[STEAM] God of War Ragnarök Launches to ‘Mixed’ Steam User Reviews — With Most Complaining About the PlayStation Network Account Requirement

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has a ‘mixed’ user review rating on Steam following its PC launch, with most of the complaints revolving around Sony’s controversial PlayStation Network Account requirement.

Sony had made it clear on the **** of War Ragnarök Steam page that a PlayStation Network account would be required to play Sony Santa Monica’s purely single-player adventure, but that doesn’t seem to have prevented a number of negative reviews singling out the policy.

One negative Steam review, from a user who refunded the game after just 20 minutes of play, called out the PSN requirement. “Creating a PSN account was something I knew was necessary in advance and I was prepared to do so, until I was met with the reality of it,” they said. “For *** residents at least, it requires submitting a mobile phone number to verify your age just to start with, and if that fails (which it did, no texts were ever received) your only recourse is to submit a photograph of your face or a government-issued ID to a third party website. If you're happy with that, go right ahead.”

“Yeah I'm not linking my account to PSN especially for a single-player game,” reads another negative Steam user review, which also includes a list of Sony data breaches.

Sony’s PSN account requirement for its PC games was thrust into the limelight with the release of Arrowhead’s explosive PC and PS5 co-op shooter

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earlier this year. Helldivers 2 suffered a review ***** campaign on Steam after Sony made PSN accounts mandatory for PC gamers on Valve’s platform (

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, but the game ******** unavailable in the many countries that lack PSN. And indeed all Sony’s games on PC now suffer from this problem, which means **** of War Ragnarök is unavailable on PC in over 100 countries.

It seems unlikely that Sony will change its mind again for **** of War Ragnarök, which means the game may have to live with its ‘mixed’ Steam user review rating for some time. As for how popular **** of War Ragnarök is on PC, Steam's official concurrent figures show 25,471 playing at the time of this article's publication. That's down significantly on the PC launch of **** of War, which saw a peak of 73,529 players on Valve's platform.

**** of War Ragnarök continues the stories of Kratos and his now teenage soon, Atreus. The sequel was praised as an enthralling spectacle on its release,

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"Impeccable writing, pitch-perfect performances, knockout action – it’s a complete work of art from top to bottom. Reflecting its core themes, it's everything a sequel should be: respectful of its legendary lineage, but not afraid to take it to exciting new places," we wrote at the time. "**** of War Ragnarok is an almighty achievement and creates a new high that makes many of its peers look positively mortal by comparison."

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