Classic PlayStation games like Chrono Cross are seemingly “expiring” on PS3 and PlayStation Vita, even for players who had legitimately bought the games through Sony’s own storefronts.
As reported by Kotaku, PlayStations users have taken to social media on discovering that the hitherto unknown “expiration dates” on their digital games have reportedly expired.
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When trying to re-download the classic version of Chrono Cross, one user reports he received a noticed telling him that his licence to play the game had expired on 31st December, 1969.
Similarly, another player was given the same message when trying to access Chrono Cross on PS3.
So did @PlayStation expire the PSOne Classics versions of #ChronoCross and #ChronoTrigger by setting the date on new downloads to 12/31/1969? This is preventing me from playing my purchased copies on Vita and PS3. @ModernVintageG @dark1x pic.twitter.com/wxRebNIZWh
— Christopher Foose (@FooseTV) April 8, 2022
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Though at first, some cynical souls thought this was a sneaky ploy to funnel players into trying out the new Chrono Cross remaster, similar issues have seemingly popped up for players trying to access their copies of Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy 6, Final Fantasy Origins, War of the Lions, and Rune Factory: Oceans. One Vita user even reports that their entire digital catalogue is inaccessible.