Can you imagine a PS5, Switch or XBOX game that required a Steam account in order to play?
I think if I wanted to play EA games online back in the day on PS3 I had to make an account and sign in and I remember how annoying as shit it was trying to type in a password and email with a controller.
I could, it’s not that difficult to imagine. Lots of companies have mandated their own account systems for console games, too.
Bunch of pc games out there force you to set up an account with the studio, what are you talking about? This studio happens to be Sony. If HL3 ever releases for console i guarantee that you will need a steam email
If Valve would release Deadlock for any of those… they would need to.
Another game to not buy.
They really are helping my wallet… so much less temptation
I’ve already waited for years, I can wait some more for the no login pirate version
Yep. No thanks. Games without online components should have one account to verify and store a copy of the game including saves, etc. That is Steam in this case. If you buy through Steam other accounts should be optional when you want to play online. I’m through with this garbage for offline games.
Sony’s white-knuckle grip on their platform is an exciting hint of things to come.
They’ve been cosplaying the PS2 era since about 2005. That’s when it became evident to everyone that games can just exist, and be for every platform, so long as the studio has a bit more money and time. Previously your game was for one gizmo, and you might hire some third party to follow up and coerce it onto another gizmo. Nowadays everything’s a computer and all computers work basically the same way. There’s details. There’s exceptions. But anything that doesn’t work the normal way becomes irrelevant.
This nonsense is the only thing Sony can do to pretend Playstation is anything more than a brand name. Microsoft has stopped pretending and it’s weirding people out. Nintendo had a unique feature for their gizmo, as they do, but now they’re competing with Valve - on hardware - and their follow-up is probably a merely numeric upgrade.
There are no platforms anymore. To consumers, there is nothing but software and obstacles.
Curious how the version you download for free doesn’t have this requirement…
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By pirating it
They never learn.
Yeah I think we all saw that coming after God of War.
And all the other games. HD2 is the only one where they ended up going back on it, a few days later it was announced that it would be a requirement for Ghost of Tsushima but no one cared anymore because “Not a requirement for HD2! Yay!”
A lot of the pushback on HD2 was because they initially didn’t require an account, then tried to force it on everyone. It would have locked out a lot of players who had already bought the game, but PSN wasn’t available in their region.
I always play Doom Eternal offline so I don’t have to sign into some bullshit account I don’t want.
And rockstar games require a rockstar account. Ubisoft requires an Ubisoft account. Microsoft requires an Xbox account … For single player games too, at least one login.
Sony is late to the game but this complaint rings hollow to me when we only target them.
They all want the social side, and to various degrees add social and other features. With varying degrees of success too.
Already have one.
the half of us
I have one, but remembering the password and all that is too much effort.
I will refuse to buy any game that is PSN or windows only.
They’re free to make you know
One big issue is not every country is allowed to make a PS account, which essentially region locks a singleplayer only game. It should be optional, at least.
