I think they thought the lesson was “we need to announce this before launch” instead of “pc gamers don’t like creating useless accounts for everything”
Covid-CAT01
🏴☠️.
New_Significance3719
Why is anyone surprised? They also still have not undone the sales ban in non PSN supported countries for Hell Divers 2. So their whole “we won’t make you connect to PSN” was just an act to make all the vocal people be quiet when in reality they didn’t actually change anything.
Rude_Champ93
Has any game ever tried this before? I just want to know if steam has any record on handling this sort of shit.
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Zatoichi80
Accept that PS releases on PC will only be supported in the same places they officially operate on console also.
A developer / publisher login is nothing new.
Scaniarix
I’m guessing this is a dumb question but why isn’t PSN available in “all” countries?
Actual-Long-9439
I’m actually really unhappy, my psn account got hacked ages ago due to a Sony data leak and I don’t wanna make another email to make a new account so looks like I can’t play this
Throwawayeconboi
What do they have to learn? They learned that PC players are willing to make accounts for Rockstar, EA, Ubisoft, etc. with no questions asked.
You know what y’all need to learn? Sony is in an even better spot because 1) there are 100M+ PSN accounts out there which contains the countless people that used PSN before moving to PC so they will have no issue and 2) Sony’s games are damn good.
Reread that 2nd point. That is all that matters. The people that “boycott” EA and Ubisoft do it because most of their games aren’t worth caring for. Have you ever heard of anybody boycotting Rockstar? Not likely.
And for the same reason…nobody is boycotting Sony.
noragepetit
Just make a fucking account and stfu🤓
xPETEZx
This whole PSN uproar seems like such an own goal. For both Sony, and PC gamers.
It was always listed as required on Hell Divers 2, it was only suspended to ease server load. The game was sold in all these places without PSN…
People could have just made an account…picked a different region using a smurf email if they need to and carry on playing a game they loved.
Instead… they forced Sony to step back… so they dropped the requirement for HD2, but also de-listed not only HD2 but it seems any future Sony game from those countries that dont have PSN offically.
And just look at the sales for Ghost… Sony’s best yet. So clearly all this hand wringing and talk of the high seas didnt actually affect their bottom line.
They are not going to drop the requirement for PSN on any of the games they bring to PC from here on out.
Just like all the others that require these accounts…Microsoft, EA, Ubisoft, Rockstar, 2k etc etc.
Seems any of the big corps have their own accounts… and on PC it has been common to require 3rd party accounts for years. Go back to GTA IV, that needed 3 accounts to play at launch! So the idea that on PC you shouldnt “need” more accounts is true, but also laughable… we lost that fight more than 15 years ago.
DaviAlm45
Sony outlined their strategy. The PS games coming to PC are a way to get people from PC do PS consoles, and if they can’t do that theres no point in putting the games. So the PSN requirements make sense looking in Sony pov.
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I think they thought the lesson was “we need to announce this before launch” instead of “pc gamers don’t like creating useless accounts for everything”
🏴☠️.
Why is anyone surprised? They also still have not undone the sales ban in non PSN supported countries for Hell Divers 2. So their whole “we won’t make you connect to PSN” was just an act to make all the vocal people be quiet when in reality they didn’t actually change anything.
Has any game ever tried this before? I just want to know if steam has any record on handling this sort of shit.
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Accept that PS releases on PC will only be supported in the same places they officially operate on console also.
A developer / publisher login is nothing new.
I’m guessing this is a dumb question but why isn’t PSN available in “all” countries?
I’m actually really unhappy, my psn account got hacked ages ago due to a Sony data leak and I don’t wanna make another email to make a new account so looks like I can’t play this
What do they have to learn? They learned that PC players are willing to make accounts for Rockstar, EA, Ubisoft, etc. with no questions asked.
You know what y’all need to learn? Sony is in an even better spot because 1) there are 100M+ PSN accounts out there which contains the countless people that used PSN before moving to PC so they will have no issue and 2) Sony’s games are damn good.
Reread that 2nd point. That is all that matters. The people that “boycott” EA and Ubisoft do it because most of their games aren’t worth caring for. Have you ever heard of anybody boycotting Rockstar? Not likely.
And for the same reason…nobody is boycotting Sony.
Just make a fucking account and stfu🤓
This whole PSN uproar seems like such an own goal. For both Sony, and PC gamers.
It was always listed as required on Hell Divers 2, it was only suspended to ease server load. The game was sold in all these places without PSN…
People could have just made an account…picked a different region using a smurf email if they need to and carry on playing a game they loved.
Instead… they forced Sony to step back… so they dropped the requirement for HD2, but also de-listed not only HD2 but it seems any future Sony game from those countries that dont have PSN offically.
And just look at the sales for Ghost… Sony’s best yet. So clearly all this hand wringing and talk of the high seas didnt actually affect their bottom line.
They are not going to drop the requirement for PSN on any of the games they bring to PC from here on out.
Just like all the others that require these accounts…Microsoft, EA, Ubisoft, Rockstar, 2k etc etc.
Seems any of the big corps have their own accounts… and on PC it has been common to require 3rd party accounts for years. Go back to GTA IV, that needed 3 accounts to play at launch! So the idea that on PC you shouldnt “need” more accounts is true, but also laughable… we lost that fight more than 15 years ago.
Sony outlined their strategy. The PS games coming to PC are a way to get people from PC do PS consoles, and if they can’t do that theres no point in putting the games. So the PSN requirements make sense looking in Sony pov.
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even if it wasnt PSN locked i still wouldnt buy it, play it for free rather
Hello, Piracy, my old friend
I’ve come to get some games again
They’re literally LIMITING the amount of people that can buy it… for no reason…
DO THEY HATE MONEY?!?
Until every single one of those countries get true access that doesn’t force them into risking their livelihoods to illegally play a game….
I truly hope thousands upon thousands of others are doing the same.
Just pirate it. If you can’t buy it anyway it’s morally correct.
Good, excuse to skip it. Frankly thought GoW was not that good
I bet I know where it will be available *wink wink*
What lesson? Ghost of Tsushima sold a truckload on steam despite that