PC Players Are Fuming Until Dawn, God of War Ragnarok Appear to Require PSN Logins | Push Square

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One of the bigger stories in 2024 is how Helldivers 2 exploded in popularity to such a degree that Arrowhead decided to postpone a pre-planned PSN login requirement on PC. When the developer eventually attempted to enforce the feature, the Internet imploded, leading to such a fierce review bombing campaign that PlayStation was forced to backtrack.

While it’s extremely common for titles to mandate account logins like this, one legitimate bugbear many PC players have had is that PSN technically isn’t available in a number of countries. This resulted in Helldivers 2 being removed from sale in select unsupported regions on Steam, pouring more salt on the wounds for fuming fans.

Consequently, it’s not exactly sitting well with enthusiasts that both God of War Ragnarok and Until Dawn appear to require PSN logins as well – especially seeing as they’re both single player games. While there’s no information on Concord yet, we’d expect the team-based first-person shooter to fall to a similar fate.

Social media is awash with criticism of Sony for making this decision, and we’d certainly agree that it needs to solve this issue of PSN not being available in a number of different countries. Obviously, it’s always been possible to make accounts in other regions, but technically this is against the terms of service – even if it’s a rule the manufacturer rarely enforces.

As the Editor of Push Square, Sammy has over 15 years of experience analysing the world of PlayStation, from PS3 through PS5 and everything in between. He’s an expert on PS Studios and industry matters, as well as sports games and simulators. He also enjoys RPGs when he has the time to dedicate to them, and is a bit of a gacha whale.

I don't care about ragebait that streamers and youtubers use to pump up their view count. The vast majority of players will make an account and consider it a slight annoyance

Literally a non issue that was hugely overblown cause of the Helldivers situation.

Its tough *****. EA, Steam,