You'll Need A Microsoft Account To Play Sea Of Thieves On PS5

The official PlayStation Store page for Sea of Thieves has confirmed the requirement of a Microsoft account to play the game.

[FPSRUSSIA]

ill be picking up Hi fi rush but this will be a pass if i need a Microsoft account to play it.

[Markdn]

Unfortunately I have an xbox account but won't be buying or playing any of the 4 games on offers as they were meh when I played them on my series x when I owned one

[VenomUK]

If I remember correctly, the last big Minecraft cross-play update on PS4 required users to enter their Microsoft Account details. Not such a big deal when EA and Ubisoft do the same.

If Call of Duty 2024 starts asking for Microsoft account details from PlayStation players then come January 2025 Microsoft will be able to report that it added another 15 million Microsoft accounts to the Xbox ecosystem!

[Ironmike]

Yeah course u did

[Andrew336]

You have a Microsoft account*

[PapaBop]

Honestly doesn't everyone between a certain age have one? Before social media, we were all using msn messenger.

[DarXyde]

VenomUK,

I think it is a big deal, personally.

That's one reason I avoid EA and Ubisoft games (aside from them largely being uninspired). I'm not creating an account and agreeing to some lengthy ToS.

Everyone's different, but yeah. If I was interested in getting it (I'm not), that's an immediate turnoff.

[VenomUK]

@DarXyde Fair enough you don’t want to create another account, I get it. It doesn’t seem such a big deal to me as I already have a Hotmail account which I’ve had for many years. To be fair, I prefer not to have to create an account just to play a new game. It seems that the biggest publishers do this as they want a direct’relationship’ with their customers, in other words access to their contact details and player telemetry.

[Cacabunga]

Just made a meh game even more meh..

[Obscure_Observer]

"ill be picking up Hi fi rush but this will be a pass if i need a Microsoft account to play it."

Lol

It´s a Microsofts Live Service game running on Microsoft´s Azure servers and yet, somehow, you were expecting Sony to be the one running the show!? Smdh.

If you hate Microsoft this bad, I suggest you to stay away from their games because once you buy Hi-Fi Rush you´ll be filling their pockets just the same.

[Angyobangyo]

"I suggest you to stay away from their games because once you buy Hi-Fi Rush you´ll be filling their pockets just the same." Such a dull take. Meanwhile Sony is getting their 30% cut means nothing to you. Brain-dead tribalism at its densest.

[ironmonkey]

I'm sure alot will. Compared to Sony games these are sub par. Sub sub par.

[Crows90]

Dude...a Microsoft account is needed for a PC these days...it's more of a Windows account.

[Dandizzle]

no its not

[Profchaos]

Windows is a operating system on a PC while a Microsoft account can be used against the pc but also their cloud services like office 365, windows 365, entra b2c,one drive and ofcourse the Xbox your Microsoft account can be your identity anchor accross everything Microsoft related yes you use it on your PC (which is still optional btw) but it goes further.

You don't need to use a Microsoft account on your PC if you don't want to just set it up and select use a local account you will likely be asked a few times to complete setup but it's not needed in any windows OS including 11.

[thesoftware730]

Really? It's that serious that you would skip an entire game because you have to make an account?

Wow, I must be very tolerant, because, I have an Ubisoft, EA, Nintendo, Sony, Capcom, blizzard, Square Enix, MS and other accounts.

[Chris12]

You cant reason with stupid.

[remixx116]

This is what a fanboy looks like, it aint that deep

[porkChop]

Isn't a Microsoft account just an email? Don't you already have one? Gonna be honest, that's a dumb reason to skip a game.

[TheEroica]

Good... If you can't take a moment to snag an account we don't need entitled rogue gamers playing glorious Microsoft games.

[purple101]

Ohh helllll no

https://twitter.com/elonmus...

[GamerRN]

It's a service game, if course you need an account

[Christopher]

Guy who owns big tech company doesn't understand tech. Yay?

[purple101]

been updated check the post below,. ms even trying to remove the workarounds.!

[Crows90]

Ummm ...guy who owns gaming company doesn't know how to make games....guy who owns a restaurant doesn't cook food....etc etc etc.

What is your point exactly?

[Christopher]

Just to note, btw, you can also disable them scraping your computer for AI data/advertising. It's annoying and they try to re-enable a lot, but it's there. Same thing as Google and Apple. All 3 are big on data scraping and force you to keep removing their 'new' checks that are just re-flavored 'old' checks.

Edit: Forgot, lots of Elon fans on here. Sadness.

[purple101]

you are sad? or sad people like Elon.?

[JackBNimble]

That's right you're a leftwing nut job.
What is really sad is the fact that if my opinion, positive or negative, of someone else , dosen't meet your expectations it's considered invalid or wrong.

So much for freedom...

[Christopher]

@JackBNimble: Let me get this straight: You go straight into name calling and then act the victim as if I name called you in a similar fashion? Quite impressive how you've set yourself up to be both the instigator and the victim right out the gate there. You should get into politics with that game of logic you have going there.

