Well, this was bound to happen. In just a matter of days, a mod surfaced for God of War: Ragnarok that removes its PSN account requirement.
For those unaware, God of War: Ragnarok requires a PSN account. This is a bummer as this is a single-player title. And, to the surprise of no one, the game is fully functional without one.
So, what does this mod do? Well, it fully strips the PlayStation PC SDK runtime requirement for God of War Ragnarok. As such, it will allow everyone to play and enjoy it.
All you have to do is download the mod from here, copy the version.dll and PsPcSdk.dll to the game folder, and then launch the game. And that is.
What’s funny here is that due to this PSN account requirement, Sony has blocked the game in a lot of countries. Not only that but the game has already been cracked. So, I have to ask again. What was the point of it? Was it so that it could push some PC gamers towards piracy? Because right now, without this mod, the pirated version is more user-friendly than the Steam version.
Ironically, Sony may start implementing Denuvo in its PC releases. I mean, that’s the best way to protect its games and reinforce the PSN account requirement. It sucks and it’s anti-consumer. But, that’s where things may be heading.
Anyway, a couple of days ago, Jetpack Interactive released a new update for God of War: Ragnarok. That patch fixed the DLSS 3 Frame Generation issues we had. I’ve tried the latest version of GoW: Ragnarok and DLSS 3 FG works now on our NVIDIA RTX 4090. Performance also seemed to be on par with AMD FSR 3.1 FG.
God of War: Ragnarok is a really polished game on PC. This game can run smoothly on a wide range of PC configurations. So, kudos to Jetpack Interactive.
Have fun!
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They didn't learn from the controversy this requirement made with Helldivers 2 then.
Oh they did learn, it is the coonsumers who never learn.
Good point!
How quickly will this get patched, I wonder?
That doesn't really matter. Since it's not an online game the user can just not install the update.
You can't launch a game on Steam without updating.
Offline mode. You absolutely can.
How?
Disable automatic updates for anything you don’t want updated, switch steam to offline mode before playing it. Or if you don’t want to switch to offline you can edit update manifests to spoof the desired version.
Lol, you don't need offline mode, Steam supports using different builds, else would be a pain to debug issues with Steamworks.
Depends on whether the publisher enables it or not, not all games support downpatching through steam. Meanwhile every non-online game can suspend updates indefinitely via offline mode.
There nothing for the Publisher to enable, this is a Steam feature, as long as you have a game license you can download any manifest from the depots you have access to.
And Steam also supports online features on all those manifests, if the Developers host their own servers they in their right to pull the plug on older versions.
Most people don't know how to prevent updates from installing on Steam, and most people aren't going to want to have to play games while Steam is in offline mode.
Waiting for the DEI removal mod.
Waiting for the cut the game size in half mod. Would be nice if they could make downgrade mods that reduces texture size, cut unecessary bloat, if any mod sees this comment, try it out.
In some repacks they remove the 4k textures and put then as optional download.
But you're right, mf devs don't give a flying fvck about compression these days.
Those are quite rare, and i imagine it was the devs who released high res textures later.
I don't think this mod is necessary. I've played the game and was not asked to sign into my PSN account once.
Maybe it depends on what country you are in?
If you already have tied your Steam account to PSN then it does it automatically in most cases
sony is f*cking egregrious, glad someone modded that PSN account sh*te out
I tought the crack already solved that…
I know its cracked and i know it is modded out, my point is that I think its f*cked up that Sony would implement the PSN account for their single player games.
less than half peak players than the original, space marine 2 has outsold this game 4 times.
completely different type of game but ok.
Yes. You are right. One game is manly and one is not.
Are you talking about Space Marine 2? I mean, it would be nice not having a old hag woman drill sergeant in the first half of the game, or hearing high pitched female soldiers every time you fight alongside normal marines, but that's just me.
The first one was less generous in putting woman on the front, it was still lauded as feminist at the time, proof that right wingers don't learn anything and in fact keep adapting to worse conditions while ALSO praising the worse conditions as "manly".
