People who purchased "digital copies" of games on Sony's PlayStation Network are discovering they don't really own anything. PS5 owners lose access to hundreds of games as digital purchases wiped from their accounts | Metro News
Actually the issue is impacting more than just PS5 owners.
A random bug that’s wiping digital games from people’s libraries.
The bug is affecting PlayStation 4 and 5, and PS Vita, and fans are certainly not happy about it.
Since the linked article was published, more people have reported the bug. Sony doesn't have an explanation or a fix.
The bug wipes games from your account, and to make it worse Dsuds adds that if you’re affected by the bug you can’t re-download the missing games, as your PlayStation account won’t let you.
People are understandably upset. With at least one user vowing to never buy another digital game from Sony.
This comes shortly after Sony said that they were going to remove content that people had paid for. An article from December of 2023 also from Metro News: PlayStation is removing digital content people have paid for from their consoles.
The horrors of a digital-only future have been laid bare, as a licensing change sees Sony removing Discovery content from players’ consoles.
It might mean you don’t have to get up to change discs anymore, when you want to play something different, but buying games and other content digitally has some serious drawbacks, most obviously the fact that you never own the games you buy, you’re essentially just renting them.
Sony relented in that case, because they opened a can of worms that had the potential to a worse PR disaster than what Bud Light went through last year.
Someone said that in an age where you pay for something but don't own it, digital piracy is not theft. I don't know if I agree with that or not, but I do understand the sentiment behind it.
Note: "You'll own nothing and be happy," is a phrase that came out of the World Economic Forum in 2016. It basically means you will be a serf. Not included in that phrase, but included in the original article, it was also noted that you would have no privacy.
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