This is why all video is streaming now and downloads require regular token checkin. Very few services provide real independent and long term functioning local downloads of media.
The digital store downloads came via an encrypted file format. That format depends on specific software from the ps5 to open. If you switch to a PS6 or get an update to the OS pushed to your PS5 it is entirely possible those files will no longer open.
They just remove the right to access it. You don’t own it, you own a licence to play it. You don’t own anything digitally you yourself cannot access and transfer.
You don’t own the content on Netflix. Or Amazon. Or any digital marketplace, besides DRM-free places.
They don’t hack your computer, they just turn off the servers and ban accounts.
They can’t do that, it’s impossible. You are not logging into their server to play the game. You are downloading and installing it on your local machine.
This is NOT like Netflix. How can people be so ignorant about this? Do you not really know how this works? For Netflix, you stream from their servers. That IS NOT what is happening here.
You do own it, you own the digital copy. The developer can’t hack your computer and remove it or prevent you from playing it.
This is why all video is streaming now and downloads require regular token checkin. Very few services provide real independent and long term functioning local downloads of media.
THIS ISN’T VIDEO STREAMING.
For fuck’s sake, what is going on with you people?
The digital store downloads came via an encrypted file format. That format depends on specific software from the ps5 to open. If you switch to a PS6 or get an update to the OS pushed to your PS5 it is entirely possible those files will no longer open.
It isn’t like they sold you a mp4 or mkv files.
They just remove the right to access it. You don’t own it, you own a licence to play it. You don’t own anything digitally you yourself cannot access and transfer.
You don’t own the content on Netflix. Or Amazon. Or any digital marketplace, besides DRM-free places.
They don’t hack your computer, they just turn off the servers and ban accounts.
They can’t do that, it’s impossible. You are not logging into their server to play the game. You are downloading and installing it on your local machine.
This is NOT like Netflix. How can people be so ignorant about this? Do you not really know how this works? For Netflix, you stream from their servers. That IS NOT what is happening here.
You’re very uneducated on this topic. You probably should read up more on it.