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

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    2 months ago

    Its a huge problem, for a variety of reasons.

    1. It means Sony won’t sell the game in countries where they don’t allow PSN accounts.

    2. Their servers suck ass. I’m literally unable to play this game, even if I wanted to, because I get one generic server error after another when trying to make an account. This is the same reason it was originally removed from Helldivers 2.

    3. Sony has a horrific track record of data breaches.

    4. They’re collecting and selling data about you for profit.

    5. Its a completely arbitrary and anti-consumer requirement that has zero benefits to you as the consumer.

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      2 months ago
      1. It means Sony won’t sell the game in countries where they don’t allow PSN accounts.

      That isn’t a problem for all the users that review the game though.

      1. Their servers suck ass. I’m literally unable to play this game, even if I wanted to, because I get one generic server error after another when trying to make an account. This is the same reason it was originally removed from Helldivers 2.

      I don’t know about that since I have never connected my PSN account. The only game I own which supports it is Ghost of Tsushima and I haven’t connected my account to that game.

      1. Sony has a horrific track record of data breaches.

      2. They’re collecting and selling data about you for profit.

      3. Its a completely arbitrary and anti-consumer requirement that has zero benefits to you as the consumer.

      Fair enough but I don’t think it’s actively anti consumer, I place that bar higher than this.

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        2 months ago

        Sony has a horrific track record of data breaches.

        They’re collecting and selling data about you for profit.

        I place that bar higher than this.

        For my own personal amusement, what else would they have to do to meet the level your personal anti-consumer bar is set at?

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          2 months ago

          That’s true. It’s not user-friendly or pro-consumer.