ninjablade
Banned
you're kidding right? looking at that nes game that sold for 40,000$, which i owned at one point, and gave away, makes me think this stuff could be a good investment.
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PT no longer downloadable in US (and EU/UK) even with license
- Thread starter bigkrev
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you're kidding right? looking at that nes game that sold for 40,000$, which i owned at one point, and gave away, makes me think this stuff could be a good investment.
GayForMaster
Banned
i wouldn't sell it as you will have to leave your own PSN account in there as well, how many games do you have on your account?
Best option would have been to make a new dummy account with P.T. only downloaded on it, save that to the PS4 and try to sell it
. Since when does account DRM apply to demos? He's free to deactivate his account to disable all his bought items but anything that required $0 on checkout shouldn't require any kind of sign in at all.
JailDesigner
Member
Is this scenario possible?
10 Backup your PS4
20 Sell your PS4
30 Bought a new one
40 Restore
50 Goto 20
Not to get rich, but to spread the PT love. I assume that this is not possible because DRM but always expect the unexpected
10 Backup your PS4
20 Sell your PS4
30 Bought a new one
40 Restore
50 Goto 20
Not to get rich, but to spread the PT love. I assume that this is not possible because DRM but always expect the unexpected
ThePeoplesBureau
Member
Saves having to use Sony's backup method, at least.
So it's after 2AM here and I couldn't sleep. Considering I've never actually "played" P.T before [although I've seen others play it, both in-person and via streams] I thought I'd give it a try. So I turned off all of the lights, cranked up the 5.1 surround sound, and loaded the game up.
I just got to the part where I can continually hearing breathing from "something" behind me. I don't think I can do it. I've seen what's to come, so you'd think that would make things less scary.
It doesn't.
Playing it for yourself is another experience entirely. Knowing that so many will miss out on this horror masterpiece saddens me. :/
So yeah, needless to say, playing P.T definitely isn't helping my "can't sleep" situation.
I just got to the part where I can continually hearing breathing from "something" behind me. I don't think I can do it. I've seen what's to come, so you'd think that would make things less scary.
It doesn't.
Playing it for yourself is another experience entirely. Knowing that so many will miss out on this horror masterpiece saddens me. :/
So yeah, needless to say, playing P.T definitely isn't helping my "can't sleep" situation.
lazybones18
Banned
so has anyone tried backing up the save onto a HDD with a larger size?
Cizeta-Moroder
Banned
Where they have cut the cord on games, they will end in cutting the cord on human beings.
is that a PT reference lol
Hoho for breakfast
Member
I know this has to have been asked but if I have PT downloaded on one PS4/hard drive, is there any way to put it onto another one using that same account?
So the people that are listing their P.T. PS4s on ebay are effectively selling their accounts off as well right?
Whoever buys the PS4 won't be able to use P.T. if the PS4 is still not activated as the P.T. owners's (ebay seller's) primary PS4, or if they are not actually on the owners account.
Whoever buys the PS4 won't be able to use P.T. if the PS4 is still not activated as the P.T. owners's (ebay seller's) primary PS4, or if they are not actually on the owners account.
It makes more sense to me to just remove any mention of Silent Hill and keep P.T. on the store considering it's much more than a demo of an unreleased game. It's an experience that stands on its own and it's one many people adore. Why take that away from the community you're trying to serve?
The shareholders?
Wolfgunblood Garopa
Member
Gracious of Konami to allow us to still play it if we have it already downloaded.
Lord Error
Insane For Sony
Hoho for breakfast
Member
Well since I got no replies to my question I'm testing it myself. Will report back. Hopefully I don't fuck it up.
What I'm doing though is the following:
1) Taking an account on a PS4 with PT already installed.
2) Backing up the hard drive
3) Removing that account from the PS4 and putting it onto a second PS4 and restoring the hard drive to it.
I'm hoping since PT is authorized for everyone that the hard drive restore will restore it to a new hard drive and then I can use that account on the second PS4 and maybe play it??
edit: if someone knows something I don't and wants to stop me from doing this before I screw myself over that'd be great.
What I'm doing though is the following:
1) Taking an account on a PS4 with PT already installed.
2) Backing up the hard drive
3) Removing that account from the PS4 and putting it onto a second PS4 and restoring the hard drive to it.
I'm hoping since PT is authorized for everyone that the hard drive restore will restore it to a new hard drive and then I can use that account on the second PS4 and maybe play it??
edit: if someone knows something I don't and wants to stop me from doing this before I screw myself over that'd be great.
