r/gamingnews • u/AliTVBG • 17h ago
Sony Signals Single-Player Only The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered on PC Requires a PSN Account 3 Months Ahead of Launch
https://www.ign.com/articles/sony-signals-single-player-only-the-last-of-us-part-2-remastered-on-pc-requires-a-psn-account-3-months-ahead-of-launch117
u/Dont_have_a_panda 17h ago
Anyone expected anything else?
Seriously this should not be news, expect EVERY SINGLE PC release of PlayStation games to require PSN (because that will be the case)
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u/TehOwn 15h ago
Pirated versions don't require a PSN account. Always great when paying customers get a worse experience.
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u/Green-Salmon 12h ago
Tried playing gta 4 I bought on steam and the game wouldn’t start because the rockstar launcher was bugging out. Jumped thru a bunch of hoops to try to fix it (services, onedrive) and it still wouldn’t launch.
Downloaded a pirated copy and it works. No launcher. Fuck you, rockstar. Your launcher is unable to do the one thing it’s supposed to do: launch games.
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u/Zer0DotFive 12h ago
I have had no issues booting up GTA4 on my Steam Deck. That shit just works.
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u/Ricky_Rollin 3h ago
Steam Deck is simply amazing at getting games that don’t run well, to run well. It’s crazy the number of times I’ve seen “it plays like shit if at all”, and I’ll slap it on the SD and it plays just fine.
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u/HappysavageMk2 12h ago
Same, had zero issues logging into the launcher and playing.
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u/Zer0DotFive 11h ago
It also looks amazing for a game that came out 16 years ago.
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u/HappysavageMk2 11h ago
Agreed. It looks amazing and GTA4 is easily one of my favorites of the series.
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u/NormalCake6999 8h ago
Well it makes sense, according to Steamdb the game got a couple of patches and the past few years. That being said, OP could've had a very different experience from you if he played on a different patch. GTA4 was known to be borked for a long time.
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u/First-Junket124 10h ago
In somewhat fairness a ton and I mean a TON of games from that era are just like that. Sometimes it's Games for Window Live, sometimes its Developers launcher, or outdated and incompatible drivers especially PhysX.
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u/Idunnomeister 9h ago
PhysX is the weirdest thing. You can have up to date drivers, and it'll require a specific version that you have to seek out because Steam won't install an older version if you have a newer version. Batman Arkham Asylum, the original version, gave me a runaround to even start up because of this.
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u/RevRay 11h ago
Pro piracy here, I don’t consider not having to log in to be a “better experience.” It’s a wash at best, people just love to whine.
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u/ZetzMemp 11h ago
Exactly. It’s funny too because you know the same people complaining about this log in to other services without bitching just fine. It’s 2025, having accounts for services is the norm.
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u/TehOwn 10h ago
Because you're expected to login to Steam AND PSN and go through a launcher to access the game.
2K games did this shit too and everyone hated it. They recently removed their launcher entirely.
Nvidia's Geforce Experience used to require you to have an account and people hated that also. They ended up removing the requirement with their new app and now it's optional.
It's extra friction that provides literally zero value to the user. If you enjoy chores, great, they can make it optional and you can login to your heart's content.
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u/ZetzMemp 9h ago
You log in once and you never bother with it ever again. I swear gamers will make the most mundane easy task and turn them into an effort.
In this comment alone you have spent more energy into what this takes.
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u/StandardDue6636 11h ago
You don’t even have to either. I remember people saying this about Ghost of Tsushima you just click no
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u/GamingTrend 10h ago
How is it worse? You don't have to sign in. You sign in to get the overlay but if you don't it doesn't change a single thing about the experience. So what, specifically, is worse?
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u/TehOwn 10h ago
It specifically says it's required on the Steam page.
You ever realize that many people don't have a PSN account and don't want one?
It's an extra thing to do that provides no value to the gamer. How is that not worse?
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u/GamingTrend 9h ago edited 5h ago
It's not "required". You click no and you're fine. That's it. That's the whole process. You don't need a psn account for anything but PSN achievements. Stop making up shit to be upset about.
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u/iEssence 8h ago
Except thats not what required means, thats optional. This is what caused issues for HD2, it was treated as optional until they required it, and subsequently disallowed new people in non-psn countries.
It requiring PSN means it cant be sold in more countries than it can.
