Players on PlayStation 3 and Vita have lost access to digital purchases of classic games such as Chrono Trigger, Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition, or Final Fantasy VI, after the expiration date was automatically changed.
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User complaints on Reddit and Twitter are repeating: classic PSOne titles purchased in digital format, sometimes entire libraries, have changed their expiration date to December 31, 1969.
This change affects PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita users, and games like Chrono Cross, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy VI, Gex: Enter the Gecko, Rune Factory Oceans, or Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition.
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Games Hub editor Edmond Tran has been one of the affected and has even shared screenshots of the new expiration date and the access issue.
From Kotaku, a specialized media outlet that has echoed this problem, they point out that Sony has not yet provided a response, but they believe it may be due to a bug that reverts the expiration date of game licenses to an arbitrary date set by engineers as the life expectancy of certain software, also known as 'Unix epoch'.
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