Digital purchases mysteriously expire on the classic PlayStation console, making it impossible to play random types of games.
Over the past few days, PlayStation users have reported strange decades-old expiration dates applied to digital games. If you re-download the PSOne classic version Chrono CrossFor example, Twitter user Christopher Foose was told to buy. Expired on December 31, 1969Prevents you from playing games on both PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita.
GamesHub Editor Edmund Tran explained Similar problem..Trying to start Chrono Cross According to Tran, he gave the same expiration date on the PlayStation 3, but only adjusted it for his location in Australia. However, Tran said he downloaded PSOne Classic from the library and was able to play it on the Vita without any problems, even though the game was clearly delisted from the handheld store.
At first this felt like an attempt to encourage Chrono Cross Fans to buy New arrival Radical Dreamers Remaster, Kotaku I quickly found evidence that this same problem is occurring in different games.
Chrono Cross It worked fine in the content creator Words. But not its spiritual predecessor Chrono TriggerA license that expired for some reason 40 years before the game was added to the PSOne Classic library.
Why Steve J asked the PlayStation directly on Twitter Expiration date of his copy FINAL FANTASY VI It was changed in 1969, but there was no response.
Reddit user Gyrocop reports PlayStation 3 Give them a guff Rune Factory: Oceans (With subtitles The tide of fate North America) Earlier this week. They were also told that the license for digital purchases expired in 1970. Switching to another console didn’t help.
Two separate threads for Vitasubreddit same storyOne poster is their The entire digital game library After trying solutions such as resubscribing to PlayStation Plus and factory resetting the system, it remained affected.
And finally, someone from the Game FAQ reported The now-familiar 1969 expiration date For PS One classic version The origin of FINAL FANTASY 3 days ago.
The only potential explanation I’ve ever seen about this issue is “Unix epoch, “Or any date of the early engineer specified as the beginning of the life of the operating system. Due to a bug or bug in Sony’s backend, the PlayStation game license may have expired by default on Unix Epoch. This basically means that you can’t play after midnight UTC on January 1, 1970.
Kotaku I contacted Sony about these issues, but didn’t get a response before the release.
In any case, it affects the ability of users to play the games they superficially own, which can be frustrating when it comes to hell. All hoop people already have to jump over To maintain their classic library. That said, it also serves as a good example of why it’s best to buy physically when possible. I don’t know when digital games will start up and disappear. If it happens inevitably, there is nothing we can do about it.