God of War for example as well, requires it.
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u/Species1139 10h ago
It was the same with DVDs. Trying to watch one on a PC was a thankless task with their over zealous copy protection.
Downloading a pirate copy was so much easier.
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u/TehOwn 10h ago
This is how I found out about the warez scene in the first place. Legitimately owned things that I purchased would simply not work until I downloaded a "fix" that bypassed the copy protection.
Over zealous protection simply pushes people towards piracy. A frictionless experience pushes people towards consuming media legally.
That's why Steam is huge and it's why streaming is huge. It's effortless. There's no hassle.
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u/StandardDue6636 11h ago
How is it a worse experience
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u/TehOwn 10h ago
Pirates have zero restrictions. Paying customers are required to login to a PSN account whether they want to or not. And they gain literally zero value from it. There's no upside. If it was optional, no-one would be upset about it.
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u/StandardDue6636 10h ago
Which game are you required to sign in for? I have GoW, GoW Ragnarok, Ghost of Tsushima, Horizon Zero Dawn remaster, Spiderman & Spiderman Miles Morales. I have not been required to sign in for any of them, you just click “no thank you” when it asks on initial installation
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u/Super_charged_human 11h ago
That's all subjective. I'd rather not play a game than bother pirating it personally. I have more important shit to do of my life.
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u/kcajjones86 3h ago
Seriously, they'll just never learn.
Steam is going to be printing money for at least as long as Gabe Newel is there. His famous quote "Piracy is almost always a service problem, not a pricing problem." Offer a better service and the majority of people won't bother pirating. Shove PSN accounts down people's throats and then fuck them over when the PSN network goes down and they can't access their SINGLE player game and people aren't going to be happy paying. This is made so much worse by the fact that PSN has a terrible reliability record with hackers and outages galore.
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u/Arci996 16h ago
Are there regional differences? I'm in Italy and the last Sony games I've played (GoT and GoW:R) didn't require PSN, you needed it only for the multiplayer components, while most people on reddit say that it's required.
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u/Dont_have_a_panda 16h ago
Not really, since Helldivers 2 all PlayStation PC releases requires the PSN account, previous games (at least for now) are Safe from It, but now its Mandatory (for some reason) for ALL their pc releases, that countries without psn can't buy the Game on PC in the first place (Italy is PSN approved so you can buy them and play them on pc with the PSN account so you are Safe)
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u/Captiongomer 6h ago
Steam was the one who enforced the if they can't make an account in the country you cannot buy it. Sony said to just make one in a region that allows it but after the whole shit show if people screaming over hell divers 2 steam didn't want to deal with it and locked it down so now no one in those countries can buy it
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u/Dont_have_a_panda 6h ago
And what's Epic excuse? Because Epic Game store took the same measure with the PlayStation games on their platform (dont know if before or after Steam)
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u/Captiongomer 6h ago
Good question I'm not sure I don't really care for epic so I don't keep up with them il have to check later
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u/eugene20 12h ago
There are regional differences. God of War Ragnarok gave some regions the choice to not log in.
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u/Blackadder18 15h ago
Ragnarok is a weird one, it claims it needs it, but I've seen many reports from people that didn't need to log in. For what it's worth, the second I started it I had a prompt to sign in, and many others reported this too. From my understanding, it's meant to have a log in, not sure why some people didn't get the prompt.
GoT only said it needed it for multiplayer features/PS overlay though, so that one checks out.
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u/K9Seven 14h ago
Great. Another game I won't be able to buy cuz I live in Suriname. 👉👉Awesome..
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u/Tolucawarden01 12h ago
Cant you make one in a neighboring country that does have one?
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u/K9Seven 12h ago
If only it were that easy! The only country not banned from PSN over here is Brazil(I don't speak Portuguese) and all other countries are Spanish. In my country our language is English and Dutch. Also I think Steam doesn't like it if you regionally hop
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u/Captiongomer 6h ago
And thanks to people who didn't live in these places making a huge deal out of it and valve didn't want to have to deal with it in the future and completely region locked it down
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u/GolotasDisciple 9h ago
That's why they say Piracy might be not legal, but that doesn't mean it is not ethical.
In your position you should feel encouraged to pirate games you are now allowed to play due to Geo-restriction.
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u/Best_VDV_Diver 16h ago
This will effectively lock Sony games from 120 or so countries, yes?
