Why I Bought Spider-Man 2 After I Put it on the IGNORE List

[ItsOnlyAGame]

Firstly, let's do some housekeeping:
Shills, Trolls, Fanboys, Agents, and the feeble crossovers from the console world that still hold to Console thinking, this is not for you.

For the PC Master Race:
I bought this game, full-price, even after reading you guys' very adept and detailed comments on 'WHY NOT TO BUY' it. And I get it, and I support you all's decision; however, I bought the game (but have not downloaded it, because I'm waiting for patches) BECAUSE:
When this game was first announced, it stated that it required a PSN Account.
I then decided that I had had enough: I set up my Steam Account to BLOCK all games that required a PSN Account - I was done.
Amongst The Master Race, I saw this sentiment reflected - unfortunately, only amongst a small few. However, it seems, many of us had the same sentiment, but chose to remain silent. I've concluded this because - despite PSN games being BLOCKED - I received SM2 as a suggestion.... Confused, I looked to confirm the PSN requirement; and behold - it has been removed!
I bought this game to reward both Sony, and its subsidiary Nixxes for yielding to The People.
They listen to us, they have my support (and dollars). It's simple.
As a macrocosm (and the following statement may earn me some ire, but....), this is why THE ORANGE MAN is President once again:
If you ignore The People's requests, we will find someone who won't <full stop>

[Bozz Collin]

Thanks; I was dying to know why you bought it.

[ItsOnlyAGame]

Originally posted by Bozz Collin:

Thanks; I was dying to know why you bought it.

*shrug*
I know brother, I know.... Just got to set a precedent somehow.

[Stry8993]

Weird that they took the PSN account out... was that... like an oversight and they'll just add/patch it in later?

I don't really hate it/care, personally, but, that it restricts some people from being able to even buy the game, thats pretty crappy.

[Kai]

imagine being filtered by a simple log in. grow up

[Doumi]

Hi, did they remove ot from their other game ? It's the only thing that make me NOT buying sony game. They're mostly all excellent but I've enought other game to play if they don't remove their login system. I want to play not call a lawyer to read what I sign to play : )

[bokke_commando]

Ive been waiting for OP's post all day. Thank you OP, I can finally put my mind to rest now that you explained everything.

[ItsOnlyAGame]

Originally posted by JuJu <+|Laughing.Coffin|+>:

Weird that they took the PSN account out... was that... like an oversight and they'll just add/patch it in later?

I don't really hate it/care, personally, but, that it restricts some people from being able to even buy the game, thats pretty crappy.

I don't think it was an oversight, or anything like that - it was deliberate.
They removed it, because, it literally adds no value to a Gamer's experience; but does, however, enable SONY to better see purchasing habits, play times, etc., etc. - you know, ANALYTICS/Data Mining.
I've concluded that the dislike expressed by the PC Master Race Gaming community (I have to keep driving this point), demonstrated to SONY that this community of Gamers will forgo their product before yielding to more encroachment.
I get it: Some people will capitulate to whatever a corp tells them to do in order to indulge their newest (heavily regulated) product - I get those types; and the corps depend on those types to act as proxies.
But amongst The Master Race, we demand more.
So, my conclusion is that SONY realized it would be more sound to simply remove that requirement, rake in a dozens-of-millions of dollars, and move on.
I'll take their silent surrender.
Thus, I made my purchase.

[ItsOnlyAGame]

Originally posted by Doumi:

Hi, did they remove ot from their other game ? It's the only thing that make me NOT buying sony game. They're mostly all excellent but I've enought other game to play if they don't remove their login system. I want to play not call a lawyer to read what I sign to play : )

I don't know, Doumi - I have yet to check.
My assessment is that the whole HellDivers debacle set this into motion: They tried to postliminarily add PSN to HellDivers, The PC Master Race read them The Riot Act, so they backed down.... On HellDivers, that is. From that point on, it seemed that SONY was now going to force PSN down everyone's throat - but too many of us must've demonstrated that we wouldn't even by that sh-- if that was the new requirement. Thus, here we are.
I will check on some other games later.... Additionally, I'm surmising that this is SONY doing some "reconnaissance", if you will. Meaning: They may not take the PSN thing off of all games, but just a few high-demand titles to see how the numbers pan-out. Further, they are testing to see the PC Master Race's resolve: "If we give them a little reward, will they then say, 'well, Sony's ok; I'll get a PSN account now'".
Understand warfare. And economics, buying and selling, is a form of warfare.
So, I'll keep my eyes and ears peeled. Main Point: HOLD THE LINE!

