God of War Ragnarok will require a PSN account

Pirate it. Simple as.

Unless it has denuvo of course

Require a PSN account? My first thought was "arrrrr, not I!"
I wonder if this move will be a good incentive for pirating Sony's games... I guess we will find out.
- For a live service game like Helldivers you could at least logically justify the account requirement but for an offline game like GoW it will just piss people.

wack, glad ratchet and clank came out before they decided to shoot themselves in the foot

Could come in a future update
Wonderful game, excellent port, no account or DRM or anticheat requirements... And yet it has abysmal sales on PC, go figure.

How do they justify some shitty account for an offline singleplayer game?

Even single-player games aren't single-player anymore with all the online-requiring bullshit publishers have shoved into their games. The game most likely comes with a fuckton of telemetry and user-behaviour tracking which is a lot more valuable to Sony if it can be attached to a specific user.
"Fuck you", that's their argument
At least with ghost of tsushima you only needed an account for the online co-op mode.
The same way Ubisoft, EA or whoewer else has their own fancy launcher.

Its an incredibly stupid thing but unfortunetly nothing new

Sony be losing their marrbles if they think PC player's won't disarrm this requirement quite arrbitrarily. The adventures of snarrling Kratos and his charrge Atreiu in Asgarrd will be played on PC with or without this farrce.

Also, I must also apologize for my grammarr. I find arrticulating parrticularly harrd.

No it wont 🏴‍☠️

There’s a fair amount of sailor talk around here. Any captains manage to get their booty to run on Linux? I tried ff7 remake to no avail

Of course! If it has an installer, run it through Bottles first.

Mount the ISO file in KDE/GNOME

Create a new bottle in Bottles

Open the bottle and select the executable on the mounted ISO to start

When choosing an install directory, install to the Z: drive if possible so you don't have to look for the files in your Bottles prefix

Follow the installer normally

Once done, you can either start the game directly in Bottles or create a non-Steam shortcut in Steam and select the exe of the game you just installed.

I prefer running it through Steam because then I always have access to the latest Proton versions.

Didn't try FF7 but played Alan Wake 2 like this.
- I've also noticed that for some repacks it is better to use a different runner to install and then switch to a gaming runner for running the game.
  
  edit: kron4ek specifically
These two guides are two worth looking into;

https://libreddit.eu.org/r/LinuxCrackSupport/comments/yzchfr/guide_how_to_run_fitgirls_games_on_linux/ixlo5ws/?context=3

https://redlib.vimmer.dev/r/LinuxCrackSupport/comments/tj80n0/the_definitive_linux_piracy_guidecheatsheet/

God dammit!

This is annoying in a way, but really, how is this any different than buying an EA or Ubisoft game on steam? I mean, besides that it’s actually a good game. This bullshit has been normalized for awhile and isn’t a surprise.

I believe the issue is they are way more region limited and you could buy the game but not be able to access it due to that region limitation.

Could be wrong, all I know is from the hell divers chaos
- They're delisting in regions without PSN. The irony of Helldivers is they backpedaled on PSN requirement but left it delisted in those countries. So people who already bought it can still play but new people can't buy, so the player base is steadily declining.
- Yeah, the previous Sony games on PC can be bought anywhere in the world but in Russia, yet the latest cannot be purchased in 170 countries, including some EU members like Estonia and Lithuania.
how is this any different than buying an EA or Ubisoft game on steam?

Who says it is different? Some time ago, I wanted to buy South Park: The Fractured but Whole on Steam, but when I saw the Ubisoft account requirement, I immediately close the tab.
- As you should, good job. I guess I failed to elaborate - I think unfortunately it will still sell very well, as has been demonstrated by other companies doing this. I don’t expect Sony to stop, they had the opportunity, are doubling down, and it does suck. I guess I have a hard time being outraged when really it’s nothing new. Same shit, different company.
It isn’t, and shouldn’t be normalised but criticised. Yet people buy into this shit anyway

"Looks like those bots didn't get the message the first time helldivers" "lock and load"

Just make a PSN account. Use a burner email if you’re concerned about vague corporate data mining. Or, alternatively, play something else.

This is arguably less about us few privileged having to create an account on a shitty platform, just like with ea and ubisoft, but more about people from 175 countries not even being able to buy the game just because Sony doesn't offer their services there even though it's a singleplayer game distributed through Steam like many of their past games.
- The Internet was supposed to free us of this antiquated regional bullshit. But companies made the decision to keep erecting picket fences.