Is pumping PSN numbers worth losing a, I'd imagine, decent sized chunk of sales?
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u/deathclawDC 16h ago
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u/GroundbreakingBag164 16h ago
PSN is available in more than 70 countries
~120 is correct. Don’t spread misinformation.
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u/deathclawDC 13h ago
https://www.gamegrin.com/news/all-of-the-180-countries-blocked-that-sony-blocked-for-ghost-of-tsushima-directors-cut-and-helldivers-2-on-steam/ Get updated bruv You have the misinformation
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u/GroundbreakingBag164 13h ago edited 13h ago
And you don’t know what you’re talking about. There are a bunch of territories in there. Not actual countries.
Do you think the Territory of the Wallis and Futuna Islands is a country?
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u/Saeko_Saeba 15h ago
Well, it's 170 regions not country , exemple some lands from france not have access to PSN.
Anyway, no psn in my country, have buy TLoU 1 on pc and can't buy the second...
They not only lose playstation sale, i boycotte any sony product until i can play sony game on pc in my country.
And even worst for them, new gen of players like my kids will growth up with nintendo & microsoft, not sony.
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u/EdgyPlum 6h ago
I mean, it'll block out sales. It won't block out access to anyone who can Google "repack" though.
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u/Wish_Lonely 17h ago
So I'm guessing these articles are going to be made each time Sony releases a new game on Steam?
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u/Lootthatbody 13h ago
Sony could save the hassle and part of the outrage if they just released PC day one. . .
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u/Wish_Lonely 13h ago
Releasing games day 1 is part of the reason why Xbox sales aren't as great anymore.
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u/Lootthatbody 9h ago
Xbox console sales aren’t ‘great’ but profit is sky high. Hmmm I wonder which is more important to shareholders, plastic boxes sold at a loss or profits? It doesn’t take a finance degree to know the right answer here. If the players are happy (buying more games than ever) and the shareholders are happy (profits higher than ever), what’s the complaint?
Xbox traded some 20 million console sales this generation (which saved them money) for tens of millions of game sales (which make them money). The business proposition isn’t very hard to understand, and the ‘gamers’ are generally much more receptive to the business practices of Xbox over Sony. Where do you think that leads to in the longer term?
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u/InvestigatorFit3876 11h ago
Xbox doesn’t care about console sales only gamepass and software
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u/RadBrad4333 11h ago
which is a bit of a fools bargain and taking the industry in a terrible direction
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u/Lootthatbody 9h ago
It isn’t taking the industry in any direction lol, what a silly statement.
Xbox gives players choice, that’s it. You can buy physical or digital on PC or console day one, you can eventually buy physical or digital on PS5 or switch for some games. You can sign up for gamepass and play an entire library of games from your console/PC or stream to a tablet or phone.
Compare that to the offering for PlayStation. You buy day one on console or wait years for the PC version, and they want you to buy both. Then, they want you to buy the remasters again 2 years later. Also, you need to sign up for an account to play on PC so they can artificially inflate their numbers to shareholders. Almost nothing on switch, almost nothing on Xbox. Sony wants to charge you a premium, sell your data, and lock you in with little choice.
You can’t argue that choice is a bad thing. The industry is in a better position now because there are 3 healthy competitors who all offer pretty substantially different choices for gaming. You can troll and console war all you want about winners or losers, but all 3 platforms are making massive profits, and the industry continues to support that. There are more people playing games than ever, but consoles are just a small sliver of that pie that isn’t growing, so expanding to PC and mobile is natural. Physical media isn’t going away anytime soon, and neither is native gaming. People have been foretelling the end of consoles and the end of physical media for over a decade, but both are still thriving. Being against something just because it’s different and successful is just plain silly.
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u/RadBrad4333 9h ago
No Xbox gives you short term convenience in exchange for market control and eventual price raises. Industry disruption is not a new concept. They’re gambling on offering a convenient, affordable, and competitive product at a loss until they have a market control at which point they’ll raise prices. This happened with netflix, this happens with spotify, and it will definitely happen with Gamebox Gamepass.
This whole “choice” narrative is marketing bs especially when you look at Xbox’s intentions in the past 10 years. They do not want physical games. You cannot own a physical edition of Halo Infinite, you couldn’t play Minecraft or any xbox game while xbox live was down multiple times last year.
