God of War Ragnarök Launches to ‘Mixed’ Steam User Reviews — With Most Complaining About the PlayStation Network Account Requirement - IGN
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God of War Ragnarök has a ‘mixed’ user review rating on Steam following its PC launch, with most of the complaints revolving around Sony’s controversial PlayStation Network Account requirement.
  • theyllneverfindmehere@lemmy.worldEnglish
    221·
    2 months ago

    So I bought it knowing I had to make an account. I knew I was caving to a shitty requirement. Before you even get to a main menu the game unceremoniously launches your browser while sitting at a black screen. On your browser you are expected to sign into your Playstation® Account. I tried. I tried and tried. An error kept popping up stating “can’t connect to server.”

    In that moment I decided on a refund. You want me to sign into an account for a single player game? Fine. I caved and I did, but their servers weren’t ready for a re-launch of a huge game to service a restriction Sony placed on themselves.

    I’ll buy it again when there is a mod to remove the account requirement.

  • Broken_Monitor@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    2 months ago

    Yup, took this off my wishlist as soon as I saw the requirement in the store. At least steam warns you about it. I would love to play this game but there’s so many other great games to play it doesn’t feel like much of a loss for me.

  • Squizzy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    103·
    2 months ago

    What a fantastic game though, everyone should play it…just pirate it. Sony dont deserve it.

  • Prethoryn Overmind@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    This is why exclusives are bad, IMO. Not that the game can’t be great but this is what comes with it. Companies trying to sell their product. Imagine if every PC game in Steam advertised and required a Steam Deck login.