Yes and Sony are asking you now to login.
How does Signing into anything help?
Why are you signing into this forum or Steam or other online games?
Do you live in a cave in Turkey?
You're confusing signing in with signing in and then signing in again.
Honest question, do you see no difference between signing in to PSN and Signing in to Steam and then in to PSN? (Or Xbox live and then ubislop)
All are on the same playfield.
It gives more control to devs to be more effective against cheating, harassment etc..
It is nothing new, almost all publishers does this. It is a norm and it will be.
I'm not a dev. How does it help me? Anti-cheat is the gaming equivalent of a safe space.
There's a simple solution to anti-cheat, anti-harrassment etc it's called private servers.
But guess what? Private servers were done away with by companies to force you onto their servers, to sell your data and use your MAUs for financial KPIs. The same companies you are defending and asking to help you against cheaters, pushed you into a place where you would be harassed and cheated against and took away all of your power to do anything about it. Just like they did with abolishing physical games. Remember, digital is just a choice brah, no one is coming for your discs lol.
Now sign in, and sign in again with 2fa so the company can sell your data. Be sure to activate DRM that effects the performance of your game so that other people don't steal a product from a company that has no effect on you. Oh and be sure to get the anti-cheat spyware that doesn't stop cheaters and make sure you pay your slopscription service that monitors for your naughty words, all the while allowing underage gamers to call you a f*g and n*gg* without repercussion.
Honestly, you and others call me a fucking retard but when it comes down to it, a lot of you can't see the wood for the trees, either through ignorance or arrogance. You ignore or are just unaware of how gaming used to be.