. We never said ‘buy it forever’ we just said buy, which can be interpreted in many ways. You could buy access to something for a limited time, like we do now with everything! Isn’t that wonderful?
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u/Serainas Aug 26 '26
So it’s actually one of those “win a lifetime supply of x” when the lifetime supply is a prescribed amount that you get for a prescribed time until the company doesn’t make that product anymore, then it’s oops sorry guess we’re all out 🤷
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u/sonofaresiii Aug 25 '26
I'm well educated on the issue but I still fully understand the way psychology works and I'm absolutely certain there's a few impulse buys I'd have held off on if, right when I go to pull the trigger, the word "rent" pops up in front of my face.
I can't pass up a great deal, better buy it now and play it later. Oh wait, right, I'm renting it... Well, I can rent it later when I'm ready.
Anyone who claims they wouldn't be in some way affected is in denial and would probably be even more affected. This is just how psychology works.
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u/mliving Aug 26 '26
Exactly. For Sony to suggest, even in their "updated" TOS that they never sold me copies of the games installed on my PlayStation is patently absurd if not illegal.
This makes the right to repair and keeping games alive even more important if access to my "purchased" goods can be restricted by a change in the seller's TOS.
And they struggle to understand why people sail the briny sea! Honestly the unmitigated greed is repulsive.
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u/that1dev Aug 25 '26
California already has that law sort of. You can't use purchase unless you're actually disclosing that it's a licence only. This is how Steam does it, for example.
I don't think it's slowed a single thing down. I doubt most people realize it's there. Everyone assumes it probably won't happen to them and that's the end of how much they care.
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u/FreeToasterBaths Aug 25 '26
Yea this is like how GameStop has people brainwashed that new can be opened and used
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u/Key-Leader8955 Aug 25 '26
Yep. Or unlimited has limits and limitations.
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u/FreakingAustin Aug 25 '26
Yeah like how unlimited mobile data with speed caps is by definition limited
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u/0bsessions324 Aug 25 '26
I still remember my first time, back when it was EB. Bought a copy of X-Men vs. Street Fighter "new." It was a damn good thing I suffered from poor impulse control and wanted to check it out just outside the store, because when I pulled it out of my bag it was not only open, there was no disc in it at all.
They even tried to push back on me because I'd left the store. They backed down when I pressed the fact that there was no way I wouldn't have been caught on cameras and offered to get security involved. Fuck that entire corporation.
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u/Corpus_Juris_13 Aug 25 '26
This is why stopped buying “new” games from GameStop. It’s not new if someone else has taken the shrink wrap off and taken the disc out and put it in a sleeve
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u/Noxyrina Aug 25 '26
I stopped buying at Gamestop for this exact reason. Two new games from two separate orders arrived opened and with their crappy stickers. Yeah nah.
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u/Familiar-Banana-8116 Aug 25 '26
A bit off topic...
My Mom is going to sign paperwork with a realtor for a retirement community. She wants me there cause.... I don't know. She must like conflict.
I am sitting there and the realtor keeps using that word 'Own' over and over again like she knows what it means.
I had had enough.
'Just stop. Please stop incinuating my Mother is going to own this house. You are confusing her. You are making her think that she can roll the money into something else in the future.
If she dies, does her estate get it? Nope. You get it. If she wants to move to an apartment can she take the equity from this house to an apartment? Nope. She has no equity. She has no right to equity. There is not equity for her.
You on the other hand. You get to sell this thing over and over and over again and only pay to have it built once.
Stop using that word, 'Own'. She owns nothing. Lease is the word you are looking for.'.
My objection was real. Every other day I had to explain to my Mom why she couldn't take the money she was 'investing' in this thing to move into an apartment when it felt too big for her. She just didn't understand.
So yeah, words mean things and we need to hold people accountable.
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u/SegaTime Aug 25 '26
So... what ended up happening with your mom? Did she still move into it?
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u/Familiar-Banana-8116 Aug 25 '26
She moved in. It is a nice place. I just know how she is and at some point in like the next 5 or 6 years she is gonna be all like, 'I want an apartment because of 'reasons'. And we are going to have a shocked pikachu face when she is told, yet again, that she doesn't own the place, there is no equity and she has to start from square one.
It is inevitable.
Dig this.
So, after they are done explaining how you don't really own it they then offer a 'financial plan' to 'pre-buy' your next place.
