They do make a point about downloads, If one person has them, on the previous restriction system, up to 3 to 5 consoles could get the same DL content for free.
Still, the data on the disk shouldn't be restricted in my opinion. I can understand why they don't want sharing, but game sharing is such a part of gaming culture for trying games before buying.
[editline]21st November 2011[/editline]
Oh wait, PS store only, I read the article wrong.
[editline]21st November 2011[/editline]
I miss bad reading and self rating.
Not to point out the obvious, but how does harming your consumers hurt the pirates who've already gotten your entire drive code and do anything besides hurt Gamestop and used games sales?
[QUOTE=Worldwaker;33370594]Not to point out the obvious, but how does harming your consumers hurt the pirates who've already gotten your entire drive code and do anything besides hurt Gamestop and used games sales?[/QUOTE]
It's this all over again:
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The paying customers are punished, the pirates circumvent their 'protection' anyway, it doesn't matter to them if it's there or not.
Nobody is going to actually read the article, they're just going to blindly say that this is a reason to pirate games.
What it's saying is that if you buy a game from playstation store, it cuts the number of machines the game could be played on from 5 to 2. But honestly who has multiple playstations that they play their games on? People just stick to 1.
If you honestly do play on more than 2 consoles I support your decision to pirate. But other than that everyone should shut up.
What happens if your console breaks down, you replace it, then that one breaks down as well? Unlikely to happen in a short amount of time, but it still means that if it ever does happen you can't play any of the games you've bought anymore doesn't it?
[QUOTE=Worldwaker;33370594]Not to point out the obvious, but how does harming your consumers hurt the pirates who've already gotten your entire drive code and do anything besides hurt Gamestop and used games sales?[/QUOTE]
Did you even read the article? Be glad they are actually allowing to share the game on 2 systems. I know a lot of people who share their accounts with multiple friends to play a lot of PS Store games.
Microsoft did a similar thing if I remember, but it involved the banning of those accounts instead.
Because fuck you, and your shitty friends.
~Sony
I think the CEO of Sony is an xbox fanboy
[QUOTE=BigOwl;33370925]Because fuck you, and your shitty friends.
~Sony
I think the CEO of Sony is an xbox fanboy[/QUOTE]
This post made no sense whatsoever.
To be fair I'm okay with it going from five to two, having the ability to activate content on 5 PS3's at once was just crying out for abuse. If they banned it altogether that'd piss me off
Oh no, the system I abused is gone, abloobloobloo.
[QUOTE=Wormy;33371417]Uh, sorry, what?[/QUOTE]
I think he was talking about Sony having no regard for the time honoured tradition of loaning/swapping games between friends.
At school it seems half (literally) of my friends who have ps3's have someone who they share accounts with for DLC and free games.
[QUOTE=st_nick5;33370854]What happens if your console breaks down, you replace it, then that one breaks down as well? Unlikely to happen in a short amount of time, but it still means that if it ever does happen you can't play any of the games you've bought anymore doesn't it?[/QUOTE]
I've had a friend who went through over 5 PS3's and had to have EVERYONE deactivate their system from his account and ended up having to call Sony over this. His system originally overheated and they kept sending him shitty refurbished PS3's apparently. In the end I believe they just reset his account activation so it was free to be used by him and shared among his friends.
Doesn't fix anything
This is silly. They should have left it how it was. Now how am I suppose to bring games I bought on PSN to a friends and play them? I'm that minority they're talking about. :(
[QUOTE=st_nick5;33370854]What happens if your console breaks down, you replace it, then that one breaks down as well? Unlikely to happen in a short amount of time, but it still means that if it ever does happen you can't play any of the games you've bought anymore doesn't it?[/QUOTE]
Sony can deactivate your old consoles in a couple minutes after phoning them.
Eh, me and my friends share overpriced crap. So this sucks for me.
I want my freedom back, Sony.
[QUOTE=Spectre1406;33382634]I want my freedom back, Sony.[/QUOTE]
Your freedom was 5 consoles instead of 2.
I don't see how that is freedom.
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This is stupid... What's wrong with sharing games with friends - it's your game, you bought it.
[QUOTE=_NewBee;33383024]This is stupid... What's wrong with sharing games with friends - it's your game, you bought it.[/QUOTE]
YOU bought it, your friends didn't.
As typical of a Facepunch thread, some people have came in and whined about freedom.
You never had freedom in the first place, and freedom certainly doesn't belong in the context of what is in the article anyways. Seriously, how many people actually own two PS3s? Sony also does have a point, because it's unfair for them if you buy a game and give a copy to your friend who doesn't pay a single cent to Sony, and that's bad for business.
[QUOTE=Spectre1406;33382634]I want my freedom back, Sony.[/QUOTE]
:10bux: says you didn't utilize all 5 copies.
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