PlayStation Still Needs To Learn From Its Biggest 2024 Mistake

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It seems that PlayStationand its parent company Sony have learned nothing from their mistakes in 2024. The company will continue to force players to connect PlayStation accounts to play games on PC, even single-player games like and. The decision was confirmed in a recent financial call with Sony’s president, who listed safety as the number one reason for the PSN requirements.

The move to keep requiring a PlayStation account won’t make PC users happy, but perhaps a more upfront approach will work, since the strategy to force integration months after launch didn’t work very well for PlayStation with earlier this year. Either way, Sony is off to a bad start and its current strategy isn’t incurring much goodwill from PC players.

Anyone hoping that Sony would drop the forced account linking will be disappointed. According to a report by , Sony has confirmed that PlayStation account linking isn’t going anywhere despite the backlash from fans in the past. Hiroki Totoki, the president, COO, and CFO of Sony spoke on a recent company financial call about how the company learned a lot from recent “” but that the company intends to stay the course regarding PSN requirements.

The primary reason that PlayStation will continue to require PSN linking, according to Sony, is for player safety. In the financial, call translated to English from Japanese, Totoki said, “.” This reasoning seems noble on a surface level, but when used to force PC players playing single-player games to sign in to or create a PlayStation account, it doesn’t make much sense.

While it may make more sense for live service games like to require a PlayStation account, that argument falls flat when applied to single-player games in the PlayStation catalogThe PSN requirements didn’t go smoothly for , as the community collectively protested over being forced to create another account to sign in to before embarking on their missions to bring freedom and democracy to the galaxy.

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