73 points

I feel kind of lame dying on this hill but I was going to finally buy this game this weekend and now I’m on the fence

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Don’t feel lame. I’m not buying it now. Requirements like these are taking over gaming and it’s asinine.

I’m not creating a new account for every new game I want to play. Ubisoft, Rockstar, EA, Sony, Microsoft… It’s absolutely maddening.

Half the reason companies do this is to spam your email address, track you, and sell your data.

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14 points

Yeah…not sure why I’d ever make a new PlayStation account to play a game on my PC…I haven’t had a console since the PS3 (and it was my roommate’s so no account)

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9 points

I want to play but not with a rootkit

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9 points

I played for 90 hours, it’s fun. But like many games where the narrative is determined by hundreds of thousands of people, it suffers from the Marvel Studios problem where nothing ever happens. The aliens destroy X planet and it gets rebuilt and everyone moves back. No attacks on super earth, two enemy types, mostly the same set of planets.

The gameplay loops are fun, but I have most stuff unlocked and was hoping the robots would really make an incursion, or the bugs would attack super earth. So far though, no dice.

For $40 and 90 hours of play, I can’t complain. It just doesn’t feel like it has the staying power of a DRG though.

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3 points

Yeah, I was initially invested in the whole meta narrative, but when we wiped out the bots and they just… Came back again lmao, I lost interest somewhat. I’ll still dip in here and there, it’s a fun game, but I would have liked to see the campaign be more emergent and the missions actually reflect what’s happening more.

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5 points

I bought this game, then couldn’t remember my PSN password, or recover my PSN account. Didn’t realize it was optional. But I got a Steam refund.

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15 points

Please do not make me jump through extra hoops to play your games, devs.

Even Paradox didn’t make me create an account to play C:S and devs shouldn’t aim lower than Paradox lol

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2 points

I read that the devs didn’t make this choice. Apparently Sony did.

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4 points

I’m right there with you

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-3 points

Buy it. The game is fun.

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28 points

Actually, considering the themes of the game, this is very Democracy.

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0 points

You’re confusing democracy with capitalism.

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8 points

You are confusing what the game calls Democracy to what it actually is.

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3 points

Ahh but what of Sony Managed Democracy?

I wonder who they will vote for me next year?!

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Man I really really hate the state of gaming right now…pay to win, in game currency, DLCs, half ass games made… I liked this game but this is by far stupid and makes no sense for me to continue playing. I honestly shouldn’t have to worry about “account linking” when buying a game on steam.

This feels like a bait and switch, why wasnt this mandatory and upfront from the beginning? They knew that would hurt sales…

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As I understand it, it’s in the TOS and it was not implemented on launch because of “bugs”.

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made a PSN account, verifying my email doesn’t work – just never sends an email no matter how many times I tell it to resend, I know the email works and I know it’s not in my spam folder. Can’t verify, can’t link accounts. Guess if Sony doesn’t fix their site or reverse course, I’m done playing in a month + out the money I spent on the game. Sucks, had over 200 hours in it, but I guess every game dies sooner or later.

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I’m thinking they believe this will fix the ongoing cross play issue, but from the sounds of it made things worse.

Me and my friends easily put in 50+ hours in 2 weeks, and then cross play stopped working since the start of March and none of us have touched it since as we wanted to spread democracy with the squad.

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20 points

I don’t think Devs are to blame. Sony sent them engineers when servers were failing and are probably expecting some goodwill back.

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21 points

Of course they are, they agreed to work with sony, they added or allowed sony to add this requirement.

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This

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Apparently this was always a planned feature but probably wasn’t ready for prime time at launch.

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