- cross-posted to:
- games@sh.itjust.works
- cross-posted to:
- games@sh.itjust.works
Before you could download licenses for everything you owned even without the game being installed. Now you must install a game first before you can get a license for it. This will have major implications for jail breaking.
So the title is just straight up a lie?
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Is this an actual edge case?:
Someone whose hard drive is full and buys a bunch of new games and wants to go play PS5 at a cabin in the woods
But you’d still need to download the games onto the ps5 in the cabin in the woods, assuming this doesn’t apply to games on disc.
Well, they would get unpatched games which won’t be playable anyway 😀
But no, this only happens for downloaded game, and even then it’s generally for games you have downloaded as part of subscription. If you stay offline for long period of times (don’t know exact time these days, but I think it’s at least more than a month), then PS needs to recheck if you still have the subscription, or if the game is still present in subscription.
I could be wrong but it seems like before, licenses for games you owned but hadn’t downloaded were already loaded o to your account when you logged in. So in your example, if user 2 bought a game and didn’t download it on that console, then user 1 bought and downloaded it and took the PS5 offline, user 2 could still play it because his license was already there. Now, user 2 has to go online to grab the license first.
Seems like it will have a minimal impact.
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What this means is that you can’t restore your games from backup while offline because uninstalling them also removes the license, forcing you to put the console online again to download the license again.
To be fair, I’m pretty sure that’s how PS5 handled that scenario even before this update.
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How is it a lie? Jailbreakers played their digital games offline fine before this, and now they have a headache, making it harder.