The owner of Saber cries about games shoving morality down our throats but he still shoves down modern western aesthetics down our throats, how curious. Maybe he was being genuinge, but it is concerning how he still caves to western based priors like ugly unpleasant woman in combat roles (in the first game at least the token female looked half decent).
Also, the ultramarine squad is more multiracial, in other words, they got the amerimutt treatment, it would be less insulting if they made all ultramarines black, at least it would be more authentic.
In other news, i recall a troon being in development and some people pointed it out, not sure what "she" brought to the game.
Also one is a 2 year old port, but who cares about context?
Sony's fault when you think about it. 1 year exclusivity is enough.
It’s their prerogative if they want less sales, they have consoles to sell after all.
Striking the iron while it's hot I see.
I wonder how many units of TLOU Part II they are selling at this point.
It's a 4 year old game, so i imagine not much, but it still sold 10 million which is quite a lot for a lesbian teenage drama with a mostly male audience.
10 million. Crazy for something like that when you think about it.
First TLOU was a good game, NGL.
TLOU2 would be a flop as a stand alone entry, which is precisely the reason they came out of the closet on the sequel (and first game DLC).
not really both are third person shoulder camera action games that you slaughter monsters.
Maybe,but no matter how much hate Sony gets,their playerbase is larger.
God of War Ragnarok sold 15mil units(Ps4+PS5) while Space Marine 2 sits at only 2 mil(aprox)…google say.
Also more people finished God of War Ragnarok on Consoles than Space Marine 2 on consoles(obvious,seeing the sell nr's)…but.
On Playstation,there is trophy system,what that does with a "%" emblem,is showing you a percentage based on the copies sold vs how many finished/achieved that trophy.
Let's say "a game" gets launched and is sold only 1000 copies and every owner completed the main game,results in a 100% ratio,of only half completed the game =50% etc.
So as today,based on how many copies sold each game GOWR vs Space Marine 2,god of war has better
On PC you cannot do such deductions because you cannot track progression from every platform(Steam,Epic etc) or you can but is tedious.
On PS and maybe Xbox is easy,you go to trophy section of said game and see.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/1625979569877bfdab16109aca0f13f4db021812f5cb433d121b9d903dcf7630.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/7d040dd5184ec1440bc3e4f8068294777e1fe9bb30b29fb6d7380885905501f8.jpg
Here are some bonus stats.
Ac Black Flag on Ps4 has only a 25% completion rate(myself included by not finishing it)
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/82e5c237a5c9a1f9578188b88a84da79ccf47fa1d6a978679a015b04b37c79f5.jpg
While TLOU2 remastered and original ps4 release.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e502ab397c0ac9eb2bc1258cb7803b0de66d0908c661f0c801d7344190a918d9.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a92c3039f22a4daecc31c0726524d2bf5c7d158c7cf78614d785ccb50b54a513.jpg
These statistics are relevant for Sony consoles only and based on how many copies sold(no matter if GOW sold more)
AC Odyssey(viewed as one of the worst in the bunch after Valhalla) has close ratio to Space Marine 2.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b2c5a1a98682c6d9173885ec31e3e819a654f8943388d5c2d70065cc4baec9ce.jpg
I'm not defending Sony,i'm saying that i don't think there is a Game that has at least 70% ratio(1mil boughts=700k finished the damn game) and you say Space Marine 2 did outsold 4 times GoWR…on consoles(sony)at least is a nope,on PC i don't know how to track.
Good analysis, a lot of people turns their hate into cope and delusion.
Dirka Dirka is a right wing slop account who post dubious info and fake stuff most of the time. There is estimated 241.9 k PC owners of GoW ragnarock by Gamalytic, which is a respectable number considering how old the port is (2 year old), but slop accounts don't care about context. It is deliberate that he doesn't compare Space Marines 2 with the PS5/PS4 sales of GoWR, all he does is LIE.
Funny how he uses same smear techniques of the journalists he hates: Ignoring context, only clarifying after being called out, typical weasel.
