But yeah, I could see Sony trying to expand their PSN store to general PC sales as well at some point.
To which I say... whatever. I already have Steam for PC digital sales. (And Gog, although until Gog gets serious and starts offering wallet code giftcards I can buy at a physical store like Steam does, they're probably going to continue to be up shit creek with regards to my wallet.)
And honestly they better not hope for much success in the PC market as a Steam competitor. More so than most others that have been trying to compete with Steam, Sony has a history of fucking up customer security. That's the biggest reason players are refusing to obtain even just link their PSN account to Hell Divers 2. So stand alone or on Steam, it won't be any difference to PC gamers[1]. If it was only available on PC via Sony directly, the people refusing to link their accounts would still refuse to buy it since the problems they have for it are linked directly to Sony's shitty reputation. (And it's not that Sony -can't- secure their systems. The whole infamous PSN hack from a decade+ ago was made worse because despite spending billions of dollars on encryption for their consoles and games, they made the decision to store customer information in human readable txt files. Which got stolen.
If I buy anything Sony, it'll be on a stand alone Sony console that's dissociated with anything important. And in that regard Sony's only probably 3-6 years before they're cut off from my wallet permanently as to this day I -still- haven't had the slightest inkling to buy a PS5 due to the horrible price tag, the horrible state of physical media, and the complete and utter lack of any must play game that's exclusive to the PS5. (All previous consoles at least had -something- to justify the console purchases, but those reasons have since become non-reasons. ie: the particular game franchises I had to get the console for either ended without further sequels (Ar Tonelico), or just became fairly shit in quality compared to the earlier games I loved. (Hatsune Miku Project Diva))
... that was more of a rant than I expected it to be. Oh well.
[1] Why is 'gamers' being flagged as a typo while 'gamer' is perfectly acceptable. I didn't realize there was only one gamer in the world.
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But yeah, I could see Sony trying to expand their PSN store to general PC sales as well at some point.
To which I say... whatever. I already have Steam for PC digital sales. (And Gog, although until Gog gets serious and starts offering wallet code giftcards I can buy at a physical store like Steam does, they're probably going to continue to be up shit creek with regards to my wallet.)
And honestly they better not hope for much success in the PC market as a Steam competitor. More so than most others that have been trying to compete with Steam, Sony has a history of fucking up customer security. That's the biggest reason players are refusing to obtain even just link their PSN account to Hell Divers 2. So stand alone or on Steam, it won't be any difference to PC gamers[1]. If it was only available on PC via Sony directly, the people refusing to link their accounts would still refuse to buy it since the problems they have for it are linked directly to Sony's shitty reputation. (And it's not that Sony -can't- secure their systems. The whole infamous PSN hack from a decade+ ago was made worse because despite spending billions of dollars on encryption for their consoles and games, they made the decision to store customer information in human readable txt files. Which got stolen.
If I buy anything Sony, it'll be on a stand alone Sony console that's dissociated with anything important. And in that regard Sony's only probably 3-6 years before they're cut off from my wallet permanently as to this day I -still- haven't had the slightest inkling to buy a PS5 due to the horrible price tag, the horrible state of physical media, and the complete and utter lack of any must play game that's exclusive to the PS5. (All previous consoles at least had -something- to justify the console purchases, but those reasons have since become non-reasons. ie: the particular game franchises I had to get the console for either ended without further sequels (Ar Tonelico), or just became fairly shit in quality compared to the earlier games I loved. (Hatsune Miku Project Diva))
... that was more of a rant than I expected it to be. Oh well.
[1] Why is 'gamers' being flagged as a typo while 'gamer' is perfectly acceptable. I didn't realize there was only one gamer in the world.