Forza Horizon 5 Will Require a Microsoft Account to Play on PS5

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• RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  This is just like how we all used to need to tune into ABC first before we could watch CBS. Remember? That was so bizarre.

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• hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Remember when Sony fans were laughing at Steam players for refusing to make a PSN account to play games on Steam, even going as far as saying “it’s just a sign in, what does it matter?”. Will the table has turned.

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• Aielman15@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Still waiting for MS to do something right this whole generation.

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  • NOT_RICK@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They put their games back on steam, that was nice

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    • DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They likely make a lot more money with their games on steam

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  • pycorax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Bringing a ton of their games to PC and the PC game pass has been pretty great. Guess it’s not so nice if you’re on the consoles or Linux I guess.

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  • whats_all_this_then@programming.dev ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Wdym, they made CoD Black Ops 6 /s

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  • icecreamtaco@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They make a good ergo keyboard (this is the only nice thing I can think of)

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• Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Sounds about right. Needing an account for third party crossplay is nothing new.

  This is the back of the Split Fiction box warning about needing an EA account and a billion other things.

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  • TORFdot0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Why do you need an account of any kind to play a single player game?

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    • jasoman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      To be fair, it is a forced co-op game.

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  • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Christ, I can’t believe I’m going to have to begin a comment with these words so early in my life…

    …but back in my day, the vast majority of the back of a game case was reserved to screenshots, and to describe the features and plot of a game. Not the intricacies of the T&Cs you need to agree to prior to playing!

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    • Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m young and even this has me gagging. Our Switch games definitely don’t look like that, although I do feel box art and blurbs on the back used to entice me more, but maybe that’s just because I’m not a kid anymore. But yeah this is fucking horrendous to look at 🤢

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    • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Exactly. You’d have a blurb, a barcode, and some screenshots from a better looking platform than the one you had.

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• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Imagine if the Goldeneye rerelease happened now.

  You’d have a game on the ps5, that requires PS+ to play online, but also needs a Nintendo Online account, AND a Microsoft account (since MS owns Rare).

  The future is dumb.

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  • Kelly@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The future is indeed dumb. The 2022 GoldenEye it’s own baggage.

    I don’t think Nintendo was willing to let Microsoft sell it as a physical product (collectors would view it as superior to Nintendo’s NSO requirement).

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• Viri4thus@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Where’s the helldivers II that caused a major fuss? This one is flying under the radar. Is it because Forza is just meh?

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  • Gerudo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Forza Horizon is a great arcade racer. This is the first I’ve heard about the requirement, so maybe after it spreads online, there will be more vocal pushback.

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  • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Helldivers 2 is different. The game already released, and then Sony tried adding PS Account requirement after many people had already bought the game.

    Forza Horizon 5 has not released on PlayStation yet.

    The Helldivers 2 things wasn’t that the game needed an account, it was because it was added on later. Its also different from games like Horizon Forbidden West or God of War Ragnarok because both of those are singleplayer games and should not require any kind of account to play the game as they do not have online gameplay.

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• ms_lane@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There is crossplay, so unless PlayStation wants to play on their own (which they’d have an even bigger cry about) this is required.

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  • nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Not necessarily. A good architecture could allow for crossplay between different kinds of accounts. They’re just taking the easy way out.

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  • SolidShake@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Omg 😱. This is like helldivers 2 on PC. We should boycott!!!

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• radix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  FH4 and 5 are effectively MMOs. There is plenty to do alone, and the other players can mostly be ignored, but it’s still a shared world.

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  • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Remove the first “M”, there are hardly any players on the map to save on server costs.

    I’ve played both a lot yet it’s not rare to spend 10 minutes without seeing a single other player.

    The games are fundamentally, very alone.

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• zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This is actually hilarious after the Sony accounts for steam games debacle

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• PattyMcB@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Not that I was going to play it anyway. Enjoy it if you want, though

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