[ItsOnlyAGame]

Originally posted by Kai:

imagine being filtered by a simple log in. grow up

Why does your account say "Banned"?

[JOKER]

I had the opposite reaction towards it. It went from my wishlist to the ignore list once I saw the LGBTQ+ tag and then find out about the woke bs. I might do a thread about it too, apparently people love the format

[Doumi]

Originally posted by ItsOnlyAGame:

Originally posted by Doumi:

Hi, did they remove ot from their other game ? It's the only thing that make me NOT buying sony game. They're mostly all excellent but I've enought other game to play if they don't remove their login system. I want to play not call a lawyer to read what I sign to play : )

I don't know, Doumi - I have yet to check.
My assessment is that the whole HellDivers debacle set this into motion: They tried to postliminarily add PSN to HellDivers, The PC Master Race read them The Riot Act, so they backed down.... On HellDivers, that is. From that point on, it seemed that SONY was now going to force PSN down everyone's throat - but too many of us must've demonstrated that we wouldn't even by that sh-- if that was the new requirement. Thus, here we are.
I will check on some other games later.... Additionally, I'm surmising that this is SONY doing some "reconnaissance", if you will. Meaning: They may not take the PSN thing off of all games, but just a few high-demand titles to see how the numbers pan-out. Further, they are testing to see the PC Master Race's resolve: "If we give them a little reward, will they then say, 'well, Sony's ok; I'll get a PSN account now'".
Understand warfare. And economics, buying and selling, is a form of warfare.
So, I'll keep my eyes and ears peeled. Main Point: HOLD THE LINE!

Thank you very much for your answer.

[ItsOnlyAGame]

Originally posted by JOKER:

I had the opposite reaction towards it. It went from my wishlist to the ignore list once I saw the LGBTQ+ tag and then find out about the woke bs. I might do a thread about it too, apparently people love the format

LBGTX9YZLMNOP??? Really??
Hm... didn't know that moniker was attached to this title <sigh>. Nonetheless, I'm undaunted: My reason for supporting the title stands. Hell, two of the most iconic titles in gaming history, i.e. Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk, can fall under the LGLMNOP tag, so.... If the story's done right, that can simply be a fact of the story's world, versus the story's main theme (that would TRULY be disappointing).
And, "Woke" - I hear people say that, and I have no effing clue wtf that is, so it's inconsequential to me.
Thanks for chiming in, JOKER.

[ItsOnlyAGame]

Originally posted by JOKER:

I had the opposite reaction towards it. It went from my wishlist to the ignore list once I saw the LGBTQ+ tag and then find out about the woke bs. I might do a thread about it too, apparently people love the format

BTW, JOKER: Please drop a line if you do that thread - I'd love to check it out.

[ItsOnlyAGame]

Originally posted by Doumi:

Hi, did they remove ot from their other game ? It's the only thing that make me NOT buying sony game. They're mostly all excellent but I've enought other game to play if they don't remove their login system. I want to play not call a lawyer to read what I sign to play : )

Quick update, Doumi:
I just purchased GOD OF WAR 2 - why?
THEY REMOVED THE PSN REQUIREMENT!!!!!!
So, to your original inquiry: It's plausible that SONY has ceded ground on the entire PSN requirement for the time being!
As a reward to SONY (and my damn-self, of course), I purchased Ragnarok!

[itzDerrio]

tl;dr

so why’d you buy it?