UPDATE: Sony backed down on the psn mandatory linking idea thankfully but i'll still keep everything i said below as a historical archive of sorts with my review. That being said, DEMOCRACY HAS PREVAILED AND WE CAN HELLDIVE ONCE MORE.

In all seriousness though, arrowhead deserves a ton of props for making an amazing game and holding true to their beliefs despite what their publisher wants. Financially their hands are tied but they pretty much agreed with the community on how bad the idea was in the first place.

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I understand the developers have done their best here and this is out of their control. The issue here is the publisher being sony, who have basically shot one of the best performing games of the year in the foot by asking for pc players to sign up with a psn account. It's not too late though and they can back out.

Note that this is unacceptable for 4 main reasons.

1. Nothing was really wrong in the first place. the game has it's anticheat and most pc players are using something reliable to sign in with authentic accounts such as steam.

2. Playstation network has a history of data breaches and having sensitive customer information stolen.

3. There are people who live in countries that dot not have access to the playstation network due to their government restricting the service. This is essentially robbing people of their purchase as they mostly have played the game long past the refund period.

4. It's just plain unethical business practice. You don't just sell a game only to change the requirements to play it several months down the road. Take a look at how that worked out for meta when they forced people to use their facebook account to sign in to their accounts at the time otherwise their hardware is basically a useless brick.

Either which way, if sony doesn't learn their lesson, and more companies continue with this unethical practice, it just makes things a lot easier for the law to change and fix issues like this. Until then unfortunately, we need to vote with our playtime and wallets and hope for the best.

UPDATE: Sony backed down on the psn mandatory linking idea thankfully but i'll still keep everything i said below as a historical archive of sorts with my review. That being said, DEMOCRACY HAS PREVAILED AND WE CAN HELLDIVE ONCE MORE. In all seriousness though, arrowhead deserves a ton of props for making an amazing game and holding true to their beliefs despite what their publisher wants. Financially their hands are tied but they pretty much agreed with the community on how bad the idea was in the first place. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I understand the developers have done their best here and this is out of their control. The issue here is the publisher being sony, who have basically shot one of the best performing games of the year in the foot by asking for pc players to sign up with a psn account. It's not too late though and they can back out. Note that this is unacceptable for 4 main reasons. 1. Nothing was really wrong in the first place. the game has it's anticheat and most pc players are using something reliable to sign in with authentic accounts such as steam. 2. Playstation network has a history of data breaches and having sensitive customer information stolen. 3. There are people who live in countries that dot not have access to the playstation network due to their government restricting the service. This is essentially robbing people of their purchase as they mostly have played the game long past the refund period. 4. It's just plain unethical business practice. You don't just sell a game only to change the requirements to play it several months down the road. Take a look at how that worked out for meta when they forced people to use their facebook account to sign in to their accounts at the time otherwise their hardware is basically a useless brick. Either which way, if sony doesn't learn their lesson, and more companies continue with this unethical practice, it just makes things a lot easier for the law to change and fix issues like this. Until then unfortunately, we need to vote with our playtime and wallets and hope for the best.