I don’t think there’s a mechanism for them to tell if you’ve got a license for a disc without putting CD keys in the box. OP only needs them to honor ownership long enough to resell the copy.
Comment on GOG when available, but what should I choose between PS5 physical and Steam when not?
rtxn@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Tinfoil hat thoughts: at this point, I wouldn’t trust Sony to honour the ownership of a physical copy forever. There’s nothing stopping them from implementing a system that checks whether your account owns a license for the game that’s on the disk, or prevents the console from launching a delisted game.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
rtxn@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
It would be trivial to implement on Sony’s centralised infrastructure, without using unique CD keys. All you need is an account identifier, a game identifier, and a record in Sony’s system that indicates whether the specific account is permitted to start the game with that specific identifier. CD keys could still be used for initially associating the game with the account, but after that, Sony could take full control of the account’s access to the game.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
This would be how a business commits suicide, not to mention upset their retail partners that sell their hardware.
rtxn@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I’d love to believe that, but I’ve lost count of how many businesses were declared by the internet to have committed suicide, only for people to keep buying their stuff.
Feyd@programming.dev 8 hours ago
What’s on the disc isn’t even the game you play most of the time. Hell even the day 1 patch that replaces most of the files on the disc isn’t the game you play unless you mainline it in release week.