Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered forces PSN login for PC users if they decide to upgrade

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So many people defending this, is insanity. $10 is still $10, which I'll save to put into a different game.

Sony still releasing games on PS4. Still remasters PS4 game.

I'm on the side that a remaster of a PS4 gen game dumb, but HZD was always the butt of the joke in regard to those awful generic bobblehead animations during every single dialog. It was laughably bad. With the reveal trailer, it does make a pretty big difference. Everything else? Not so much.

If this had been a PC game all along, these animation overhaul would have been a patch of the original game, but since the trailer insists that they re-recorded all motion captures for the dialogs of the whole game, they get to sell it full price again.

I genuinely don't understand it, the game itself is gorgeous.

There was a lot of noise surrounding GOG a few months back about something like that. GOG was going in that direction but had to pull back/remove the game(?) to due backlash.

Exactly. Don't reward this kind of behavior.

Unfortunately, we Americans have proven that most of us would sell our very souls for the smallest convenience...and corporations know it.

I've watched gamers en masses say this shit for 15+ years, and you know what's interesting? These companies STILL do it.

EA still sucks. Ubisoft still sucks. Layoffs are still happening. Corporatization still rules. DLC still went rampant. Games as a service still is a thing.

Interesting.

Almost like boycotting and hand wringing and rambling endlessly with whiny virtue signaling online hasn't made a difference at large.

The people that

bitch about it

probably aren't the same people buying remastered games on release.

I'm boycotting EA since Origin and Ubisoft since UPlay, don't use Epic and I think I only bought one Denuvo title before boycotting them as well. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The problem is more that most people don't give a shit in the first place.

I honestly respect the people going so far to buy the game just to badly review and then refund it. I just don't buy games with such stupid crap (well, except Doom Eternal which I bought because I overlooked the rather small golden box and actually even forgot that I linked a Bethesda account years earlier for some freebie or whatever it was).

I think it's more that the vast vast majority of people just do not see creating or using an account as a negative.

You can avoid the upgrade by not paying for it.

There's no way they're giving you an "upgrade" for free. Don't worry, as long as you don't pay for it, you're not getting the new version.