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God of War Ragnarok PC port suffers review bombing on Steam due to PlayStation Network account requirement (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It's like the Helldivers 2 incident, but for a single-player game, there's no excuse.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I sympathize with fellow PC gamers for this needles requirement (even though PSN account is my main account). I'm just surprised there's no similar backlash for other devs requiring respective account creation (EA, BioWare, Blizzard etc. etc.). Sony did not invent this practice.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The account creation sucks, but it's mostly in multiplayer games or for a multiplayer feature in a game, to enable things like cross-launcher play and such (not needed if they made it right, still an attempt at data collection). God of War is a singleplayer game that has no need for an account requirement, so it's just there for data collection, singleplayer games shouldn't even be connecting to the internet.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Well if it blocks playing on steam deck and Linux it’s not like other devs requiring account creation.

Edit: looks like this one works on steam deck actually so disregard. Looks like it requires an internet connection to play though which is wack.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

Also weird, the game includes the unnecessary PlayStation overlay, which makes it unable to run on Linux. The devs were nice enough to specifically disable the overlay on Steam Deck, but all other Linux players have to set a special launch option to fake being a steam deck in order to get the game to run.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

. This is just gamer rage against a console maker. They’ve all got ea accounts, Ubisoft, blizzard , discord, twitch, YouTube dozens of accounts all over the place .

But when a console maker does it’s different.