[DaCajun]

@jack
I've been a republican for over 50 years and you are what's wrong with the party these days. You and the rest of the Anti-christ(the orange Jesus) loving far right insane nuts. I bet you were a left winger just like the orange one until he ran for president in 2015, now you just spread hate and childish insults just like him.

[franwex]

If he sees it as a wrong and has the resources to correct it, why not do something? Maybe he can make his own OS to compete with MS and Google without needing to sign up?

[arkard]

Oh yeah. The guy that bought a social site and removed the ability to even see posts without having account, is going to create an OS that allows people to use it without signing up?

[KwietStorm_BLM]

That whole thread was not him not knowing how to work things out. He was just being an attention whore like he likes to do. He knew exactly it was an "issue" but wanted to make other people feel the same way by playing the ignorant role.

[Profchaos]

There's still options to skip this he just prefers going to twitter to complain about being inconvenienced

[Crows90]

Let's enroll everyone on auto pay without end and just put in a workaround to let people choose not no continue to be automatically charge after a subscription term ends...sounds like you like that kind of stuff.

[Profchaos]

@crows what are you on about? Microsoft accounts don't cost anything unless you subscribe to something like gamepass or office 365 you do not auto enrol or require payment details to get one.

Btw I also don't subscribe to any of their services outside of gamepass and I paid that 2 years in advance and I don't have auto renewal in place

[porkChop]

Uhh... Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't you need to sign into a Tesla account in order to even use the vehicle? And don't additional drivers also need to make their own accounts in order to drive your Tesla vehicle?

[Stuart5756]

Microsoft....

[Inverno]

You already need it for Minecraft so duh.

[Angyobangyo]

This conversation isn't about Minecraft.

[Inverno]

Last I checked Minecraft is owned by Microsoft which also requires a MS account, Sea of Thieves is also a MS game. It relates. Better still if you use Windows you're required to make a MS account, so most people in this comment section complaining most probably already have an account, ironic.

[Magatsuhi]

No thank you.

[lucian229]

lol who actually wants to play that trash? keep it off the ps5 plz

[ModsDoBetter]

Little Lucian doesn't like a game so no other PS gamers are allowed to enjoy it. Little Lucian has spoken for us all!

[YourMommySpoils]

And you saying you like that game hahaha

[ModsDoBetter]

Yes?
What are you getting at?

I'm not dictating where a game can and can't be sold and played like little Malfoy here.

[lucian229]

some people like junk games, doesn't mean we have to suffer.

being serious though, idc, more games is always good even if they bite; just yeaaaaah this game needing a sub and how bad it looks, meh, hope you enjoy though man

[Christopher]

Yeah, who wants more games on our platform? What a bad take.

[Traecy]

Agreed.

[Angyobangyo]

You're free to leave anytime. Just remember, Sony allowed and even trailed Life of Black Tiger on its platform.

[Fishy Fingers]

Shocker. Just like Steam.

[Hofstaderman]

I would need to actually buy this game to play it, nevermind having a MS account.

[ModsDoBetter]

That's sort of how non F2P games work, no?

[ModsDoBetter]

Lol at the downvotes because I don't sheep like half of team Blue here, a little truth doesn't hurt, eh?

Must be a boring life feeling blue all the time.

[Neonridr]

don't you need an xbox account to play Minecraft?

[mandf]

Yes

[ModsDoBetter]

Yes, so the outrage is just team blue people complaining because of this game's history with Xbox, that's all.

The same people who play COD, Siege, Fifa, Diablo, OW2, etc and have respective accounts are likely the ones feigning annoyance here.

[Angyobangyo]

Right, all the people that don't like this are the ones who play those games you mentioned. Trying to create some kind of strawman argument there.

[anast]

I hate it when games do this, Blizzard with Diablo 2 et al. They want to sell and manipulate gamer's information, it's sleezy stuff.

[MaximusPrime_]

Well, treat this like EA or Ubisoft. You'd need to create an account before you can play Need for Speed or Riders Republic. I'm not surprised that you'd need to create Microsoft account. I'm sure many people got Microsoft account for their Windows OS computer.

[Abnor_Mal]

This is what they meant that they consider PlayStation and Nintendo gamers part of the Xbox ecosystem. This way they can say that their games had high engagement and growth on their platform, and every screen that has Xbox games running on them.

[contra157]

Duh

[Crows90]

Not a big deal...most people already gave one because of windows

[ModsDoBetter]

The userbase here like to exaggerate the impact of things.

Either that or they're so incredibly immature and hate Microsoft and anything even remotely Xbox.

So much so, that using their (most likely) existing Microsoft account will cause them to shirt circuit at the mere suggestion of "betraying" their beloved plastic.

[Neonridr]

I'm sure all PS5 gamers use Linux to stick it to the man..

/s

[Barlos]

No

[Chris12]

Yes

[gold_drake]

aaaaaaand heres the catch.

lets hope we dont need ms accounts for other games

[Neonridr]

you need an MS account for windows, so chances are you already have one

[franwex]

Will my Activision/call of duty ID turn into a Microsoft account too?

