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E3 Update on COVID-19

The health and safety of our attendees, exhibitors, partners, and staff is our top priority. While the ESA continues to plan for a safe and successful E3 show June 9-11, 2020—we are monitoring and evaluating the situation daily.

yellowgerbil2266d ago

There is nothing to address, it will be long gone by Summer
it took corona a week to jump from 3000 dead to 3100 dead even though it reached America during that time. 100 dead this week to corona worldwide. 10,000 dead this week to heart attacks in America alone.

Steppenwolfmother2265d ago

It’s only just starting to spread in western countries among people who haven’t been overseas. I think it will get a bit worse before it dies down. And reported cases may be a bit skewed in the US because from what I hear some states won’t allow you to get a test for covid19 unless you have been overseas even if you are showing all the symptoms. Plus the high cost of those tests for people that have no or poor insurance

rainslacker2265d ago

So, E3 should be more worried about heart attacks than the CV? I guess they could tone down the spectacle to keep people calm, or not invite so many of those "influencers" who get people riled up, which makes people experience unnecessary stress, so people are less likely to have heart attacks. They could also provide more heart healthy choices at their concessions. Like fried carrots on a stick instead of the typical corn dogs.

In retrospect, given how many people seem to get so excited and stressed over the conferences, maybe it's a good thing Sony backed out. I wouldn't wan them being accused of leading people to have a heart problem.

Christopher2265d ago (Edited 2265d ago )

While I still don't understand pulling out of PAX 2020, and people see that as careless and disregarding of the virus, your logic doesn't make much sense.

1. Death rates aren't the only concern.
2. No one wants to catch viruses from events in general.
3. It also took a week for it to gain 10k new cases with it being a global issue. It will likely pop up again once it goes away and why the vaccine for it will be needed later on regardless of declining rates of occurrence.

The real determinant here on whether E3 will be affected or not is if it continues to grow through march/april, not its effects right now.

yellowgerbil2265d ago

What is wrong with my logic? your 3 bulltet points don't really say anything.
My point is, it is dying out. Like the flu it is a winter virus and E3 is a summer event.
"likely" pop up again. A lot of psychics out there that seem to know things that nobody can know. I don't KNOW what will happen, nor do you... But it is much more reasonable to look at recent virus' like Ebola, Sars, Swine, Zika, Bird flu and assume that this too will fizzle out. Nothing indicates otherwise, cases are down and are falling RAPIDLY. It has been stuck at 80-90 thousand total for 2 weeks now.

SegaGamer2265d ago (Edited 2265d ago )

@Yellowgerbil

You're are excluding some important facts here, the virus was mainly in China and those numbers mostly come from China, it's only just started spreading to the rest of the world, so those numbers will start rising more and more by the day.

The rest of the world has been steadily growing in numbers per day. My country for example, the UK, just had it's largest spike in confirmed cases in the past 2 days, and we just had our first death from it. We were only on a few cases a week when this first started, then two days ago, the total number of people to have been confirmed to have it doubled. Italy has had a ton of cases in the past week, the same could quite easily happen very soon in every other country on the planet, which would mean this virus would jump in total numbers massively over the next few weeks.

This virus isn't slowing down, and it may not for a while yet. You also cannot say it's just a winter virus, there just isn't enough known about the virus to say that yet. Not every country on the planet are in their winter season and they are seeing numbers grow. Look at Australia, they have just come out of their summer season and have reported 50+ cases so far, this is similar to countries that are currently in their winter season.

yellowgerbil2265d ago

@segagamer
YOU are excluding important facts.
FACT
this has the same methods of contagion, symptoms, and "devastated" at the exact same time as the FLU. So it stands to reason that like the flu it is coming to an end (flu season peaks from December to February). Like the flu it has been in a steep decline for almost 2 weeks.
FACT
how a plague level virus works is it grows out of control. example. 1 person has it, infects 2, those 2 infect 10, those 10 infect 100, those 100 infect 10000, those 10000 infect 10000000. Meanwhile Corona has been slowing inching from 80000 to 90000 for the past 2 weeks. It isn't contained, it is burnt out. You can't contain something like Corona any more than you can for the FLU. Germs are EVERYWHERE.
FACT while places outside china HAVE increased frequency it is nowhere near the 1000-5000 a day that china was having at its peak (smack dab in the middle of flu season, go figure). The only place reporting anything even close to the numbers of china is S Korea and even that is jumping only a few hundred a day.
FACT
3100 people have died from the corona, in the same span of time 18,000 people died from the flu. Just like the flu deaths are almost 100% amongst the elderly and infirm, the few doctors that died in China were working 10-14hr days while infected (which is the exact opposite of smart).
FACT
It has been reported that of those infected in china over 50000 have already made full recoveries (just like the flu).
FACT
"it isn't slowing down" At its peak there were 14000 cases in a day. that number has settled to around 2000 a day average (it has peaked and in decline just like the flu).
FACT
there are over 7 billion people in the world. less than .0001% of the world has gotten it.
FACT
definition of hysteria Exaggerated or uncontrollable emotion or excitement, especially among a group of people.

