Excellent news, should you’re planning to play Bungie extraction shooter Marathon on PC or Xbox, you will not want to fret about having to log right into a PlayStation Community account. Yep, it appears Sony may be studying its lesson from all of the backlash its insistence in forcing this on some cross-platform video games has landed it.
If you do not know what I imply, I will direct you again to final 12 months. You are PlayStation. In Febuary, one of many live-service video games you are backing in an enormous means, Helldivers 2, comes out and instantly hits the bottom operating. Folks find it irresistible, and it does not have PSN account linking as necessary requirement. Might hits and growth, you resolve to make that linking necessary. Cue plenty of very sad gamers, and also you shortly having to stroll again your resolution.
Anyway, it seems to be like Marathon’ll be avoiding all of that. “Marathon is not going to require a PlayStation Account for gamers on PC and Xbox” the Marathon staff account has informed gamers on the sport’s official Discord server.
Good, so of us selecting up the Bungie shooter day one on these platforms should not must run into this situation.
That stated, it’s price noting that as our personal Sherif has documented, the PSN account linking situation has been a a lot greater deal for folks dwelling in areas of the world the place PSN does not function, who discovered themselves unable to even purchase a number of the affected video games of their international locations. So, we’ll must see the place and the way Marathon finally ends up becoming into that after it is out, as a Sony-backed massive on-line factor.
Anyway, this comes forward of the Marathon showcase that Bungie has penned in for this weekend after going HAM on the visually disconcerting social media teases. So, you may tune into the sport’s Twitch channel on Saturday, April 12 at 10am PT, 1pm ET, 6pm UK, 7pm CEST for that.
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