I just wonder if they'll leave it at this or find a way to roll it out slowly and silently in some places anyway. I certainly hope they genuinly learned from this.

Ehhh, I think its probably code for

"We want to try to convince you that this was unintentional and not a calculated business decision that was made with the objective of profit at your expense.

We want you to believe that our multi-billion dollar company did not foresee this even though we have hundreds, if not thousands, of business analysts who work for us globally who definitely suggested this was a possibility in the first 10 minutes of account linking on PC after 4 months being suggested internally.

Also our PR people probably suggested it as a possibility.

Also our legal team probably suggested it as a possibility.

But even though we analyze the industry and the market and the users, and the business, and the case studies, and the marketing, and the games constantly, not stop, day and night, globally; please believe us that we are still trying to learn whats best for PC teehee.

In the future, we will be sure to try to force you into account linking from the beginning with any future release.

Please ignore our transgressions and instead give us money. Goodbye"

I mean $107 million in Steam sales within 2 months is something worth it for Sony to put up with a whiny playerbase. If there's something I know Sony likes, it's more money. I doubt they will pass up the opportunity to collect money from PC gamers, and digging their heels letting players develop grudges against them were going to hurt Sony's future sales figures all around than what they would have benefited from PSN integration.

You know, part of me wants to believe there was actually nothing malicious going on here and when this all went down some guy at Sony was just very surprised this turned out to be a big deal and wa just kinda like "if it matters that much to you we just won't do it I guess, idc."

After Bungie signed a deal with Activision, Marty O Donald talked about treating the goose right and itll lay golden eggs, and an activision dev said cooked goose is good too.

If they tried it ones, they'll try it twos.

FTFY

Damn right. There are approximately infinity other games to play, they had their chance.

Yeah, this and the completely over-the-top kernel level anticheat rootkit for a PvE game really turned me off.

I mean they could and it would actually hurt the PSN players more than the PC players. Of course that's well within their right but would be pretty stupid and we all know how Sony executives are at this point.