Christopher2265d ago (Edited 2265d ago )

***What is wrong with my logic? your 3 bulltet points don't really say anything.***

They say pretty much everything. The fact is, you're completely ignoring that people don't want to get sick and that even if they don't die from getting sick they become carriers that can lead to infecting many others who are at risk of dying from the sickness (same as influenza deaths, the very young, the old, and those with compromised systems for one reason or another such as recent surgeries or the like).

***My point is, it is dying out. Like the flu it is a winter virus and E3 is a summer event.***

Flu is prominent in Winter but remains all year round.

***A lot of psychics out there that seem to know things that nobody can know.***

Because other strains of it have persisted and have returned. But, knowledge of those items have led to them not resulting in additional outbreaks. SARS still exists, it is just well known. MARS still exists, it is just well known. Both of those are in the same family of virus as Corvid-19.

Additionally, if you don't know it, coronavirus of all sorts are spread from animal to human, which means it persists in animals at a level that it maintains annual occurrence. If it annually occurs in animals, why would it not do as such in humans?

Essentially, why people know things is because they have studiee the family of the virus and understand how it works. This is just the latest strain of it.

***Nothing indicates otherwise, cases are down and are falling RAPIDLY. It has been stuck at 80-90 thousand total for 2 weeks now.***

Two weeks ago it was in the 60s.

yellowgerbil2265d ago

***What is wrong with my logic? your 3 bulltet points don't really say anything.***

They say pretty much everything. The fact is, you're completely ignoring that people don't want to get sick and that even if they don't die from getting sick they become carriers that can lead to infecting many others who are at risk of dying from the sickness (same as influenza deaths, the very young, the old, and those with compromised systems for one reason or another such as recent surgeries or the like).

SORRY FOR CAPS, WANT TO MAKE CLEAR WHERE I AM TALKING AND YOU ARE. NOT YELLING. I PROMISE :D
NOT WANTING TO GET SICK IS RATIONAL, TREATING THIS ANY DIFFERENT FROM ANY OTHER VIRUS ISN'T. IF YOUR RESPONSE TO STREP THROAT AND CORONA AREN'T THE SAME THEN YOUR REACTION IS OVERBLOWN. 2000 AMERICANS WILL DIE TO STREP THIS YEAR. SO FAR 10 or 11 HAVE TO CORONA.

***My point is, it is dying out. Like the flu it is a winter virus and E3 is a summer event.***

Flu is prominent in Winter but remains all year round.
IT IS YEAR ROUND IN THE SENSE THAT IT STILL EXISTS BUT IT BECOMES SUCH A SMALL THREAT THAT EVEN THINKING ABOUT IT IS UNRATIONAL.

***A lot of psychics out there that seem to know things that nobody can know.***

Because other strains of it have persisted and have returned. But, knowledge of those items have led to them not resulting in additional outbreaks. SARS still exists, it is just well known. MARS still exists, it is just well known. Both of those are in the same family of virus as Corvid-19.
THEY EXIST, WHEN'S THE LAST TIME YOU FREAKED OUT ABOUT THEM THOUGH? EXACTLY. PRECAUTIONS ARE FINE, OVER REACTIONS AND TALK LIKE THIS IS THE NEXT DOOMSDAY PLAGUE IS NOT. IF ANYTHING SARS EXISTING ONLY SHOWS HOW LITTLE THERE IS TO FEAR FROM CORONA.

Additionally, if you don't know it, coronavirus of all sorts are spread from animal to human, which means it persists in animals at a level that it maintains annual occurrence. If it annually occurs in animals, why would it not do as such in humans?
AGAIN. THE FLU IS ANUAL AS WELL AND HAS KILLED 5x AS MANY PEOPLE THIS YEAR. SO WHERE IS THE CHICKEN LITTLE LEVEL OVER REACTION TO THAT.

Essentially, why people know things is because they have studiee the family of the virus and understand how it works. This is just the latest strain of it.

