# How do we play a PS4 game without having to subscribe?

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Tags:** video-games-e-games\
**Created:** [February 10, 2021, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-we-play-a-ps4-game-without-having-to-subscribe/932620 "2021-02-10T18:08:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2021, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-we-play-a-ps4-game-without-having-to-subscribe/932620/1 "2021-02-10T18:08:57Z")

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We’ve got a PS4. Haven’t used it for a while. Fired it up today, and every time we try to play a game from a disc (Overwatch) it takes us to a page to subscribe to PS4 stuff.

We just want to play the game that we’ve already bought. Every time I click the X to start the game, it takes us to the subscription page. Pressing “cancel” instead of subscribe takes us back to the “start the game” page, where I press X, and then I get the subscription page.

What am I doing wrong?

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**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2021, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-we-play-a-ps4-game-without-having-to-subscribe/932620/2 "2021-02-10T18:13:14Z")

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Are you sure there is an offline mode?

[This link](https://old.reddit.com/r/Overwatch/comments/6i97ei/playing_overwatch_offline_on_ps4/) claims there is not.

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**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2021, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-we-play-a-ps4-game-without-having-to-subscribe/932620/3 "2021-02-10T18:34:29Z")

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I seem to recall having had this same discussion last time we used it. Not big video gamers, obviously.

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2021, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-we-play-a-ps4-game-without-having-to-subscribe/932620/4 "2021-02-10T19:26:28Z")

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I’m pretty sure Activision-Blizzard hasn’t released an offline-capable game on any platform in over a decade.