• Kyrgizion@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1403·
    6 months ago

    Devs (and players) getting majorly shafted by Sony. Make no mistake, Arrowhead doesn’t want this either, but their hands are tied. Fucking Sony…

    • DaseinPickle@leminal.spaceEnglish
      759·
      6 months ago

      Arrowhead kind of messed up by not just implementing the PSN requirement from the start, and avoiding this confusion. It’s not like Sony suddenly made this requirement, it has been there all along.

      • Aphelion@lemm.eeEnglish
        38·
        6 months ago

        Arrowhead and/or Sony also messed up by not having the country restrictions setup on the Steam store. Arrowhead knew they were going to be reliant on PSN to handle support tickets well ahead of launch.

      • xantoxis@lemmy.worldEnglish
        232·
        6 months ago

        They literally did do that. My account is old enough that linking it was already required when I started playing. It was off temporarily.

      • PirateJesus@lemmy.todayEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        Bare minimum idea: have a sticky post on all the forums reminding people that PSN accounts will be required in 6 months. Maybe a little sticky note after you load up the game that goes away after you link.

        Leaving it till now was kinda not the best possible choice.

  • CaptObvious@literature.cafeEnglish
    262·
    6 months ago

    Is it even possible to boycott Sony? Or are they like some other entities: tentacles wrapped around so many things that we can’t avoid them?

    • sorghum@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      451·
      6 months ago

      The only thing I’ve not been able to divest myself from Sony is HDMI. If I could buy a TV with a decent amount of DisplayPort and no HDMI, I’d be so happy. My level of distrust goes back to their rootkit on music CD scandal.

    • Kelly@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      6 months ago
      • Sony pictures is one of the “big 5” Hollywood studios (11% market share)
      • Sony music group the second largest music company in the world (22% market share)

      Its usually easy to avoid using their hardware directly but they have a pretty big slice of media.

    • Son_of_dad@lemmy.worldEnglish
      36·
      6 months ago

      All game consoles and game companies are run by corporations. There are no ethical ones. If you really don’t like all this bullshit they pull, all you can do is stop gaming

  • Mikufan@ani.socialEnglish
    11·
    6 months ago

    Well… It is. And thats more like Uranium spiced acid rain, i don’t think shit grows from that.

  • Shyfer@ttrpg.networkEnglish
    123·
    6 months ago

    Can Sony implement PSN accounts in more countries? Seems like this would fix it lol.

      • Shyfer@ttrpg.networkEnglish
        4·
        6 months ago

        Ya, probably not. But it’s a shame to see so many people enjoy this game and now not be able to enjoy it. And I haven’t even played it, I’ve just been thinking about it and seeing these posts on Lemmy.

    • ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      6 months ago

      It wouldn’t. Half the outrage is that a game you bought on steam to play on pc forces you to create and link a psn account in the first place

    • TachyonTele@lemm.eeEnglish
      15·
      6 months ago

      Completely different scenario with Bethesda. You can stay play any Bethsoft game you own.

    • Mac@federation.redEnglish
      6·
      6 months ago

      I think it’s more because Microsoft isn’t as restrictive regionally and doesn’t have a terrible record with security. Those two things seem to be the main drivers of people’s anger in regards to this.

    • Elextra@literature.cafeEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      I def think Arrowhead had some shared responsibility for it. Going into a contract with Sony, they must have known the PSN account was a requirement but no one on either side mentioned it until it was going to be implemented.

      If PSN was required from beginning, it should have been enforced/limited to specific countries. If it had “technical issues”, maybe they should have fixed it much sooner than 6 months.

  • unreasonabro@lemmy.worldEnglish
    115·
    6 months ago

    I mean, don’t be owned and don’t be publicly traded and you won’t have these problems, although you won’t have a lot of other problems either, like tax bracket concerns due to revenue.