I have loved this game since I bought it about a week after launch, but never left a review because the overwhelmingly positive score from the community made me decide that my opinion would be merely a drop in a massive tsunami.

Then after a few months, Arrowhead and Sony announced that it would be mandatory to have a PSN account in order to continue playing the game, something I was not comfortable with nor willing to make one. The community backlash was massive, and I was worried this would be another game I would have to stop playing due to poor developer/publisher choices, forcing unwanted changes upon the community and making us give out more personal information to another company with an iffy record on cyber security.

But it has been announced that Sony has decided to no longer push through the update that would force all players to have a PSN account after a public backlash and a massive drop in review scores, and I wanted to do my part to show appreciation for the fact that the community was heard, and this unwanted change was scrapped.

Outside of all that, this game is excellent. It is tense, exciting and was my early GOTY contender. The whole PSN account thing has soured me on that opinion, but there is plenty of time for Arrowhead Studios to pull it back and earn back the goodwill from the community that these last 48 hours have burned through.

I have loved this game since I bought it about a week after launch, but never left a review because the overwhelmingly positive score from the community made me decide that my opinion would be merely a drop in a massive tsunami. Then after a few months, Arrowhead and Sony announced that it would be mandatory to have a PSN account in order to continue playing the game, something I was not comfortable with nor willing to make one. The community backlash was massive, and I was worried this would be another game I would have to stop playing due to poor developer/publisher choices, forcing unwanted changes upon the community and making us give out more personal information to another company with an iffy record on cyber security. But it has been announced that Sony has decided to no longer push through the update that would force all players to have a PSN account after a public backlash and a massive drop in review scores, and I wanted to do my part to show appreciation for the fact that the community was heard, and this unwanted change was scrapped. Outside of all that, this game is excellent. It is tense, exciting and was my early GOTY contender. The whole PSN account thing has soured me on that opinion, but there is plenty of time for Arrowhead Studios to pull it back and earn back the goodwill from the community that these last 48 hours have burned through.