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Zkuq said:

Conina said:

Well, I have a PSN account since 2007, so I don't have a problem with using it for Sony's PC games, too.

I too do a PSN account, but having it be mandatory is essentially DRM, which lowers the value of games tremendously for me. If it was optional, I'd probably use it happily, but with it being required, it means it's going to take a lot for me to get Sony's games on PC. One part is principle, but another is that I don't trust Sony with the power to effectively disable access to games I've paid for if they ever decide to pull the plug. And yes, I play the long-term game here.

I used to have a PSN account until the 2013 incident, but even now, PSN is no longer supported on my island, despite it being within UK territory, and as such I can literally no longer see any new Sony games on the Steam platform ever since they enforced PSN onto their new/older games.

The fact they are now going to start enforcing this for 2nd/3rd party funded games makes this even worse for me, because I won't be able to see or even play some of those games that I may own to begin with.

Sony is basically abusing Steam's ecosystem to enforce it's own ruleset, while still being able to make money from it's audience pool. Really Sony should just be selling on their own storefront and stick to that alone and seeing how little support they get over time thanks to their lack of support for the multiple regions they've been ignoring for years.

At this point I don't want any more third party or even first party login requirements. Not only have a lost trust in all of them, most of them forget my login info or become too obstructive to me being able to play those games. 2K doing the right thing and removing their launcher requirement was a good move, and I honestly want to see the others doing that as well.