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u/RubyRose68 16h ago
Another chunk of sales lost for literally no reason.
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u/barduk4 14h ago
Oh there is plenty of reason, by making a psn account they can sell your info and make more money on that, why else would they give up on potential sales?
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u/a0me 13h ago
Is that really worth 60-70$?
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u/RifewithWit 9h ago
They can sell the personal data, the habits data, compiled aggregate data to researchers based on age and location, can sell the hours played and such for other research...
There is a plethora of ways in which they can use your personal data for money, and in order to play a game that requires PSN login, you must consent to them doing so to play a game you've purchased.
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u/a0me 5h ago
I remember reading that Meta makes about $200 per user with their personal data. But unlike Meta or Google, PSN can only track what games players buy, play, and what they do in-game. I find it hard to believe that data is worth that much.
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u/RifewithWit 4h ago
That's just personal data. That doesn't include data from usage statistics, hours played, types of games played, and other aggregate data that helps marketing firms and researchers.
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u/PizzaWhale114 12h ago
I can't say for sure, but data is now more valuable than oil, so I think there is a good chance.
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u/1Saltyd0g 16h ago
Another game to pirate
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u/Darksider123 11h ago
This won't stop pirates? Wtf is it for then lmao
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u/A_MAN_POTATO 5h ago
Your data is worth more to Sony than the sales they lose by requiring this (which, despite what Reddit leads you to believe, probably isn’t much).
Sony ultimately does not want you buying their games on PC. They want you on their closed ecosystem. My personally held belief is that the PSN requirement opens you up for advertising from Sony, and they believe there is a chance they will be able to entice some PC players into getting a PS5 over waiting for high-profile sequels to release on PC. It’s probably more the first point than this, but Sony sure isn’t against forcing you into their marketing emails.
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u/etriuswimbleton 16h ago
Srsly why do they still have this problem about PSN accounts being region locked? Why didnt they fixed this before the PSN account was ever invented?
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u/GolotasDisciple 9h ago
That's what happens when Business meets Politics.
Sony main aim is to gather as much Data and Information as Possible. Many of the games are not developed by them so they are not really losing a lot of money on a product they didnt create.
Basically it has nothing to do with PS5 or Sony but their PlayStation Store which makes a lot of money by collecting data about users. Any data that has Financial Information in it is more valuable than oil.
So if a country doesn't wont to cooperate with Sony by trading/purchasing, if Sony cannot have physical existence within the country they will simply not work with them. Basically if you cannot purchase the game physically you will not be able to purchase it digitally. On one hand it makes sense right?
If Sony cannot do any quality control or cannot provide service to their paying customers they will be in position where they might suffer more losses than profits by allowing people to purchase stuff.
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u/Captiongomer 6h ago
Well, after the helldivers two debacle and the mass refunds valve didn't want to have to deal with that again so they made it impossible to buy them if you live in the region that can't make a Sony account
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u/Dont_have_a_panda 16h ago
There was no such problems when the PSN account was invented considering that PlayStation releases on PC is fairly recent
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u/basicastheycome 16h ago
Apparently Eastern European Euro is too dirty for Sony. Sailing it is then
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u/ScientificGorilla 17h ago
I'll wait for The Last of Us Part II Remastered Remake
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u/super-loner 16h ago
TLOU 3 Remastered Remade Reimagined Redone Again Part Alpha 3rd Decade of the 21st Century Edition.
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u/Sparrow1989 10h ago
Bout the only thing that makes me proud to live in America is to buy these re releases at 80% off and downloading bypass mods. Also Abby is better protagonist than Ellie
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u/Antique_Quail_ 16h ago
I really don't get why people act like this is a big deal. Almost every app or website requires an account, why would PlayStation be any different? I can't pretend to be outraged about something that takes 1-2 minutes of my time
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u/GamerLegend2 16h ago
Because I can buy any game whether its EA, Ubi or Microsoft. But Sony literally banned us from purchasing their games in 120+ countries. They are so terrible that instead of providing a workaround for us folks they are sending a message we don't deserve their games. The only way now is to pirate them or creating a steam account with a fake address but that's risky and can be banned by Steam.
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u/Chardan0001 16h ago
Funnily enough where I live they sell the games and systems physically but if you put the location in to PSN you cannot actually have an account. Part of the UK too.