***Nothing indicates otherwise, cases are down and are falling RAPIDLY. It has been stuck at 80-90 thousand total for 2 weeks now.***

Two weeks ago it was in the 60s.
ACTUALLY IT IS AT 98K TODAY AND WAS OVER 80K 14 DAYS AGO.
https://www.worldometers.in...

NOW I DON'T MEAN TO SEEM LIKE A CONTRARIAN. I JUST WANT TO PUT THINGS INTO PERSPECTIVE BECAUSE OVERREACTION IS FAR MORE DEADLIER THAN CORONA. IT IS NOTHING PERSONAL AGAINST YOU. HAVE A NICE DAY.

Christopher2265d ago

***AGAIN. THE FLU IS ANUAL AS WELL AND HAS KILLED 5x AS MANY PEOPLE THIS YEAR***

Flu death rate is 0.02% or less of infected. Corvid-19, straight from WHO, is 3.4%. That's kind of important.

Flu also is easier to find and diagnose whereas Corvid-19 can go hidden for up to 14 days without symptoms. That's kind of important.

This will be way more manageable when the vaccine is made, but that won't be for a few months and it could change from this month to October.

***ACTUALLY IT IS AT 98K TODAY AND WAS OVER 80K 14 DAYS AGO.***

14 days ago it was ~76k. We were both off. It was almost 3 weeks ago that I was thinking of. It was at 68k or so when we were arguing over people pulling out of PAX.

I'm also not sure you notice or not, but that graph on the page you link, which I've been using daily, shows an increasing incline at the end there, not a leveling out or decline. How can you say it's dying off if there's an increased incline?

***OVERREACTION IS FAR MORE DEADLIER THAN CORONA. IT IS NOTHING PERSONAL AGAINST YOU. HAVE A NICE DAY.***

I think if you read my first reply to you, you can tell I'm not about overreaction either. But there is a lot you don't actually understand and a lot that the professionals do. While I get not overreacting to the issue, you're spreading misinformation about it.

yellowgerbil2265d ago

Chris. This whole thing is a pandemic, not the virus, but the hysteria around it.
Italy is shutting ALL schools down. You know what that will do to their economy!? Every parent will either be out of work or have to spring for babysitters. When most of the world's population is at best living paycheck to paycheck what happens when the hysteria in Italy takes a weeks pay from everyone. A weeks food. A weeks medicine.
I'll be generous and say 500 people might die in Italy due to Corona (doubt it will reach 200, but I am giving an extra 300). How many 10,000s will go hungry, will lose their jobs, will lose knowledge over a panic about something that is nothing more than the flu.
My point has always been the same. It is unreasonable to shut down the economy over such a non threat as Corona.
Your point against the flu with corona being 3% over the .2% of the flu arguing that the response to Corona is somehow rational. Well then why aren't you up in arms about strep throat??? Every year 11,000 Americans get it, of which 10% will die. 3x the death rate as Corona. Yet you never batted an eyelash about it, did you?

rainslacker2264d ago

@Yellow

Well, one flaw is that heart conditions aren't typically communicable within a crowd of people.

I think the issue with CV is overblown, but not everyone is looking at it like that, and some of the fear is about spreading it, and it becoming more of a problem. This has impacted the world economy, so it's not just a matter of if these events, or other industry events, are not going to be held. But, when actual supply chains are being effected, then something more is happening that needs to be fixed before we worry too much about the marketing of products at events.

No one wants to take the risk. Whether that's a valid concern is immaterial to the issue of if people feel it's a valid concern. Using an equivalency that is completely irrelevant to the matter at hand is a logically flawed argument, and takes out the human factor.

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King_Noctis2265d ago

I don’t want to get too off topic, but if there is no vaccination, then people are more than likely to contract this diseases no matter what month it is.

I’m not saying that E3 should canceled (I hope not), but people are dying everyday in China and all Asian region due to this virus and there is no stop to that in the foreseeable future.

And FYI, heart disease is not a contagious virus, you don’t get it by just touch or breathing near people with the symptoms. So both sicknesses are like apple and orange.

yellowgerbil2265d ago

@ king.
It isn't the vaccination that stops the flu each year. It is a cycle. It comes from Dec-Feb and then is forgotten by May. With or without a vaccine Corona will die out. Will it return next year, maybe. But even without a vaccine the number of deaths is at 3300 and the number of people who survived it with a clean bill of health is at 55000 (with most actively dealing with it 97% likely to also survive with a clean bill of health).
As for comparisons to Heart attacks, it is an example of hysteria. Everyday as many people die from heart attacks as the TOTAL number of people who died from Corona. EVERY SINGLE DAY. Yet there is no stock market crash, no massive panic over Heart Attacks.

