| JEMC said: The best, or least bad, approach would be the one they did with Ghost of Tsushima, were the single player part was open to all while the multiplayer aspect required the PSN account. At least in my opinion. I still remember how they said that you wouldn't need a PSN account to play single player games. Yeah, that didn't last long. I guess boasting PSN gains in their earning calls is more important than selling a few thousand extra copies, and who knows what plans does Sony have for those accounts in the future. Who knows, maybe it's the first step for a future streaming service or whatever. |
Sad to say, but Ghosts doesn't even show up on my end.
So while they don't enforce PSN for the SP, they still enforce it for the MP, and because that system is baked into the game from the beginning, it means it will not show up on my end of Steam 9when I showed you that screenshot, Ghosts didn't show up for me either).
The thing is, their boast numbers strategy is going to flop hard, simply because they are forcefully using Steam to further gate people out of buying their games on that platform, which I feel Valve should put their foot down on (because Sony are basically treating Steam like they own the place, with all they've been doing recently). Sony's investors are eventually going to catch wind that people are being effectively locked out of even seeing those games on Steam, and they'll eventually start to question the logic of making less money/pissing off would-be customers (like me, because now I cannot buy anything from them since their PSN enforcement began, and they are now akin to NetEase to me, another publisher I can never buy or see any games from due to their lack of UK regional support).
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