You'll Need to Verify Your PS Now Sub Occasionally to Play Offline

Sony shouldnt do what Nintendoes.

But this doesnt bother me on Switch Online so it wouldnt for PSNow.

Makes sense in the context. Anything it’d be a problem, but for a steaming service it make sense.

It makes sense since people will try to do some hacking to keep the games and distribute them to friends.

It's a security precaution, which I can fully understand.

@Deadlyblack To be fair, they do it for the PS+ games. When you download them, they check the expiry date of your sub and attach that date to the PS+ games. When your sub ends, so does your ability to play them, regardless whether you're online or not. Don't see why they can't do something similar with PS Now.

Can imagine it's for hacking reasons and to keep control of things, since PS Now is primarily a streaming service most people who use the service knew they needed a constant internet connection to play games

@eltomo Really? I just dont like that stuff.

@adf86 You know another nice feature with Nintendo online they delete your online saves the day your subscription it expires too was in the Jimquistion. 😁

This is normal though isn't it? It's just checking your subscription end date hasn't arrived yet.

It's made to sound like, if you don't check in once a week then that's your lot, no more PS Now!
Which we all know is nonsense.

Sounds fantastic. I might actually be tempted to use ps now if I'm not forced to pray that my unreliable internet stays stable just to play Catherine or something.

Does Netflix have an offline mode? Pretty much the same thing. This is a nonissue.

@adf86 Thats the truth. 😁

Well, it is a subscription service...
It make sense to verify the subscription validity...

@Cutmastavictory I don’t think you can download anything off Netflix though on your PS4, so it’s not super comparable.

@Jaz007 that's what makes it comparable. Both are streaming services. No one complains you need internet for Netflix. No one should complain about this... but people will.

@NintendoFan4Lyf
Doesn't matter. Still a step in the wrong direction. MS rightly got crap for its initial Xbox One policies, Nintendo is rightly getting some crap for check-ins on the Switch, Sony should get crap too, especially after the whole 'this is how you trade games' stuff and all that at E3 2013. People can say streaming is the future, this that and the third but I really don't think digital only, streaming and everything these giant companies are pushing for is the best way to go. Majority of gamers won't fight it though, so I guess it's inevitable.

@adf86
Where are you getting that from? Aside from this website and Nintendo Life (which will obviously be filled with fanboys just like this one is), I mostly use twitter and youtube to get gaming news and Nintendo has been getting crushed, even by some people who would be labeled Nintendo fanboys, over how it's handling Switch online. There certainly hasn't been a Nintendo can do no wrong sentiment.

I don't understand how this is even a issue. Don't pay your electric bill u don't get electricity, don't pay your...etc. Seems like a pretty reasonable thing to me.

@whywai88 Good point didnt think about that.