1-pwnsause-12265d ago

If you only knew how bad things really are

yellowgerbil2265d ago

Anyone who downvotes my comments feel free to message me and learn how to be reasonable instead of all of you guys running around like chicken little thinking the sky is falling.

RazzerRedux2265d ago (Edited 2265d ago )

lol.....you are supposed to teach others how to be reasonable? That is funny.

100 more people died since yesterday, btw.
https://www.worldometers.in...

cell9892265d ago

It won’t peak till May, and even then, we don’t know how my h this one can mutate

yellowgerbil2265d ago

And WHERE did you get MAY from. Nowhere. Pure imagination hysteria.
I say it peaked in Feb. I back that claim up with
1 Flu season (very similar virus) Strikes hardest from December till February.
2 Daily reported cases are down (peaked at 15k in a day in early mid Feb). Numbers now struggle to stay above 2k a day even though it has expanded outside of China.

Umb2265d ago

Have you considered that some of the death and even new cases have been under-reported or not reported in some countries? They are trying not to start public panic and a mass scale and to keep the debt system economy going.

The biggest concern we have is the mutation of this virus and the fact that we have no template to work off since it is a new strain altogether. It is known that is the virus is asymptomatic but is still contagious with no sign of infection up to 24 days, it is airborne has a higher fatality than the flu, with an R0 as high as 7 in some cases.

There has been the first case of human to animal transmission in HK of a dog, so it is animal to human and also human to human.

Just do some research o the internet on other new sources and not one kowtowing to the CCP.

cell9892264d ago

Experts did say it would peak by April-May. Experts, professionals. This guy is claiming February as if this strain Was exactly the same as the flu, when it’s a new strain. Still in it’s early stages and with no idea whether it will remain the same or mutate into something more nefarious. It’s a fact that if it expanded as much as the common flu, it would be more deadly. And that’s exactly what we’re trying to avoid, but people like him feel like it’s only mass hysteria to “fool” people.

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Thundercat772266d ago

Even Google canceled their IO event. E3 will be forced to follow even though thty don't seem to care and want to have the event with all the risks.

rainslacker2265d ago (Edited 2265d ago )

E3 will cancel or delay if enough of the companies attending back out. I don't think any of these events are being forced to shut down, but if the attendees aren't going to be there, they are going to end up losing money. Convention halls aren't particularly cheap....although it's likely that's already paid for.

Smokehouse2265d ago

I think it’s overblown. I think a lot more people have it than we know and the death rates are heavily skewed. Even if it’s just a bad case of flu though, I understand not wanting to go somewhere and touch a Controller that thousands of people have touched. If I’m working with somebody and they have the flu then I tell them to go home or at the very least, stay the f***k away from me and don’t touch my shit lol.

Do I think they should cancel? No. But I don’t blame people or companies for not wanting to put themselves in that position.

MADGameR2265d ago

Don't really care about E3 anymore. I will not seek E3 news.

King_Noctis2265d ago

Will you not come onto this site and make any comment during E3 week? Will you shut yourself out of all gaming website during E3?

AK912265d ago

As long as they continue to take health precautions that’s fine by me though I personally hadn’t been planning on watching it even if the current crisis wasn’t an issue.

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Goodguy0121d ago

That is wild lol. Steam already does this for some games depending on the developer...but man...all digital games on ps5...

Eonjay21d ago

FYI, it hasn't actually been confirmed. This is just a lot of assumptions. If this is the case i would expect Sony to come out and say so. Chat bot response doesn't count as official confirmation.

People are also saying this is also an inadvertent mistake. If this is the case Sony and its customers would be best served by coming out and saying so.

If this isn't a mistake I think they need to confirm it and Playstation gamers should complain.

darthv7221d ago

Sounds like Sony quietly did what MS openly said they were going to do with the once a month check in... and MS got so much flak they had to change course.

People need to give Sony even more flak if its true.

blacktiger21d ago

If the response is from Sony whether irresponsible employee or chatbot. That's from SONY until Sony reiterate

Dandizzle21d ago

seriously, a large company like sony wouldnt do that without an announcement or else it would result in bombardment of customer service

BlackOni21d ago

Sony's chatbot is notoriously garbage at providing even basic information and functioning properly. I wouldn't take anything it says seriously.

