Up until this point, a PlayStation Network account was not required to play the game on Steam.
    • MentalEdgeEnglish
      7·
      7 months ago

      Well if you link it, you will “gain the right to appeal a ban”.

      (This is not a joke it’s in the actual announcement from sony)

      • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        605·
        7 months ago

        Yeah I’m not making a 49th account to play a game I bought with my steam account. That’s just another attack vector for me to deal with. Especially when I’ve been playing on my steam account just fine. Not to mention, my PSN credentials have already been hacked from PlayStation once before after the account was banned. Someone was trying to login to it. So why the fuck would I trust them a second time? Its just more data to leak that’s mine.

        • Stovetop@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1024·
          7 months ago

          FWIW, no need for it to be an attack vector if you just use one of those throwaway email services to sign up for a PSN account you’ll never use anywhere else.

          • bitfucker@programming.devEnglish
            161·
            7 months ago

            And sony could mandate that the email be a real email, and if you get caught the account gets banned. Congrats, now you invented a game of whack a mole!

            • Stovetop@lemmy.worldEnglish
              21·
              7 months ago

              Could just make a throwaway account with Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, what have you, then. No real/personally identifiable information attached.

              Not saying I agree at all with what Sony is doing, but anyone who is concerned about their email/personal information getting leaked by something they didn’t want to sign up for, there are options to protect yourself.

              • RadimentriX@troet.cafe
                82·
                7 months ago

                @Stovetop @bitfucker why should people accept it though? They could play just fine without, why should they accept having to create an additional account and having to log into it every time they play the game? Of theres no shitstorm, this wont stop and might be done by other studios/publishers too

                • Stovetop@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  4·
                  7 months ago

                  They shouldn’t.

                  I am just saying, if the concern is about putting your email on another service, then don’t put your email. You can use a throwaway one if you just want to get through it and play, or if it’s a matter of principle and you don’t want to, that’s cool too.

                  Just offering my 2 cents on keeping personal information safe on the web. It’s often unsafe to put all your eggs in one basket and email is no exception, so having some “burner accounts” on hand can help.