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Dustin Bailey

Months after the Helldivers 2 fiasco, Sony drops PlayStation Network requirements on PC just in time for Spider-Man 2 and promises free stuff to get people to sign up instead

Spider-Man 2 PC.

After nearly a year's worth of PC ports with the controversial requirement that players sign into a PlayStation Network account in order to play, Sony is finally reversing course starting with this week's release of Spider-Man 2.

Today, Sony announced that signing into a PSN account in the PC versions of God of War Ragnarok and Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered, as well as the upcoming ports of Spider-Man 2 and The Last of Us 2, would reward players with various in-game items. Slightly buried in that announcement is the fact that you'll no longer be required to sign into PSN in order to play these games at all on PC.

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