Right here we go once more. The Final Of Us Half 2 Remastered, a single-player online game with no multiplayer modes or options, will for some cause require gamers to login right into a PlayStation Community account on Steam when it arrives in April.
The Final of Us Half 2 Remastered, a visually improved and expanded model of Naughty Canine’s award-winning PlayStation sequel, is the most recent PlayStation unique to make the leap to PC. It joins different huge PS4 and PS5 video games like Ghosts of Tsushima, Horizon Zero Daybreak Remastered, and God of Conflict, which have additionally obtained PC ports over the previous couple of years. And like these current ports, The Final of Us Half 2 on PC would require a PSN account and login to play.
As noticed by VGC on January 9, the Steam and Epic Retailer pages for The Final of Us Half 2 went stay lately and each pages embrace affirmation that, yup, Sony remains to be forcing folks to log in to a PSN account to play its newest PlayStation ports. Sure, even when the sport is a single-player solely journey, like The Final of Us Half 2.
You may keep in mind that early final yr, Sony confronted a large backlash from gamers when it introduced plans to activate a PSN login requirement for Helldivers 2. The corporate ultimately walked again its plans for the favored co-op shooter, but it surely’s not giving up on this bizarre PSN requirement for different video games. The distinction is that now these new PC ports make it very clear that you simply’ll want a PSN account to play.
And certain, making a free PSN account isn’t onerous and logging in must be principally painless and quick. Nevertheless it’s nonetheless bizarre that Sony is making folks do any of this to play single-player PlayStation ports on PC.
It’s additionally odd as a result of for years Sony didn’t require this. You’ll be able to go purchase Miles Morales, Returnal, and Days Gone on Steam proper now and also you don’t want a PSN account to play any of them. Now, nonetheless, Sony needs PC avid gamers to affix the PSN ecosystem, which isn’t essential and will make it tougher to play these video games within the future with out mods.
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