That said, if this is true, this is serious af. Major L for gamers across the board.

1Victor20d ago

It’s no mistake someone got paid to code that in the update and it wasn’t just for the lol

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phatak21d ago (Edited 21d ago )

This is beyond nuts, this was pretty much the exact thing that the playstation execs during the ps4 era mocked the xbox one over and xbox never recovered after it, this is why you need stiff competition folks, Sony high on their own supply just like the early ps3 days where we apparently needed 2 jobs to afford one, I was a massive Ps3 fanboy mainly due to the fact that the xbox 360 pushed sony into a corner resulting in them actually trying real hard to get market share back and as a result we got crazy good exclusives, just for old times sakes like I used to do back in 2012 right here on n4g ill relist some of the major exclusives of ps3 again

Demons souls
Metal gear solid 4
uncharted 1,2,3
infamous 1,2, festival of blood
little big planet 1,2 & little big planet karting
gran turismo 5 and 6 & ridge racer 7
killzone 2,3
twisted metal
journey
ratchet and clank tools of destruction, quest for booty, crack in time, all for one, into the nexus
resistance 1,2,3
last of us 1
god of war 3 and ascension
motorstorm collection
ico & shadow of the colossus collection
folklore
modnation racers
warhawk & starhawk
sly collection & jack and daxter collection
Puppeteer & comet crash & tokyo jungle & rain & gravity crash & Echochrome & the last guy
Heavenly Sword
3D Dot Game Heroes
Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale
Mag & Socom 4
Fat Princess
Ni no Kuni, Valkyria Chronicles, Yakuza 3,4,5 (these all came to pc later )

But just think and compare this catalog of games to ps5 ?
Saros, astro bot, demons souls remake, ghost of yotei, I would have included gran turismo 7 but that came on ps4 as well so not really an absolute exclusive that one needs to buy a ps5 to play like the other 4.

We are almost in the 6th year of the ps5, the 6th year of the ps3 was around 2012 and almost all the games from the list above were already released on the ps3, now if they are really pulling this online crap every 30 days non sense its only because of a lack of competition from xbox and so they have console players by the ba**s, now I don't know whether this is confirmed or not but regardless if this is in general where their headspace is at it seems like we should be worried, its the real playstation gamers that will be affected if its true, Im not even a playstation gamer anymore but my recommendation is put your money where you mouth is and really abandon playstation if this ends up being true.

Extermin8or3_21d ago

No it isnt. The xbox one require you to check in online every 24 hours. Also alot has changed in terms of Internet infrastructure and provision globally since 2013.....

hiawa2321d ago

Looking at what consoles cost now, many need 2 jobs.

cytricks21d ago (Edited 21d ago )

Not quiet. Xbox wanted to do DRM for physical games so they would be locked to your account and not sharable

Zerobalance21d ago

Most of those games are trash. Deal bro🤣 Ponies gotta pony up. Muma Sony wants some more cash. PC bro! Good ol' games. Look it up.

Ashunderfire8621d ago

O man you remember that PS3 statement from crazy Ken Kutagri whatever is last name is, was so cringe for saying,”Your gonna want PS3 so bad you need 2 jobs!” That guy overhype the crap out of PS3, that was the most expensive console, an a lot of misinformation about the graphics and performance delta over 360.

Kyizen21d ago

Xbox drm was for physical games also and 24 hours with no sharing

vTuro2420d ago

Yeah stuff like this is why competition is needed. The ps360 era was peak gaming. Microsoft and Sony waging a full on war and Nintendo just kinda doing their own thing. The gamers only benefited from that. Then Microsoft shot themselves in the dick with the Xbone and that gen felt like a step down from the previous (imo), though it wasn't bad still.
Then you have the current gen, which honestly feels like one big nothingburger. Barely anything interesting gets released while prices keep going up which to me is just insane. Astro Bot is basically their only exclusive that I'd be interested in buying, but I'm not buying an console just for that. Especially not one as expensive as the ps5... I would add Demon's Souls to that, but I already played the original. Loved the game, but a remake isn't a system seller for me.

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Loktai21d ago

@darthv72 Yeah LIKE 14 years ago. Its like saying "Give sony flak for raising game prices, because it would have made you mad in 2012"

PRIMORDUS21d ago

Pirate on PC what you can, you will own it, nothing will be taken from you. I feel like your just throwing money away and have nothing to show for it, with digital games.