[jwillj2k4]

Yes it will, what do you think would happen?

[franwex]

Nothing.

[jwillj2k4]

Moved

[jwillj2k4]

Interesting.. I suppose there could be a path in which having to create a Microsoft account to play COD significantly reduces either sales or actual play time.

But if I’m MS I’m taking that chance and putting every game I now own under a Microsoft account to bolster Xbox subscribers to 400m

[Knightofelemia]

Nah I am good if I want to play a game with pirate ships I'll haul out Black Flag or Rogue. I skipped Skull and Bones and this I'll skip. I'll be to busy playing Rebirth and a couple of other games like Grandblue.

[PhillyDonJawn]

Interesting

[neomahi]

https://www.vg247.com/the-p...

Brilliantly written article. Still, they blame Mattrick, which I don't anymore. He's one man in the many that killed the brand, they all were guilty and contributed INCLUDING PHIL SPENCER. HE WAS THE HEAD OF GAME STUDIOS AND WAS DOING LITTLE COASTING OFF THE SUCCESS OF 360. He had nothing going on. He's not the great Xbox Savior everyone thinks he is, he's a contributor to the disaster you see today, he was just the only one willing to stick around to try and clean up the mess, but he's just as clueless and no idea how to step into the ring to take on Sony and Nintendo that have a vision and have experience

[Christopher]

I mean, if that's the line in the sand some people want to draw... fine. If you have a Blizzard account, you now give the same game and user data to Microsoft. Same with a Bethesda account.

This is pretty normal in today's day and age, sad as it is. Don't make it about the account, just question if you are interested in the game or not. One way or another, Microsoft is buying your data anyway.

[Traecy]

No thanks.

[GhostScholar]

Now it begins to make sense…….Phil you sly dog you

[got_dam]

Need a playstation account to play helldivers 2 on PC. That's just the live service games work.

[Profchaos]

I'm at assuming this is because sea of thieves is a live service game and is built on cross play with Microsoft accounts operating as the identity anchor that ties everyone together.

Hi fi rush should have no requirement for this or at most be a optional this for cloud save or cross progression.

[tbagmonster]

here we go with people turning this into a big deal when you already need this for other ms games

[koga88]

You need an account for literally anything these days. You need a Nintendo account to mess with any of Nintendo's side games let alone Microsoft. You need a Steam account to play a Sony game on Steam, GoG, Epic, etc. God forbid people have to make an account that is completely free.

[Nitrowolf2]

Not exactly the same, I mean how else are you going to buy a platform specific game on a platform without that specific account

Of course you need a steam account, or an epic account in some cases, to play a Sony game, it's the storefront it's sold on.

It would be more comparable if you needed a PlayStation account to play say something like Helldiver's 2 on Steam, a PS account to play horizon on PC, ect

At the end of the day though, this is a bunch of fuss over absolutely nothing.

Games have been doing this for years, needing an account they own on a platform they don't own

[ocelot07]

Ok....? I can just use my Microsoft log in I have had for 20 years? The one I used from Xbox and currently pc. Is this some sort of issue?

[terstomp]

I just knew this would happen. It is the first step to gamepass on PS5.
Subscriptions are extremely profitable to Microsoft, and gamepass is one of the most profitable.

[PRIMORDUS]

Poopy!!!💩💩

[Profchaos]

We've been having our gaming experiences scraped for data since the early days of online gaming probably even as early as the telegenisis the data can be used to help design the next game or update for example when gears 3 came out epic spoke about how they were surprised that most gamers still did not play on 1080p TVs

Guess what the ms account does or your square Enix account or Capcom and Sony and even Nintendo.

[Spenok]

GASP!

The obvious that everyone expected has been confirmed!

The HORROR!

[P_Bomb]

I take it my Xbox account info will suffice? Not that I was buying this, but good to know.

[GamingSinceForever]

Big F’ing deal.

If it was something you needed to pay for I understand but you don’t so who cares.

[Ninver]

They think they're slick. I'm not ever creating an account with those vultures. Next.

[babadivad]

The horror...

[CrimsonWing69]

Yea, that’s kind of how these work. I had to do a Blizzard account for Diablo 4. What’s next? Water is wet?

[BillyCrystals]

I feel like you need an account for a lot of these online games. Is this really a big deal or do people just love to complain? Seriously asking.

[helicoptergirl]

That's a shame, but it will not stop me from buying or playing MS games on Playstation. I want to support that initiative, and I know they will put even more games on Playstation in the future. It's obvious at this point. As long as they do that, then I will support them. I could care less if they "get my money". They are putting exclusives on Playstation LOL. That is amazing and hilarious at the same time. I'll finally support MS now that they're doing that. The MS 'company' wins and so do Playstation players.

[Asterphoenix]

Regardless I'm not interested in Sea of Thieves. Can't say I'm surprised about needing a MS account to play it.

[Ironmike]

Andrew336 yes I do also a psn account