This is affecting many PC gamers around the world, such as myself, as the last 3 PlayStation releases on Steam have been blocked in many countries. I wanna know what’s your take on this. Please be respectful, and thank you. 😊
Sony lost me many years ago when they decided it was appropriate to include a PC rootkit on an audio CD. This only lends weight to that decision.
Not to mention they have been hacked several times over the years.
For me feels someone is chasing a KPI on PSN users that, quite frankly, gives no one but Sony executives satisfaction on bigger number = better number. Steam on that sense made the correct decision to give back the money on people that cannot play a game anymore because of a future requirement (as mentioned by op, not everywhere psn exists). But for me, even if psn is available, you should be able to refuse to further engage on a game based on a future requirement like this and get the money back (same applies if for instance a game all of a sudden has something like denuvo).
So my take away of this is: please, get rid of kpis, it’s about time we learn to get away from hard metrics that can be cheated
When a metric becomes a target, it ceases to be a good metric.
My take: 🏴☠️
Sony is testing the waters with trying to console-ify/enshittify PC gaming, for now it’s making a PSN account and living in an “approved” country, next it’s going to be paying online subscription services to play PSN games. My thoughts are game developers and consumers should avoid Sony like the plague (and request refunds / class legal action in cases like Helldivers 2 where it was introduced after the fact), there are better publishers; and if you can afford it, self-publishing.
I doubt they’ll stop. Sony realized that having a lot of people on your platform already inflates its value just by itself. With their pivot to PC gaming, it makes sense that they’d be heavy-handed about it. I for one will not join them.
While I can create a PSN account in my country, I won’t. I just won’t purchase anymore Sony games and be done with it.
They already joined EA, Take-Two and Ubisoft on my Steam ignore list.
Same. I don’t even give a shit about them announcing Bloorborne or Gran Turismo on PC anymore. I’ll just wait for PS4 emulation to get better and play that instead.
This is my plan also.
Make it a carrot, not a stick. I signed in with me gog account for cyberpunk 2077 just fine because I wanted a jacket and it was 100% optional
I’m so sick of companies doing things to maximize numbers rather than for the sake of making the best experiences. Capitalism doesn’t work, our data is worth more than our loyalty now.
Common anti-consumer move by huge companies against the consumers who made them rich. What’s new?
Same as I’ve been saying for 25 years:
Fuck Sony, and fuck their anti-consumer practices.
Think about it: even if you can get a psn account and play without a problem, this is being done to exploit and commoditize you.
Fuck Sony.
I don’t understand how you can intentionally put a root kit on your audio CDs and still exist the next year.
My thoughts on this is that people, regardless of financial status, should just skip buying a PS5 and for a lower price just get a refurbished Steam Deck from Valve for cheaper. Also to straight up avoid buying PlayStation titles on PC in order to send a message that this toxic behavior is unacceptable.
That’s me I have bough most consoles over the years. Now I have a steam deck and I’m staying there. Purchase a game and being able to play it on the next version because it’s just a PC is going to be nice. No more worries about backwards compatibility.
With all the very valid talking points that float around the Internet and here, the most important one is how sloppy Sony’s data security has been throughout the years. The breaches during the last decade simply stripped every piece of trust from me. That’s why I’m not a fan of PSN, even if you could argue it’s just “yet another account”.
But unless near everybody refuses to buy these PC games and cut into the sales of Sony through boycott, I don’t see Sony stopping it.
I wouldn’t care so much if they weren’t pushing so hard. The fact they are willing to go through all of this to force it makes me suspicious.
My thought is it’s bullshit. My reaction is to not purchase or play any games from them and not sign up for an account. I’ll be alright.
No PlayStation (last one I owned was the first one, though I did play on some shared/friends’ devices for PS2 and 3). No PSN account. Voting with my wallet and not buying any of their shit.
Well Sony can do whatever they wish but that doesn’t mean I have to do what they want. Normally ignore any Sony related games nowadays.
