Anonymous A started this discussion 7 years ago#82,863
I went to turn it on, and when it booted up it had lost track of the date\time. I turned it off, and made sure my hdd was snugly inserted. I turned it back on, it booted normaly, this time. I.E. didn't ask me to set date and time, but they were both incorrect. I set the date and time, and tried to play a game, but none of my DLC was showing up. I backed out, double checked that all data was still there and not corrupted. Everything was aight. I reset the system, reloaded the game, still no DLC. I tried playing a different game, which is stored to the hdd, digital copy. It told me that there was a time limit for the game, there isn't, and said to set date and time via internet to fix. I did, and doing so fixed the issue with the DLC too.
It was strange, why is the system's functionality so dependent on having the date\time set via internet? At least it was easy to fix.
Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 14 minutes later[^][v]#955,371
The Y2K problem didn't turn out to be big issue, so many companies decided to really double down by making even shittier dependency problems a permanent part of their business model.