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This is why exclusives are bad, IMO. Not that the game can’t be great but this is what comes with it. Companies trying to sell their product. Imagine if every PC game in Steam advertised and required a Steam Deck login.

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I’m not sure I get the rationale of having accounts for a single player game even from a corporate suit perspective. They already have your email and other details about you what is the point of an account?

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They can turn off the game when they choose to.

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Once the account has been made, the barrier to more services is lowered.

PlayStation is likely going to want to make their own store on PC at some point.

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Yup, took this off my wishlist as soon as I saw the requirement in the store. At least steam warns you about it. I would love to play this game but there’s so many other great games to play it doesn’t feel like much of a loss for me.

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I’m glad I played through this on the PS4. I’m tired of Sony’s bullshit data hoarding anti-consumer antics.

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So I bought it knowing I had to make an account. I knew I was caving to a shitty requirement. Before you even get to a main menu the game unceremoniously launches your browser while sitting at a black screen. On your browser you are expected to sign into your Playstation® Account. I tried. I tried and tried. An error kept popping up stating “can’t connect to server.”

In that moment I decided on a refund. You want me to sign into an account for a single player game? Fine. I caved and I did, but their servers weren’t ready for a re-launch of a huge game to service a restriction Sony placed on themselves.

I’ll buy it again when there is a mod to remove the account requirement.

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That mod exists, it’s called piracy.

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I didn’t realize there were mods that could do that… What are some games that you’ve used this on?

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