1Victor20d ago

Well all I’m going to say is I’ll vote with my wallet and keep refusing to buy digital and will cancel my ps extra this is bs and you all that still think digital is the future should take note because once the servers goes down so does your digital game library. Good luck and good bye

blacktiger20d ago

what game on steam has that/?

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Jin_Sakai21d ago (Edited 21d ago )

This has to be a mistake.

“Received word from an anonymous insider. The Sony DRM issue is unintentional. From what we gathered, Sony accidentally broke something while fixing an exploit. They've known about the confusing UI for a while, but didn't see it as urgent. Hoping for a clarifying statement now.”

Eonjay21d ago

I find their communication to be very poor. If this is an error on their part why let people get worried about it? I understand they don't respond to rumor but sometimes they make it worse by not responding and this is an unforced error on top of and apparent unforced error.

Kribwalker21d ago

There’s people that talked directly to people, not chat bots, that confirmed it’s real 🤷‍♂️
I expect those fans that were so against Xbox doing it to eat a whole lot of crow

Outside_ofthe_Box21d ago (Edited 21d ago )

Damn, we having diehards coming out of the woodworks for this. 😳

But you're right this is literally what led to the demise of the Xbox One and led to some calling it the Xbone.

There is literally no need for this and Sony has been doing just fine without it. If I don't turn on my console for 30 days and want to play offline I should be able to play the game that I paid for, no if and or buts about it.

Jin_Sakai21d ago

If it’s real it won’t last long. Almost every PlayStation YouTube video is full of revolt comments about it.

CrashMania21d ago (Edited 21d ago )

The screenshot from the article is from an AI chat bot, there are plenty of screenshots floating around from actual human chat reps stating the opposite.

SkilledGamer21d ago

It's also worth noting that the text stating a 30 day license seems to only be visible on PS4, PS5 users aren't seeing it at all.

Warrior9421d ago

It this is real then I will never buy digital again and if the PS6 is digital only then it will be the first Playstation Console I wont buy

VersusDMC21d ago

"Games will vanish" is click baity as hell...all you have to do is log in and the license is restored.

phatak21d ago

@ VersusDMC The entire goal for us gamers is to want to avoid that lol, what if sony's servers are down or having some maintenance, many times ive just played my installed games without even signing into psn, from now one it means every 30 days I have to at the very least sign it to psn to even play my installed games, cannot even play single player games without singing in, so for example if sony just decides to ban me from psn, I cannot even play the games locally already installed on my drive that I purchased after march 2026, you don't think thats insane ? you just want to accept that ? abandon playstation right now if this story gets confirmed.
we officially have started renting games from march 2026, it was a good run we had 1994 to 2026.

VersusDMC21d ago

Maintenance doesn't last 30 days

Who doesn't sign in to psn for 30 days? Missing out on game updates, new games, messages, demos, etc...

You already lost all your purchases if you got permanently banned from psn so that's not new.

And if for some reason you don't have internet for 30 days you can use your smartphone as a Hotspot to connect your ps5 to the internet.

phatak21d ago (Edited 21d ago )

@VersusDMC my point isn't not about the 30 days maintenance man, the fact that you are willing to accept this 30 days sign in means they totally OWN you now, what if they change this later to 7 days, im sure you will be making the exact same point right " who doesnt sign into psn every 7 days" ? eventually say it becomes every 24 hours you cool with that too ? by psn banning you I mean to say if I get banned on psn right now for some weird reason that they decide, but I have 20 installed games already downloaded and ready to play just by clicking X, basically all the exclusives from ps4 and ps5, even if my psn is banned I still get to play the games already installed right now same like putting the disc into a banned console, from march 2026 will I be able to play my locally installed games with a banned PSN ? Its not about the length of time, its the fact that the corporation gets total control over how I choose to even play my single player offline games with mandatory sign ins, a simple thing such as forgetting my password would mean I cant even play ghost of yotei offline without signing into psn.

You ever heard the phrase "give someone an inch and they will take a yard", thats what will happen here, it doesn't just end at 30 days sign in, that's just the start

cytricks21d ago (Edited 21d ago )

Is it that difficult to sign in for one second every 30 days? Especially if you are ps plus member who wants to get their free games?

phatak21d ago (Edited 21d ago )

@cytricks You are focusing again on the 30 days too, "oh sony said its only 30 days so we are safe" While its not a probability YET, just know that your playstation turns into a brick if sony decides to turn off those servers.

Sony's lack of communication is telling my conspiracy filled mind lol that they're testing to see if they can get away with this. If it was truly a mistake, they would have acknowledged it, apologised, and stated they're working on a fix.

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