I’m not a pc gamer and I wouldn’t want to have every company pushing for their own account, but I don’t see why Sony is getting so criticized when (I think) Ubisoft or Electronic Arts have been doing this for years on PC.

[–] Srootus@sh.itjust.works 21 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Maybe with helldivers you can argue the cross play angle, but why require a PSN account for a single player game? Sony's also doing this with the new Until Dawn version which also is coming to steam.

[–] LordOfLocksley@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is what baffles me as well. Online game I can understand.... but offline single player.....???

Also, why in the 21st century does Sony not expand PSN world wide, and why is it only available in a handful of countries

[–] Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

Yeah PSN not being available everywhere is weird and not good for their sales then.

[–] hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 16 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Sony has a long history of data breaches and hacks. https://firewalltimes.com/sony-data-breach-timeline

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

And that’s just what they’ve done by accident. There was also that time they installed rootkits on their customers’ PCs, lied about it, belittled their customers when nobody believed them, then put out a fake uninstaller that actually installed additional software and didn’t uninstall the rootkit.

[–] paultimate14@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Lol a good chunk of those "breaches and hacks" are either unrelated to PlayStation (Sony Pictures being the most notable) or had no impact to users.

I don't care if they leak their source code for games or if their social media account gets socially-engineered. Even an outage from a DDOS isjust a minor inconvenience. According to the source you posted, they haven't had any issues leaking PlayStation user data since 2011, over a decade ago.

Security concerns are valid for everything you do on the Internet of course, but are you bringing that same energy to Valve for the security issues Steam has had over the years too? The 2023 issue with dev accounts getting hacked to inject malware. The 2020 issue with the "Steam Sockets" library. They had their own data breach similar to Sony's in 2011.

[–] Mini_Moonpie@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I can't speak for others, but for me it's just a nuisance. I'm not furious about it. I avoid buying EA and Ubisoft games too. It's a small thing for one game on one account, but when you acquire a lot of games across a bunch of different accounts, all those different logins and launchers just become a bother.

[–] Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

I can only agree with this 👍

On PlayStation it ain’t a nuisance because the psn account is valid for every game, but on pc I agree with you.

[–] paultimate14@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

It's funny to me because tons of PC-exclusive games also require accounts on Steam and no one cares.

The requirement is dumb, but the attention is also disproportionate because of console war fandom.

[–] Don_alForno@feddit.de 1 points 5 months ago

With how frequently they get hacked, Sony is the last company you want to trust with any of your data. Might as well post all of it on a public facebook page.