One PlayStation Plus subscriber has shared a cautionary tale about the complications of digital rights management that affects players everywhere. A Reddit post by user shannonator96 describes a particularly thorny DRM situation that caused them to lose access to their copy of Mass Effect: Legendary Edition.
In short, since you're only allowed to own one digital license to a game on the PlayStation platform at a time, having access to the game through more than one means might cause one of your licenses to be deleted.
Shannonator96 originally obtained a digital copy of Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, a bundle containing remasters of the original Mass Effect trilogy with all DLC, as a free monthly download from PS Plus. This was a part of December 2022's Essential-tier releases, available to all subscribers to download and keep as long as they remain subscribed to the service.
Ordinarily, these games would have remained in their library even if they had paused or canceled their subscription, which shannonator96 did at a later date. PS Plus still allows players to keep any games they've claimed as part of the Essential tier while their subscription is inactive, even though they'd need an...
