@taco, stellar blade "censorship " is the perfect example of the tendency these days by some gamers to use trivial issues to create fake outrage campaigns.
@Crimson, yep 💯. These babies stomped their feet and flooded the game with fake negative reviews and Sony capitulated. Wonder what happens next time Sony tries to implement account registration.
@Christopher, lol. "Forced". Nobody is forced to buy any game or even register an account its always a choice. This nonsense is a fabricated controversy just like the dozens of other that seem to occur weekly. The dopes promulgating this behavior act like brats. All these angry gamers will have no problem setting up an account accept for a psn account.
The reviews are worthless this move proves it. The actual game remains unchanged. Sony is going to regret giving these pc dummies this amount of sway over their releases on pc.
@Christopher, what is Sony going to do the next time they try and make it a requirement to sign up for a psn account and you get this same outcry from the pc community?
Nonsense this is just another extension of the console war bs now with the rage mob from the pc community. No you have playstation apologizing for putting their games on pc on their terms, lol. Sony made a fool of themselves by backing off this minor requirement.
Absolutely pathetic on Sony/playstations part. You got bullied by a vocal group of man babies even by the developers who you've funded for over a decade now. Now you cant implement your pc strategy for a platform that makes you next to nothing in revenue annually. Pathetic.
@Notorious, are you in one of those countries? If not then save your phony moralizing for someone else. None of you guys actually care and for many of these people you fake concern over they've operated under this requirement without issue when they play cod or gta etc. But this phony outrage campaign will cause publishers to reconsider given their legal exposure. And they didn't remove the game from people who have already bought it, they removed it from being sold going forward.
Yes because only Sony has required you to have a free account to play an online game, lol. You guys are ridiculous, this has been a thing for Microsoft and all of their online games for years same for Rockstar, abk, ubisoft etc etc.
@Xi, the fake outrage crowd is using these countries without psn because they know their childish cries about setting up a free psn account were laughable. People in countries without psn or other networks are use to using foreign accounts to register for online games. I think Sony will implement a work around for these jurisdictions. The Ceo of Arrowhead is an amateur who should get offline becuase he's making a fool of himself. He's the one who decided to suspend the requirement bec...
The game was paid for and published by Sony, and owned by them it wouldn't even exist if it wasn't for them. The CM spoke out of pocket, the requirement was turned off at Arrowhead request to help those dummies get their act together when the game launched.
@Sephiroushin 42% of sales? Lol. Stop making stuff up, I'll need to see proof of that.
@babadivad im a paying Sony customer, much more so than most of the pc crowd. There's nothing wrong with this requirement at all certainly not something that warrants this childish reaction from the usual trolls and pc/console warriors we see weekly. You have dummies saying they're going to sue Sony over this or some comparing it to nazism, lol. You can't make this nonsense up. I don't particularly like signing in to separate accounts for a bunch of different games but I hate...
I played yesterday on my ps5 with cross play with pc, no issue. Player count hasn't changed at all. Another fake nontroversy from the outrage loving part of the gaming community.
I hope Sony doesn't give in to the phony rage mob, especially the cheating game stealing community of pc gamers. Most of these rageaholics don't even know what exactly they're angry about. Arrowhead needs to be upfront with this frustrated mob and tell them that's the policy going forward and not to expect a change to it. It was stellar blade just a few days ago now it's latched onto hd2 let the toxic mob move on to the next game to rage on about.
@darth, Sony shouldn't do anything save for the very few who may have legit problems creating a ps account in a jurisdiction that doesn't have it. I doubt that's even a problem for 99% of players. For the rest of pc players it should be mandatory, it's a playstation game they're entitled to require an account be logged into. Gamers need to grow up and stop with the phony childish outrage campaigns. Proves that pc gamers are just as childish to.
@Christopher nope, lol. This is just another nontroversy just like the fake stellar blade outrage. Feel free to be upset with all the other phonies in the comment section. Getting worked up over having to sign to play a video game, lol.
@darthv72, grow-up, name calling? Lol. Glad you're thinking about all the poor gamers worldwide who can't create a psn account. I guess you're against all companies requiring gamers to register for an account for any game, right? Somehow I don't think so. Nontroversy.
@Doomeduk yep, you had articles on here about how brilliant of a move it is by Microsoft as if it somehow forces playstation players to become xbox gamers.
Media and Microsoft were the ones during xbox purchase of Bethesda and ABK claiming it would secure people's jobs. Alot of xbox gamers argued this position hard even that dopey USA union said so. Should be a lesson to all that these larger acquisitions/mergers always result in job losses no matter what the propagandists say. Phillip Spencer is just the face of the corporation who employs him, his phony good guy image was always a lie.