Lost Soul Aside Will Be Published By PlayStation On Steam, Requires PSN Account

Lost Soul Aside will be published by PlayStation on Valve's digital storefront, Steam, and the game will require a PSN account as a result.

[pwnmaster3000]

I can feel the anger of some folks already.

[lodossrage]

Yeah same here.

But what I don't get is almost everyone had/has something similar.

Epic, EA, Rockstar, Ubisoft, Microsoft, Activision, Bethesda, etc. But when Playstation has the same sign-in requirement it's an issue.

I don't mind people having a gripe about it. My discourse comes in with some companies getting more hate than others for doing the same thing.

[lodossrage]

That requires an ID?

Ok that's new to me, but then again I had my account since forever at this point. THAT is something worth being angry about then. Because when I made mine I sure as hell didn't need that

Edit - Ok, this must be a PC gaming only thing. I just made an account. Still, I can see being angry if people need an id or face scan

[neutralgamer1992]

i am a PC gamer and i really don't care. I already have a PSN. On PC we have to have so many launchers depending on game publisher meaning we need to create accounts for those. If that's the price of having games on PC or not having playstation games on PC a PSN account is a very small requirement

[Vits]

Well, PSN is one of the only account systems that outright blocks regions from accessing certain games, so anyone from those regions will obviously hate it more than they hate Ubisoft Connect, which is just annoying.

For everyone else, the level of hate is about the same. There are mods to bypass Rockstar's account system, just like there are for PSN. There are also curator pages dedicated to tracking games that use EOS, etc.

[Eonjay]

"My discourse comes in with some companies getting more hate than others for doing the same thing."

Exactly. This is it for me too. Trying to turn one company into a whipping boy for the industry wont fix the industry. The other companies are just emboldened because they know you wont go after them. Just this one company lol.

[ZwVw]

EA, Ubisoft, MS, etc at least have their own stores/launchers in which purchases over Steam can be potentially linked to. Outside of Trophy linking (between PS consoles and PC) there's literally no incentive to signing up for a PSN account over Steam other than for Sony to try to bolster their account figures for their investors.

[thorstein]

Faux anger. A "controversial" game from Sony just recently received a high rating because the "ermegerd free account login bad!" review bombing hype was over.

[Terry_B]

~ whatever

[Deeeeznuuuts]

Oh no, they have to make a PSN account, the horror....

[goken]

I have a PSN account so whatever. I understand it’s a bit cumbersome,
But for some reason people are ok to get an account for FB, email, youtube etc but PSN hell no.

[TheColbertinator]

Keep it. Whoever decided that PSN log-in stipulation is a miserable pile of dung.

[Eonjay]

Out of curiosity, why are you so enraged? Is it because you live outside of one of the PSN regions?

[thorstein]

Don't forget to include countries that don't have internet, or very limited access in order to make the amount of those inaccessible regions seem even more egregious.

[staticall]

@Eonjay
Can't say what @TheColbertinator opinion is, but, IMO, this is dumb, because it's a singleplayer game. Do and require what you want from multiplayer games, but singleplayer games should support offline mode, without login requirement or extra downloads.

On top of that, i think it can hurt the customers. Reason - i have a PSN account, but i can't use it anymore, because the country where i'm living have PSN shut down. This is something everyone who defends this decision should keep in mind, this can happen to anyone potentially. You can't login to PSN, you can't play the game, even if you "own" it.

[Miacosa]

Queue the crybabies, while they download god knows what on their machine to run some crazy nude mod or whatever.

[DarXyde]

That's probably true, though I can understand not wanting to submit info for PSN. I myself have a PSN account I've been using since 2007 so for people like us, it probably isn't a big deal.

But I can also see how outsider PC gamers feel about creating an account. If you've never had a PSN account or you used to and no longer do, you're probably hesitant to give Sony your info. We have to remember they've got an interesting history with security breaches and that's makes people skittish. I think Sony learned their lesson, but I understand the skepticism.

So I agree that people likely introduce some sketchy stuff into their gaming ecosystem voluntarily a, but I guess it's about choice to a lot of those folks.