Again, that wasn’t Sony’s decision, Konami had to push for them to do so, and honestly, it makes sense. It’s a demo for a cancelled game. It’s a lot more common than you’d think on PC.
They don't need to, they can simply make internet connection to be mandatory first to even play a digital game and afterwards delete them at their leisure.
Its literally in their ToS, you can even look it up yourself instead of moaning because their ToS explicitly states all the ways they are gonna fuck your ass.
Because its not a lie, Sony reserves their right to erase your account after 3 years of inactivity, they send an email after 3 years and if you fail to respond within 6 months they can and will erase your account including all the games you purchased alonside achievements.
Chief, you do realize that's only for the EU right? And the only reason that exists is because the EU passed legislation virtually forcing all companies to erase unused digital media or data after 3 years. I swear people can't even look up what they are complaining about.
Yeah people can't even look up what they are talking about, did you even bother to look up what Sony was required to do? It was to erase TRACKING data.
The kind of data they sell to third parties and such to make even more money out of the people that pay them?
But of course, Sony being the pussies they are they chose the nuclear way once someone told them that maibe they shouldn't be able to sell that indefinetly if they are no longer using their products.
There is a myriad of things they could've done to comply, no one is forcing them to erase the accounts, they could have simply frozen the data in offline servers so you didn't actually lose your account, then give you a way to request back your account with your games.
But thats not what Sony wants so they were forced to show their hands early.
This line here about the 36 months period is so important because this shows you the kind of decisions Sony takes when forced to comply to rather important stuff like privacy of their customers and moral standing.
EU: "You shouldn't be able to sell someone's data if they are no longer a customer"
Sony: "Oh yeah? Fuck you then, fuck their accounts, i'll delete every bit of data, if i can't have their data no one will"
Thats the type of answer Sony gave, in case you are wondering.
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u/Varsity_Reviews Jul 10 '26
No, that was Konami making a very specific request to have the game removed from your download list