Comment on God of War trilogy remaster announcement set for March 2025
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 hours agoI mean… potential steam release though…
Comment on God of War trilogy remaster announcement set for March 2025
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 hours agoI mean… potential steam release though…
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
If this were still two years ago, I might even hope for a GOG release. I have a hard time trusting Sony now since they started requiring PSN logins.
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 hours ago
They’re not requiring logins anymore. they’re going to taunt with exclusively bonuses. Foregoing the required login.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
They lifted it on four games but omitted some others, which isn’t great, and they’ve shown a willingness to patch this in after the fact, so I still don’t trust them. EA did the same thing with the likes of Jedi: Fallen Order and such, so they’re on the same shit list.
SolidShake@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Why? You have to login to Xbox for Xbox published games. You have to login into blizzard to play Diablo or overwatch fron steam, you have to log into EA launching from steam or Microsoft.
So why does a PSN account make you “untrusting”? You just want to cheat on those games or what?
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Even if I wanted to cheat in some old God of War games (I don’t), so what? Who does that hurt?
What I don’t trust, for good reason, is that that server will always be there to authenticate my game. Allegedly it requires talking to their server at first install, and that works now in the year 2025, but who’s to say it will be there in 2035?
Splinter Cell: Blacklist came out in 2013. A friend of mine bought it this past winter sale. The UPlay launcher that existed when that game came out has now been renamed and reworked, and the launcher that comes up when he tries to play it asks him for a product key that he was not provided (there is a function for this in the Steam overlay, and we checked, and it was not available for this game). Now I’m sure that he could eventually get it working if he had the patience to wait through Ubisoft support, but A) he shouldn’t have to, and B) what if Ubisoft goes out of business in the next couple of years? That’s not an unlikely scenario at this point, and all the online requirement did was introduce an additional point of failure in the thing that he paid money for. I’m old enough and have been playing games long enough to see these points of failure rear their heads plenty of times now.
The login requirement for the likes of Diablo 3 and 4 are exactly why I’m not buying Diablo 3 and 4. Honestly, even Steam’s DRM, which isn’t present on every game and usually works seamlessly, has still caused some friction for me lately, and every time it annoys me, I get that much closer to only buying games on GOG. The threat of these games getting an online requirement patched in after the fact is enough to make me rather emulate them than deal with that nonsense, if I was so inclined. If they put their games on GOG, I don’t have to trust them, because it’s impossible for them to do that to me.
SolidShake@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
That’s not how it works but okay 👍
Aielman15@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Sony has stopped releasing games on GoG ever since they required login to the PSN. For example, you can buy God of War and Horizon Zero Dawn on GoG, but you can’t buy Ragnarok or Forbidden West.
They lifted the requirement a few weeks ago, but the games still have not been released on GoG, and at this point it’s doubtful they will.
SolidShake@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
I buy games on epic. I have never purchased a game or have installed gog. Idk get a boner over denuvo removal as denuvo doesn’t effect the games I play
Grass@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
The history of sony data breaches. Also nobody wants any of those other accounts either, and diablo and overwatch look boring and manipulative as fuck and not everyone plays those. I haven’t touched an ea game since nhl 98 on snes. I wanted to play horizon, god of war, and spiderman and there is no justification for enforcing log in for any of those.