Quote Originally Posted by Vivi22 View Post
Quote Originally Posted by Bolivar View Post
Right now, if you have 10 PSN games, and your console dies, you can just redownload them on a new console. Right now, you can even give your PSN ID to your friends so they can download your game library, and Sony lets you do this with a few machines.
They cut the number of machines down to two recently actually. If you want to use it on another you have to go through some convoluted de-authorization process to take your account off of a machine. It was much better when the number was 7 machines and I'm not sure why they'd ever bother to change it.
Actually, all you have to do is click on 'deactivate console' on your machines setting, nothing convuluted about it in the slightest.

And the process to do it otherwise is easy enough if you don't have your machine. You can give Tech support your account information and they can clear all of your consoles in just a couple minutes.

And I can understand limiting the downloads to fewer systems, so that you don't have instances of a person buying the game once, yet seven people now have it on their systems. I don't think this was as harmful to them as they claim it was, but I can understand the reasoning, and don't think that this really hurts the consumer at all.

Unlike cutting out the used game market entirely, which I dislike massively. And I very rarely buy used games. Hell, most games I end up pre-ordering first.