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[-] veroxii@aussie.zone 39 points 5 months ago

I think it's because PC gamers are often anti console so having to sign up to PSN and you don't even own a PlayStation feels very wrong.

It's a branding issue. If they required you to have an "Arrowhead Network" account login no-one would bat an eye... Even if it was just rebadged PSN.

[-] helenslunch@feddit.nl 11 points 5 months ago

Yeah but it's been said before: this is not the 1st or the 14th game to required 3rd party fuckin' accounts for no reason and received very few complaints.

[-] stardust@lemmy.ca 13 points 5 months ago

Usually it's forced at launch so if people don't like it they can refund immediately. This is an odd situation where it went from being skippable to suddenly a requirement. People got used to not needing another account for the game.9

[-] helenslunch@feddit.nl 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

This is an odd situation where it went from being skippable to suddenly a requirement.

Not entirely accurate. It was forced at launch. Then they made it skippable. Now it's just being required again.

[-] stardust@lemmy.ca 10 points 5 months ago

If people could play without it then it wasn't required. Especially if the majority of the time the game has been active it hasn't been. So in the eyes of consumers it wasn't required. EULAs or whatever is only something companies clutch onto.

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