That article on Sony listing PSN trophies for PC has me not surprised as to what they have planned and not stated for some years now.
I knew Sony wasn't going to come to PC without asking for something in return (despite them already asking for a lot of money per copy of each dated release, just to point that out), and it seems they now want to emulate MS's moves in enforcing a requirement for a platform account system. Difference between MS and Sony here is that MS has required XBL since they started combining the two on PC and console, and as such it has become naturally integral to MS and their PC/console side of things, but Sony on the other hand, even in the past, has not required nor enforced PSN network logins (I didn't need one for Planetside 2 for example and that was PS backed and designed).
They are only doing this now because they know MS has been accepted and that they are well aware EGS exists and requires it's own account system, as does Ubisoft, EA and Blizzard (though I imaginer Bnet's account system will be done away within the next 5 years and replaced slowly with XBL account migration, since they did this with Mojang's account system and that took upwards of a year and a half to fully migrate). The thing is, with the way things are currently operating on PC, not everyone is fond of being forcefully fragmented, or having to remember a load of logins or create multiple account systems, especially when it's all happening on a platform like Steam itself.
I know that if Sony are asking me for £65-70 for a dated release of an old game, and then ask me to also create an account I need to login with each time, then I am unlikely to accept those terms, because I am not benefitting from any of the suggested ideals they think are positive net gains for the consumer (I care little for cheevos and trophies as I grew older, since they are meaningless and provide nothing but a passive bragging right that nearly anyone else on the planet can earn and even then it's a system that's worth nothing tangibly and mentally).
I already grew tired of Ubisoft and EA peddling account crap for years, I'm not going to settle for another account system that has no objectively positive benefits and zero hindrance on my end, that also doesn't allow for more data harvesting. You either release on Steam/GoG with zero account systems that aren't MMO standard required, or you go home.
Also, if they so much as dare to implement the PSN account system on the games I purchased a few years back (which never stated any such changes to the EULA contract), I will be demanding refunds. I never once agreed to having games I purchased suddenly require a login.The last thing I need is another shitty system pinging home to another company and spamming me with "failed to connect to service/server", let alone a system that could fuck around with Steam's offline system (ppl said EoS wouldn't and yet it did, so excuse me for not having any faith in with anyone that isn't a network software technician has to say on that matter).
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