Will I need a Sony Account to play the full game?

[Tim]

I was excited to try this with some ol' Knockout City buds, but none of us want to make a PSN account to play.

[76561199807175108]

Hey, yes you will. PSN provides us an account system for matchmaking and facilitates crossplay.

For any game with crossplay matchmaking there needs to be some kind of account system that lives across all platforms (for those that were around in the KO city days we started with an EA Origin account, and we migrated to Epic when we self-published).

This was the obvious one given that we're crossplay with PS5 and Steam -- Even if someone on Steam turns off crossplay, we're still matchmaking based on PSN IDs, and avoiding it would require making multiple matchmaking systems (and for a small team, we'd much rather have those folks working on cool new features for the game for everyone to enjoy 🙂 )

[Tim]

Thanks for the reply. I appreciate the explanation.

EA Origin caused a bunch of weird problems on my computer. I was happy to be rid of it. Not crazy about Epic either, but it's no-fuss, at least.

I feel weird about using a PSN account after they had two major data breaches and a history of customer service issues with me personally (including multiple log-in and verification issues). And the Helldivers II stuff...

Basically, it's not a gamer-issue-of-the-week for me. Someone gifted me a Knockout City dodgeball at a con, and bringing that up, another friend mentioned this game coming out, which I had no idea about! But the PSN thing... On top of my own resistance, two friends of mine (that own Chonkies!) said, "No thanks!"

Not sharing this as if I expect the whole trajectory of your business relationships to change through this response, etc, but I felt compelled to share.

[Kil]

Yeah, I'm also not keen into playing if I'm forced to have a PS Account. Bummer, the game seemed fun.

[KyrenCross]

Plus Playstation Delists games in tons of countries for not having the option to create a Playstation Network account, therefore those players wont be able to play their game.

I guess they care more about the money than players actually playing their game.

[Roph]

Originally posted by velynnstudios:

Hey, yes you will. PSN provides us an account system for matchmaking and facilitates crossplay.

I won't make a PSN account, PSN is unsafe. I'll add your game to my ignore list now, bye.

[Hardwater]

Not good enough, other games don't require PSN account to play multiplayer. Hard pass.

[Buku Duckets]

If I buy this in steam is it free for me on PlayStation and vice versa or do I have to buy it again?

[Sam]

Do the players who use the 'free pass' also have to create a PlayStation account?

We have a LAN setup for 8 computers but I really can't create a separate PlayStation account for each play (we already HAVE separate steam accounts)

[mcnichoj]

Originally posted by niicnaak:

Do the players who use the 'free pass' also have to create a PlayStation account?

We have a LAN setup for 8 computers but I really can't create a separate PlayStation account for each play (we already HAVE separate steam accounts)

It takes less than five minutes to create a PSN account.

[LordMatyO]

I had this game on my wish list for a while, got all my mates keen it on it. Hopped on saw that it was finally published and the lads all purchased it. They all instantly refunded after seeing the PSN account requirement only 50% of us have a working account, for some reason my account is locked by a family manager even though I am 23 years old and the other guys just couldn't be bothered making an account. The guys with an PSN account also refunded because we all wouldn't be playing together. I cant imagine the Dev's leaving this PSN wall in place, so hopefully I hear of it when its fixed or these guys are obviously losing a bunch of money because it seems I'm not the only one.......

[≠, Warrior of Love]

The game just requires me to sign in with a Passkey. I don't know what that is, I never created that with my PS account. Can't I just login with a password like everything else? It's definitely a lot of hassle to play the game. Why not make it optional on PC, especially because PlayStation themselves said that all of their games would make it optional?