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[–] Stern@lemmy.world 115 points 2 days ago (2 children)

There is no good reason, even with plenty of advance warning, to require a third party account for a single player game.

[–] TBi@lemmy.world 9 points 23 hours ago

Yep. On the older games, and Spider-Man, it was optional but you get cool stuff if you do. Why not keep it optional?

[–] nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yup. I get why some people might not care, but I don't understand the people trying to defend this.

Would these people defend drinking a Verification Can™ as well? After all, it only takes a few seconds.

[–] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

Oh man, I'd forgotten the verification can thing. There's a blast from the impending dystopian past