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New PlayStation DRM Has Customers Worried If They Own Their Purchased Games

BGR·Eduardo Ariedo·about 1 month ago
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iama_sing/Shutterstock PlayStation users have reported a new DRM change that could affect how digital purchases are verified. According to reports, games bought through the PlayStation Store after the March 2026 update for PS4 and PS5 are being subjected to a 30-day timer. This would essentially give you a one-month window to go online again, allowing the PlayStation Store servers to redo the verification, or else you would risk losing the license to play the game until you reconnected the console to the internet. Another important detail is that  changing your PS5 settings to set the console as the primary on your account reportedly does not remove the new requirement. Evidently, this new policy doesn't only affect games with online features, since even single-player titles reportedly need to go through this verification process in order to remain playable on the console.…

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