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u/Captiongomer 6h ago
It wasn't Sony. Sony didn't let you make an account in those areas. Valve removed the ability to buy them because they didn't want to have to do Mass refunds again
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u/Redkail 16h ago edited 15h ago
1- Because it's not needed, at all
2- Because it's just another way for them to harvest and control your data
3- Because Sony has proven time and time again that they can't safeguard your personal data without being hacked
4- Because it will lock people from multiple countries from playing the game (region-lock)
5- Because it doesn't bring literally anything positive to the consumer
Edit: Added point 4 & 5.
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u/shepard93n7 15h ago edited 14h ago
1- Is needed to boost MAUs, which is not harmful to anyone. Happy shareholders = more money = more games for you.
2- Everyone has your data already, and they're making money out of it.
3- If you're so concerned about your personal data (weird considering point 2), just use a new email just for that account, don't give them your real name and don't register your credit car or any banking data into PSN.
4- There are still legal and unofficial ways for the people on those countries to play the game, so stop fake-worrying too much about them, if anyone really wants to play the game, they'll find a way.
5- See point 1.
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u/Redkail 14h ago
1- It's harmful to the consumers when their data gets leaked like it happened before.
2- No. I know how to prevent prying eyes from having my personal data, of course this also depends on which country you may live in, but in the EU it's simpler. Some people are cautious with the way their personal data is handled. Just because some services may have some of my data it doesn't mean everyone has it, besides, what kind of argument is that? "If someone has my data it means I can give it to whoever asks for it because I'm assuming everyone has it already"?
3- If I'm concerned about my privacy and personal data, as should everyone be, (you know, because it's a basic and fundamental human right, at least here in the EU). I shouldn't need to find loop-arounds to prevent my data from being in the wrong hands in the first place.
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u/shepard93n7 14h ago
1- No, is not harmful if you actually watch your back, those loop-arround are another security layer.
2- It's cute you think that helps in any way. The government already has your data. If you register to any social media Google, Facebook, amazon, steam, etc, they already have your email, IP, and maybe bank account. In the moment you enter the internet, you're exposed to trackers, hackers and more, the best you can do is use a heavy 2fa for every site or service you use and stop worrying too much.
- Again, those loop-arrounds are another security layer, everyone who is actually concerned about their data have to consider them.
Anyways, this conversation is pointless, Sony will keep putting PSN requirement on their PC games and there's nothing you or me can do about it. So since you're not a fan of "loop-arrounds" (if you know what i mean), you have to play by their rules or not play at all.
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u/Redkail 14h ago
The government has my data, yes, but services like Sony don't. So why should I make it easy on them? The way you talk it makes it seem like Sony has some kind of deal with the government of my country where they can access my data whenever they want to. I haven't registered to google, facebook or any of those services you mentioned. I use Linux and a heavily modified version of firefox that doesn't allow trackers (sure it breaks some sites, but for those I use a sandboxed environment like I do with Reddit). And sure, this isn't completely foolproof, nothing is, but it helps in the long run.
That's fair, I agree that there's nothing we can do. But I won't be part of it and if there's a game I wish to get from them I'll just get the pirated version.
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u/xzerozeroninex 11h ago
My take on this is,I’m not an important person,I don’t have state secrets,I don’t think China,Russia,Japan,US really cares what games I play,shows I watch or porn I check out.Most data is just used as algorithm for ads I get on FB,Google,X,etc.
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u/Redkail 10h ago
That's fine, different people have different approaches to life. I'm also just a regular individual and don't have any secrets, but I'll fight for my rights for privacy for as long as I can, because it's a right that everyone should have, and it's a right that is being taken away from us little by little, and blatantly. If one of our rights can be taken away so easily that can set us up for something worse.
Most times I don't have anything important to say, doesn't mean I shouldn't fight for my right for the freedom of speech.
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u/Unnamed-3891 15h ago
Because having single player games require that 1) you’re online 2) servers of the company that sold you the game are still up, is fucking absurd.
Game publishers should under no circumstance have the power to ”shut down” singleplayer games.
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u/coates87 10h ago
Well, there's the fact that Sony previously wasn't doing that for their older PC ports, they never explained why the requirements were added for single player games, and some of them are even on GOG.
