Good news, if you’re planning to play Bungie extraction shooter Marathon on PC or Xbox, you won’t need to worry about having to log into a PlayStation Network account. Yep, it seems Sony might be learning its lesson from all the backlash its insistence in forcing this on some cross-platform games has landed it.
If you don’t know what I mean, I’ll direct you back to last year. You’re PlayStation. In Febuary, one of the live-service games you’re backing in a big way, Helldivers 2, comes out and immediately hits the ground running. People love it, and it doesn’t have PSN account linking as mandatory requirement. May hits and boom, you decide to make that linking mandatory. Cue lots of very unhappy players, and you quickly having to walk back your decision.
Anyway, it looks like Marathon’ll be avoiding all of that. “Marathon will not require a PlayStation Account for players on PC and Xbox” the Marathon team account has told players on the game’s official Discord server.
Nice, so folks picking up the Bungie shooter day one on those platforms shouldn’t have to run into this issue.
That said, it is worth noting that as our own Sherif has documented, the PSN account linking issue has been a much bigger deal for people living in areas of the world where PSN doesn’t operate, who found themselves unable to even buy some of the affected games in their countries. So, we’ll have to see where and how Marathon ends up fitting into that once it’s out, as a Sony-backed big online thing.
Anyway, this comes ahead of the Marathon showcase that Bungie has penned in for this weekend after going HAM on the visually disconcerting social media teases. So, you can tune into the game’s Twitch channel on Saturday, April 12 at 10am PT, 1pm ET, 6pm UK, 7pm CEST for that.
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