| JEMC said: When I posted the article about it, I didn't know PSN wasn't available in so many countries (why not in Greenland? Or in Belarus if it's available in the neighbour countries?). So yeah, it's a bigger deal than I thought. I understand that Sony saw the success of the game and thought that it would be the perfect chance to roll out PSN on PC, but I don't think they realized all the side effects it would have. |
Here's the main takeaway the public is getting so far from AH:
They knew about the PSN account enforcement, but they had technical difficulties with ppl registering as the game started to explode on Steam, so they disabled it until later on down the line.
Sony on the other hand, they knew their game was being published in territories that did not support PSN, while Arrowhead did not, so you have one party that is bound by a contract and is obligated to enforce the other member's binding contract to enact said request. This in turn meant AH got put into firing range for the general public, whilst Sony is now being seen as the one doing the meddling (and let's be honest, they are meddling, PC doesn't need PSN account enforcement, this is Sony trying to siphon off of Steam's userbase like Ubisoft has been doing for yrs, and EA as well).
The EU atm is likely to clap back at this debacle, mostly for the territories being scammed by this action, and for another, they are breaking EU regulations of messing their their ToS agreement (the one I linked before).
Sony had a popular game on their hands, the least predator and quite fun game thus far this year, and they couldn't shy away from trying to inflate PSN numbers and just stopping themselves from meddling with PC affairs.
Personally I'm done with "We want to sell to you on Steam, but we also want to rope you into our own closed off ecosystem so we can harvest and control you" mantra, that 3rd party companies have been doing over the years now. The only time I accept account creations are for MMO's and that's about it. Xbox is integrated into Windows, which I have learned to live with and it hasn't exactly gotten in my way (nor do I have an Xbox dashboard overlay shoved into my games, the way Sony now wants to with their PC ports, which I detest).
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