Ghost Of Tsushima: Director’s Minimize On PC Is At The Prime Of Steam’s World Gross sales Charts, Although Unfavourable Evaluations Nonetheless Bemoan PSN Account Linking

Ghost Of Tsushima: Director’s Minimize launched on Steam at present, Could 16, 2024 and instantly shot as much as the highest of Steam’s international gross sales charts.

It’s principally been a optimistic launch, with the sport clearly beginning to promote nicely and gamers within the opinions principally having fun with their time. Based on SteamDB at time of writing, there are 53,878 individuals taking part in the Director’s Minimize on PC. It’s peak participant depend is presently 57,934.

All of this appears to level to a stable launch for a PlayStation Studios sport coming to PC. There don’t look like any large, game-breaking bugs inflicting the sport to be a farm for memes like when The Final Of Us Half I arrived on PC.

The place the unfavorable slant on this launch is coming from are loads of unfavorable opinions that each one bemoan the truth that gamers are required to hyperlink their Steam account to a PlayStation Community account to get all the things out of what they bought.

The sport’s most important marketing campaign and Iki Island DLC are each playable with out account linking. The multiplayer Legends mode is a distinct story, and gamers will probably be required to hyperlink their accounts ought to they wish to play Legends. This requirement additionally prevents Legends from being playable on Steam Deck.

There’s additionally the truth that resulting from this account linking requirement for one multiplayer mode in a sport that’s in any other case a totally single-player expertise, Ghost Of Tsushima has been delisted on Steam in 180 nations.

The backlash Sony acquired round attempting to require all Helldivers 2 gamers, and the continued try at pushing account linking even in principally single-player video games appears to be forming a cloud that can stick with all future PlayStation video games coming to PC.

Gamers are clearly conserving a watch out for these necessities. It’ll be curious to see if extra ports of PlayStation video games are marred by unfavorable opinions persevering with from gamers straight calling out the account linking necessities.

Supply – [SteamDB, Steam]