Guy LeDouche
Banned
Index funds and bonds are a good investment. Buying bideojames to hopefully sell them for a profit 30 years later is dumb.
PT will only be authorized for accounts that "purchased" it off psn. It's not unlocked by default. So you'll always need to have your original account logged in on the secondary ps4 to play it.
Hoho for breakfast
Member
Right I have it "bought" on PSN by a few accounts. Of course I already screwed up before it went down by not buying it on the main account I use, but whatever.
Anyway I'm trying to remove one of the users with it purchased from one PS4 (there are multiple accounts on this PS4 that "purchased" the PT demo), then restore it to a second PS4. Basically duplicating the game so I have 2 PS4s that I can hopefully own it on and not just the one.
ricardo_sousa11
Member
Time to sell my PS4 for 4000!
Hoho for breakfast
Member
Well I deleted all my games except PT from one of my PS4's and did the backup...and then realized PT was already installed on the second PS4. So I still don't know if a backup + restore would work. All I know is I have 2 PS4s with P.T.! I'm going to retire now and live a life of adventure!
Or something.
Or something.
GayForMaster
Banned
Wait so could you essentially make a UK psn and download it then?
Hoho for breakfast
Member
I think I have a UK account and I went and searched the store but couldn't find PT. Can anyone confirm if it's gone or still there for the UK?
Where is it still available if anywhere? Wherever it's available though yes you should be able to make an account for that region and download it from the store.
GayForMaster
Banned
If that's the case, people should be DLing it whereever its available to scum out and make big money.
It would be nice if someone could find out (no ps4 on my end but If the demo never expires I'd be willing to get a ps4 to dl it since I'm going to buy one anyway).
Has anyone actually tested this??
This was true on the PS3 but I'm not convinced that it is on PS4 as well.
indigo-cyclops
Member
This is essentially why I am not selling mine. I should have thought ahead and made a dummy account and added the game to it, but alas I didn't have the foresight. I could have sold my system, made a nice profit and bought a new one. No big deal.
Oh well, at least I have the game.
Also, are we able to backup to a flash drive if the backup size is small enough? Just thought I'd ask. I do have an external drive that I use on my PC. Can I use that as is? Or will I have to reformat to FAT32 or some crap?
I got the notification too.
It would have been MUCH MORE HELPFUL to get that notification BEFORE many users deleted the game off their system thinking they could redownload it.
At this point my guess is that Sony is covering their bases to prevent any potential of a lawsuit.
As when a user is deleting downloaded games off the PS4, it specifically says that it can be redownloaded from the library.
More likely that they're getting bombarded with complaints.
And rightly so: It's on people's download lists.
That's the game file being downloaded straight from Sony's servers. If you got the URL to its location you can download it on anything.
//ARCANUM
Member
Nope, Konami made it so you can't re-download PT even if you had it in your download queue.
edit - at least for NA
Also, how are people selling PS4s with the game on there and not also selling their accounts? or are they selling their PSN accounts with the PS4?
If you make a backup of your PS4's harddrive with P.T. installed then the backup will have P.T. installed. So you'll be able to put P.T. on any PS4 you restore with that hard drive.
Sword Familiar
178% of NeoGAF posters don't understand statistics
It's easy enough to make a new account. No need to sell off your own.
Scousefury
Member
FYI
Just got it again fine in UK from in home screen library.
Just got it again fine in UK from in home screen library.
Hamster Plugin
Member
Sounds like SCEA and SCEE are having different policies, where SCEE never removes any download that you have on your account. I even got to keep my PS3+Vita Minecraft that I got for free through a store glitch.
ZombieVito
Banned
Saves having to use Sony's backup method, at least.
This is the EU version right?
natsuyasumi
Member
Isn't it too late to get P.T. on a new account? How are you suggesting people could keep their accounts if they want to sell their console at this point?
//ARCANUM
Member
but once your account is removed from the PS4 when it is sold, doesn't that make the PT demo inactive?
edit - I'm assuming you would remove your account from a sold PS4 for you know, personal security.
I can't imagine that Sony is thrilled with Konami's behavior at this point.
There's a difference between being contractually permitted to pull your game from PSN and the fact that you're royally pissing off the customers you expect to pay $60 for Phantom Pain in a few months.
There's a difference between being contractually permitted to pull your game from PSN and the fact that you're royally pissing off the customers you expect to pay $60 for Phantom Pain in a few months.
//ARCANUM
Member
I'm sure Sony is happy that people were selling their PS4's on eBay. Cause they would turn around and buy another PS4 lol.
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