Players can't play Chrono Cross, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy VI, and that's only the tip of the iceberg
Players on PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita are experiencing difficulty getting to their advanced buys after a bizarre lapse date abruptly showed up on specific games, as first announced by Kotaku. The issue appears to generally influence exemplary titles, keeping clients from playing Chrono Cross, Chrono Trigger, and Final Fantasy VI, as the games are currently "lapsed."
Be that as it may, here's the odd part: the lapse dates are dated 50 years before. Twitter client Christopher Foose shared a picture of his Chrono Cross download, which shows that the game lapsed on December 31st, 1969 at 7:20 PM. He says the issue just happened in the wake of redownloading the game, and that he's presently incapable to play it on PS3 and PS Vita.
GamesHub manager Edmond Tran comparatively observed he couldn't play Chrono Cross on the PS3 on account of a 52-year-old termination date. And keeping in mind that Tran says he may as yet play the exemplary title on his PS Vita, he couldn't observe the posting on the PS Vita store, a sign that Sony might have brought it down. Different clients on Reddit and Twitter additionally announced the issue with Rune Factory Oceans, Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition, Gex: Enter the Gecko, and as far as some might be concerned, their whole advanced library.
As illustrated in the different strings and posts about the issue, a few players say they've attempted production line resetting their control center, buying in and withdrawing to PlayStation Plus, and reestablishing their game licenses, all without any result. PlayStation still can't seem to recognize what is going on, and the game organization didn't quickly answer The Verge's solicitation for input.
However, there is one potential motivation behind why this might be going on. Kotaku takes note of that the issue might originate from an error making the PS Vita and PS3 return the game licenses' lapse dates to the Unix age, or the inconsistent time and date set by engineers to assign the start of a control center's life.
Regardless of whether this is only an error, it's stirring up worries that Sony is managing one more disaster for the PS3 and PS Vita stores. After the game organization almost shut down the two stores last year, it made them harder to shop at by removing the capacity to utilize Mastercards or PayPal to make buys.