Nah, they said sorry, they didn’t do anything different. They still restricted the purchase regions of the game to those that can get PSN. I expect a return of the PSN requirement for Helldivers 2 eventually.

The ports itself are good. It’s the suits are fucking shit up. Typical capitalism enshittification story.

Wow, I was going to argue by bringing up the atrocious performance of The Last of Us, but looking at reviews, it seems all its major issues got fixed.

We are talking about the company that installed rootkit back in the age of CDs.

I think they are actually asking, “if this is such an obviously stupid move, and there aren’t enough stupid people to buy the game, why would Sony even bother working on this?”.

Either the costs were incredibly low, or they figure they will profit off the data they collect enough to make up for it, in my opinion.

I’ve got a bat. It may take a few tries, and you might forget some other things, but you get what you pay for.

It requests it but doesn’t require it. True, you need to select “limited” or “full” but you could just disable the network or firewall it. I run it in a container without networking on linux mint and it works perfectly.

Game still requires either full or limited data collection in order to play. It apparently asks you for permission after the intro cutscene.