Why are people angry about God of War Ragnarok requiring a PSN account on PC?

Why are people angry about God of War Ragnarok requiring a PSN account on PC?

In case you missed yesterday’s PlayStation State of Play, one of the big announcements was God of War Ragnarok‘s PC port, which is set to arrive on September 19. So, here’s a thing people had been anticipating for a while.

It’ll come, as these kinds of PC ports often do, with all of the DLC for the game and some extra performance options. Though, it’ll require PC players to create a PSN account to pair with their Steam one – and here’s why that’s annoyed a lot of folks.

First of all, the fact that Ragnarok on PC will require a PlayStation Network account has been confirmed via the blog post about the game’s PC announcement, reinforcing what a statement flicked up during the State of Play broadcast itself seemed to suggest. The Steam page for it, meanwhile, features a prominently displayed text box that reads: “PlayStation Network Account required, subject to the PlayStation Terms of Services and User Agreement.”

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