GOW Ragnarok will require a PSN account to play (any of it) on PC

[Entropi]

Do EA, Ubi, MS, and all the other big publishers require their accounts to be linked to Steam for single-player games?

I’m expecting Helldivers 2 to get review-bombed again soon because Steam users know they can hold it hostage against Sony.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

 

[Nhomnhom]

Do EA, Ubi, MS, and all the other big publishers require their accounts to be linked to Steam for single-player games?

I’m expecting Helldivers 2 to get review-bombed again soon because Steam users know they can hold it hostage against Sony.

Most do.

It's all absurd, Blizzard got away with not only not putting their games on Steam for a long time but also requiring always-on connection for single player games for many years, yet they turn on Sony for requiring something all other do just because it's PlayStation.

 

[TrishaCat]

Do EA, Ubi, MS, and all the other big publishers require their accounts to be linked to Steam for single-player games?

Ubisoft does it for just about all their games, even installing a lite version of the UPlay launcher much to my annoyance.
The rest it varies by game, but *generally* its not a requirement? I think MS requires a Microsoft account for their Halo titles tho
Though it depends on what you mean by large publisher
I know Sega, Bandai Namco, Square Enix, Capcom, and Koei Tecmo all don't require that and I'd consider them large publishers, but I mean, they're obviously not the juggernauts Sony and MS are

 

[Entropi]

Ubisoft does it for just about all their games, even installing a lite version of the UPlay launcher much to my annoyance.
The rest it varies by game, but *generally* its not a requirement. I think MS requires a Microsoft account for their Halo titles tho
Though it depends on what you mean by large publisher
Sega, Bandai Namco, Square Enix, and Koei Tecmo all don't require that and I'd consider them large publishers, but I mean, they're obviously not the juggernauts Sony and MS are

Oh man, it is more messy than I thought then.

 

[Nhomnhom]

PC players feeling really enticed to get a PS5 to play this game with sub 2 years delay windows for a complete and improved version of the game.

 

[Eternal_Wings]

@TrishaCat You're from Germany right? There was a German term you've used...

 

[TrishaCat]

@TrishaCat You're from Germany right? There was a German term you've used...

Nah, I just watch the Simpsons lol

(I'm from Louisiana in the US, but I currently live in Massachusetts)

 

[Cool hand luke]

Paypig? lol

They squeal like they're being butchered but they can't help but fork out money for every game Sony throws into their trough.

 

[Yurinka]

Nice. They should make them mandatory to all SIE games. xDDD

 

[Ico]

I prefer playing on my PC primarily, but if I can't play it offline I'll just play something else.

not to be that diablo guy talking about phones, but... dont you guys have internet?

 

[TrishaCat]

not to be that diablo guy talking about phones, but... dont you guys have internet?

For most of my life I actually didn't ;-;
When I went to college I had more consistent access to the internet, but during summer breaks I'd return home to no internet for 3 months and play whatever I had downloaded. That's not a problem now that I live on my own but I still remember the day I tried to launch Nier Automata only to get an error that I needed to connect to the internet to launch it and my feelings then. Needless to say it was a bummer.

 

[arvfab]

Wow didn't think Sony would do it.
Shitty move by them. I love it.

If I were a PC player I would boycott all their games on PC!

 

[ethomaz]

Helldivers 2 got more flak because they added it post release
And also because it's a really popular game
Go to any egs uplay or origin store exclusive and people complain. It's just...none of them added the requirement after the fact. Or removed it from sale in multiple countries after the fact. It was a combination of factors, not any one

They didn’t.
It was there at launch.
They removed post launch to mitigate the server issues.

People made up that story about not being there at launch.

 

[ethomaz]

Isn't this just going to increase pirating

How?

If you need to have your game authenticated to PSN no matter what hackers do Sony can block it because hackers doesn’t have access to Sony’s servers.

Without authentic with Sony servers you can’t play.

 

[arvfab]

Isn't this just going to increase pirating

Fingers crossed it does!

 

[ethomaz]

Ubisoft does it for just about all their games, even installing a lite version of the UPlay launcher much to my annoyance.
The rest it varies by game, but *generally* its not a requirement? I think MS requires a Microsoft account for their Halo titles tho
Though it depends on what you mean by large publisher
I know Sega, Bandai Namco, Square Enix, Capcom, and Koei Tecmo all don't require that and I'd consider them large publishers, but I mean, they're obviously not the juggernauts Sony and MS are

Capcom requires Capcom ID to play Street Fighter V or VI.
You could play one mode without it with V but with VI I don’t think you can amymore… you need a Capcom ID to pass the title acreen in SFVI.

 

[TrishaCat]

Capcom requires Capcom ID to play Street Fighter V or VI.
You could play one mode without it with V but with VI I don’t think you can amymore… you need a Capcom ID to pass the title acreen in SFVI.

Do those count as single player games? Entropi asked about single-player games.

 

[ethomaz]

Do those count as single player games? Entropi asked about single-player games.

Most of Street Fighter content is single-player… yes.

World Tour, Arcade, Practice, Versus (it is allow vs CPU or local multiplayer… not online) and Special Matches are all single-player.

Online and Battle Hub are the only modes with multiplayer (online).

 

[Etifilio]

...... PSN account is not like ubisoft launcher, you do it once at start and it never asks for it again.

that’s cause Sony is still working on the PS Launcher