if playstation owners complain enough sony will backtrack this. sony tried forcing pc users to have a playstation account for helldivers 2 to play it, but pc players did not want to do that and there was enough backlash that sony walked that back.
..movies that were purchased by people already through their platform.
pc game distribution has been
mostly digital since the 2010s due to steam’s popularity. one day valve can decide to revoke your access to the game that you bought through steam but at least..
you have a way of.. bypassing that, as you do have direct access to the game files that are in your hard drive/ssd, so you “own” the game, for the lack of a better term, unlike with an xbox/ps5.
this sucks in general and we should be more vocal about this
this is very anti-consumer bc no one with a ps5 can access the game files unless you’re part of the 1-5% of ps5 owners that’s technically inclined. so if sony decides one day you can’t play the games due to a licensing issue, there goes your game. sony is doing this to..
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