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New Playstation firmware is going to make it harder to play games offline. (nitter.poast.org)

submitted 22 hours ago by hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works to c/games@lemmy.world

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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.

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[-] ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

To be fair, I'm pretty sure that's how PS5 handled that scenario even before this update.

[-] Stovetop@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

That's the same conclusion I arrived at, but wasn't 100% sure. Since the act of downloading a game and the act of obtaining/transferring licenses both require the console to be online, I couldn't see what difference there would be to the user experience compared to before, even if the order it does those steps in is switched.