They made the agreement to enforce signing in with a PSN account. Then the game blew up. He made the decision to roll back that temporarily to sustain the servers. He admitted it on Twitter. The buck stops with him.
The fuck do you mean "narrative" lmao it's literally verbatim what happened. He did do the right thing for the health of the game at the time. It doesn't change the fact it's his decision.
Nah. People were going to lose access to something they paid for just so Sony could pump up MAU numbers.
this should be a moral lesson for future children: "the fruits of sony stinginess"
It is also easier for Sony to ignore the written account restrictions within the Playstation ecosystem that they fully control then it is to get Valve to ignore the same written limitations on behalf of Sony (especially while a controversy over the issue is ongoing).
According to these posts they're working on it, might be a short while, though:
Well if it was implemented day one, then presumably the game just would not have been sold in those territories from day one. I fully believe the reason there was a backpedaling here is because they didnt from day 1 think to restrict availability of this game in territories where PSN isn't available. Had they thought to do that then this update likely drops unabated and there probably isn't the same level of blowback to all this. There's a difference between allowing people to buy a thing only to arbitrarily taking it away months later and never selling a thing in a territory from day one. Selling a thing only to take it away is going to generate significantly more outrage than never selling a thing somewhere would.
