God of War Ragnarök has a ‘blended’ consumer assessment ranking on Steam following its PC launch, with most of the complaints revolving round Sony’s controversial PlayStation Network Account requirement.
Sony had made it clear on the God of War Ragnarök Steam web page {that a} PlayStation Network account could be required to play Sony Santa Monica’s purely single-player journey, however that doesn’t appear to have prevented a quantity of unfavorable critiques singling out the coverage.
One unfavorable Steam assessment, from a consumer who refunded the recreation after simply 20 minutes of play, referred to as out the PSN requirement. “Making a PSN account was one thing I knew was obligatory upfront and I used to be ready to achieve this, till I used to be met with the actuality of it,” they mentioned. “For UK residents not less than, it requires submitting a cell phone quantity to confirm your age simply to begin with, and if that fails (which it did, no texts had been ever acquired) your solely recourse is to submit {a photograph} of your face or a government-issued ID to a 3rd get together web site. In case you’re pleased with that, go proper forward.”
“Yeah I am not linking my account to PSN particularly for a single-player recreation,” reads one other unfavorable Steam consumer assessment, which additionally features a record of Sony information breaches.
Sony’s PSN account requirement for its PC video games was thrust into the limelight with the launch of Arrowhead’s explosive PC and PS5 co-op shooter Helldivers 2 earlier this 12 months. Helldivers 2 suffered a assessment bomb marketing campaign on Steam after Sony made PSN accounts obligatory for PC players on Valve’s platform (Arrowhead subsequently determined to flip the consumer assessment historical past graph right into a cape, which is prepared for launch however has but to launch).
Sony finally backed down and reversed Helldivers 2’s PSN account requirement, however the recreation stays unavailable in the many nations that lack PSN. And certainly all Sony’s video games on PC now undergo from this drawback, which suggests God of War Ragnarök is unavailable on PC in over 100 nations.
It appears unlikely that Sony will change its thoughts once more for God of War Ragnarök, which suggests the recreation might have to dwell with its ‘blended’ Steam consumer assessment ranking for a while. As for the way standard God of War Ragnarök is on PC, Steam’s official concurrent figures present 25,471 enjoying at the time of this text’s publication. That is down considerably on the PC launch of God of War, which noticed a peak of 73,529 gamers on Valve’s platform.
God of War Ragnarök continues the tales of Kratos and his now teenage quickly, Atreus. The sequel was praised as an enthralling spectacle on its launch, incomes a ten in IGN’s assessment.
“Impeccable writing, pitch-perfect performances, knockout motion – it’s a whole work of artwork from high to backside. Reflecting its core themes, it is all the pieces a sequel ought to be: respectful of its legendary lineage, however not afraid to take it to thrilling new locations,” we wrote at the time. “God of War Ragnarok is an almighty achievement and creates a brand new excessive that makes many of its friends look positively mortal by comparability.”
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