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my man genuinely doesn't understand how steam usernames work

also the implication that steam reviews don't matter? then why are you mad about them?

So how does Steam tell their own users’ usernames apart if they’re mostly duplicates? Something smells like bullshit.

I really like the community manager's reply in the first one, pretty funny

Why can't they make a unique username when you create a character the first time that is just your "account name"? That would give you the samw powers as a psn username when it comes to banning. Edit:spelling

Also locks out anyone not living in the 66 countries serviced by the PSN.

Also now requires giving your personal info to yet another third party and their friends. A third party which has a storied past of losing user data.

The game was sold other places (like the Humble store) without the PSN warning.

Also it’s been sold in countries that the PSN doesn’t support.

I thought someone had gone to the waybackmachine and confirmed that it said it was optional initially and changed it when they made this decision?

It's not in the EULA at all. A major problem with this change is that PSN is only available in about 66 countries. Locking out the rest of the world from playing without fear of repercussions due to falsified account info.

Also just the shitty problem of having to give your personal info to yet another third party. One who has a long history of losing personal data of its users.

Yeah you need to just read back into the history of Atari

Well they still are beholden to Sony executives that have no idea what gamers want unfortunately.

their decision to use an unnecesary intrusive rootkit ai should have clued players into how little the devs care about the players

I think the people who live in the 100+ countries that the game just got delisted, are not supported by PSN, and Sony, the publisher, failed to region lock the game from being sold into, are rightfully pissed a game they bought up to 3 months ago is suddenly bricked because a corporation lied and wants to force a 'feature' onto an exsisting game just so they can get better internal metrics on people playing the game to bombard them with more advertising.

My entire extended friend group has refunded. It hurts em

If they enforced it from day 1 then you're right, no one would have cared. At day 1 it would be upfront and everyone would know what they're getting and far fewer people would have bought it. Enforcing it at day 40 or whatever is not cool. I, along with many others by the sounds of it, was looking forward to finally buying this game and now I won't be. In general I am so fucking sick of good-sounding games coming along just for them to be fucked in one way or another, i.e., missing content, under developed/tested, broken promises, "we'll patch it later", etc.