Okay so THAT makes sense, people for whom a PSN account is simply impossible will not be able to play, THAT is worth being mad about. But we are absolutely not just seeing outrage from players in countries where they CAN’T have a PSN account, we’re seeing outrage from people who could and just don’t want to.
What I’m trying to understand is why. I get that it’s a greedy data-grab from Sony that is fully not necessary, but also… it’s just not a big ask. They’re not asking for your credit card, they don’t want your social security number, I don’t even think there’s anything keeping you from telling them that your name is “Bofa Deeznutz.” I get wanting to control your data, and I would absolutely suggest a randomly generated super-strong password, but it just seems to me like everyone so angry that they’re quitting just… has a pretty easy fix for that.
So for MOST of us, it really, really is just having yet another account. The few who genuinely don’t have that option are right to be angry, but for most of us it really just seems like an overreaction.
Yeah, and yet I’m on PC using Steam. If I’d wanted PSN, I’d bought a Playstation.
The same secondary account bullshit applies to Ubisoft, Origin, and all of their buddies. Honestly, Steam should simply refuse to list games that require that, since they could simply use your account, but yeah, money.
It may also end up using their account for other tasks like backups, and what if I forget that super strong password I made 5+years ago and Sony decides I can’t get that account back.
I had a PS3 with accounts I wanted to come back to, and without Sony’s approval they can just lock you out, even if you have the old email it was linked to, along with some transaction information. Locked out of games I paid for. We’ve seen plenty of hostility towards this practice from publishers, but Sony is big enough they can skate by.
Okay so THAT makes sense, people for whom a PSN account is simply impossible will not be able to play, THAT is worth being mad about. But we are absolutely not just seeing outrage from players in countries where they CAN’T have a PSN account, we’re seeing outrage from people who could and just don’t want to.
What I’m trying to understand is why. I get that it’s a greedy data-grab from Sony that is fully not necessary, but also… it’s just not a big ask. They’re not asking for your credit card, they don’t want your social security number, I don’t even think there’s anything keeping you from telling them that your name is “Bofa Deeznutz.” I get wanting to control your data, and I would absolutely suggest a randomly generated super-strong password, but it just seems to me like everyone so angry that they’re quitting just… has a pretty easy fix for that.
So for MOST of us, it really, really is just having yet another account. The few who genuinely don’t have that option are right to be angry, but for most of us it really just seems like an overreaction.
Yeah, and yet I’m on PC using Steam. If I’d wanted PSN, I’d bought a Playstation. The same secondary account bullshit applies to Ubisoft, Origin, and all of their buddies. Honestly, Steam should simply refuse to list games that require that, since they could simply use your account, but yeah, money.
It may also end up using their account for other tasks like backups, and what if I forget that super strong password I made 5+years ago and Sony decides I can’t get that account back.
I had a PS3 with accounts I wanted to come back to, and without Sony’s approval they can just lock you out, even if you have the old email it was linked to, along with some transaction information. Locked out of games I paid for. We’ve seen plenty of hostility towards this practice from publishers, but Sony is big enough they can skate by.