UPDATE: Scott Rohde, software product development boss for Sony Worldwide Studios America, has spoken to Gamasutra and explicitly said that “we’re not going to allow online pass.” DRM was off, then on, now off again. The title of the article has been updated to reflect this new information with the original article following.

Before anyone panics, Sony has made a small clarification to their DRM policy when it comes to used games. While the PlayStation 4 has no on-system used games restriction technology or intentions to restrict first-party used games, Jack Tretton said yesterday that third-party publishers can still choose to implement the same used games restrictions available to them on the PlayStation 3.

In an interview with GameTrailers, Tretton said, “”The DRM decision is going to have to be answered by the third parties, it’s not something we’re going to control, or dictate, or mandate, or implement.”

Sony clarified that statement by saying that the restrictions were for playing the game online, not offline single-player gameplay, and was restricted to the use of Online Passes. In other words, Sony is allowing publishers to use the current tools available to them.

So far, Sony has said that the games it publishes won’t have online pass restrictions. EA also said that the day before we found out that the Xbox One has DRM capability built into the system. Activision and Ubisoft haven’t confirmed their plans going forward for used games on the PlayStation 4.

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