At the time of pre-ordering, there was no indication on the store page that an Epic login (yes, even without direct account creation) was required for online play, especially since you can't play with PS4 and PS5 players at all. It is also absolutely incomprehensible why EOS is installed even if you only play the single-player mode and is constantly running in the background...
EDF 4.1 and EDF 5 got by without it, it's a real shame that it's different here now...

At the time of pre-ordering, there was no indication on the store page that an Epic login (yes, even without direct account creation) was required for online play, especially since you can't play with PS4 and PS5 players at all. It is also absolutely incomprehensible why EOS is installed even if you only play the single-player mode and is constantly running in the background... EDF 4.1 and EDF 5 got by without it, it's a real shame that it's different here now...