When you pay for your residence, say, $300,000 or so, if you give them instead $400,000 or $500,000 they will 'hold' that money for you so you can use it for your next place.
You know.
Hold.
As in, you don't earn interest.
My mother kept talking about that like it was a good thing as well. I kept having to tell her to take the extra money, go to her financial person and ask if he can make an offer for greater then 0% interest.
I kind of like the place, but man, that stuff left a sour taste in my mouth.
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u/SegaTime Aug 25 '26
That sour taste is a lack of transparency it seems. You might feel better about it if they weren't so slimy about it to begin with. At least she's doing good.
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u/Aidanation5 Aug 25 '26
I mean, I would say that some of that sour taste is caused by actually predatory business practices and straight up abuse of the elderly and theft of their assets and funds by making them sign their lives away with huge complicated contracts?
I'm sure that the people who are hiring a team of people to help them continue being alive as they cant even take care of themselves anymore are fully capable of understanding and weighing the pros and cons of your theft and abuse agreement. Hospice care/nursing homes/retirement communities can be some of the most disgusting and worthless businesses ran by some of the most useless and evil "people" that you could find.
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u/FeeNegative9488 Aug 25 '26
What you did is why she wanted you there. She needed someone to advocate on her behalf because they were confusing her with the language they were using.
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u/kotobaaa Aug 25 '26
So absolutely in the same vein but not as important as yours, i was at an anime convention this weekend and in line to buy food. The sign said “Tacos $6”. Wanna guess how many Taco were purchased for that $6??
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u/sirmaxedalot Aug 25 '26
Thats a really valid point. Words have meaning, and they should be legally obligated to frame the purchase of their games as "renting" or "leasing."
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u/mmatt0904 Aug 25 '26
Reminds me of when Apple reworded their App Store to use the word “Get”
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u/wherebgo Aug 26 '26
Exactly. The reckoning is coming with digital movies, I kept receipts and I know a lot of others did too.
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u/gplusplus314 Aug 26 '26
I’d like to add that if you can’t buy it, then you can’t sell it, which means acquisition is not theft.
I am not a lawyer, but I do enjoy snark.
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u/RaiKyoto94 Aug 27 '26
I went to the Microsoft Xbox store and it says Buy.
Under the options you have the terms and conditions and Digital sales conditions as well. Basically saying you don't own the software and it's only a purchase for a licence.
interesting it says you can request this agreement between the software provider for free.
I think it should be clear. Something like "Buy Licence" or "Rent" or the agreement on the page as well. I shouldn't have to request it.
Personal opinion: I've known how software licenses work and games and I know when I'm buying a game, I'm buying a licence to the game on that platform also. I also know games cost money to keep alive with server costs etc. I understand like offline games could be "buy" but sometimes they have legal agreements with the music etc to be used until the commercial life of the product.
If you have a multiplayer game, who is going to help keep it running, "police" it etc. Because when game servers go somewhat dead or no more updates then more hackers just come in and ruin it.
Would be good say if the Top ten games via player count was kept alive via the platform on behalf of Sony, Xbox etc then it makes sense because if a large amount of players are still playing then they can still get a 30% cutt off the store for DLC or in game buys etc.
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u/foxmetropolis Aug 27 '26
This is precisely my take. The whole reason companies used the word “buy” - which has a well-understood definition and whose concept spans literally thousands of years of human history - is because they did not think their customers would like the sounds of “lease”, “lifetime lease” or “rent”.
They intentionally manipulated the language to mislead the consumer, and then changed the fine print to redefine their terms, knowing full well that jargon went right over their consumers’ heads. Knowing full well that transparent language would have been received poorly, or led to different buying practices. Or boycotting.
Instead, they baked a contradiction into their contracts. That isn’t business, it’s deceit and fraud; you aren’t usually allowed to directly contradict the meaning of bold large-text claims with fine print contract jargon. But because technology was new and shiny, they convinced lawmakers and legal experts that it was legitimate.
It’s been anti-consumer from the beginning. It should 100% be changed back so the terms are literal.
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u/DookieShoez Aug 25 '26
Sony needs to get reminded that they aren’t the only way to play games.
These fucks are becoming greedy aholes.
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u/Ahayzo Aug 25 '26
Becoming?
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u/BobTheFettt Aug 25 '26
I'm just waiting for them to unleash patent US8246454B2 at this point
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u/CondiMesmer Aug 25 '26
I don't like the idea of not owning games, but I also don't see any other viable alternative. It's unfortunately just the nature of software because software services cannot exist indefinitely and are not freely ran like physical media is.
