Is Playstation Account Required?

[Exsilium Games]

I quit playing this game at 60 hours when the whole Playstation account requirement was going to be enforced? Im not clear if that was retracted or not, was it?

[dyra55]

Oh boy it's been a while but no, the boycott worked and sony decided to leave it as optional for the time being

[Inardesco]

No

[Nakatomi]

It was clear if you googled it it's been what nearly a year since that happened maybe 9 months ago. I still don't understand the complaint about it when we all have we most if not all have accounts for EA, Ubisoft, Rockstar, Microsoft, Nintendo, Epic, Gog,

And some of those we bought a game on steam to the have to sign into whoever published it to make it work (mainly Ubisoft).

[Kortek]

Originally posted by Nakatomi:

It was clear if you googled it it's been what nearly a year since that happened maybe 9 months ago. I still don't understand the complaint about it when we all have we most if not all have accounts for EA, Ubisoft, Rockstar, Microsoft, Nintendo, Epic, Gog,

And some of those we bought a game on steam to the have to sign into whoever published it to make it work (mainly Ubisoft).

Cause the game was sold in countries where PSN is not available, also it was not enforced since Day 1 and on Playstation website it used to state that PSN account is not required on PC.
That is what the main complaint was.

[Cookie Panda]

Accounts like EA, Ubisoft, Microsoft etc can be made regardless of which region you're in unlike PSN where only 69 regions (correct me if i'm mistaken) are available. For people living in the regions not officially supported they have to lie about their country if they want to register an account. Adding to that, even if you went ahead and lied to make an account, Sony in all their glorious infinite stupidity decided to enforce region restrictions. That basically means anyone who lives in a region that is not officially supported by PSN cannot purchase the game on Steam or any other platform where HD2 is available regardless if they have a PSN account or not. This is where the problems lie, this is the reason people like myself are boycotting this game even though i purchased it before the restrictions took place. And i'll keep boycotting it as long as Sony is playing the greedy corporation card.

[Axis of Lint]

Originally posted by Exsilium Games:

I quit playing this game at 60 hours when the whole Playstation account requirement was going to be enforced? Im not clear if that was retracted or not, was it?

There's no need for a playstation account, but if you hadn't purchased the game before Sony changed the rules, you can't buy it in 177 countries across the world now.

[Exsilium Games]

Originally posted by Nakatomi:

It was clear if you googled it it's been what nearly a year since that happened maybe 9 months ago. I still don't understand the complaint about it when we all have we most if not all have accounts for EA, Ubisoft, Rockstar, Microsoft, Nintendo, Epic, Gog,

And some of those we bought a game on steam to the have to sign into whoever published it to make it work (mainly Ubisoft).

Lets see..

EA: Yes - im a Loooong time BF player.
Ubisoft: No
Rockstar: No
Microsoft: No
Nintendo: No
Epic: Yes - for Unreal Engine
Gog: no - no idea what that even is.

The problem with publishers requiring accounts is that can be used, if not now, later to sell you Games as a Service, something the industry has been pushing for a long time.... eventually pulling games away from Steam. I like Steam, a lot. I like all my games in one place and I like the idea that its much more difficult for a Publisher to decide one day that you can no longer play the game you bought... this has happened in the past. Back in the day of CD and DVD you OWNED the game you bought. That line determining if you own the game or not is becoming more and more blurred now.

the other issue with all these accounts your OK with is data collection. While its not avoidable now if you want to have access to neat things, you can definitely slow things down and make your 'profile' less complete. Personally I go so far as to have one email for one product, and another email for another product, i even have a junk email.

You do you though. If none of that bothers you, let me know in 20 years.

[dyra55]

Originally posted by Exsilium Games:

Gog: no - no idea what that even is.

Good Old Games, another popular game selling platform that releases a lot of games DRM-Free
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOG.com
https://www.gog.com/en/

Originally posted by Exsilium Games:

Microsoft: No

If you use newer versions of Windows like 10 or 11 it makes you create or use an existing microsoft account, so there's a good chance anyone playing on windows likely has one, even if they use it only to boot into windows

Originally posted by Exsilium Games:

The problem with publishers requiring accounts is that can be used, if not now, later to sell you Games as a Service, something the industry has been pushing for a long time....

It's been a thing for a while now, a lot of popular MMOs and such are already "Games as a Service" and a lot of games that are still continuously being updated with new content, skins, battlepasses and microtransactions like for example:
League of Legends, Rainbow Six Siege, Fortnite, Destiny 2 and even Helldivers 2 are games as a service that don't let you play without being connected to their services and may one day stop working altogether if they decide to do that

[Exsilium Games]

Originally posted by dyra55:

Originally posted by Exsilium Games:

Microsoft: No

If you use newer versions of Windows like 10 or 11 it makes you create or use an existing microsoft account, so there's a good chance anyone playing on windows likely has one, even if they use it only to boot into windows

There is a way to install Windows 11 without an account. Its convoluted but basically you tell the installer that you dont have internet and then it creates a 'local' user account instead of a remote one.

You can avoid any Windows 10 requirement by selecting the KB to not install that puts that new requirement in.

[SupaPlayer]

Sony decided not to go through with the account linking about 8 months ago now, devs released an update announcement on it back when it happened