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Sony finally surrenders: PSN accounts will be 'optional' for games on Steam including Spider-Man 2 and The Last of Us Part 2, but they'll give you free stuff if you sign up
The stick didn't work out super well, so now it's time for the carrot.
Sony, having tried the stick to convince PC gamers to sign up for PlayStation Network accounts to access their games on Steam (with, let us say, mixed results), has now decided that maybe it's time to give the carrot a try. PC gamers, meanwhile, seem determined to make the whole thing as much of a headache as possible for Sony: Just days after God of War Ragnarok launched on Steam, for instance, someone whipped up a mod enabling players to bypass the PSN login requirement entirely. Honestly, I'm a little surprised it took Sony this long to figure it out, but I think it's a smart move: A PSN requirement for PC games is superfluous by just about any measure but if you're determined to run with it, you might as well do it in a way that's more likely to generate good PR than bad.
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