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u/TheWarriorsLLC Aug 25 '26
Redditors are too dumb for the facts your showing them.
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u/PurbulentTriest Aug 25 '26
Yes thanks that, but the issue is that this will be the only way to buy on PS5, which many of us will refuse. I own all my PS4/5 and Switch games because they're physical.
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u/preddevils6 Aug 25 '26
Are you only buying from GOG because this isn’t unique to Sony.
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u/DookieShoez Aug 25 '26
Nope, I make all my own games written in assembly.
I’d share ‘em with you guys but then mofos would start copying them, I’d have to add some DRM, and then we’re right back to square one.
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u/OfficalSwanPrincess Aug 25 '26
I have over 600 games on my steam account and if it was ever lost I'd pirate every single one of them all over again. You're right in what you say that it's not unique to Sony but if these companies don't start respecting their customers they're going to find ways of obtaining that content via other means.
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u/SpermicidalLube Aug 25 '26
So what, you'll move to another digital storefront with the same exact Terms of services?
glhf
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u/FangornLeghorn Aug 26 '26
I have been loyal to Sony since the first PlayStation lured me away from Nintendo, but I only buy physical games so this is the end of the line for me. Five PlayStations and I am now out. Fuck this oligarch corporate bullshit.
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u/GuyWithARooster Aug 26 '26
It seems like they're moving towards a renting system, where you pay to play the game for a limited time and then it gets taken away and you must pay again and again to activate it.
Well, Imma get myself a Steam machine and keep playing console.
Fuck you Sony, lmao
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u/techdog19 Aug 25 '26
I know Sony doesn't care but they have lost my business. I own a PS1, PSP, and PS4. The PS5 didn't really interest me I was waiting on the 6 to jump in again and now I won't be.
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u/EnvironmentalValue18 Aug 25 '26
As a fan girl who has bought and rebought the same games due to lack of backward compatibility and has PS1 x2, PS2, PS3, PS4 x2, and a PS5 not to mention portables - all with CD slots btw for the physical games which I buy - they’re losing me. The price hikes, fine… not great but it wasn’t a breaking point. Taking away physical games and then this statement? I can live them for what they meant without allowing their hubris with my money. Sorry Sony…
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u/Spartaner-043 Aug 25 '26
They made me plan my first PC just a couple months after getting my PS5 Pro, no way I’m staying with Sony if they continue this BS.
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u/Psychobob2213 Aug 25 '26
Yep, Their price increase on PS5 this last fall was the final deciding factor in whether I'd get one, or just build a gaming focused tower for my living room. I got in right before RAM prices exploded, and everything Sony has done since then has served as confirmation that I made the right call at the time.
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u/Nejahri Aug 25 '26
Same here. Best way to fight back is thru ur wallets but I’m not sure the masses will.
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u/martala Aug 25 '26
Yeah. If they’re going all-digital I might as well stick to PC since that’s an open platform.
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u/Seiwang Aug 25 '26
Yeah, the PS5 is going to be my last PS console. Very disappointing because PS has always been my preferred console, and I have many many many hours spent on all of them, playing PS games throughout my life. But now... I don't like it but I think it's time to shift to PC. Just hope I can afford the PC upgrade when prices are skyrocketing right now haha
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u/kahlzun Aug 26 '26
I've been in the PlayStation architecture since the first one. Owned every one, still think the ps3 was one of the best bluray players of the time.
But if they're not doing physical then I'm not doing console, especially with this sort of bullshit that they're pulling on the digital ownership side.
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u/NotTakenGreatName Aug 25 '26
"That most digital storefronts license content without actually selling it is nothing new, but Sony's emails seem poorly timed.
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u/EitherChannel4874 Aug 26 '26
We should remind PlayStation that they don't actually own our money.
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u/GonzoKata Aug 26 '26
Yeah, here's our TOS
"This customer grants you a non-exclusive, revocable license to use the Money solely on the Bank account for your personal, non-commercial use."
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u/LuntiX Aug 25 '26
Not uncommon this days. On PC through steam and other launchers you buy a license that can be revoked at any time for any reason with zero warning.
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u/St4va Aug 25 '26
Yeah, but on PC I still have the files and can crack the launcher. With GOG, I can just get the installer. PlayStation is a closed system, so it’s not really the same thing.
