Summary
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Sony is not planning any physical PlayStation games for 2028, pushing for a digital-only future and worrying collectors.
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Brazilian Xbox user sues after Microsoft blocks his account; court-ordered restoration and $400.
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This victory may lead to more legal fights over ownership as games become digital and licenses may be revoked.
Sony shook the gaming world when it recently announced that did not plan to release physical copies of PlayStation games in 2028. With the full move towards digital, game collectors are concerned that they will not have the means to preserve a game forever. In a digital-only world, all it would take is for Sony to ban the account or even revoke the licenses, and the games would vanish into thin air.
However, it looks like the pushback has already begun, and it’s not even in Sony’s ballpark. Someone just won a lawsuit against Microsoft after the company blocked an account with digital titles and asked the user to repurchase all of their games.
An Xbox user recovers his digital games after losing them all
It could be a glimpse into the future of gaming.
How he saw it notebook checkRedditor Ordo_Liberal posted on the Xbox subreddit about your progress. They have been legally fighting Microsoft since earlier this year after the company revoked access to their account on suspicion that it had been hacked. Microsoft reportedly did not return the account and told Ordo_Liberal to repurchase the games.
Now, Ordo_Liberal has posted to reveal that they won the case. This took place in Brazil, so the document is not in English, but there was a published translation:
Condemn the defendant, regarding the obligation to act, to proceed to unblock the account in the plaintiff’s email, in the email (redacted), within 15 (fifteen) days, under penalty of a daily fine of R$ 150.00 (one hundred and fifty reais), with a limit of R$ 1,500.00 (one thousand five hundred reais),
As Sony takes us down the path of a digital-only era, where a single ban or license revocation can wipe out people’s collections, this may just be the first of many battles we’ll see as players strive to keep the collection they paid for intact.
