I will absolutely be playing this game.
I will not be purchasing it, however.
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One thing that immensely frustrates me about this is we don’t get this reaction from Ubisoft where an account is required to play pretty much all their games. Nor Activision with Call of Duty.
It’s not great that Sony is doing this, but at the same time the horse has already left the barn and people are just jumping on the rage bandwagon.
I’m not saying don’t be mad at Sony, but can we get this outrage at the other companies too?
People had the same reaction, but it was long enough ago to be forgotten old news.
Those are multiplayer games. Totally different.
Not only do you need an account with those other publishers, but you often need an entirely separate launcher.
This Sony thing is simply creating an account.
This is all just console wars bullshit. It's stupid when it was Nintendo vs. Sega. It's stupid when it's Sony vs. Microsoft. And it's stupid when it's PC vs Console.
Grow the fuck up, you emotionally-stunted fucking manchildren.
You really should change your instance with that attitude. Doesnt reflect the domain at all :p
It's not because "it could be worse" that it shouldn't be better. There's no good reason to force players to sign into a dedicated account to play a singleplayer game. It's not because other publishers are worse that this isn't a gaming sin. Pointing the finger to less green pastures only gives the current one a chance to match the landscape.
Ok, cool.
Let's revisit this when Rockstar gets universal adoration for GTA6, which will absolutely require a Rockstar account & launcher.
Yup. Sadly it's always the same old song and dance. Death by a thousand cuts because basic consumer rights don't actually exist.
Because thats already status quo
I mean at some point gamers need to vote with their money if Sony keeps ignoring common sense requests.
Your shiti data mining for 70 bucks product is disgusting, corpo creeps need to get a reality check.
Deny the parasite profit folks!
just fucking pirate it.
Are people this mad about Microsoft accounts? I picked up Forza Horizon 4 and couldn't play at all until I signed in with one. However I already had one from using OneDrive.
Rockstar too. Can't even play RDR2 solo without creating an account.
I do hate Sony extra because they're the fuckwits behind some particularly stupid DRM schemes. But some of the games they've been publishing lately are good and very welcome on PC aside from this account crap.
Did it count as being mad, that I just don't play any games that require linking accounts? There's plenty of games that don't require it that I can pay, and missing out on some high budget good games that everyone is talking about isn't a big enough deal to me that I will be fine with just skipping it.
Nah, IMO that's pretty reasonable. I would say "mad" here means someone bought the game and then gave it a negative review over the account linking.
Both games mentioned have multiplayer sections within them
It would be better if you didn't have to sign in until you chose to play MP, but to a degree it is somewhat understandable to have you log into a game with MP
How can this surprise people... i removed it from my wishlist last time it was on sale, not because i dont want it, but because Sony is behind it.
It’s their game, they can do what they want
But why is a steam account necessary to run the game
Welcome to the bait and switch.