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u/Kindly_Extent7052 16h ago edited 16h ago
No one would complain if this happened 20 year ago. EA ditching their account requirements, Take Two removed their whole launcher last year. Bethesda, Cd project. No one said this not an issue with all companies, but now ppl even avoid any game requiring these things. Sony one of them. Big another reason their services not available on 120 country.
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u/Specialist-Rope-9760 16h ago
That doesn’t answer OPs question. Why is it even a big deal
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u/Kindly_Extent7052 16h ago
I answered it. You probably didn't like facts and want copuim answer.
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u/Specialist-Rope-9760 16h ago
What’s your answer?
You said other companies don’t do this anymore. You never addressed what the actual issue with needing an account is
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u/etriuswimbleton 16h ago
Because its region locked. People from 150+ countries cant even play the game legitimately cause of it.
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u/GroundbreakingBag164 16h ago
~120 countries. Not more than 150.
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u/Saeko_Saeba 15h ago
120 country + 30 regions, peoples making shortcut, like some island from france don't have psn.
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u/Magathus 16h ago
1) There are a lot of countries where PSN is not supported...
2) I already have an account - a Steam account - the account where i bought the game. So i really dont understand, why i should make another account on top of the one i already have...
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u/SimonGray653 16h ago
How much do you want to bet there will be a mod day one that'll get rid of this stupid requirement?
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u/Chardan0001 16h ago
What's really annoying is it means Steam doesn't sell the game in my territory, despite the fact Sony sells physical systems and games here. Epic does however sometimes have the games on their store.
Not a bother, I'll just pirate it then.
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u/Captiongomer 6h ago
After everyone complained about hell ivers two, Valve didn't want to have to deal with in the future so they region locked it completely blame the people complaining who didn't even live in the countries that couldn't make an account
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u/waftgray67 16h ago
Garr, tis a travesty I tell thee. Shiver me timbers lad..
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u/Unlucky_Addendum_592 16h ago
Hell yeah brother, I too like to steal things when I’m mildly inconvenienced. That whopping 3 minutes to create a free account is a borderline crime against humanity, Damn you Sony!
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u/AscendedViking7 16h ago edited 16h ago
3 minutes to make a free account that is completely unusable in 120 COUNTRIES, rendering chances of playing games with PSN to zero for those who live in those countries.
Listen to yourself, lol
Being completely unable to play a game because you live in a country Sony doesn't care about isn't a "mild inconvenience".
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u/Chardan0001 16h ago
It doesn't effect him so he doesn't care.
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u/Unlucky_Addendum_592 16h ago
Don’t pretend like you care either, if you guys didn’t have your hissy fit over Helldivers the people in those countries could have continued doing what they’ve always done, making accounts in the nearest available region.
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u/Chardan0001 16h ago
That's a whole lot of conjecture to pretend everyone is the same. Some crazy shilling going on.
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u/RubyRose68 15h ago
The game is only for sale in countries that have the ability to make a PSN account. So for example if you live in Greenland, the game isn't listed on the store. So the only way to play it is to pirate it.
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u/DeadPhoenix86 16h ago
Another game added to my ignore list. Why is Sony forcing PSN on PC???
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u/GroundbreakingBag164 16h ago
Why is any launcher forcing you to make an account?
Same thing
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u/DeadPhoenix86 14h ago edited 14h ago
I shouldn't need to make an extra account to play games on Steam. And how about all those unsupported countries?
Do I need to make an extra account on top of PSN?
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u/GroundbreakingBag164 13h ago
I shouldn’t need to make an extra account to play games on Steam.
I agree
And how about all those unsupported countries?
They can’t even buy the games requiring PSN
Do I need to make an extra account on top of PSN?
No
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u/bawng 15h ago
Except there's absolutely no need to even have a launcher.
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u/GroundbreakingBag164 15h ago
I agree.
But Sony doesn’t. And people will still buy their games, so there’s no real reason for them to not do that
Sony is making the PlayStation ecosystem available on PC. They’re preparing for a world where exclusives might not exist anymore. This is actually extremely smart, it just isn’t good for the consumer.
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u/InevitableCodes 15h ago
What's more, why are they forcing it when it's not available in more countries than it is? Why haven't they fixed that before launching games for PC?
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u/Ok-Paramedic-370 13h ago
Don't buy it, simple as that. Only then will then will they change their ways.
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u/Dominjo555 16h ago
They are destroying any chance of long-term success on PC. Their exclusives are not good enough to make demands like this.
