This has happened to me with Darksiders III. I lost my disc and got it free on PS+, only it keeps asking me to insert the disc to play, with no option to download.
Is this normal?
Is this normal?
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Wait - so if you own the disc of a PS4 game, and then download the digital version, it... still requires you put in the disc?
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MS were smart and made physical+digital the same SKU. Sony didn't mandate that so you get stuff like your issue.
Yes, it's one of the small reasons why my Xbox is my main console now. First time that happened I was like, "you mean I have to un-install this game to play it digital?" I was heated.
Nintendo too. Haven't had issues downloading games I own physically and just continuing on.
It gets better. If you buy the GOTY version of a game with all the dlc bundled, you will still have to install the new GOTY disc. And your saves won't transfer.
Wait what? Can you download games you have on cart on the Switch? Since when?
Yea, that depends on the game tho, right?
Like the Witcher 3 complete edition isnt compatible with the base Witcher 3.
Depends on the game, some do and some don't. The saves not transferring is on the devs, they can make them compatible
Also never put the disc back in or else you have to go through the process again if you dont have it.
Bless this. That coupled with Bethesda making a buggy ass game allowed me to have fallout 76 for free for an entire month off a single night Redbox rental.
Oh yeah, sorry if that wasn't clear. I thought that was the scenario we were discussing.
Save file name differs by region and if physical or not. It looking for a filename to match itself. Though some games recognise both so I guess it is down to devs making it so.
Yep, this is it.
Your save games will transfer over. Mostly.
That is the scenario the user is describing, yes.
This happened with me, had a physical copy of Monster Hunter World with over 100 hours played, bought the digital copy with Iceborne and had to start again from scratch.
Also region locking saves, region locking DLC for region free games etc are other points that have really put me off of PlayStation. Ironically Nintendo is by far the best when it comes to region free gaming and dlc compatibility
Yeah, it's weird, love that Xbox isn't like that though, seems strange that for the system the disc version and the digital version aren't the same SKU
The games may be "region free", but when you publish a game for Playstation, you are still making at least 3 different SKUs that will not be compatible with one another even though they are exactly the same. One for NA, one for EU, and one for Asia / JP. If you have bought the EU SKU of whatever game from somewhere, and then try to buy an NA based DLC for it, it wouldn't work, at least it didn't last time I worked with this stuff.
Hopefully with next gen they will revisit their publishing and cert processes, not fun having at least 6 different SKUs for a base game on PS (3 physical and 3 digital). MS and PC platforms in comparison have just 1.
Depends on the game. For Spider-Man the GOTY edition will not replace anything and you can continue with your old save.
happened to me with Friday the 13th. Could not be assed starting again and I sold the physical after they put it on PS+.
some devs just make separate versions for physical and digital which I find really frustrating tbh. Maybe a handover from the PS3 era as games had to have separate physical and digital versions.
Something like that, yeah. I had a physical TW3 save and I believe I bought the GotY version digitally. But I think I also didn't have a save when I bought Horizon digitally, eventhough I had started that game with a physical copy at some point. Could be wrong though.
Depends on the game. The dev can have it be extension of old game or considered new sku entirely. Up to them
I can't believe Sony hasn't fixed stuff like this already. My EU Uncharted 2 save wasn't compatible with the Platinum version of the same game back in the day.
Nintendo is excellent with this by the way as the Eshop won't even let you buy the game on a different region Eshop if it is the same SKU. That makes it easy to see if dlc etc is compatible over regions.
Okay. Fortunately, I haven't had any issues since I'm fully digital.
Similar problem: if you have the GOTY X360 version of Assassin's Creed II, if you play it on the Xbox One BC it will download the base game + DLC, but your savegame won't be compatible. The same copy of the game.
I am. I had beaten spider-man, and got the GOTY edition. I used the code included in the box to download the dlc....which was not compatible and would not show up in my game. So i installed the GOTY disc. This led to two identical copies of spider-man being installed on my hdd. Thebonly difference between them being that the dlc would be available in one, but my saved games would not.
What a weird system oversight
Great example of a user experience "Bug" that system designers would characterize as a "feature." Like, all users will experience this as a bug, but all developers would think changing it is a "feature" because it's implemented as designed.
When have saves ever not been compatible between digital and disc? Aside from Witcher 3 GOTY with Witcher 3 original, which I assume applies to new disc vs old disc too.
That's such poor planning... I had the exact same issue occur with Splinter Cell: Blacklist on my PS3. I honestly thought they had gotten rid of that issue when they moved to PS4 but I guess not. I guess it explains why the store doesn't show me owning the GOTY editions even though I own the base game and DLC.
It was especially weird coming over form xbox where retail discs, online purchases, game pass and games with gold are all the exact same sku. I wonder if that quasi steambox setup they originally had for the thing made that easier to pull off?
Don't forget that, if you are on plus, you are unable to buy digital games of plus gived games you have claimed.
Yea it does kind of suck, seems like you shouldn't have to redownload the whole thing again if the data is like 99.9% similar - but you do. I've converted almost all my physical games to digital during various psn sales which is about 30+ and haven't run into an issue where a save didn't work across the games.