This was also Arrowhead’s decision! Here’s proof.

[reesu]

https://imgur.com/a/ZxAdPYY

An Arrowhead Community & Support Team member accidentally revealed on Twitter that they are forcing the PSN requirement so they can ban players. She said and I quote “it’s to allow us to ban people. That is the sole reason”. They were not being honest with us.

This is to those of you who are saying Arrowhead is not to blame go complain to Sony. As you can see this turned out to not be true.

That Arrowhead employee deleted her tweets and locked her twitter and then proceeded to delete her twitter completely.

EDIT: THE CEO OF ARROWHEAD KNEW AND STILL DECIDED TO SELL THE GAME WHERE PSN IS NOT AVAILABLE: https://imgur.com/E86RTaC

AND NOW ANOTHER ARROWHEAD CM ADMITS THEY KNEW ALL ALONG AND KEPT QUIET: https://imgur.com/kZPtqrW

[cpoc019]

I've seen this one as well. Another point which is kinda sus is that AH allowed players to keep flowing in for months without ever making it absolutely clear that the skip (the so called grace period) would be rescinded. A more cynical man could argue this is to trap more players when they "reintroduce" the mandatory PSN link

[Echun]

It's a trap! The only good review is a negative review! I'm doing my part!!

[Backpack]

TBH not a surprise considering AH's PR department is full of wokies and this kind of ppl.

[McFuzz]

One minute people are saying Misty doesn't count coz of how she looks, the second minute Misty's word is that of God's and every syllable gospel.

[Lovecraft]

What are you doing that you're afraid of getting banned?

[DIMITRI]

Wont even read just here to say idgaf
Imagine using ur time like this

[GHDW]

Game is uninstalled, rootkit virus posing as anti-cheat also removed.
Told everyone interested in the game to ignore it and never buy anything from soyny or hollowhead.

[Anzaman]

Community Manager on their Discord said this;

Originally posted by "Spitz":

If a Sony account isn't required to play the game / isn't connected to Steam, it's very hard for Sony to track player accounts.

Steam doesn't allow us to have any way to keep track of unique player IDs through our systems, and since players on Steam can all have duplicate usernames, if we get a report for a user named "John" for example, we have no idea which of the 450,000 players named John we're trying to ban.

But if they have a unique Sony ID linked to their Steam account we can tell exactly which John it is and ban them easily

Not sure how or why they apparently can't access player ID's, but sounds like their system is quite an mess.

[reesu]

Originally posted by cpoc019:

I've seen this one as well. Another point which is kinda sus is that AH allowed players to keep flowing in for months without ever making it absolutely clear that the skip (the so called grace period) would be rescinded. A more cynical man could argue this is to trap more players when they "reintroduce" the mandatory PSN link

Exactly. They called it a “grace period” hoping that people won’t blame them. They never even gave anyone a heads up or a “reminder” or anything in advance. It was optional and then suddenly they said the grace period (which they only knew about and which they decided it would be 3 months after launch so refunds are impossible) is going to be over soon and we won’t be able to continue playing without linking a PSN account. Arrowhead are as much to blame if not even more than Sony.

[reesu]

Originally posted by Anzaman:

Community Manager on their Discord said this;

Originally posted by "Spitz":

If a Sony account isn't required to play the game / isn't connected to Steam, it's very hard for Sony to track player accounts.

Steam doesn't allow us to have any way to keep track of unique player IDs through our systems, and since players on Steam can all have duplicate usernames, if we get a report for a user named "John" for example, we have no idea which of the 450,000 players named John we're trying to ban.

But if they have a unique Sony ID linked to their Steam account we can tell exactly which John it is and ban them easily

Not sure how or why they apparently can't access player ID's, but sounds like their system is quite an mess.

This is even more proof that they weren’t being truthful when they said it was Sony’s decision and they can’t do anything about it. Lol.

[Midas]

Originally posted by Anzaman:

Community Manager on their Discord said this;

Originally posted by "Spitz":

If a Sony account isn't required to play the game / isn't connected to Steam, it's very hard for Sony to track player accounts.

Steam doesn't allow us to have any way to keep track of unique player IDs through our systems, and since players on Steam can all have duplicate usernames, if we get a report for a user named "John" for example, we have no idea which of the 450,000 players named John we're trying to ban.

But if they have a unique Sony ID linked to their Steam account we can tell exactly which John it is and ban them easily

Not sure how or why they apparently can't access player ID's, but sounds like their system is quite an mess.

My guess would be that because it's a playstation game, the ownership of whatever network ecosystem the game uses belongs to Sony, but I'm not sure what would prevent them from blocking access to certain players.

[reesu]

Someone from Arrowhead Support team just posted on the discord server that their Support Team has only 4 people. LOL! They said they cannot handle all the banning, reporting, the ban appeals because they’re only 4 people. They said Sony are more capable to handle these things. So there you go, more proof.

Also if you’re wondering why your support tickets are not being handled now you know why. Imagine that big of a game with that many players and they made millions and their support team still only has 4 people.

[reesu]

THE CEO OF ARROWHEAD KNEW AND STILL DECIDED TO SELL THE GAME WHERE PSN IS NOT AVAILABLE: https://imgur.com/E86RTaC

[ColdZero87]

DEI/sweet baby infiltration detected

[GrogGeneral]

Originally posted by reesu:

THE CEO OF ARROWHEAD KNEW AND STILL DECIDED TO SELL THE GAME WHERE PSN IS NOT AVAILABLE: https://imgur.com/E86RTaC

Exactly. And everyone going along with the CEO being a powerless victim of the situation should read this a couple times over. He knew and he brushed the issue aside for months, selling the game to non-PSN countries and didn't warn users concerned about the abysmal PSN safety record. Now he forces us to swallow the mess he made.