Sony’s biggest single-player games on PC will no longer require you to link to a PlayStation Network account to play them. In a press release Wednesday, the company said that linking a PlayStation Account will now be optional for select PlayStation titles on PC. The news hits just one day before Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 is set for release on PC.
PC gamers worldwide are celebrating the move today because there are many countries where the PlayStation Network isn’t available. For example, if you bought the Steam or Epic version of God of War Ragnarok on PC in, let’s say, the Dominican Republic, you technically wouldn’t be able to play it because PSN isn’t offered in that region. What added more salt to the wound was that it didn’t matter that God of War was a single-player game with no online or multiplayer component.
Before the move, players had to use mods to bypass the PSN login requirement. This method was risky because it required messing around the game’s files which was easy to screw up if you didn’t know what you were doing.
This became a bigger issue around the release of the Helldivers 2 PC version in 2024. The fan backlash against PSN account linking was so intense that fans resorted to review-bombing the game on its Steam page in protest. Sony later reversed course, lifting the need to link a PSN account to their Steam accounts to play the online co-op sci-fi shooter.
Users will no longer need to sign in to a PlayStation Network account to play first-party PlayStation single-player games on their PCs, such as God of War Ragnarok, Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, and Last of Us Part II Remastered. Other games like Ghost of Tsushima still require a PSN account to access online multiplayer.
Players who opt-in to sign into these games with an existing or new PlayStation Network account receive access to exclusive content like cosmetics or in-game currency.
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