Square Enix will continue to go down hill because of this. They already ruined the FF Series & cant even create a new kingdom hearts game. These guys should just go creat mobile games since they hate listening to their fans lol. Company is a joke now.

sony is just prepping people for ps4, it seems it will not play any digital content without a streaming internet connection active . Seriously i hope this goes viral and digital sales of this suck and phsyical sales are great. This would send sony a message.

And THIS is a huge reason I don't want all digital machines. The only thing topping it is the prices never going down.

The retail version will be cheaper anyway, at least here in the UK. Amazon UK currently have the game priced at £31.90, whereas typical PSN digital retail releases go for at least £49.99.

I see the US Amazon price is $59.99, which presumably matches the digital price? I guess I'm lucky to be British, since £31.90 is only about $48 including tax. :)

I was just starting to get used and comfortable with buying digital games ...but if this is the future for digital media then don't count me in.

Vote with your wallets people, don't support these tactics.

You need an internet connection to buy it from psn in the 1st place so what's the issue exactly?

just like all drm this will fail, because the numbers of people they drive away will far outweigh the numbers of people that would have abused the system.

is a lack of common sense a prerequisite to manage a software publisher these days?

SOLUTION TO DRM >BOYCOTT DIGITAL & PURCHASE RETAIL ONLY!!

This type of DRM was implemented back in 2007 with GT Prologue, but Sony subsequently removed it due to negative feedback.

How foolish is this system? ...I mean, what if your net is down or you have no internet at all? I suspect after the desired sales targets for Tomb Raider are met, this DRM will be de-activated.

Games are becoming more and more restrictive! ...This after you're expected to pony up $60? Vote with your wallets people, stick to retail only..let us kill this over priced digital distribution dictatorship!

NO digital buy then, this is insane, Sony and Nintendo don't restrict the systems, but a publisher does it...oh... but It's Square, the worse publisher in this gen with EA, why I'm not surprised?

Guys please purchase retail only¡¡¡

And that is why the only digital titles on my PS3 came from PSN+...

this the bullshit we pc gamers have to go through.

I will never buy a game digitally that features DRM on console or PC.

As others have stated this is the type of BS that pushes me away from digital.

I guess its back to the Tomb Raider Trilogy (only on PS3 btw) and Uncharted 3 multiplayer for me.

Oh and just FYI for all those trophie hunters. the Tomb Raider Trilogy features 3 full games each with full trophy sets including 3 platinums all one Blue Ray disc...sweet.

If you have the choice always buy the physical product. The only games i ever buy digitally are those that never get released as physical. You have infinitely more control of your physical goods than something tied to a closed system which might just disappear one day.

While this is a bit disturbing at face value it makes sense to me. Imagine if everyone decided to "gameshare" this game and nothing was in place to prevent that. How many MILLIONS of dollars would that company be out as a result? If we want to continue to play high quality games, those companies need our money to keep putting them out. They are just covering their asses. Let them. They have a right to.

What is the alternative? Don't require the internet connection that DL'd the game in the first place? Walk straight into the realm of company-supported piracy? There are plenty of open source or free to play models out there. Feel free to play those. But triple A titles will always need significant consumer support in order to keep coming our way.

Both PS3 AND PS4 have been confirmed to be disc-based...which means if you wanna let more than one person borrow your game, you have the option to buy the disc version. Feel free.