Bloody hell, mate!
Any chance we're getting a movie version?
sony fanboys like their trash movie games, yes i know. We are not talking about sony, just like uncharted 4 this floped on pc.
True,every PS exclusive that ended on PC not performed as on Playstation,because were not launched at same date and maybe because PC playerbase don’t like “movie games” as much.
Everyone with it’s taste.
Anyway,in conclusion,these PC releases for PS exclusives are not to satisfy Sony,they made money from exclusivity,they know PC playerbase is limited.
What is strange,even after today’s State of Play,no Bloodborne PC or PS5 update(there are many who want that) and RDR2 PS5 update.
Uncharted 4 on Playstation was a hit,on PC i don’t know and don’t care because when it released on PC i already finished it on PS4 back in the day(maybe this is another reason why ps exclusives ported on PC flop,people already finished them).
Boosting the PSN account numbers worth more than the sales they loose from some counties.
F off Sony. They now do this constantly, require PSN accounts the first month to get people to subscribe to Sony Cloud Gaming or other bs. And then removing the requirement to increase review scores.
F off shady Sony.
EDF 6 still has epig login req months after it released but the repacks had a preinstalled bypass. Prob the repacks have that default of this game idk not interested in a movie game sequel to a mediocre first one totally forgettable. They should pay us for our info as it's worth money for sure, but our gov overlords are in on it, not concerned, dooshes.
Epic login is just for crossplay, there is zero downside in making an epic account you could even get a free game for your trouble.
even sp offline campaign mode reqs login as well, this is from experience w tenoke version before the "fix" so nope. The repack had the fix in there from fg, long finished the offline campaign and both dlcs. The repack fixed it 2 days after release, still not fixed after devs said they'd look into it what 2 months ago?
Epic Login is optional, and only required for Crossplay.
Kudos for Sony in not putting Denuvo drm, which is worse than forcing a PSN account, but i suspect they do this so a great number of players can experience their cinematic gayness. How ironic would be if they insert DRM when finally porting Bloodborne?
"so a great number of players can experience their cinematic gayness"
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…
Shame they didnt add it to concord… license fees would still rack up even after a full round of refunds!
The game was multiplayer only, i guess it would be redundant?
It could be utilized to make cheats/anti-cheat software bypass/mods etc harder too so would not be surprised if its been used in pure multiplayer games too (even where the company owns the servers), can't think of a title or could be wrong, but it could potentially be utilized in such manner too rather than just delay "free copies"
yep for honor still has denuvo.
I would also suggest moving the PSN SDK folder to your desktop so it doesn't still try to run in the background. Since I didn't intend to play the online part of Ghost of Tsushima I removed that folder to stabilize the game and never experienced crashing or the game slowing down after playing a couple of hours like a lot of people did.
Just move the folder to your desktop after installing this mod and try it and if the game runs fine without it then you can delete it and if it doesn't then just move it back
So it seems they want to strong arm the PSN forced account approach… sure np… ill just as strongly keep my money in the wallet – Np!
On a side note. If soyny keep producing woke slop like concord etc i will certainly keep my money and they they can add denuvo 10 times for all i care to sink their ship even faster, at that point they end up doing 96% of the gamer's a favor anyway. Less slop to wade through to get to the good stuff!
So it seems they want to strong arm the PSN forced account approach… sure np… ill just as strongly keep my money in the wallet – Np!
On a side note. If soyny keep producing woke slop like concord etc i will certainly keep my money and they they can add denuvo 10 times for all i care to sink their ship even faster, at that point they end up doing 96% of the gamer's a favor anyway. Less slop to wade through to get to the good stuff!
I respect Concord devs for being overtly leftist, i would say it would take balls for them to adopt that stance, but it was mostly delusion that they tought most of the public where into that stuff. Similar to CliffyB and his Lawnbreakers mega flop, i think those are goyim devs who don't know how to read the room, rule number 1 of woke economics: You don't create, you infect a sucessful franchise.
The psn removel is avalible on github