Sony rolls out 30-day DRM check-in for PlayStation – stay online or lose access
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by ricardobeat
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Tangential to this, I've always felt like this was a bit whacky, but I've caved in and started renting and buying DVDs recently. Paying nearly 100 dollars a month for streaming services and unable to watch a popular comedy movie from the 90s my daughter wanted to see. Got the DVD for €1.
Will keep buying physical game copies, thank you - thought not even that is entirely safe, see Driveclub.
by xvxvx
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Earlier this year 2 Xbox games I own started forcing an Xbox live subscription to work. WWZ used to let me play offline alongside bots, but no more. And COD:MWII went behind the same paywall. I refuse to pay the ransom and my 2 Xboxes have been unplugged and gathering dust for months while I migrated to Steam.
by h4kunamata
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Watching Sony fanboys losing it after making jokes for decades towards Xbox. Well, you not just don't own your console as you don't own your games :)
Xbox at least lets you play the X360 physical media back compatible with the latest console.
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