Yup. I get why some people might not care, but I don't understand the people trying to defend this.

Would these people defend drinking a Verification Can™ as well? After all, it only takes a few seconds.

Yep. On the older games, and Spider-Man, it was optional but you get cool stuff if you do. Why not keep it optional?

Arrrrr you ready kids?

Question is, to pirate it now or wait for the lirate version to get some patches too?

Honestly I appreciate them buying it and expressing the disappointment in Steam reviews. It is the best way to get attention to it since people aren't going to refrain from buying it. Boycotts don't work so people expressing their thoughts is the best we got.

Steam refunds are easy and convenient. I wouldn't personally bother doing that just to post a "protest review" either, but it's definitely possible to do without losing any money.

This is my exact reaction. The issue with HD2 was the bait and switch of adding the requirement at a later date, particularly since they had already sold copies in places where people literally could not make PSN accounts.

Not that I agree with Sony's decision to require the account for GOW, but at least they're being up front about it this time. If you don't want the account, there are 500 billion other quality games you can buy that don't require one.

This is a single player game that wants me to log in. I won't buy something like that, irrespective of what company it's from.

People had the same reaction, but it was long enough ago to be forgotten old news.

Those are multiplayer games. Totally different.

But this implies same people are also buying those games. Which they might not even be into.

GTA, cod and ubisoft games are polarising.

But there's a massive crowd who likes single player games. Especially ones that are meant to be good.

Call of Duty uses it for crossplay. Totally different.

Because thats already status quo

I'm all for piracy but the average person has no idea what they're doing and will most likely end up with a bunch of viruses due to lack of experience or people to show them how to pirate safely.

I'm tired of this issue being completely ignored in these situations. Pirating games is even harder than pirating movies or tv shows which is already difficult if you don't know what you're doing. .

Did it count as being mad, that I just don't play any games that require linking accounts? There's plenty of games that don't require it that I can pay, and missing out on some high budget good games that everyone is talking about isn't a big enough deal to me that I will be fine with just skipping it.