Razumen wrote on Oct 9, 2024, 00:31:
Roguesix swings and misses again. Being forced to login to a service that's banned in your country (~121 currently), for a product you already bought, which was being sold in countries that couldn't access it, because of said ban, or you'll lose access, is a pretty fucking damn valid complaint.

That was Helldivers 2 ages ago which tried to enforce it retroactively but where ya been, man? There have been plenty of games (new releases) with a non-retroactive Sony account linking requirement in the meantime and the toddlers of the gaming world have been screaming their lungs out over the alleged outrageousness of it all.

Double standards. Hypocrisy at its finest.

The simple truth is: Most gamers are not consistent on this but they only rage against additional account linking or launcher requirements if it is publishers that the hive mind has declared despicable.
Rockstar (and mostly Blizzard) for some mysterious reason get a free pass, even though especially Rockstar, by its association to Take2, who are making 80%+ of their revenue from the detested plague called MTX, is a really weird exception but it is the same hypocrisy, I guess.
MTX are only bad when EA, Ubi et al do it. MTX milking galore is totes fine when Rockstar/Take2 does it. It's called gamer "logic".