What you need to know
- Two years after its debut on PS5, the award-winning God of War Ragnarök finally came to PC and Steam last week. However, it's been marred in controversy, as players have been vocally critical of a PlayStation Network (PSN) requirement Sony added to the game.
- The PSN requirement prevents players from playing the single player game if they do not create a PSN account, and has made the game impossible to buy in over 170 territories where PSN isn't available. It also stops people from playing it offline, as it's effectively a form of always-online DRM.
- Shortly after the release of the PC port of Ragnarök, Nexus Mods user iArtoriasUA created a mod called NoPSSSDK for it that allowed players to bypass this requirement and play without a PSN account.
- However, the mod has now been mysteriously taken down without explanation or reason. Nexus Mods reports that the author was responsible for the removal and has "reached out" to find out why, though a recent statement from iArtoriasUA suggested they planned to keep it up and maintained as much as possible.
