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[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Sony could resolve this by allowing any country to register an account, but they don't lol

[–] FooBarrington 52 points 7 months ago

Or by making the PSN account an optional feature, the way these shitty integrations almost always were.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago

The better solution is to not force a third-party tie-in that doesn't really do anything

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

There are often legal issues to be resolved for each individual country. It's possible, but expensive. Ultimately, linking accounts at all is an unnecessary requirement that exists for Sony's benefit, not yours.