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[–] [email protected] 56 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

"I vow to always maintain this"

So that was a fucken lie.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If I saw 20 articles pop up about my mod that directly violates TOS I’d also run for the hills. If journalists kept quiet it probably would’ve stayed up.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

How much trouble can you legally get in for this? It doesnt really seem like much. If anything this dude was helping them sell copies

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Even if he didn't do anything illegal, Sony has enough money and lawyers to hurt him. Unless a judge threw out any case early, he'd still have to defend himself, which cost money and takes time.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

True, I'm just wondering if he expected it to stay under the radar then or what. Cause this is probably the most sought after mod for Sony PC games.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Might have been one of those, "dog that caught the car" moments, where it got a lot bigger than he ever anticipated and didn't expect all of the attention.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Should have open sourced it, so it could be forked to infinity. Didn't look anything up so maybe its hosted somewhere idk

[–] [email protected] 48 points 3 weeks ago

I love all the comments implying this dude is a coward. Total armchair shit

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The game is cracked already; what's the point pursuing someone that just removes PSN from legal copies?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

There's a reason they want all the legal copies to have PSN login, if they were fine with it getting bypassed they wouldn't have made it a requirement in the first place

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago

Lock you into their eco system and sell more of your data

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

To sell them more games and merchandise and sell any data it collects.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Good. Fuck Sony

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Once you put it on the internet, it's there forever.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I could of sworn I read Sony decided to make the PSN account optional.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I think that was for Helldivers 2

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I just searched it, straight from playstations website:

https://direct.playstation.com/en-us/buy-games/god-of-war-ragnarok-pc

"Do I need a PSN account to play PlayStation games on PC?"

"No, you currently do not need a PSN account to enjoy PlayStation Studio games on PC, but you will need a Steam account to redeem your voucher code. Some of our PlayStation Studios titles also offer incentives for linking your Steam and PSN accounts."

Edit: Their website could be outdated, or incorrect? I just swear I saw an article title that Sony removed the requirement for PSN for Ragnarok PC.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Huh? Mod creator removed their own mod? I heard that Nexus Mods removed their mod.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago

Nope, Nexus posted that they had nothing to do with it coming down

[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 weeks ago

Called it. Not in this fashion, but called it.