Sales of Arrowhead Studios' third-person shooter, Helldivers 2, have surpassed 12 million copies, beating God of War Ragnarok's record.
God of War Ragnarok debuts on PC with just under 23,000 concurrent players on Steam, 60% fewer than God of War 2018's launch.
"One potential reason for the lower numbers is the mandatory PlayStation Network (PSN) account requirement, which has frustrated many players."
Every AAA game requires logins from their publishers. Even on PS and Xbox you must still login to a 3rd party publisher.
Why is this journalist pretending this is the first time this has ever happened? Or that it hasn't existed since the 1990s?
Hellblade 2 and Starfield dont require an Xbox login on Steam. Dragon Age coming soon won't require an EA login.
Yes it does.
Or does "every" suddenly mean something different when Sony is involved in what we complain about other publishers doing?
@BlackTar187 the guy was speaking in absolutes so yeah a couple of games absolutely wrecked his argument. What potemkin village are you from? Lol
Lol. It doesn't refute? How about all the hate helldivers 2 got as well? Pc gamers are particular in this instance. It's not something that's just made up.
If it were optional I'd gladly link my account to see trophies, but force me to do it?!! Go f@#$j yourself!!
So you don't mind it, but since it is required then you would rather skip a game that you want to play? Gamers these days are cry baby.
You are required to pay at a store when you buy something, do you just rob now?
@Northpaws
That's is the most apples to oranges equation. If it's not that big of a deal then why not just skip it completely 🤷🏾?
There is little to no info on what percent of Steam games require third party accounts to play. it's simply not tracked. But I highly doubt only 1% of AAA games on Steam require an account.
Doesn't matter if it happens elsewhere, the fact it's happening now is potentially hurting sonys sales.
You’re speaking in absolutes and you’re laughably wrong, it isn’t true that all games require a login to the “publisher”, whatever that even means. And it’s especially not true for games in the 90s that barely had anti-cheat, none that I’m aware of had DRM, and most often functioned on p2p connections.
also, its already cracked. for people who fly a flag with a skull and crossbones, you know what I mean
"also, its already cracked. for people who fly a flag with a skull and crossbones, you know what I mean"
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine with 2225,690 all time peak players, says hello.
I understand why Sony will try to avoid and release their first party games day and date on PS5 and PC, especially their single player games which are expected to drive PS5 sales, whoever, such strategy really puts them between a rock and a hard place, since later releases on PC at full price, will most definitely attract less gamers.
Not sure if Sony´s strategy to sell more games while making their franchises more popular among PC gamers is working right now.
They have a more "agressive" plan/approach for PC in place. Let´s see how it unfolds.
I agree with you which normally isn’t the case! Hehe
“ Not sure if Sony´s strategy to sell more games while making their franchises more popular among PC gamers is working right now.”
I agree
Also Sony putting Lego horizon on switch
Not sure how that will work out either
Was probably a Lego stipulation to release on switch, but still interesting
Exactly, DODI or FitGirl repacks no PSN shit needed lol. "Arrr, Me Mateys" I mean if you want you can still buy the game, also keep the ISO in this way.
I'm very happy to be corrected.
I think this is because PSN isn't available in 100s of countries which means users can't even buy the game in their region.
God of War Ragnarok is now available on PC, and here are the best settings for getting optimized performance on mid-end system specs.
God of War on PC has been review bombed by gamers due to its PSN requirement, though some can play without signing up.
So, having multiple Steam, Epic, GoG, Gamepass, Google, Netflix and so on accounts are ok to get to use the games/shows/movies you want is ok, but when Playstation does it, it's a problem for you guys?! Hypocrites...
What's odd here is, some are able to play without signing in or creating a PSN account, while others cannot.
Well I don't defend not being able to login, but this drama is only with Playstation games. If I forgot my Blizzard password and had 2step verification on, I can't really complain or downvote a Blizzard game because I don't keep a note or so about the password and have the app installed for verification. Read those downvotes, mostly not Sony's fault at all to be honest.
People can't play the game because they are getting errors that are preventing them from getting in the game. This is a single player game, this is ridiculous in fact this is exactly what xbox wanted to do over 10 years ago but now playstation is doing it on PC. Funny how things happen sometimes.
Yes, because "everyone" let M$ get away with it over the years, ofc Sony, Apple, Amazon etc will follow suit...
