Context for those who didn’t live through it: Sony intentionally compromised the PCs of its customers to install a mechanism by which to prevent music piracy. There’s a lot more to it but you can read about here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Can't buy anything from Sony, Blizzard, Activision, Microsoft, 2K, EA, Ubisoft, Capcom, etc. etc. Pretty much just buy BG3 and nothing else.

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 9 points 5 months ago

Either go indie or start pirating shit. Wanted to play Fallout the other day, but Microsoft/Bethesda just broke all the mods on PC for an update that doesn't really do anything on PC. Had to get an older pirate copy to play a game I legit purchased. At some point, I just gave up.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Which is all the info you need to avoid the game. Sony is a piece of shit

[–] potustheplant@feddit.nl 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

None of the previous Sony titles that were released on PC required a PSN account.

[–] Arbiter@lemmy.world -2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

None of the previous Sony published titles had this level of popularity.

[–] potustheplant@feddit.nl 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think that's called "moving the goalpost". Also, I doubt Last of Us can't be considered popular.

[–] Arbiter@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

I’m not trying to move the goal posts, just pointing out why Sony thought this was the game to start forcing this in.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It only got this popular partly because of the lack of a PSN account to play. Developer said they had somewhere between 5 and 20 times the number of players they expected.

[–] Arbiter@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Good luck explaining that to the suits.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

I'm not going to. Ultimately, Sony is a megacorp and I'm just one dude. I'll simply voice my displeasure to people inquiring about them, and never trust a Sony product or promise in my life again. They probably won't give 2 shits, and I'm fine with that.