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This is FUD, titles don't disappear from your Ps5 library when they get delisted. If you buy a single player game digitally you should continue to have access

This is FUD, titles don't disappear from your Ps5 library when they get delisted. If you buy a single player game digitally you should continue to have access to it for the life of the console as long as you aren't banned for doing something like disputing a credit card charge. (Which admittedly is a concern.)

aceazzameen 4y ago
There was a demo for a horror game called P.T. on PS4 made by Kojima. It got cancelled and the demo was eventually delisted from libraries preventing players from re-downloading it. The only way to play it is if you already downloaded it prior to delisting and never uninstall it. For a short while there was a way to download it via a web link, but Sony eventually shut that down.
- vlunkr 4y ago
  Right, it was delisted but didn’t disappear from your library, exactly what the parent post said.
  - squeaky-clean 4y ago
    It did disappear from your library, it just wasn't auto-uninstalled from your system. But you can never ever download/install it again. That's why systems that have it installed already go for so much money on eBay.
- anotherman554 4y ago
  You are technically correct but I did write "if you buy a single player game digitally..." Nobody bought P.T. The Scott Pilgrim game was delisted on the Ps3 when the license expired, and I can still download and play it today. Being delisted just means new customers can't buy it. There's no way Sony's terms of service allow developers to pull games from the library after purchase, that would be a remarkable business failure on their part given how much leverage they have in negotiating the TOS with developers.
ChoGGi 4y ago
You don't buy games you can only license them.
FearlessNebula 4y ago
And when your CMOS battery dies after, hopefully, 20 years or so, the game will require a DRM check with Sony except it has been delisted
- anotherman554 4y ago
  I just looked this up and the CMOS battery issue has been fixed for PS4 and Ps5 but not for Ps3. :(.
  - FearlessNebula 4y ago
    Do you have a source? I’m curious how they fix that, maybe they disable the DRM requirement?
    - anotherman554 4y ago
      I'm not on a computer where I can copy and paste a link. If you want a source type "ps4 cmos patch" in google.
pbhjpbhj 4y ago
Different provider (Steam) but related to your comment on disputing charges: I returned a faulty game as is my legal right under UK law, Steam said they didn't allow that because they had their own much more restrictive rules. Eventually, I raised a PayPal dispute and PayPal choose to refund me (the amount was ~£1). They retaliated with restrictions to my account ... such restrictions as retaliation for fair exercise of rights granted by law is something that needs addressing. I've noticed that game libraries, like Steam, now explicitly try to remove consumer rights with a click-thru pseudo-contract that directly contradicts UK law (roughly 'you give up rights to a refund'; whilst the Consumer Rights Act explicitly applies to digitally supplied goods). Just thought this was a related point of note. Suppliers of intangible media have a little too much free rein.

aceazzameen 4y ago

There was a demo for a horror game called P.T. on PS4 made by Kojima. It got cancelled and the demo was eventually delisted from libraries preventing players from re-downloading it. The only way to play it is if you already downloaded it prior to delisting and never uninstall it. For a short while there was a way to download it via a web link, but Sony eventually shut that down.

vlunkr 4y ago
Right, it was delisted but didn’t disappear from your library, exactly what the parent post said.
- squeaky-clean 4y ago
  It did disappear from your library, it just wasn't auto-uninstalled from your system. But you can never ever download/install it again. That's why systems that have it installed already go for so much money on eBay.
anotherman554 4y ago
You are technically correct but I did write "if you buy a single player game digitally..." Nobody bought P.T. The Scott Pilgrim game was delisted on the Ps3 when the license expired, and I can still download and play it today. Being delisted just means new customers can't buy it. There's no way Sony's terms of service allow developers to pull games from the library after purchase, that would be a remarkable business failure on their part given how much leverage they have in negotiating the TOS with developers.

ChoGGi 4y ago

You don't buy games you can only license them.

FearlessNebula 4y ago

And when your CMOS battery dies after, hopefully, 20 years or so, the game will require a DRM check with Sony except it has been delisted

anotherman554 4y ago
I just looked this up and the CMOS battery issue has been fixed for PS4 and Ps5 but not for Ps3. :(.
- FearlessNebula 4y ago
  Do you have a source? I’m curious how they fix that, maybe they disable the DRM requirement?
  - anotherman554 4y ago
    I'm not on a computer where I can copy and paste a link. If you want a source type "ps4 cmos patch" in google.

pbhjpbhj 4y ago

Different provider (Steam) but related to your comment on disputing charges: I returned a faulty game as is my legal right under UK law, Steam said they didn't allow that because they had their own much more restrictive rules. Eventually, I raised a PayPal dispute and PayPal choose to refund me (the amount was ~£1). They retaliated with restrictions to my account ... such restrictions as retaliation for fair exercise of rights granted by law is something that needs addressing. I've noticed that game libraries, like Steam, now explicitly try to remove consumer rights with a click-thru pseudo-contract that directly contradicts UK law (roughly 'you give up rights to a refund'; whilst the Consumer Rights Act explicitly applies to digitally supplied goods). Just thought this was a related point of note. Suppliers of intangible media have a little too much free rein.