Ahhh that would make sense then. I really didn't see how the check could have been for piracy, as that's more in the PC realm.Desert Punk said:Yep, thats how it works. Thats one of the reasons that it does the 1 every 24 hour online check, so that their servers can tell the consoles who has the lisence to any particular game, so if you resell a game naturally its removed from the pool and no one on the list can access it anymore.piinyouri said:Is that indeed how it works?
If so then yeah, that's definitely one thing the console has going for it.
Basically it's similar to loaning a game to someone in real life, but you can loan it for impossibly large and small amounts of time because it's always there as long as it's not being already played.(not a good description I know, I can't think of how to put it).
Of course the catch is for this system to work everything must be digital, which will be a pro or con to different people.
Would be kind of cool if Sony brought in something similar later on in the PS4's life.
It's still not a setup that's right for me, but I can certainly see the appeal for the people who want it and are fine with the stipulations.