It’s like the Helldivers 2 incident, but for a single-player game, there’s no excuse.

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Funny, I don’t remember PC gamers flipping out when they had to make UPlay accounts and Rockstar Social Club accounts to play those games on Steam. Those were single player as well.

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I was one of those people flipping out about the Rockstar Social Club and Ubisoft Connect crap. There’s zero need to force additional DRM on paying customers. We might not have all been vocal but we were around.

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Considering the requirement doesn’t impact me personally as I have an account. I do understand part of the backlash. Requiring players to sign up to an account for a single player game that then asks you for to upload your government ID is kinda a bit much. I’d be sour too if I had to do likewise.

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“Review Bombing” implies these aren’t legitimate reviews from miltiple real peoples.

Sony is just selling an inferior product, that should be the headline.

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Exactly.

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Remember when this happened with Helldivers and a bunch of people switched their review back from negative to positive when Sony backed off the requirement? Because they’d “learned their lesson”? Lol

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Sony still left the rootkit in the game, though. I think Helldivers 2 might still be active if not for that.

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G*mers are some of the most entitled, weak-willed people in existence.

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I think this will end with playstation making yet another launcher on PC. No paying Gabe a cut, PSN all they want, tight review control. Really hope it doesn’t come to that.

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Then they can join the list of ‘AAA’ game publishers that have had to eat crow and (re)release on steam after their own launchers flopped horribly.

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I hope it does. Then they can fuck off and die nameless, cause I’m not buying it if it’s not on steam or gog, and I’ve recently aso begun not buying it if it requires a PSN account. Take your shitty business practices and stuff them up your console’s ass.

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As it should.

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