Sony removes PlayStation account requirement from 4 single-player Steam games: Marvel's Spider-Man 2, God of War Ragnarok, The Last of Us Part II Remastered, and Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered

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• atmur@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nice, waiting paid off. I’m actually interested in picking up the new God of War and Horizon games now.

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  • kitnaht@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, $10 for a remastered re-play of Horizon doesn’t sound like a bad time tbh…

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    • DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Is it cheaper if you own the base game? I’m seeing $64.99 CAD. For $10 and no account I’d totally replay.

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    • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I honestly don’t think the remaster helps, but I’m a huge fan of the original still. Its not been enough time for a real remaster in my opinion.

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  • FooBarrington@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    God of War Ragnarok is really good! Valhalla (free DLC, included) is also pretty good, but only play it after the main game is finished.

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• Muffi@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I really hope other publishers will be inspired. Just yesterday I had an hour to kill on a train ride, and wanted to play some Mass Effect on my SteamDeck. It took 25 minutes just to get started, because EA updated their required launcher, which couldn’t be bypassed because it required Internet connection, and then forced the update (which of course bygge out, and had to be redone thrice). A 25 minute boot time for something that doesn’t affect the game the slightest is a terrible user experience.

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  • LinuxEnjoyer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Valve should use it’s position on the market for something good and straight up not allow single player games to use external launchers. I’m buying the game on Steam so I just want to play, not make yet another 3rd party account and then pray the 3rd party launcher will work fine on Linux.

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    • wellheh@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thing is they’ll then just miss those games or be accused of abusing its market position to be anticompetitive, but I think in general these publishers are getting that we don’t want stupid launchers/extra logins. It happened with 2k and it’s good it’s happening with Sony. Honestly I check before I buy any game if the store mentions a third party account now because that’s so annoying. Especially origin- they are awful and their business is awful.

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  • LucidNightmare@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hey there! I’m also going through Mass Effect right now. The EA app is literally the only thing I HATE about trying to play through that game!

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    • Muffi@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Enjoy the adventure! Such great games. The Legendary Edition and the SteamDeck is a match made in heaven, except for the piece-of-shit that is the EA launcher/app.

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• RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  For now.

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• hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “However, to incentivize you to still sign in with a PSN account while playing those games, Sony says that it will “soon” be adding “in-game content unlocks” like outfits and resources.”

  This is a half win.

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• dditty@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve honestly wanted to play all of these but haven’t gotten around to them and also didn’t want to do the Sony account thing out of principle. I wonder how they’d perform on my Steam Deck OLED

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  • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ragnarok is fine if you’re playing on the actual screen. But if you’re gonna hook it up to a monitor, be prepared to see edge jaggies or get lots of frame lag; The SD can’t keep a steady frame rate on anything above Low settings. Low is fine on the built in screen cuz it’s too small to really make a difference. But on a large TV, it makes a big difference.

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• Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I bet the pirate versions were the superior product because they never required a PSN account.

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  • LucidNightmare@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They were.

    I bought God of War Ragnarok through Steam, and had a hell of a time trying to get past the PlayStation account. I spent an hour or two trying to do this, gave up, refunded the game, and immediately pirated the game.

    No PlayStation login, and the game worked fine with whatever updates I could find.

    Fuck that, and fuck Sony. You will not do that to me again. I can’t speak for others though. I’m sure they will eventually pull this scummy shit again, and we’ll be talking about it. Again.

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    • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m not disagreeing with you but can I ask what made it so hard to get through the PS account login?

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• stardust@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Maybe there’s a chance those games will come to GOG now that there isn’t the psn requirement.

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  • menixator@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They’re still region locked on steam so I wouldn’t hold my breath on this one.

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• RedWeasel@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Glad they came to their senses. I had trouble setting up one as I have/had a sony group account with no security info which is needed to reset the password. Turns out sony doesn’t filter periods from usernames from email. Just ended up adding a couple to my email address for a new account.

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• ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Only to add it back once they’ve made their sales

  Can’t imagine anyone is going to fall for it

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  • taiyang@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Iirc, Steam policy is to allow no-strings-attached refunds if that happens, and it indeed has happened before. I don’t see Sony reneging, just doing as stated which is to provide incentives to log in.

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• systemguy_64@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  EA? Plz follow. Mass Effect doesn’t need an account

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• SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  the steam page still shows 3rd party account requirement? or did I read wrong?

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  • Odo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Starting with tomorrow’s release of Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 for PC, we’re working to add more benefits to playing with an account for PlayStation Network. The Last of Us Part II Remastered (coming April 3, 2025), in addition to God of War Ragnarök and Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered, will all soon be adding in-game content unlocks for PlayStation Network account users.

    “Working to” and “soon be adding” makes it sound like they haven’t gone live with the patches for those games quite yet.

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