God Of War Ragnarok‘s PC port followed Sony’s largely disliked strategy of requiring players to already have or create a PSN account to link to Steam in order to run. Luckily, we just learnedfrom VGCmodder iArtorias came to the rescue by creating a mod called NoPSSDK. It adds a small library that strips the game of its unnecessary PSN requirement.
Sony’s strategy could, on paper, make sense for multiplayer games. Still, this measure proved disastrous as it causedHelldivers 2to lose a devastating amount of players who lived in areas not covered by the PSN’s reach. Sony ended up reverting that decision, but a lot of damage had already been done to the confidence we all had in Sony.Concordmight have sadly been doomed from the start, but it also had this feature whose innate cumbersomeness certainly didn’t help it gain any favor among PC-only players.
This is an especially strange move since we’re talking about a single-player experience.Ghost Of Tsushima, the other big PlayStation title recently released on PC, didn’t feature this requirement and did just fine. At a time when even EA is starting to let its upcomingbig releases roam free on Steam, Sony should totally be taking the hint.
The mod has only been out for a few hours, but it has already been downloaded over two thousand times, in case you’re wondering how much everyone dislikes this feature.
You can now playGod Of War Ragnarokon PlayStation 5, and on PC via Steam, and you can download iArtorias’ quality of life improvement modright here at Nexusmods.
