Is your data at risk by signing up with a PSN account?

[Punished Rusty Shackleford]

Sony has a track record of doing dumb things to be a target for hackers. If you create a PSN account, how much info do you need to give to them or can you just make a burner account?

[Plagen]

You can just make a burner account, so it is fine.
People are literally overreacting.

[Slaieth]

SOE is scum. That's why

[Realight]

Originally posted by Plagen:

You can just make a burner account, so it is fine.
People are literally overreacting.

I think the biggest problem people has is that even if it's a "burner account" it's tied to your REAL steam account.

[Kan3da.]

Originally posted by Realight:

Originally posted by Plagen:

You can just make a burner account, so it is fine.
People are literally overreacting.

I think the biggest problem people has is that even if it's a "burner account" it's tied to your REAL steam account.

So?

[Hellraiser]

do yourself a favor and dont make an account, even if it is a burner its linked to your steam so you can get ♥♥♥♥♥♥ out of your steam info also.

[PDBskittles]

Not worth the risk PSN has had garbage security since the ps3 days... ♥♥♥♥ Sony

[Aspen_Wolf]

Originally posted by Plagen:

You can just make a burner account, so it is fine.
People are literally overreacting.

i agree people are infact over reacting big time and going as far as to spread hate on arrowhead this isnt their choice its sony and arrowhead cant do much about it because if they refuse to go thru with it all sony has to do is call it a breach of contract and boom arrowhead devs and team members get replaced with sonys chosen its the same thing for games like destiny 2 bungie has ONE chance to make final shape work and if final shape flops sony fires bungie and replaces them with a team of sonys devs to do the work so if people wanna hate on someone hate sony :/

[Imhotep]

Originally posted by Plagen:

You can just make a burner account, so it is fine.
People are literally overreacting.

Burner account or not, why should people HAVE to do that?

Not everyone is having a hyper emotion fit regarding this.

Those that are upset have the right to be.

I despise sony and will never play their games and or their consoles.

Their PSN is the most toxic place everywhere not to mention they monitor and record everything you do and restrict you. Lets also top that off with logging your IP's. Banning you for using a VPN. IP banning and Mac Address banning can happen on their terms as well preventing you from even making another account.

I worked for Sony at one point prior to this and after seeing what and how they treat people and the above statements, this clearly deterred my wife and i from purchasing this game today.

[Banzai_Samurai]

Originally posted by Plagen:

You can just make a burner account, so it is fine.
People are literally overreacting.

Originally posted by Realight:

Originally posted by Plagen:

You can just make a burner account, so it is fine.
People are literally overreacting.

I think the biggest problem people has is that even if it's a "burner account" it's tied to your REAL steam account.

Fake PSN accounts are bannable by Sony's own ToS, this is why the developers are trying to push for something for the non-PSN countries that bought the game while not being able to create a full PSN-Account.

Please stop shilling actually bannable offences, you lovable monkey-brained cultists.

[Vladzilla]

Originally posted by Plagen:

You can just make a burner account, so it is fine.
People are literally overreacting.

the whole point is, that this thing is tied to the steam account. Sony is known for its security issues, i dont want to share my data with the whole world by doing this.

[Imhotep]

Originally posted by Banzai_Samurai:

Originally posted by Plagen:

You can just make a burner account, so it is fine.
People are literally overreacting.

Originally posted by Realight:

I think the biggest problem people has is that even if it's a "burner account" it's tied to your REAL steam account.

Fake PSN accounts are bannable by Sony's own ToS, this is why the developers are trying to push for something for the non-PSN countries that bought the game while not being able to create a full PSN-Account.

Please stop shilling actually bannable offences, you lovable monkey-brained cultists.

Originally posted by VladZilla:

Originally posted by Plagen:

You can just make a burner account, so it is fine.
People are literally overreacting.

the whole point is, that this thing is tied to the steam account. Sony is known for its security issues, i dont want to share my data with the whole world by doing this.

These are extremely super amazingly valid points. I can attest, i was part of the breach and lost data and was owed and still am.

[Wartoyz]

Originally posted by Plagen:

You can just make a burner account, so it is fine.
People are literally overreacting.

burner account isnt the problem, once the psn account is linked to you steam sony gets access to all your data and can sell it to advertising companies. which also, when people data breach sony, they get access to same data. so ya its kinda a big deal to people

[Kliko54]

Nah don't worry its just as safe drunk driving and knife monopoly.

[Punished Rusty Shackleford]

Originally posted by Wartoyz:

Originally posted by Plagen:

You can just make a burner account, so it is fine.
People are literally overreacting.

burner account isnt the problem, once the psn account is linked to you steam sony gets access to all your data and can sell it to advertising companies. which also, when people data breach sony, they get access to same data. so ya its kinda a big deal to people

yeah i was thinking about this. I'm really wary of linking any of my accounts because even though there is protection, you are opening yourself up a possible breach.

[Kashra Fall]

Originally posted by Punished Rusty Shackleford:

Originally posted by Wartoyz:

burner account isnt the problem, once the psn account is linked to you steam sony gets access to all your data and can sell it to advertising companies. which also, when people data breach sony, they get access to same data. so ya its kinda a big deal to people

yeah i was thinking about this. I'm really wary of linking any of my accounts because even though there is protection, you are opening yourself up a possible breach.

Do you use a phone?
Face book?
Google?
Any other game platform in history?
Is your creditcard information online?
Do you do online banking?
If all those answers are yes, then you're at risk of a data breach. Even steam has been breached from time to time, no one is exempt from it. Bigger companies just get targeted more than smaller ones.