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Digital games on PS3 and Vita seem to be expiring and becoming unplayable

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Digital games on PS3 and Vita are reportedly "expiring" and becoming unplayable

Classic PlayStation games like Chrono Cross are seemingly "expiring" on PS3 and PlayStation Vita, even for players who …
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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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I think this gives a good clue as to what is actually going on:

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.
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Programmers among you might recognise that time as being the moment before the Unix Epoch, which suggests to me that this is a date related bug. Hopefully it gets fixed soon
 
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