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Before you could download licenses for everything you owned even without the game being installed. Now you must install a game first before you can get a license for it. This will have major implications for jail breaking.

    • Stovetop@lemmy.world
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      11 hours ago

      I am trying to think of scenarios where this will screw with normal users because companies never do moves like this unless they’re after some sort of grift.

      But I am not seeing it at present. Maybe I’m just too tired and my brain isn’t working, but if a game is downloaded digitally and the license comes with it, there’s effectively no difference. Take it offline, you still have the license, no issues.

      The only potential impact I can think of is if you have two users on a console that is the home console for neither person, and both of them bought the same game digitally. User 1 downloads the game, the license comes with it, and they take the console offline. User 2 then uses the console, tries to play the game they own, and gets a license error because the console is offline and doesn’t know they own it and therefore it can only be played by the person who downloaded it. But I think that’s how it works already, since User 2 would still need the console to be online to import their licenses.

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        9 hours ago

        Is this an actual edge case?:

        Someone whose hard drive is full and buys a bunch of new games and wants to go play PS5 at a cabin in the woods

        • Venator@lemmy.nz
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          But you’d still need to download the games onto the ps5 in the cabin in the woods, assuming this doesn’t apply to games on disc.