You're probably familiar with the concept of the carrot and the stick. It's a metaphor for incentivization: You reward people who do what you want them to, and put a whoopin' on people who don't. Sony, having tried the stick to convince PC gamers to sign up for PlayStation Network accounts to access their games on Steam (with, let us say, mixed results), has now decided that maybe it's time to give the carrot a try.
Sony announced on the PlayStation Blog today, on the eve of the launch of Spider-Man 2 for PC, that the PlayStation Network account requirement for that game will in fact be optional, not mandatory. That will also be the case for the upcoming The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered, as well as the previously released God of War Ragnarok and Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered. If you don't don't want to bother with setting up and using a PSN account, you'll no longer have to.
