• ampersandrew@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Starting with this one, it’s a requirement on PC, yes. Hopefully they do away with it due to lost sales, but they’re still at least pretending that they’re somehow going to convert PC players into console players.

    • BadlyDrawnRhino @aussie.zone
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      2 days ago

      I don’t think that’s their goal at all. Otherwise we wouldn’t see any sequels released on PC, that would be a much better strategy for converting players to console. The only reason publishers require their own logins in games, at least for single-player titles, is data collection. Data is very valuable.

      • Billiam@lemmy.world
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        1 day ago

        don’t think that’s their goal at all.

        Literally their goal.

        As mentioned (via Tom Warren) by [Playstation co-CEO Hermen] Hulst in the interview, Sony wants to tempt PC players to purchase and play sequels to single-player narrative games on a PlayStation console.

        • helenslunch@feddit.nl
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          There’s their stated goal and their actual goals.

          Do you think they’re just going to come out and say that they want your data?