I uninstalled Minecraft because it wants me to do a M$/Gamepass account whatever it was just to play it. Insane.
But it's their game, they can do that, and I can uninstall it. Did I downvote it. Nope. No need to put energy in a game I wont play.
Maybe these dudes should do the same? If they hate Sony and their login so much, move on, simple as that.
Edit: Minecraft was my PS4 client, just for clarification. ;)
Omg i am so tired of people QQ they need to use a ps account! You have to login to: steam, epic games, gog and even to play game pass games and each game pass games requires you to sign in on first launch. So login once and stop the QQ man! And before you start i don't have a ps i play on pc/xbox
There's been complaints about 3rd party applications for pretty much forever. Ubi and EA are big ones and you'll always see downvotes on those games.
I'm seeing a lot of reviews stating many are having issues even creating accounts right now. Then you have the people region locked out of the game entirely. It's also a single player game, which makes this being a requirement utterly pointless.
And this isn't just a Sony thing. People make the same complaints with multiple other launchers. There's no reason you need to launch a game in one launcher just to have another one required. If they want to sell their games directly all the more power to them, but they know Steam boosts sales. But if you're selling on Steam I really should just need Steam.
@TheNamelessOne. Personally I don't play on PC apart from Last Epoch on my laptop, but I thought you make a PSN account, link it to Steam and just play with Steam?? So my comments above was like, how hard can it be to make a PSN account and link it once....
I had to do the same thing linking my Last Epoch account to Steam (once!) :)
Signing into a platform is different then signing into a single player game, its simply not needed.
Oh, great job on the false equivalence.
The only gaming account most PC gamers will readily use is Steam, because it’s the de facto platform in the ecosystem, just like PSN is for PlayStation and Microsoft is for Xbox. Anything else isn’t viewed positively, which is why any game that uses EOS (Epic Online Services), EA Play, Ubisoft Connect, etc., is often met with contempt.
With Sony, it’s particularly annoying because it offers nothing for that login. Not to mention, the login system is completely broken - just like pretty much all their ports that aren’t handled by their only technically competent team, Nixxes.
But I get it - console b*tchs aren’t really known for voicing their opinions and making sure their overlords hear their complaints. So it seems like their "pimp" is being target. PC players in general aren’t that spineless, so you’ll keep hearing their complaints, liking it or not.
Meanwhile, I need a Microsoft account to play their games on PlayStation consoles and Steam and everywhere else...
Everything you said is super hypocritical.
It’s a single player game. Why should anyone need an account for single player?
Torrent it laugh at Sony move on. No account needed. Plus the game needs future patches, as it was not actually done and launched with some issues, so your again paying for something that was not ready for sale.
I mean... I wouldn't really blame people for being sceptical of PlayStation managing their data.
I don't know about security breaches with the others, but if there was and you're only coming after PlayStation as you use the others, yeah, that's hypocritical.
While I do enjoy my PlayStation (mostly), I don't really understand why Sony needs this. It just feels like that extra intrusive step that's whole unnecessary. Don't we surrender enough information to these companies?
Im thinking Sony needs to stop porting games to PC at this point. If it’s so hard for the master race to have a PSN account to play game when they have those other accounts, why bother catering to them if all they’re gonna do review bomb?
Imagine defending a corporation’s mandatory account policy when that same corporation had 2 catastrophic data breaches of password, username, and credit card info and refused to even notify its users for 6 months. Bootlicker peasant that eats the slop he’s served, that’s you lol
I think it was more of a case by case basis? But I think people assumed it would be required for MP games, but not for SP.
I buy a game on steam and play directly no need for me to do anything else, then comes Ubisoft, EA, Sony and try to make me sign in again why? For that specific game that I just bought... What am i missing?
Your Steam account gets linked to those other accounts. You don't have to keep signing in.
Their system is broken. Some people can't even play the game. It's region locked. Some can't even create an account.
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Good, now release the games day-one on PC.
sony eats their nails in stress because they didn't make this a ps5 only game
Sony has a successful multiplayer title...who coulda guessed.
Arrowhead seems to be doing a great job with updates as well. Kudos!
I really hope the situation with Helldivers 2 on PC can clear up soon. Since the whole PSN account mandate, the player population has dropped significantly compared to what it was a few weeks ago.
It now takes much longer than normal to clear a major order. I remember when they released the order to kill the terminids and that got cleared the same day. Now we are struggling to do the same with the automatons.