RUMOR: Sony to implement online activation of Games & Blu-rays.

OmegaFenix

OmegaFenix

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What if Sony took a page from Microsoft and required you activate games on your PlayStation 3 before playing? Or not just games, how about Blu-ray discs--movies, games, software, whatever--in general?

It's just a rumor, but Dutch site PS3-Sense writes Sony may be planning just that, possibly in response to a recent root-key hack that reportedly lays the PS3's security routines bare.

Citing "a very reliable source," the site outlines a new serial-key authentication process whereby Blu-ray disc games would be paired to PlayStation 3 units, authenticating against Sony's servers. The site adds that each serial key would only be usable up to five times.

Kind of like Sony's PlayStation Store, then. As I understand it, you can download something from the PlayStation Store as many times as you like, but only activate it on up to five discrete PS3s.

The Blu-ray serial would function similarly, claims PS3-Sense: Pop the disc in up to five different PS3s, then you're done. In the unlikely event you'd ever burn through five systems and have to purchase a sixth, you'd have to buy a new copy of the max-activated Blu-ray game as well.

Think about the implications if any of that's accurate. Not just for pirates, who deserve to be shut out, but legitimate owners (and, some might claim, legitimate hackers).

Used games? Those days are over. Players who don't (or can't) connect their systems to the Internet to authenticate? Locked out, too.

Would you buy a PS3 if games had use-limited security tags? What about games in general? Are we glimpsing the future of media, sold as a service (instead of a good) you don't really own? Media that you can only use in specific circumstances and that's non-resalable?

Note that I'm basing my read on Google's translation of the site. Don't jump off a cliff yet, or you know, mistake any of this for fact. For all I know, it's a ploy to make Sony look bad by putting bad info on the wire, or fudge the details to make the process sound more despotic than it is.
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Bearing in mind that this is nothing but a rumor what are your thoughts?

Personally I think it is a travesty and will surely either Kill the PS3 or send it WAY down in the Standings.
The Pre-Own marked would be royally screwed. Gaming Renting Services would be obsolete. What about Movie Rentals. One of the main reasons I bought a PS3 was so it could double as a Blu-Ray player.

If this turns out to be true I see a dark, seedy future for the PS3 guyz.
 
History has taught us that gamers are not keen on restrictive measures or DRM, spore and assassins creed 2 for the pc comes to mind. One of the great advantages of a console is exactly that, you pop in a disc and play. I think it would be a big mistake, however at the moment sony is in big trouble and would probably implement it if they cannot fix the root of the problem.
 
Sockmonkey said:
History has taught us that gamers are not keen on restrictive measures or DRM, spore and assassins creed 2 for the pc comes to mind. One of the great advantages of a console is exactly that, you pop in a disc and play. I think it would be a big mistake, however at the moment sony is in big trouble and would probably implement it if they cannot fix the root of the problem.
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Desperate executives make desperate choices and quit possibly stupid mistakes.
 
Well a CD-Key system for Online multiplayer could work to a degree. It's been reasonably successful on PC. But taking it any further simply because they didn't secure their console properly is only going to hurt the consumer. Sony will need to tread carefully if there is any truth to this rumor.
 
Stupid stupid Idea.

Activation for blue-rays :eek: What a load of horse shit. Would be really sad to that happen.
 
Isengard said:
Well a CD-Key system for Online multiplayer could work to a degree. It's been reasonably successful on PC. But taking it any further simply because they didn't secure their console properly is only going to hurt the consumer. Sony will need to tread carefully if there is any truth to this rumor.
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They will indeed. This is a very very slippery slope. Considering the resources spent developing the PS3 and its 10 year plan this would be the mother of all bad decisions.
 
I live in sunny SA where telkom wont even give me a phone let alone adsl.......eish what about offline people
 
OmegaFenix said:
Desperate executives make desperate choices and quit possibly stupid mistakes.
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Amen to that. At the end of the day Sony is a business and they will do whatever is deemed necessary in order to protect their investment and those who invest in them.
 
This could kill the trading of console games. Activation codes killed the buying and selling of PC games!
 
/toll on

Mwhaha welcome to our world...

/Troll off

Yeah well all good and well but yeah what about the guys who are offline. O that's right they don't give a rats ass about us here in sunny SA.
 
Really, really REALLY stupid idea.

It would be no different to implementing an invasive DRM on PC. The only people who would win are the pirates. Crackers crack game, pirates download cracked game, insert and play. Legit customer has to go through hoops.
 
Noooooooooo!!!!

If this happened then I would be forced to get myself a 360 :( This is one kak idea!

And its all thanks to those bastard hackers!
 
If this is true, i give up gaming... I don't use my pc to game cause it just takes too much time to install and activate and then servers are down... If they do this to PS3 well then its the end of its era... This system should have stayed closed... Cause hacker will be responsible for the complete shut down on the console market sony ps3 is going to suffer the psps fate... no development on the platform.
 
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