• Corroded@leminal.space
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    9 months ago

    I am curious how this is going to effect the number of active players. I know a lot of people who were trying to get me to play this saying it was here to stay and not a trend like a Lethal Company but I feel like this hurdle might be enough to get them to give up.

    I definitely have a low level of tolerance for Russian nesting dolls of accounts and launchers.

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      9 months ago

      I bought the game on release week. I don’t play often but when I do it’s with friends. After hearing about this incident my plan was to wait a few days or a week to see how it resolves before deciding if I want to refund the game. However, enough of my friends have already refunded the game that, if they don’t come back, I likely won’t be playing much if at all anyway so I’ll probably refund the game this week as well, especially if nothing changes.

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      9 months ago

      I’d be surprised if it really has much of an impact on number of players tbh.

      Most people don’t care, Lemmy/Reddit are a vocal minority.

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        9 months ago

        The game racked up over 10k negative reviews in 90 minutes yesterday. People are pissed. There’s also the issue of PSN only being available in a about a third of all countries.

        I just uninstalled the game over this and I have 350+ hours.

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      9 months ago

      I didn’t get the game because it’s packed full of all the terrible corporate stuff you see in terrible corporate games. Always Online, Rootkit anticheat, in-game store to purchase items when the game is already expensive. I doubt adding “must give your information to Sony” is going to be the tipping point for anyone who is fine with everything else.

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        9 months ago

        Why does a fully cooperative game needs an anti-cheat software in the first place. I don’t give a fuck about cheaters as long as its not competitive. Deep rock galactic for example works great without all of this bullshit.

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      9 months ago

      I signed into an old PSN account when I first downloaded the game near launch. It is in game. No launcher. I signed in once and forgot about it until right now. Not really a big deal. If your worried about security make some bogus email up and make an account that way. But other than signing in one time it hasn’t been a deal. 🤷‍♂️

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        9 months ago

        Yeah, I used my old PS3 account. I didn’t even think twice about it. I’m not sure why people are freaking out about it?

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          I play with a couple of friends in the Baltics. I have PSN. There is no PSN in the Baltics. So I guess I can’t play with the friends I solely bought this game for.

          Just because it doesn’t affect you doesn’t mean it’s silly to complain about this.

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              9 months ago

              No because it is not available in their country, and making an account with a region different from your Steam account would have inherent EULA risks.

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                9 months ago

                Hopefully Sony will see this as the biggest problem and do something about it. I don’t think these people should have been able to spend money on this for it to be taken away, but that’s a storefront issue as well. Steam and Sony will have to make some decisions about this, cause it wasn’t thought out and implemented very well. They should’ve had some stronger safeguards.