Comment on God of War Ragnarök will require a PSN account to play on PC

NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There’s definitely a CEO whose bonus depends on hitting a certain number of PSN accounts. I can only assume account info is being sold because why else would they care? It’s either that or they eventually plan on charging PC players a monthly fee to play all their Sony games.

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  • KoboldCoterie@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s either that or they eventually plan on charging PC players a monthly fee to play all their Sony games.

    That would be hilarious, I’d love to see the backlash if they tried that.

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    • littlebluespark@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It would sound an awful lot like the high seas, methinks.

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  • NoneYa@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Could be market share. More PSN accounts than Nintendo and Xbox in competition.

    Just to play devil’s advocate here.

    But I’m with you, either selling data or both of these.

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    • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      could also just be as simple as getting people’s feet in the door to their marketplace. if you already have an account maybe you’ll be fractionally more likely to buy other stuff in the store.

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      • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        This is the actual strategy they’re going for I think

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They want your data so they can market you a PS5 better.

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• moon@lemmy.cafe ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Marketing. They want to increase PSN account numbers to increase their valuation, to have more data, and to make it easier for customers to move to their products/services since the account creation is already done.

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