Sony would look like the biggest hypocrites since Arthur Dimmesdale [Apologies for the specific literary reference - Ed] if it reversed its policies on PlayStation 4 used games after that E3 performance – but an updated Sony Entertainment Network document prompted plenty of concern in some circles earlier this week. A clause in the Terms of Service stressed that “you must not re-sell either disc-based software or software downloads” – but, of course, this kind of warning has existed on the back of game boxes since the beginning of time, and has never stopped anyone from swapping their wares before.
"As Sony Computer Entertainment announced at E3, consumers will be able to sell or share their PS4 disc products,” a representative told Eurogamer.net when pressed for comment. Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida also reiterated on Twitter that you’ll be safe to trade your games. "If you are concerned about our new European Terms of Service, we can confirm that you are able to sell or share your disc PS4 products, including in EU,” he stressed.
The platform holder’s ability to respond to big questions like this quickly has been one of its strengths this year. While its competitor allowed its Xbox One DRM plans to fester – eventually leading to a massive policy reversal – Sony has been relatively swift to get on top of these types of rumours and clear them up over the past ten or so months. We’re not entirely sure why companies include statements like the above in their Terms of Service when they don’t ever intend to enforce them, but then, we’re not lawyers. All’s well that ends well, at least.
[source legaldoc.dl.playstation.net, via eurogamer.net, twitter.com]
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So many people on the web trying to play this up. These things are included so that they can be enforced if it happens to lead to a large issue: it eliminates a potential loophole. Still, people try their hardest to see the worst in it. You know they're still using that "red line of death" photo that's been confirmed fake to say that the PS4 has overheating problems?
@Cloud7794 On one DualShockers.com interview, one guy talked about how the PS4 is an overheating and poorly ventilated console. The sad thing was that he said it is that the article was about how cool the PS4 runs and the guy who wrote it actually mentioned/linked his article about the fake RLOD.
I can understand why people would try to play this up. Sony has done everything right with the PS4 - minus no MP3 support - so they'll use anything they can to try and bring it down.
@Lelouch That is true I guess. I forgot that with Microsoft flopping itself into bad moves left and right, sometimes it's hard to find something legitimate to complain about. Still though, the lack of basic logic I've seen is rather impressive.
It's just an overblown storm in a tea cup, Sony publicly stated at E3 you could swap and sell your disc based games. They won't back track now.
Plausible deniability is big with conglomorates : )
"We g.d. told you!" said Sony to the apprehended pirate
Quite frankly I'm more concerned about remote play. Blizzard recently announced that they are "considering" remote play for Diablo III on PS4. That's a lot different than being required. What's the deal?
I know they announced today that they will support remote play after all. But there seems to be a real disconnect between Sony and Devs since they said "we're considering it". Shouldn't devs know that they are required to implement it if that's the case?
@Lelouch WHY THE HELL HAVEN'T ANY GAMING SITE REPORTED THAT PS4 WILL ADD DLNA AND MP3 SUPPORT IN A PATCH!!!??
@Shellybird27 DualShockers already did.
I'm glad that people haven't stopped worrying about this stuff. What MS teamed with EA to try and pull off is complete bs and I do not believe for one second that Sony never intended to go down the same route before seeing the deservedly negative reaction. I also believe had it worked Nintendo would eventually put in the same kind of policies. I love playing video games but the fact is all these corporations are pretty damn scummy, certainly not to be trusted and are only getting worse as the years go by with EA, Activision, Capcom, SquareEnix and the three hardware makers topping the list. All need to be kept in check. If somebody sees something they think is fishy, I hope it gets reported and I hope it causes a sh*tstorm. It's the only way to keep these a-holes from trying to screw consumers over.
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