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Very rare for a multibillion dollar company to bend the knee.

All it took was a 3-4 day campaign of PR hell, and refunds from around the globe to get them to move an inch.

I bet Sony has a backlog issue to make account creation globally available. Then at that point, there will be nothing to stop them from forcing it down everyones throat.

What I have heard is that in some countries (UK?), Sony requires identity verification to register an account ( similar to “id.me” or login.gov) for a gaming service.

Shit is wild



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