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u/HeadNature6968 Aug 26 '26
Thye have never taken a game off my library in steam
Even if it's delisted you can still play it and earn achievements
I have over thousand of games
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u/theoreoman Aug 25 '26
I swear that Corporation seem to forget the lessons learned from previous quarters. The reason piracy exists is because there's a pricing and availability problem. Without disks you'll have a pricing and availability problem again
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u/AccordingAd5037 Aug 25 '26 edited Aug 25 '26
Can we all just stop paying for ps+ until online is free again.
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u/bendbrewer Aug 25 '26
I stopped playing video games mostly on my PS4 lately but got a kick of nostalgia and wanted to play some older games from my childhood. They’re included with PS+ so I signed up not really knowing what’s going on with them lately. I skipped the PS5 and was going to wait for the PS6, but since KH3 and GTA are both announced I looked into a PS5, again not knowing hoe much they’ve risen in price the last year or so. Holy shit. Knowing what I know now, I won’t be buying one and I’m not serious enough about gaming to build my own PC. I’m bummed.
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u/HypocriteHere Aug 25 '26
I stopped playing for it. At this point, I don't I'll ever give them want money again, for anything. I'm tired of corporations being pieces of shit.
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u/RealLifeCoaching Aug 25 '26
Then they shouldn't be allowed to use words like "purchase" or "buy" in the game market.
This is one of those situations involving the possession and consumption of cake. If they're not actually selling it, they shouldn't be allowed to advertise it as a sale.
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u/00negative Aug 26 '26
Class action lawsuits should be filed on this sort of shit, just like Amazon prime taking content you that you have purchased because they lost it in their catalog. We pay for these on your service they should be available to users that pay for it whether they have it publicly available still or not
Consumers are getting f**ked at every turn. Or we need to stop buying online, streamed products and go back to hard copies. Might be a perfect new business model. What is old is new again.
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u/christopher1393 Aug 25 '26
If buying is not owning then piracy is not stealing.
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u/jikanetbasedborn77 Aug 26 '26
And then, Players reminds Sony they don't actually own the money they sold
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u/DemonikAriez Aug 25 '26
That language has been in gaming EULAs/ToS for years. It's not equivalent to Sony suddenly announcing, “You don't own anything you bought.”
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u/BlueFeathered1 Aug 26 '26
Except they just did. They made a point to remind people "out of the blue". Which comes across as more hostile fuck-yous to customers, considering the climate right now.
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u/Top-Tax6076 Aug 25 '26
Unlike steam, which literally is the same
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u/koalazeus Aug 25 '26
It's an issue on steam too. It's better on gog. Sony did have physical games which are also a good option. They've announced they're stopping making them. Hence the complaint.
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u/blackblades75 Aug 25 '26
Which should be fought and changed to own. Apparently people forgot how to fight back. They rather sit back and take it like a champ. Seriously some people trying to fight it but you have majority of others whining about them fighting everyone rights to own.
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u/KeaboUltra Aug 25 '26
Nobody owns any game or software they purchase. You only own the license to own a copy be it in digital or physical form. It's the reason why if you broke the disc or lost it, or it just flat out stops working after many years, you aren't entitled to another free copy. It's also why you're not allowed to make copies and sell them for personal gain. If you truly owned the game that means you could make copies and sell it or do what you wanted with the IP.
Im not arguing in defense of them taking physical media away. I still think it's important to not have companies meddle with games in your library and people should be allowed to resell the copy they purchased if they no longer play it. But I think people are confusing what it means to buy a game. You buy a license and it's always been that way. Yes, I guess they shouldn't consider it "buying" but it's not exactly renting either. You're buying access to a copy that lasts for as long as the physical media lasts for, but that's not really an issue for digital media since it's tied to an account and/or downloaded onto a device which can be transferred if the device breaks
Companies are trying to control your access to these games in a digital library by creating arbitrary time limits for offline accounts to gaslight people into believing the reason to take away something you rightfully paid for. That's the real issue here. It doesn't make them money if your games never expire, forcing you to buy them again. I think having a digital copy is great. I like physical too but this is just greedy.
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u/cp5184 Aug 26 '26
It's the reason why if you broke the disc or lost it, or it just flat out stops working after many years, you aren't entitled to another free copy.
I own the valve orange box physical edition. If the discs break, I can go to steam, go to I think back up game files, and then burn my own copy of the orange box physical discs.
I think the term people often use is free as in beer in that you have the recipe and can make it yourself I guess.
