Ghost Of Tsushima: Director’s Reduce launched on Steam immediately, Might 16, 2024 and instantly shot as much as the highest of Steam’s world gross sales charts.
It’s principally been a constructive launch, with the sport clearly beginning to promote properly and gamers within the critiques principally having fun with their time. In response to SteamDB at time of writing, there are 53,878 individuals taking part in the Director’s Reduce on PC. It’s peak participant depend is presently 57,934.
All of this appears to level to a stable launch for a PlayStation Studios recreation coming to PC. There don’t look like any huge, game-breaking bugs inflicting the sport to be a farm for memes like when The Final Of Us Half I arrived on PC.
The place the detrimental slant on this launch is coming from are loads of detrimental critiques that each one bemoan the truth that gamers are required to hyperlink their Steam account to a PlayStation Community account to get every part out of what they bought.
The sport’s predominant marketing campaign and Iki Island DLC are each playable with out account linking. The multiplayer Legends mode is a distinct story, and gamers shall be required to hyperlink their accounts ought to they wish to play Legends. This requirement additionally prevents Legends from being playable on Steam Deck.
There’s additionally the truth that on account of this account linking requirement for one multiplayer mode in a recreation that’s in any other case a very single-player expertise, Ghost Of Tsushima has been delisted on Steam in 180 nations.
The backlash Sony acquired round making an attempt to require all Helldivers 2 gamers, and the continued try at pushing account linking even in principally single-player video games appears to be forming a cloud that may stick with all future PlayStation video games coming to PC.
Gamers are clearly retaining an eye fixed out for these necessities. It’ll be curious to see if extra ports of PlayStation video games are marred by detrimental critiques persevering with from gamers straight calling out the account linking necessities.
Supply – [SteamDB, Steam]
