This week, the gaming community was abuzz with frustration, anger, and confusion over a supposed change in Sony’s digital game policy. Reportedly, Sony was rolling out a new system, where digital games would need to connect to the internet once every 30 days in order to function as expected. When some players dug through a digital game’s information page, they indeed found a timer, in the form of a “remaining time” deadline, stating how much time they had left before needing to connect to the internet again. If the player missed the deadline, they might lose access to the game, until they connect their PlayStation to the internet again.
This is a pretty serious policy shift, and without confirmation from Sony, it sounded to me like a bit of internet speculation. After all, Sony once chided Microsoft for trying to implement the same policy back in 2013 (a policy Microsoft quickly
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