Now as has been mentioned, gog is even better about this.
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u/preddevils6 Aug 25 '26
How often is this getting reposted?
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u/mat_sw Aug 26 '26 edited Aug 26 '26
Players remind Sony that using term 'buy' with PlayStation games they don't actually own is misleading!
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u/Radgris Aug 25 '26
i mean you are right but the way you phrase it generates no rage thus downvote
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u/perfidydudeguy Aug 25 '26
This is the most non-story of all time.
You know what people? You don't own the physical games either. They're also limited use license, just like movies.
Yes, yes, I know. If it's digital only and your console is always online something something account termination/revocation/services going offline. Sure, but the dispute of if you legally own a game or not goes back all the way to the beginning of video games in the first place.
If we don't own them, only own a license to use them, does that mean the publisher is on the hook to replace a broken physical media? TOS says no. Can I operate a for profit business using physical media? TOS says no, law says first sale doctrine so you can sell or rent your copy, but you can't do "mass screenings" and the like, whatever that means under the context of a video game. Makes more sense for movies.
I get people don't like the fully digital shift, and that's fine, but this article is ruminating 30+ year old problems.
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u/Analogsilver Aug 25 '26
"You don't own it" has been the software user agreement since forever. Literally. I can't remember a single user agreement in the last 40 years that didn't say this. Even before there was downloadable software.
I guess no one today knows that.
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u/B23vital Aug 25 '26
I think the difference like other have said is that physical discs cant be taken out of your possession, while downloadable content can be removed at any time without notice.
There needs to be law changes for this, if this is the way they want to go, fine, people can choose how they buy/dont buy games, but it needs to be clearer.
At this point i dont get why more people dont buy PC's (if money isnt an issue) as owning a console is becoming completely pointless
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u/GodEmperorPotato Aug 25 '26
As someone who owns both console and pc. I game on console because its more convenient as I have them in the living room and my bedroom and also in my own space in the basement. I use pc for gaming also but some days after work the last thing I wanna do is get back on a pc after being in one all day
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u/meancoot Aug 25 '26
Sony could push an update today that will stop any specific disc game from ever running again.
Sure, you could still play as long as you never go online again and never try to play a newer disc based game that ships with the newer system software. But your ability to play a physical disc is ultimately as ephemeral as a digital license.
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u/yaypauline Aug 25 '26
Similar to how the books you buy on Kindle aren't actually yours. Crazy concept.
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u/SquirrelOtherwise723 Aug 26 '26
Muito legal mudar os termos de uso após todos gastaram uma fortuna com os jogos.
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u/WyntonPlus Aug 26 '26
Sony going out of their way to tank their own games division? It's true what they say, Playstation has no games
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u/MrShigsy89 Aug 26 '26 edited Aug 26 '26
I think people are getting far too hung up on the physical disk topic. It's not at all the core issue. With or without a physical disk, a development studio / publisher can mandate an active internet connection to play a single player game, and/or end support for multiplayer servers, essentially killing some games entirely. Your physical disk doesn't protect you from this at all.
What people should be discussing is regulations to manadate that non-multiplayer games and game modes will work offline forever, and that multiplayer servers (if they exist for a given game) are maintained for a minimum of X year's after game lunch. Any multiplayer game that kills off it's servers after this minimum period must opensource the standlone server component to allow the community to self host (and maintain) that service.
Steam has proven decades ago that a substantial game collection is dramatically more efficient to own digitally, particularly if you want to use it across the lifetime of multiple devices. We don't need disks, we need legal guarantees.
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u/dwardu Aug 26 '26
If you do not log on to your PlayStation account in 36 months then Sony costume they have the right to delete your account and you lose games that you lawfully purchased. With no way to recover it. Yes it is pretty abhorrent what they’re doing.
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u/MaRk0-AU Aug 26 '26
Just a reminder to Sony, If buying is it owning then piracy is it theft and fk you to the moon Sony.
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u/Meowie__Gamer Aug 25 '26
How many posts am I going to see of this? This is getting old.
Not defending Sony, btw. I’m just getting bored of seeing the same shit.
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u/Nickleonard00 Aug 25 '26
Oh fuck off, if you aren’t using strictly Gog then it’s the same for everywhere else.
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u/GameGuy2025 Aug 25 '26
GoG has the exact same TOS.
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u/pgtl_10 Aug 25 '26
For some reason people don't understand ownership. Software is almost always licensed.
