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PlayStation can delete all your digital games after 3 years of inactivity (EU)

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Re: PlayStation can delete all your digital games after 3 years of inactivity (EU)

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Post by DANmode »

Tostino wrote: post #103
0cf8612b2e1e wrote: post #87

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I don’t know what to say. I went to the migration site, entered my information-no dice. Contacted support and got no assistance. There are others with a similar experience. Microsoft could have gone above and beyond to manage the forced migration. Instead there was a convoluted process which left many cheated. They could have just punted and automatically emailed brand new entitlement codes to all of the original pur…

Also have a version purchased back when Notch owned. Not played since and have no access. Oh well.

Pirated and modded scene is the place to be anyway - so I hear.

Re: PlayStation can delete all your digital games after 3 years of inactivity (EU)

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Post by opan »

Forgeties79 wrote: post #79
flaunf221 wrote: post #59

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> ex. the Steam Controller, nobody can make a decent game controller except for console vendors Reading this feels feels like you are the one that is still in 1990s. Third party controllers have long surpassed the ones from console vendors. Standard console controllers still continue to use potentiometers for sticks. Even pro versions that cost over a hundred euro still use them.

Xbox’s stock controller since the 360 is hands down the best controller out there. Every other good controller is basically a variation of it lol

Modern controller DNA goes back to the PS1, first to have 4 shoulder buttons and two analog sticks.

Re: PlayStation can delete all your digital games after 3 years of inactivity (EU)

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Post by opan »

RajT88 wrote: post #23
echelon wrote: post #13

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Kaze and James Lambert are amazing. Kaze's new Mario game looks better than a first party Nintendo title, and James's engines pushes the console to its absolute limits. I've been thinking about giving it a go myself. It's such a fun and nostalgic console, and the limitations are fun constraints. The code archeology is really cool too. Seeing Rare's Dinosaur Planet boot up and play after being a lost title. Decompilin…

Even crap emulator handhelds are getting pretty dang good (if you can get the right software stack).

Seconding this. Look for something with ROCKNIX support and put that on there.

Re: PlayStation can delete all your digital games after 3 years of inactivity (EU)

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Post by opan »

hoppp wrote: post #71

I hope they send warning letters to log in. Mine been idle for over a year and I don't have it right now.. but I paid for those games so it would be scammy to remove without warning. Does it cost them money to keep my purchases logged? I don't think so.

Is logging in from a browser good enough?

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Post by ornornor »

It’s as if they were working super hard to obliterate their domination of the consoles market.

Xbox is in shambles but if Sony keeps pulling these braindead moves and annihilating any goodwill they have, Xbox might come out on top despite their best efforts.

Re: PlayStation can delete all your digital games after 3 years of inactivity (EU)

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Post by ornornor »

jojogeo wrote: post #69
BiteCode_dev wrote: post #17

And consumers will cry about it for about 5 minutes, then go back to reward the company. When HP started making printer cartridges that expired even when they were still full, people complained—then bought more. When Microsoft let the web stagnate with IE6, people complained, then turned around and did the same thing with Chrome. When Apple deliberately put a bug in the iPhone that caused the Home button to fail, pus…

Here here. 100% in agreement, people seem to have forgotten that the majority hold the bargaining power. You'll always have people who cross "strike lines", but by and large if the entire user base simply said; no , and walked; the world would definitely be a better place, in so many ways. I don't hold France as a shining example of humanity; but by-christ if they get upset they actually take those feet, one in front…

There is a strike or demonstration of sorts every other day in France. Or so it seems living there. It’s become so frequent that it has little to no meaning anymore. The government is scared to implement any meaningful change because it’s guaranteed there’ll be a strike or demonstration of sorts. And so we continue towards the wall pedal to the metal.

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Post by ornornor »

handoflixue wrote: post #43
BiteCode_dev wrote: post #17

And consumers will cry about it for about 5 minutes, then go back to reward the company. When HP started making printer cartridges that expired even when they were still full, people complained—then bought more. When Microsoft let the web stagnate with IE6, people complained, then turned around and did the same thing with Chrome. When Apple deliberately put a bug in the iPhone that caused the Home button to fail, pus…

Switch to Brother laser jet printers - I hear about them every time HP comes up, I've had mine for years, it is a lovely solution Tons of people switched from IE6 to Chrome; IE is a dead browser. These days I'd recommend Firefox. Is there something wrong with the iPhone as of today? It sounds like the bug got fixed in response to outcry, especially if they went and scrubbed all traces of the event - that seems like a…

It’s not only their printers. Their computers and peripherals are also very low quality nowadays. Enterprise buys them because they’re cheap not because they’re good. The bar they have to clear is to keep working for the lease’s duration (3 years typically).

I’ve been burnt a few times now I run away when I see HP (even their “enterprise” line, which used to be good)

Re: PlayStation can delete all your digital games after 3 years of inactivity (EU)

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Post by mastermage »

amlib wrote: post #25
PaulHoule wrote: post #21

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Whatever you think about Microsoft, they are a good steward of their platforms and go to extremes to maintain backwards compatibility -- even if they are always moving your cheese in the UI.

Except for the hundred thousands if not millions of people who lost their Minecraft account due to the way Microsoft handled multiple successive account migrations, also including the many accounts that were stolen due to lax security. And since digital ownership legislation is a joke consumers have pretty much no recourse.

Yeah i belong to them i have an ancient account that was connected to a shitty mail hoster that deleted mail accounts after not use and i paid back then with a paysafe card. So i had no way to rpove ownership and got shafted. Abit of my fault I guess but i was like 14 when I bought it.

Re: PlayStation can delete all your digital games after 3 years of inactivity (EU)

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Post by ChrisRR »

Xeoncross wrote: post #6

You know, all those people making new n64, playstation, and gameboy titles might be onto something. Apart from steam, I don't think I've heard anything but bad news from modern consoles.

So that make all of the games that release for consoles good news, right?

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Post by BiteCode_dev »

monocularvision wrote: post #66
BiteCode_dev wrote: post #19

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The GDPR does not say that controllers must always delete personal data on request. Article 17(1)(a) — erasure is required only when: "the personal data are no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed" https://gdpr-info.eu/art-17-gdpr It's like the cookie banner all over again. This law never, ever required a cookie banner. The big companies are master in malic…

If it’s malicious compliance and not required why does the EU Commission website have it? https://commission.europa.eu

Because if enough idiots do it, stupid managers think it's the standard. The EU Commission is unlikely to know anything about their website, it's made by some department that blindly follows a manager's order that just looked at what others did and copied it.

We could all have used the DNT header as a bypass when the GPDR came out, and you can still use cookies for non tracking purposes without any banner.

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