PSN To Introduce Pre-Loading

[BehattedWanderer]

I look forward to the "manually shift the date forward to play early" glitches.

That post shows you have no idea how this will work.

The game downloads encrypted, with the decryption key being sent out on the release day. There is no way to "shift the date forward" and play early, and if you did want to glitch it, you would need to hack into MS's servers, find the encryption key (which is probably currently on a server that isn't connected to the outside world - If they have any sense, so impossible without physical access) and somehow trick your PS3 to register that as the encryption key and decrypt the game (probably the easiest part - All you have to do is spoof the date and incoming data).

At least, that's how it works on steam. You would have to be stupid to do it any other way.

The PS3 had some problems awhile back where some content was date-locked, and people got around it by manually adjusting the date. I was jokingly alluding to that, not seriously hoping for such a broken system for data protection.

 

[MegaManOfNumbers]

Suddenly, things got a lot more convenient. Finally, I can play my games instantly, rather than waiting!