PlayStation gamers who’ve bought episodes or seasons of reveals accessible via Discovery TV could have these reveals faraway from their libraries, on account of a licensing settlement coming to an finish.
Emails have been despatched out to gamers to make them conscious that any of the Discovery reveals bought from the PlayStation Retailer can be faraway from their libraries “on account of our content material licensing preparations with content material suppliers.”
Hundreds of hours of reveals and greater than a thousand seasons throughout a number of reveals will likely be faraway from the platform as of December 31, 2023.
PlayStation revealed a list of what is going to be eliminated particularly, going via every present season by season. PlayStation additionally thanked gamers for his or her “continued assist” to finish off its message warning gamers the issues they’ve purchased will now not be accessible to them.
There’s additionally no various given to gamers as to how they could retain the issues they’ve bought.
After all it’s comprehensible that PlayStation wouldn’t wish to hold paying licensing charges for every little thing accessible on the PlayStation Retailer, particularly if it’s content material that isn’t actually being purchased and consumed by very many gamers in any respect.
Nevertheless that is one other instance of how fleeting possession is in an age of every little thing being bought and ‘owned’ digitally.
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