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TommySoda, 5 miesięcy temu do games w Sony finally surrenders: PSN accounts will be 'optional' for games on Steam, but they'll give you free stuff if you sign up

And then they wait for everyone to buy their games before they bring it back. Not saying it will happen. Just that it might.

Lost_My_Mind, 5 miesięcy temu

I’m not saying I will eat this double cheeseburger…but I might.

Pay no attention to my hungry stomach, or my staring gaze at this delicious double cheeseburger with just the perfect balance of meat to cheese ratio. Melting in almost a gooey waterfall down the sides of these patties. With just a hint of ketchup at the top, and topped with lettuce to give it a crunch.

I’m not saying if I will eat this double cheeseburger…but I might.

bahbah23, 5 miesięcy temu do games w Sony finally surrenders: PSN accounts will be 'optional' for games on Steam, but they'll give you free stuff if you sign up

No such thing as free stuff.

flux, 5 miesięcy temu do games w Sony finally surrenders: PSN accounts will be 'optional' for games on Steam, but they'll give you free stuff if you sign up

I’m OK with buying now based on the fact they reversed this. They did what I wanted and the reason I waited to buy so I’ll hold up my end. They should be happy people are even buying the games. If they ever change this policy they are other options. I’d love to see what the sales numbers are from before and after the requirement. I’m guessing it wasn’t just the articles but actual decline in sales.

Screen_Shatter, 5 miesięcy temu do games w Sony finally surrenders: PSN accounts will be 'optional' for games on Steam, but they'll give you free stuff if you sign up

Cool, I’ve been wanting to play the new god of war but passed on it because of this bullshit. Time to put it back on my wishlist and … wait some more for a sale, which is never much of a discount with Sony

burgersc12, 5 miesięcy temu do games w Sony finally surrenders: PSN accounts will be 'optional' for games on Steam, but they'll give you free stuff if you sign up

It’s easy, do not buy games from the billionaire companies who do not care about you. They are gonna do whatever is necessary to make money off of you, that’s how they became billion dollar companies in the first place.

rayquetzalcoatl, 5 miesięcy temu do games w Sony finally surrenders: PSN accounts will be 'optional' for games on Steam, but they'll give you free stuff if you sign up

This happened with Helldivers, everybody forgave them and immediately rewarded them by continuing to play/buy, and then they turned around and stuck PSN account requirements on a tonne of other games. Looking forward to the same cycle happening again very soon 🫡

Kelly, 5 miesięcy temu

An account for PlayStation Network will become optional for these titles on PC.

blog.playstation.com/…/new-in-game-content-incent…

This is very explicitly not making any promises beyond these 4 titles. :\

Duamerthrax, 5 miesięcy temu

I was gonna try HD2 when I upgraded my machine, but swore it off when that shit happened.

rayquetzalcoatl, 5 miesięcy temu

Good choice. I haven’t really kept up with new releases for a few years as the mainstream of the industry started to feel more and more like a scam, but I wonder if anybody’s ever done studies comparing the percentage of people with short term memory issues, and the percentage of people who play video games – because video game consumers seem to forget getting screwed over and constantly get surprised when they reward bad behaviour lol

technomad, 5 miesięcy temu do games w Sony finally surrenders: PSN accounts will be 'optional' for games on Steam, but they'll give you free stuff if you sign up

Awesome! I will actually consider purchasing them now.

Great job for those of you that took a stance against this! Voting with your wallet works.

#fuckanticonsumerpractices

domi, 5 miesięcy temu do games w Sony finally surrenders: PSN accounts will be 'optional' for games on Steam, but they'll give you free stuff if you sign up

I’m surprised they did this. Would have assumed most people don’t care and we were getting a PC PSN launcher very soon.

socsa, 5 miesięcy temu

I assume we still will and it will just lean more carrot than stick in terms of offering discounts and bonus items.

Zahille7, 5 miesięcy temu do games w Sony finally surrenders: PSN accounts will be 'optional' for games on Steam, but they'll give you free stuff if you sign up

Nice. Just in time for me to consider buying it even more.

Consider

Evotech, 5 miesięcy temu do games w Sony finally surrenders: PSN accounts will be 'optional' for games on Steam, but they'll give you free stuff if you sign up

Smart tbh, just “give” them decent skin and most people will not hesitate

reev, 5 miesięcy temu

I honestly don’t know how a company that’s supposed to know the industry took this long to figure it out. They’ve been giving people fortnite skins for a long time, they know the bar is super low for people to get super excited about changes instead of antagonizing them.

noxypaws, 5 miesięcy temu do games w Sony finally surrenders: PSN accounts will be 'optional' for games on Steam, but they'll give you free stuff if you sign up

That’s not exactly surrendering. It’s still scummy. But it’s less objectionable, at least.

MonkderVierte, 5 miesięcy temu do games w Sony finally surrenders: PSN accounts will be 'optional' for games on Steam, but they'll give you free stuff if you sign up

Patient gamers be like: look, this is what they need to do to emulate a fraction of our power.

Aceticon, 5 miesięcy temu do games w Sony finally surrenders: PSN accounts will be 'optional' for games on Steam, but they'll give you free stuff if you sign up

If there’s one thing that Sony’s transition from a quality electronics company to a copyright-heavy media-driven pro-DMCA-lobbying company back in then 00s has taught me it’s to “Never, ever trust Sony”.

MyNameIsIgglePiggle, 5 miesięcy temu

To be fair Sony may have produced quality electronics but their tactics have always been anti consumer.

They always insist on proprietary everything and try to get first mover advantage for each new iteration of tech and then lock the market down. The problem is they hold out for so long with their proprietary formats that it makes their products unattractive. Case in point their memory cards.

Requiring a psn account is just another anti consumer control tactic by the company.

Hugin, 5 miesięcy temu

Having dealt with Sony for years as a engineer their non consumer hardware is a true pain. Trying to interface with some of their ccd image sensors was some of the most PITA integration i’ve ever dealt with.

explodicle, 5 miesięcy temu

Never forget when they put a rootkit on their CDs that automatically installed malware.

ExtremeDullard, 5 miesięcy temu do gaming w 52-year-old 'Super Mario' supermarket in Costa Rica wins unlikely victory against the Nintendo lawyers: "He is Don Mario, he's my dad"

I note that Nintendo had the good sense not to come after Mangione for trademark infringement…

stargazingpenguin, 5 miesięcy temu do gaming w 52-year-old 'Super Mario' supermarket in Costa Rica wins unlikely victory against the Nintendo lawyers: "He is Don Mario, he's my dad"

I’m happy to see they won! It’s amazing how low Nintendo can go.