The game had a requirement to link your PlayStation Network account to your steam account but it has been disabled due to server issues. Now Sony wants the dev to enforce that and people feel like they have been bait and switched. Another issue is that many people who have already bought the game live in areas of the world where Playstation Network is unsupported so they couldn’t link an account if they wanted to.
Not enforcing it out of the gate, and then only choosing to do so months later after selling it globally when the PSN is not available globally is a complete bait and switch. Then there are two concerns specific to the announcement which is that the PSN couldn’t handle the load on release, which certainly doesn’t inspire confidence that it will be stable if everyone starts to use it, and the reason for implementing it being ‘player safety’ which sounds like they want to play nanny to the playerbase which has so far been pretty awesome for an online multiplayer game.
I chose to link the PSN to enable cross play when I bought the game so the change doesn’t impact me, but the way that they are handling this made me annoyed enough to leave a negative review.
Same boat here. I had no problems making a PSN account because I like the idea of crossplay, but if they were planning to add this requirement back in later they needed to be much more clear about it. Like “gigantic popup every time you load the game if you don’t have a PSN account” clear, especially with PSN not being available in certain countries.
There’s also the larger question of why this is required. Clearly the game works just fine without it. Whatever the reason is, it’s not for the benefit of the players.
What’s the context here? I’ve never played it, but I thought it was generally well-liked. I’m guessing the publisher is up to some nonsense?
The game had a requirement to link your PlayStation Network account to your steam account but it has been disabled due to server issues. Now Sony wants the dev to enforce that and people feel like they have been bait and switched. Another issue is that many people who have already bought the game live in areas of the world where Playstation Network is unsupported so they couldn’t link an account if they wanted to.
Not enforcing it out of the gate, and then only choosing to do so months later after selling it globally when the PSN is not available globally is a complete bait and switch. Then there are two concerns specific to the announcement which is that the PSN couldn’t handle the load on release, which certainly doesn’t inspire confidence that it will be stable if everyone starts to use it, and the reason for implementing it being ‘player safety’ which sounds like they want to play nanny to the playerbase which has so far been pretty awesome for an online multiplayer game.
I chose to link the PSN to enable cross play when I bought the game so the change doesn’t impact me, but the way that they are handling this made me annoyed enough to leave a negative review.
Same boat here. I had no problems making a PSN account because I like the idea of crossplay, but if they were planning to add this requirement back in later they needed to be much more clear about it. Like “gigantic popup every time you load the game if you don’t have a PSN account” clear, especially with PSN not being available in certain countries.
There’s also the larger question of why this is required. Clearly the game works just fine without it. Whatever the reason is, it’s not for the benefit of the players.
What if I do not have PlayStation account (I do not have PlayStation and never had)
Then they will require you to make one. To play on PC.
They are forcing you to create/link a PSN account to continue playing.
They being Sony of course. The devs also seem pretty bummed by it and have encouraged people to leave negative reviews if the change upsets them.