Even single-player games aren't single-player anymore with all the online-requiring bullshit publishers have shoved into their games. The game most likely comes with a fuckton of telemetry and user-behaviour tracking which is a lot more valuable to Sony if it can be attached to a specific user.

[–] pro_grammer@programming.dev 14 points 5 months ago

"Fuck you", that's their argument

[–] szczuroarturo@programming.dev 6 points 5 months ago

The same way Ubisoft, EA or whoewer else has their own fancy launcher.

Its an incredibly stupid thing but unfortunetly nothing new

[–] lud@lemm.ee 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

At least with ghost of tsushima you only needed an account for the online co-op mode.