Now here is a pleasant surprise. Sony has just announced that Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered, The Last of Us Part II Remastered & God of War Ragnarok will no longer require a PSN account.
I don’t know what happened but it appears that Sony is finally listening to the PC crowd. For almost a year, PC gamers have been very vocal about the PSN requirement.
At first, Sony tried to force PSN to all of its titles. From the looks of it, though, this has backfired. And now, Sony will make PSN account optional in the aforementioned games.
My guess is that future Sony games will not have a mandatory PSN requirement. This is great news for all PC gamers. After all, due to this restriction, all of Sony’s PC titles were not available in multiple countries.
Whether this move will boost the sales of Sony’s PC release remains to be seen.
Sony has also confirmed that Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 will be released tomorrow. I’m mentioning this because the game is still not available for pre-orders. Not only that but we still haven’t gotten our hands on its PC requirements.
So there you have it. This is a big win for PC gamers. It’s also one of the rare cases in which a publisher has acknowledged its mistake and backpedaled. Now imagine if instead of a PSN account, Sony implements Denuvo in all of its PC games. Man, that will be hilarious.
Stay tuned for more!
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Bad move from Sony, you don't concede to PeeC gamers.
They will start making absurd demands.
Good move from ((($oyny))), the world doesn't revolve around PoS gaymers.
They did a good move on this one, so that it makes pirating their gaymes even easier.
Monkeypox
underrated
Drones and TDS will always go together.
It turns out that banning 70% of the world was a bad idea for business.
Who would've thought?!
70%? More like 90% of the world's countries! It was a crazy business move.
This came after the news that they canceled a lot of live service games. I might be wrong, but I think the PSN login requirement was meant to push those players toward other Sony online games. Now that the live service games are canceled, the PSN login requirement was dropped too.
Makes sense.
makes logical sense
Loved it when their games were available on GOG
They still are, they just haven't added their newer releases to GOG as well.
Now remove the requirement for every other game.
Eat sh*t Soyny, I won't cheer for you just because you did what you were supposed to.
They didn't either A. already did or B. never had it in the first place. Helldivers 2? Removed. Ghosts of Tsuchima? Never needed it for the SP, only some MP component that nobody cares about.
Wait Sony doing something good for once, granted they also created the issue but a step in the right direction is better than nothing, now if only I could get a bloodborne pc port/remaster my life would be complete
gone, almost like it was faff that wasn't technically important
We won boys
Damn sony finally listened… maybe next theyll finally stop doing sh**ty live service games nobody wants?
They've cancelled like 8 of them, so yes.
The 4 minute time you need to make an account doesn't worth losing to start such big load of cräp!
Heh. Those are still not available in my region…
>Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered, The Last of Us Part II Remastered & God of War Ragnarok
A slate of utter trash. Those are not games but propaganda pieces which turn you into a soy. It's insulting to have these on PC in the first place.
I just beat ragnarok what propaganda did it have?
Spiderman co-starred a black latino, Horizon starred a ginger girl, LoU starred a lesbian, and GoW starred an ashy black man with dwarves.
I don't think the PC master race was the master race he meant to sign up for haha.
ashy black man you mean kratos? he’s not black though.
It was a deep joke haha. Kratos is cursed to be covered in the ashes of his family, and the voice actor is black. The voice actor is the guy who played the alien dude from Stargate SG1.
SG1 was a great show. amanda tapping was a sexy woman.
Yes, they are propganda pieces, but they actually more like turn you into a hateful and ignorant high school-sounding jock. 😀
Nintendo and Xbox are better moral figures because they don't nickel and dime like Sony or Valve and preach compassion and intelligance filled patience and understanding.
Wonder if this was always planned but they had other priorities. Maybe it was just a matter of time for them to sort stuff on back end so that they were 100% sure games could work broadly (not just for specific titles) without a PSN account, but they didn't want to start that work before ensuring PC ports were a success in the first place. Who knows what mess of features made sense to tie to PSN prior to PC porting and now needed to be addressed. Definitely not as easy as just unchecking a box.
I wonder how trophies will be addressed. Maybe they'll have offline trophies that sync if you ever choose to connect to PSN, or maybe they'll just scrap them if not connected to PSN so games won't have unexpected errors while trying to perform PSN trophy logic.
What win? I cant even open spiderman steam page in browser…