PlayStation hasn’t had the most effective time within the final week after it tried to implement a requirement for all Helldivers 2 gamers on Steam to hyperlink their accounts with a PlayStation Community Account.
To place it mildly, the Helldivers 2 neighborhood didn’t like that, and pushed again on it, which led to Sony reversing the choice. Nevertheless whereas that complete fiasco was ongoing, gamers started eager about future PlayStation video games coming to PC, with Ghost Of Tsushima being subsequent in line.
In response to a participant cancelling their pre-order as a result of account linking requirement, developer Sucker Punch confirmed that for gamers simply desirous to benefit from the recreation’s single-player marketing campaign, linking their Steam account to a PSN account shall be elective.
Nevertheless if you wish to dive into the sport’s on-line multiplayer mode, Legends, linking your accounts shall be required. It’ll even be required for those who needed to make use of the not too long ago revealed PlayStation overlay, which is much less of a shock since this additionally concerned linking your trophies to PlayStation video games on Steam.
“Simply so you might be conscious, a PSN account is required for Legends on-line multiplayer mode, and to make use of PlayStation overlay. It isn’t required to play the only participant recreation.”
Contemplating the backlash that Sony confronted over making an attempt this with Helldivers 2, it could possibly be that Legends gamers combat again simply the identical. The massive distinction right here although is that Ghost Of Tsushima is at the beginning a single-player recreation.
The Legends mode was an sudden add-on to an already nice recreation. Many gamers have sunk hours into it, and there’ll at all times be a portion of the Ghost Of Tsushima neighborhood that retains enjoying it, however it’s not the identical because the Helldivers 2 scenario, as a result of Helldivers 2 is totally an internet multiplayer recreation.
It also needs to be identified that Sucker Punch possible has much less leeway to argue this concern with Sony if it needed to, because of it being a first-party, Sony-owned studio, had been as Arrowhead solely has a second-party publishing relationship with Sony.
So within the case of Ghost Of Tsushima, you possibly can in all probability count on Sony to push by way of any unfavourable suggestions it receives over the account linking requirement. We’ll see how issues go when it launches on PC on Could 16, 2024.
Supply – [Sucker Punch]
