{"id":55853,"date":"2026-04-30T13:28:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T13:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/04\/30\/sony-confirms-ps4-and-ps5-digital-games-dont-require-an-online-check-in-every-30-days-new-drm-policy-only-checks-once-for-license-to-combat-against-refund-scams-toms-hardware\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T13:28:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T13:28:37","slug":"sony-confirms-ps4-and-ps5-digital-games-dont-require-an-online-check-in-every-30-days-new-drm-policy-only-checks-once-for-license-to-combat-against-refund-scams-toms-hardware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/04\/30\/sony-confirms-ps4-and-ps5-digital-games-dont-require-an-online-check-in-every-30-days-new-drm-policy-only-checks-once-for-license-to-combat-against-refund-scams-toms-hardware\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony confirms PS4 and PS5 digital games don&#8217;t require an online check-in every 30 days \u2014 new DRM policy only checks once for license to combat against refund scams &#8211; Tom&#8217;s Hardware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiuAJBVV95cUxNVFQ0XzRXTXBLZzNDQ1NLRFByOVN5dkh6dGpUX3J0T2VoaGNNQzA4TnY4WE00b2FnWmRIOFJzdEpEcS1iTU1rN3libXZuWkloMnhBM3NadE1qMGdGemV2d3M2ejlGWU5JTW5aaE1YanRwVGVvbl9WSnd2bzVTTkc5Q3VRbTFyZ3RJdnZIVkRWV3lQSXh0OERIUjZ1UlF3WmhhRHRNLTlCUjRuWjV2SVFhVEFfZEFrZngza0RoWnQ2T3dGX001Uy1OM3EtQWtFU1J5VVE5X2UtWTB6YzBDNlJ6dXRoX0J6ajlFNXFuVWg5MWZMQ2hMRnFsWG5wS1N1SDIwQko4c0FqUUdOSnh1V3hhNFNheDdnbGhfVmg1NmRSN0hEQ1ZTeU1wb1RHdHFvYktsTWtFUERwYUc?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Sony confirms PS4 and PS5 digital games don&#8217;t require an online check-in every 30 days \u2014 new DRM policy only checks once for license to combat against refund scams<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">Tom&#8217;s Hardware<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony confirms PS4 and PS5 digital games don&#8217;t require an online check-in every 30 days \u2014 new DRM policy only checks once for license to&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/04\/30\/sony-confirms-ps4-and-ps5-digital-games-dont-require-an-online-check-in-every-30-days-new-drm-policy-only-checks-once-for-license-to-combat-against-refund-scams-toms-hardware\/\" class=\"read-more\">[more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[421],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}