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Ghost Of Tsushima PSN Account Linking Requirements Prove Sony Learnt Nothing From Helldivers 2 (www.kotaku.com.au)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm curious if Sony had properly advertised their account creation requirement much earlier on if people would've accepted.

It's not even that they didn't properly advertise it. It's that they changed the requirements completely. Here's a before and after of one of their FAQ pages:

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Ahhh, good find! Yea that's the bait and switch then. I mean I guess I'm callous to publishers requiring accounts within their ecosystem but at least be upfront about it. That's just dirty.