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You are explicitly allowed to retain PII for critical business purposes. So in this case as a key component that the software licence is attached to they can retain it forever anyway.
Pretty sure that the gdpr specifically precludes forever retention. Data should be retained as long as is necessary and whether 1, 3, 5, 10 or however many years, sooner or later deletion is appropriate, and the timeline depends on what is reasonable.
3 years is a long time to not log in and if a court decided that it exceeded a 'reasonable' period for legitimate interest the fines can go to 10% of global revenue. The law encourages risk averse behaviour.
They could make a better system where the user sets the timeline but it would be impossible to predict the return.
On this one i think its probably driven by risk management not nefarious intent.
3 years is not long at all if you factor having kids into the equation. There is not a lot, if any, time to play video games when your kids are small. Imagine having 2 kids 1-2 years apart and not finding time for gaming (on your PS) until the youngest is at least 2 years old - then you are quickly looking at 3-4 years without login.
Not something i need imagination for. Im not saying 3 years is optimal, but there does have to be a threshold somewhere. Personally i'd build it into user settings to allow users to self select a time period they accept.
3 years is not a long time at all. I've been collecting games on my steam account for 19 years, and there was a period of >2 years where I didn't use it.
i didnt touch my steam account for like 12 years...... i set it up when portal2 came out on ps3, but that never went anywhere....
literally a dozen years later, i built a gaming PC and when i logged into steam, there was a portal2 license waiting for me to press download