Why did they have to start this shit once they finally release the one game I’ve been looking forward to…
Fucking Sony always being a greedy corporate buzzkill.
I’ll be pirating, and I haven’t pirated a game in almost twenty years.
you have been missing out on a delightfully bullshit-free experience, for no money too. you will have a blast.
And this extends FAR beyond just games.
you can’t just drop this one and not explain it better. pls enlighten me.
you can pirate movies too, but i think this is it?
Movies, ebooks, audiobooks, TV shows, anime, games, PC software (be careful with this one), etc… You just need to know where to look.
The most demanded products provide more monetization opportunities, or so they think.
You’re right and I know this because even I was contemplating buying it despite this. Trying to justify that I won’t care because I’m always in games for the single player offline experience. But fuck that, even if I’m alone, I’m not. I’ll wait for the pirated copy and play that instead.
Sony is banking on many of us who have been waiting years for this release to just roll over and suck it up.
And it’s the dumbest thing for them to fight the customer over because it’s a free account that could have just been an option if the player wants to link. I have a PS account and would have gladly linked my account to it without question had they not been forceful about it like this. And many more players would be the same.
The one game I’ve been waiting on from the ps catalog. Wont be buying it either.
I disagree, they learned not to have it, drop it, and re add it months later. What they failed to learn is the problem was also short of some cross play requirements, people on pc don’t want yet another account requirement.
they learned how not to roll out bullshit.
they will be more subtle about it going forward and we will end up sucking it up and using it anyway.
there is money on the table, they won’t leave it there.
Helldivers 2 is proof the learned nothing. You still can’t buy the game in all the countries that you can’t make a PSN account.
I think if Sony want to push this they need to…
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Make PSN available at least in all countries that Steam operates in.
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Add cross-buy so if you buy a Sony published game for PC you also get it for Playstation and vice-versa.
Does anyone know why psn isn’t available in these countries in the first place?
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Same as every corporation keep doing x until it’s just normal and then push the next line.
Or their goals are weirder than making customers happy.
This isn’t like Microsoft telling whole studios to jump through their ass and bring them a whole new market, on pain of death. Sony has reasons for pushing this shit in the first place - and they’ve done the math on how much that’s worth to them, versus profits and goodwill on PC. Suffice it to say their don’t give two shits about goodwill on PC. They’d like the money, but only if it does not threaten their grip on a completely separate platform they own and control and shave for an entire third of its revenue.
