Classic video game fans are reporting that they've recently been unable to re-download games they'd already purchased☂ from the PS3 and PS Vita online stores.

A🐽s first noted by , s♑ome players who had bought digital copies of older titles like Chrono Cross and Chrono Trigger have booted their games only to receive a message informing them that the purchase they'd made had expired on December 31, 1969. 

That's not just decades before the games were released, bu🔥t likely years before the developers who made them were born, too.

"So did PlayStation expire the PSOne Classics versions of Chrono Cross and Chrono Trigger by se🗹tting the date on new downloads to 12/31/1969? This is preventing me from playing my purchased copies on Vita and PS3," tweeted 𓃲one unhappy player.

"Here’s something sh*tty🦹," added , who also works as a games journalist. "The PSOne Classics version of Chrono Cross can’t be found on the PS Vita store anymore, only on your d🥃ownload list if you bought before. Runs fine though.

"It&rsqu🌄o;s on the PS3 store, but trying to install and run it tells meꦛ it expired? In 1970?? Wtf."

While initially, some thought the Chrono games may have been sneakily withdrawn to incentivize fans to buy the new remaster instead, others are reporting issues with a number of seemingly unrelated games, including Final Fantasy 6, Final Fantasy Origins, War of the Lions, and Rune Factory: Ocean, too, so it 𝄹seems that it's n✃ot just Square Enix games that have been affected.

That's not all, either. One player on the PS Vita subreddit even that "all of [their] digital ga🌼mes have expired", whilst others say they , although - bizarrely - it does s𓆉till seem to be accessible for some. 

Could it be a temporary glitch whilst Sony prepares its newly refreshed 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:PS Plus subscription service, or a more sinister sign that the company is getting rea🔴dy to completely drop support for the retro PS3 and PS Vita systems? Guess we'll find out when Sony publicly comments on the issu✅e, eh? Watch this space and we'll update just as soon as we know more.

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