Sony finally surrenders: PSN accounts will be 'optional' for games on Steam, but they'll give you free stuff if you sign up

[mynameisigglepiggle@sh.itjust.works]

To be fair Sony may have produced quality electronics but their tactics have always been anti consumer.

They always insist on proprietary everything and try to get first mover advantage for each new iteration of tech and then lock the market down. The problem is they hold out for so long with their proprietary formats that it makes their products unattractive. Case in point their memory cards.

Requiring a psn account is just another anti consumer control tactic by the company.

[katana314@lemmy.world]

Valve absolutely limits the sale of people’s games.

Usually, this would come in the case of “Hey, this game doesn’t work, we’re taking it out of sale everywhere.” But with Helldivers 2 being so popular and high profile, that wouldn’t have been a good look for Valve. Instead, they limited the zone of sale to prevent customer support complaints.

Sony was limiting where you could legally sign up for PSN and thus play the game, not where you could buy it off Steam. That was a conflict of their own mismanagement and inexperience selling on PCs. Had they been smarter, they would have restricted regions to begin with and there might have been less outcry, but poor planning caused Valve’s parental slap.

[hugin@lemmy.world]

Having dealt with Sony for years as a engineer their non consumer hardware is a true pain. Trying to interface with some of their ccd image sensors was some of the most PITA integration i've ever dealt with.

[mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works]

Seconded. I feel similarly with some bad audiobooks. I've considered seeding them, but then that's more listeners who might like it and give them money. So I settled for leaving bad reviews and washing my hands of it

[djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Hey wow, look what happens when we don't buy their games and loudly organize to tell others not to buy their games over this bullshit!

There's still nothing Sony puts out that I really think is all that good, but hopefully this serves as another message to the industry to stop with this dumb bullshit. Funny how Sony has been getting a lot of those kinda messages recently.

[explodicle@sh.itjust.works]

Never forget when they put a rootkit on their CDs that automatically installed malware.

[pyr_pressure@lemmy.ca]

I might just buy one of their games now to support their decision.

I just don't know how much I can trust them to keep their word and not just brick the game in the future until an account is made.

[shamblamblam@aggregatet.org]

[goodeye8@lemm.ee]

I recommend waiting until they revert the restrictions on countries that can't have PSN. That's the indicator on how serious they actually are about making PSN optional. So far the restrictions are in place so fuck em.

[pyre@lemmy.world]

games are famously terrible at boycotts. if people didn't buy spidey2 the most probable reason is that the reviews are full of thumb downs saying it runs like shit even on the best hardware.