It's odd timing given that microsoft seems to be giving up on Xbox

I wouldn't be surprised.

The whole tech industry is very overtly hell bent on pushing through an ai controlled dystopia.

What good would the current model of gaming be?

Have a bunch of people work very hard on a game and all that work "loses it's value" after a year or so. (In their eyes, shit's gotta sell).

When you can have ai just dream/hallucinate up a game and stream that instead? (It's nowhere near that yet, but holy shit would they love it)

Now you have an endless stream of stuff to sell that costs you zero manpower.

Now the good peasants go work and can have half an hour of slop per day as a reward. And if they revolt, you just cut them off.

do they have any other lines of business that make them money??

i know the camera business is supplies sensors to the majority of cellphones.... but the tv business is dead, the phone business is dead (or might asd well be, since it's asia only), the movie studio can't buy a hit, what does sony do if it doenst have paystation??>

Read the EULA sometime on a game you "own" on steam (or any platform for that matter).

Almost without a doubt you're being granted a license to one copy of the game used the way they say it can be used. Most of the licenses are revokable for violating the conditions, many just outright say "hey we can take this away at any time for any reason and you can suck it" which is in a legal gray area I suppose.

As far as how it's legal, you don't have to do business with any of these various entities and you're agreeing to their terms when you get their product. Plus, like you said, there is very little consumer protections in place.

I agree we need more consumer protections on general and particularly for digital purchases. However, at least in the USA, the prevailing political winds are heavily in favor of companies and anti consumer. The Trump admin basically dismantled the bureau of consumer protection so ... That should tell you their priorities.

Did you actually play Portal 2? And what did you think of it?

This is a good thing, companies shouldn't hoard people's data forever.

Thanks, saw MSN had entire articles essentially that were just slop summaries the other day & was put off worrying about journos

So some password systems prepend the hash algorithm to your password hash, that way you can tell if the user has migrated to the new algorithm or not when you change your hashing scheme.

Odds are after the PSN breach they changed the algorithm and have since removed the code to check the old algorithm. So it just sees the hash didn’t match with the new algorithm even though the password is the same.

I had not used my ps3 in ages and he to redo the thermal paste on it. Once I got it back up I was able to access my downloaded games without connecting to the network. Maybe the ps4 or 5 is always online requirement?

Similar for me, a few years I tried to log back on to claim a free game giveaway just in case I bought a PS4/5.

Instead my account was deleted. This account doesn’t exist, or something like that. Can’t make a new account with that email because an account exists. Amazing. I had some stuff on there, I got the receipts.

So I’m surprised at this thread because I thought that was already the policy. Maybe for accounts in countries with no consumer protection rules this was more or less already happening.

I even logged into my Uplay because I knew it was linked to my PSN, to see if there’s a way to get any information about my PSN account. And yes, it showed the accounts were linked, and that I was unsuccessfully logging on with the correct email.

I could have bought a used PS4 during Covid and maybe later a PS5 if I got into their stuff. Alas (for Sony) I tripled down on PC. Even got a Steam deck at an extortionate markup when I felt like it would be worth it for me, via a third country where it’s not officially available. Good stuff

You will eat nothing and you will be happy

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.

The last good product Sony made was the Walkman.

I bought my wife a ps5. Regretting that decision too.

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

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.

Preventing the recovery of temporarily abandoned accounts (like from a family member that stopped gaming some time ago), and saving a few cents in storage.

Best we can get is Internet Archive of previous versions of the page if we're lucky.

'We need to replicate the success of Betamax and minidisc, immediately' - exec that was never told.

Reminds me, I have an old ps3 with a broken disc drive in need of being jailbroken. I should get on that.

I wonder if logging into the app on your phone would take care of that requirement.

Unfortunately, taking it offline also won't work, because iirc games stop working if the console hasn't been online in a month.

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.

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?

Depends what firmware you're on. If you've updated in the last year or so, you're fucked, otherwise there's a variety of options

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.

Xbox will do it in 5 years according to their service agreement.

In all countries it serves. Not just EU.