PSN is also not supported in many countries (including mine), and their sales will always suffer because of this.
Sony should release all their games on PC on day one, through Steam, without requiring PSN. Only then can they achieve significant success.
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u/Laj3ebRondila1003 16h ago
they can always just add a dummy "global region" for unsupported countries, steam had that for over decade now, it uses us prices.
but sony really want your address when making a psn account for some reason
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u/GamerLegend2 16h ago
The new CEO's are idiots, by making these kind of decisions they are digging Sony's grave. Their movie studios are already dead, games will be the next.
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u/GroundbreakingBag164 16h ago
Most recent Sony games have been really successful.
There is not a single imaginable reason for you to assume that they "are digging their own grave"
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u/RubyRose68 15h ago
Not successful enough though. They are still having to shut down studios and lay people off.
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u/GroundbreakingBag164 15h ago
Every company is laying people off. This has almost nothing to do with their current successes (or failures)
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u/RubyRose68 15h ago
Oh because everyone is doing it that makes it okay. I remember when Sony fanboys actually put effort into their arguments.
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u/GroundbreakingBag164 15h ago
Oh because everyone is doing it that makes it okay.
I did not say or imply that.
I remember when Sony fanboys
I am also not a Sony fanboy
So, let’s actually go through what happened in this conversation because some people are seemingly too stupid to read
"Sony is digging their own grave"
"They’re not, they’re really successful"
"They’re laying people off"
"That doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with their success or failure, other successful companies do that too"
"You think layoffs are okay! Sony fanboy!"
I hate culture warriors
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u/RubyRose68 15h ago
Buddy Spider Man 2 sold 11 million units, and people at Insomniac were still laid off. If the game is successful then there isn't a reason to lay people off.
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u/GroundbreakingBag164 15h ago
There is a reason.
Sony would like to have even more money.
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u/RubyRose68 15h ago
Ah yes let's defend greed because it's Sony.
Again Sony fanboys don't even try to hide anymore.
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u/damwookie 16h ago
Their games are fantastic.
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u/Dominjo555 16h ago
Not good enough to make me play in unsupported region for PSN i guess? They are literally making people pirate their games (not that I do).
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u/SparsePizza117 15h ago
It'll probably run like garbage like the first game anyways.
Probably the most laughable PlayStation to PC port they ever made with how bad it ran on launch.
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u/9BitHooligan 12h ago
Well. I was going to buy this....
Guess it's time to sail the seven seas 🏴☠️
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u/Zer0DotFive 12h ago
Is there even a reason to buy it on PC if you need to sign up for Sony's bullshit?
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u/JaceKagamine 11h ago
Is anyone even surprised? Simpleenough to make a psn account and if your country doesn't support it (like mine) just sail the seas not like you can even purchase it legally anyway........
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u/Practical-Aside890 10h ago
I get games doing this for cross progression support or online games with crossplay. But single player games that don’t offer those there is no reason for it other then being difficult and just wanting to force people into a account
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u/Frostsorrow 10h ago
Which Last of US remake is this one? I get co fused with its 10r729481894 remakes.
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u/_EnglishFry_ 6h ago
You mean PC players have to submit an email into a company to play a game? Aww you poor little master races life is so hard…
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u/A_MAN_POTATO 5h ago
Also: water is wet.
Do we really need to report on this with every Sony release? It’s been a requirement in the last four PS releases. It’s going to be a requirement for every single one going forward. It’s not changing and everyone has made their opinion known about it. We don’t need to keep having the same conversation every month.
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u/kamrankazemifar 2h ago
No multiplayer, no cross-save support, no trophy support, no play anywhere support what is the actual point of a PSN account in this game.
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u/Prus1s 15h ago
We already knew this once the game was region locked on steam after 2 days of announcement 😄 + not a surprise
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u/shadingnight 14h ago
As is tradition, Sony never fails to remind me of where I keep my buried treasure at.
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u/OldMcGroin 17h ago
I think they mean, it's three months to launch and we're telling you now you will need a PSN account then. I really don't think they mean you need a minimum 3 month old account to play.
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u/MuglokDecrepitus 16h ago
Its literally the trend they are following.
They started with Helldivers 2, but did the mistake of adding it after the game was released, after that, the PSN account requirement was something that they added to all their games on Steam step by step
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