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u/good4y0u Aug 25 '26
It looks like Ida Auken got it right with "By the year 2030, everything you considered a product has now become a service, meaning individuals would own nothing and be happy about it."
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u/Ayotha Aug 25 '26
Then as usual piratin gis not stealiing.
Does not matter, they can really raise up the douche levels because tools will by gta
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u/Winter_Boss_2114 Aug 26 '26
What's the realistic alternative for some that wants to play console but not support this?
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u/erikwarm Aug 25 '26
Vote with your wallet to let them know this is not acceptable
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u/alfooboboao Aug 25 '26
remember when Netflix dropped password sharing and everyone on the internet said they’d all quit in protest, stick it to em!
then no one did, and Netflix made a shitload more money with zero consequences lmao. that brought my ass back down to reality real quick, I’d half convinced myself it might work. it’s all priced in
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u/darklightrabbi Aug 25 '26
We’ve been told to vote with our wallet our entire lives and everything has only gotten worse. Let’s stop pretending we have power as individual consumers within capitalism and accept that we need to be pushing for institutional change.
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u/saviorself19 Aug 25 '26
The overwhelming majority of people are buying digital games. We took a vote by show of wallets and physical media lost. Capitalism worked as intended.
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u/Upstairs-Ad-6853 Aug 25 '26
Then I will not be owning a play station when the next console/gen comes out
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u/stinkybumbum Aug 25 '26
Sony trying their best to fuck up a good thing they have. It’s not going to end well
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u/JennyWearsBlueJeans Aug 25 '26
My biggest issue with this is games are huge and PlayStation drives aren’t. I got a PS4 right when it came out, put Fallout 4 and Doom on there and the drive was like 2/3 of the way full. I spent the next decade deleting games to make room for new games, etc. This would be even more of a pain if all my games were digital as I’d have to re-download each one if I had deleted it and wanted to play it again.
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u/UnInvertedSkyTower Aug 25 '26
Is that a threat Sony? Please don't think you're too big and loved to not start feeling it when people give up on you. Youre not all that
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u/Brown_Star Aug 25 '26
It would be a shame if another gaming console were to rise up from the ashes and take over that market share.
Some gamers are too young to remember the cut throat 90's and early 2000s gaming console wars. I would love to see Sega resurrected from the dead! The genesis will always be in my top 3 of all time.
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u/oman54 Aug 25 '26
So all that easy marketing n stuff they did back in the Xbox one PS4 days means nothing now
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u/JesusUnoWTF Aug 25 '26
"You know what would help this dumpster fire? Reminding them of the dumpster fire we've already been feeding."
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u/vladimirVpoutine Aug 26 '26
I deleted ps plus and I never realized how many of my goddamn games are unplayable because of it. I said fuck my monitor and hooked my PC to my living room tv. Never looking back especially since alot of new games aren't that great on ps5 anyways and I only have a 3070ti
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u/rossfororder Aug 26 '26
Sony are quickly digging holes, think Xbox circa 2013. This could absolutely kill their brand and instead they're speed running into it
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u/Brave_Confection_457 Aug 26 '26
That most digital storefronts license content without actually selling it is nothing new
It's literally always been the case.
Look revoking access to the license out of nowhere sucks and I agree it's an issue but no customer in the history of video games has ever had anything but a license to use it within the developer's or creator's terms
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u/speeddemon266 Aug 26 '26
I've had every generation of Playstation since the original PS1 but I will not get the PS6. I'm tired of their bullshit.
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u/blackop Aug 26 '26
With all the bumble of them taking discs away, Im Sure this statement will go over well.
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u/demon_twink_gockie Aug 26 '26
Well shit if I ain't gonna own it, I ain't spending money on it. I'll just torrent that shit and play on an emulator on my pc if it's PS exclusive.
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u/AechUnderH Aug 26 '26
They also just reminded us where WE SHOULDNT be spending OUR money on. Thanks for the STARK REMINDER! BOYCOTT SONY!
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u/AccordingAd5037 Aug 26 '26
The main issue is people have paid retail price ($70-$90) for a digital download. And sadly have just realized it will not be there forever.
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u/Horror_Carrot_8742 Aug 26 '26
Players remind Sony that if they don't own it then piracy isn't theft.
Ahoy
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u/baw3000 Aug 25 '26
Anyone that was around in the Napster days and when Sony included a rootkit on music CDs should not be surprised by their attitude on this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal