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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action
Subject: Re: God of War: Rakgnarok for PC requires PSN account
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2024 17:00:04 -0000 (UTC)
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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 17:50 this Friday (GMT):
>
> Well, I'm sure that will make PC gamers happy. There's nothing they
> like more than being forced to sign up for yet another extraneous
> service... especially for a stand-along single-player game. I don't
> even have to go to the store page to guess that the game is probably
> (and rightfully, IMHO) being review-bombed for this requirement.
>
> At least Sony was more upfront with this requirement than it was with
> "Helldivers 2", making it clear from the start that if you wanted
> "Ragnarok" you were going to have to get a PSN account. Still, this
> minimal extra transparency doesn't make the requirement any more
> welcome.
>
> Especially since PSN isn't available in all regions (which means that
> people in some countries won't be able to play the game at all), and
> -at least in some areas- creating a PSN account either requires
> sharing your cell-phone number with Sony, or showing them government
> ID to prove your identity. 
>
> And all this for "God of War: Ragnarok"? It was an okay game, but I
> never saw it as a stand-out game. It wasn't one of those 'must have'
> titles. "Helldivers 2" received a lot more hype, and even with that
> game Sony had to back down on the PSN requirement (that requirement
> also arguably made more sense, since it was an online game).
>
> Maybe this sort of crap is what Playstation CEO Hideaki Nishino meant
> when he said PCs were "too difficult to set up." If only there was
> something he could have done about that...


Creating new accounts for a game is an instant turnoff for me.
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