PlayStation is eradicating digital content material folks have already paid for

december 4, 2023

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It’d imply you don’t must rise up to vary discs anymore, if you wish to play one thing totally different, however shopping for video games and different content material digitally has some critical drawbacks, most clearly the truth that you by no means personal the video games you purchase, you’re primarily simply renting them.

This truth has been highlighted by an e mail despatched out by Sony to anybody that’s purchased Discovery channel content material by means of the PlayStation Retailer. They’ve been instructed that on the finish of the month it’ll be unimaginable to look at content material they’ve paid for, and it’ll be forcibly faraway from their video library.

The utterly unapologetic message doesn’t clarify something intimately, revealing solely an inventory of affected titles – which all appear to be TV model content material, with the licence change little question a results of the continuing shake-up and cost-cutting measures at Warner Bros., Discovery, and HBO.

The reveals all have names like Dr. Pimple Popper and UFOs: The Untold Tales, in order that they in all probability haven’t been the largest sellers on the PlayStation Retailer however that’s not the purpose.

The purpose is that folks have paid cash for these reveals and now the content material has been eliminated and might by no means be watched once more. That may by no means have occurred in case you’d purchased them on DVD, until somebody burgled your own home and bodily stole the discs.

‘As of 31 December 2023, on account of our content material licensing preparations with content material suppliers, you’ll not have the ability to watch any of your beforehand bought Discovery content material and the content material can be eliminated out of your video library,’ reads the message on the PlayStation web site.

‘We sincerely thanks on your continued help,’ it provides unconvincingly.

In idea, precisely this kind of factor might occur with video video games as properly. To this point there have been no excessive profile examples however many video games with licensed content material have been eliminated earlier than, resembling Activision’s Marvel and Transformers video games or varied Forza titles with licensed automobiles.

Importantly, these stay out there to play and redownload although, it’s simply you’ll be able to’t purchase them new anymore.

The issue of video games disappearing and not being available for purchase from any on-line shops has been an rising drawback for video video games lately, with the closure of older shops such because the one for the Xbox 360 and Nintendo 3DS.

This drawback is just going to worsen as extra consoles have their shops shut down and but thus far it doesn’t appear as if any writer or console producer actually cares.