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Chazore said:

JEMC said:

So, are you going to ask for a refund?

I never doubted that. What I don't know if the BC will be hardware or software based, but Nintendo has always gone with the hardware one.

At least they didn't make the mistake of launching their own PC store. That would have been fun to watch.

I'm past that point with Helldivers 2, but I can already play it anyway.

Any title that demands PSN just refuses to show up on Steam on my end. Basically Sony are saying I don't matter and they flat out do not want my money going forward, which if fine with me I guess?, I wasn't going to buy any of their games that demand I make yet another PSN account, because fuck that. 

See MS gets a slight pass from me because Xbox and it's network are built into the backend of their OS (which I use), but Sony's is literally a non requirement, they just tell us we have to because it benefits them, not us (we have Steam cheevos, Steam overlay, there is virtually no need for a PC user to abandon the better versions of those features of lesser and closed off ones that are primarily tied to a console ecosystem). 

I can guarantee you they'll be paving the way for their own PS store. They have already been laying down foundations like the PSN requirement, PS trophy and overlay systems for their games on Steam. This is the starting shift point. Once that's all laid down, they'll just be a dick and pull a Ubisoft, by siphoning from Steam, demand you use their account and overlay systems, while also selling their own games on the PC PS store, making the typical user go "why buy on Steam, when I could just buy from the PS store and still put up with their account system/overlay?"

Basically Sony are testing two audiences: those that put up with Steam's own systems mixed in with Sony's, and those who are fine with Sony's systems, but don't want Steam's added on top of that (the type of people that typically buy from Ubisoft's client, instead of Steam, and yes those types of ppl exist). 

So you can play Helldivers 2, that requires a PSN account, but can't buy or play other titles that ask for it? That's... curious. Now I wonder if you see Ghost of Tsushima, because that game requires a PSN account, but only for the multiplayer side of it (at least for now). It's like a schrödinger cat situation.

I don't really think Sony will launch their own PC store. They're not entirrely dumb and have seen how not only Ubisoft or EA have come back to Steam to get better sales, but also Blizzard has come to Steam after going solo since almost always. So no, I don't think they're dumb enough to do that and lowe their sales numbers even more.

With that said, I wouldn't rule out the chance of them doing a UPlay/UbiConnect or whatever thing, launching their own platform on PC while also keeping their games on Steam, forcing users to have to launch both platforms to play their games. But I don't see them going solo.