Just in time for them to take physical discs away! Edit: This is only in EU! For now.
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
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.
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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?
All in on live services.
That’s good, dead accounts are a general safety risk for everyone.
What’s bad is, that they don’t (have to) refund you.Yeah there’s simply no way to disable the account without permanently removing all of their purchases from their library.
Oh well.
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.
No, I will lose access to Fat Princess!
Oh man I’ve got this saved on my jailbroken ps3 and it really was such a fun little game I feel like it didn’t get the attention it deserved.
The PSP sequel (fistful of cake) is pretty solid.
I didn’t even know they made one! Thank you you just gave me a new game to try
You will eat nothing and you will be happy
if youre not even connected to a line, what they gonna do? wait til youre connected then trash you?
their next decision is always the worst
An important detail nobody is mentioning is that is EU only due to privacy laws there. Sony still sucks, etc., but it’s important to get the facts straight.
There’s totally no EU law forcing companies to delete stuff you bought.
It’s this. I don’t feel like looking up the relevant part, but feel free to if you like.
They are deliberately misinterpreting that law. This law only applies for data that they no longer have a legitimate reason to retain. It’s not just a rolling 3-year counter that starts every time you log out and gets reset every time you log in.
I haven’t logged into Facebook in well more than 3 years they haven’t deleted my data and that isn’t a violation, I haven’t deleted my account (I can’t I’ve forgotten the password and no longer have access to the original email, it’s my problem).
It’s only for things now lapsed gym memberships, or car dealerships keeping your data after you purchase a vehicle from them. They can keep that data for 3 years and then they have to delete it.
The relevant bit is this one here:
It’s hard to argue that buying something on a digital platform is not a contract between the user and the platform.
Thanks! The 3 year time limit isn’t mandated and was chosen by Sony. I believe other companies have chosen even lower ones.
Which is, of course, wrong: The duration of contract for a store like Sonys is the whole time the store is up and running.
No other online store is doing this. The only one that comes close afaik is Ubisoft (who couldve guessed), but only if you own zero games on that account.
They are required to delete certain data about you if its no longer necessary for their service, but not everything, especially since you have an ongoing contract with them. They either couldn’t be bothered to only delete parts of data they consider useless already and instead chose to just wipe everything, or that’s their way of malicious compliance.
Under the GDPR, every organisation must:
Define how long each category of personal data is stored Justify each retention period with a legal or operational basis Ensure data is deleted or anonymised once the purpose ends Document all retention rules in a clear and accessible format Apply retention rules consistently across all data systems Ensure third-party processors comply with the organisation’s retention instructions They can define their own reasonable terms. Sony chooses to delete that stuff.
Sony’s reminding me of their “599 US DOLLARS” era very heavily lately. Gaming has been in such a rough spot lately, it’s a shame.
It had the curse of being worth more than movies and television, so it attracted every “entertainment” investor around, demanding short term profits like movies do. Now we have giant corporations thinking they can even remotely understand what a creative medium is, and then being shocked when we don’t buy their latest “written by HR”/microtransaction bullshit. Meanwhile Indie is doing great! Surprise, creative people make good creative products.
The fact that digital everything has been such a clusterfuck of unwashed ass pushed me back to rock climbing. Thanks/go fuck yourself tech conglomerates! I’ve definitely drawn similar associations, Rick
I started playing ukulele because i did not feel like spending a years savings on a new gaming pc and nvidia fucked up gforce now. A recorder/flute is like 7 $. But its impossible to play silent.
They can only do that because Microsoft dropped the ball and there is no real competition in sight.
Err… What about Steam. Steam Machine, plenty of portable options are available with not only SteamOS now, Steam Frame is inbound, and I’d expect to see a lot of Steam machine clones.
I’m still playing games I purchased 10+ years ago still (finally trying to finish Broken Age)
The only thing going for Playstation / Xbox really is the pricing at the moment
Yes but this is kind of like telling someone who’s Nissan broke down “Mercedes exists!”
Even at $600 with the basic PS plus it would take around 6.6 years to approach the price of a steam machine or steam deck at this point.
Depends how many games you buy. I have hundreds of steam games, many from 10+ years ago
Is this an attempt to temporarily artifically inflate unique account activity metrics for self-congratulation and shareholder ego stroking?
(This month X millions players logged in to play games, which is a significant increase from before!)
This is sad just because of the old names disappearing. A friend of mine killed themselves back in 2017, but we played a few games on ps4 together online back in the day. So I still scroll down to look at that old gamer tag every now and then. Its sad to think of that going away.
