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[โ€“] rayquetzalcoatl 38 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

This happened with Helldivers, everybody forgave them and immediately rewarded them by continuing to play/buy, and then they turned around and stuck PSN account requirements on a tonne of other games. Looking forward to the same cycle happening again very soon ๐Ÿซก

[โ€“] Kelly 18 points 23 hours ago

An account for PlayStation Network will become optional for these titles on PC.

https://blog.playstation.com/2025/01/29/new-in-game-content-incentives-coming-to-playstation-games-on-pc/

This is very explicitly not making any promises beyond these 4 titles. :\

[โ€“] Duamerthrax 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I was gonna try HD2 when I upgraded my machine, but swore it off when that shit happened.

[โ€“] rayquetzalcoatl 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Good choice. I haven't really kept up with new releases for a few years as the mainstream of the industry started to feel more and more like a scam, but I wonder if anybody's ever done studies comparing the percentage of people with short term memory issues, and the percentage of people who play video games -- because video game consumers seem to forget getting screwed over and constantly get surprised when they reward bad behaviour lol