PSA: You'll Need A Microsoft Account To Play Sea Of Thieves On PS5, Unsurprisingly

Twitter is taking this soo nicely 😊
Gamers would never overreact to trivial things such as creating an account to access all the game features 😊

Makes sense. I have to have a PSN account for Helldivers 2.

Why is this news? Minecraft has done this for years. Including Dungeons and I am guessing Legends too...
Online game, with what would be MS servers.... MS account needed.

In other news you need a Square Enix account to play FFXIV

While I understand the requirement for playing an online game...

I miss the days of just putting a game into the system and playing.

I miss the days where Game Systems did not have user profiles!

@NoLifeDGenerate I am sure there are worse things in the world than having to make another account. Heck you had to make an account on here to comment Anyway, If you don't like it, just don't play the game.

On that note, other companies have been making you sign up for accounts for years but it more automated ways. I believe for most EA and Ubisoft games, you are auto created accounts for them linked to Steam/PSN/Xbox etc.

Good. Make them sign up to the green side 😏

@TwoDents i don’t think Stella Blade sales will affect sea of thieves at all, both are aimed at very different demographics. Not saying sea of thieves will succeed or flop but Stella blade makes no difference imo.

Just like you need an Activision account to play CoD for example and all that cross-play, cross-progression, voice chat etc...

Its a Microsoft game, using Microsoft servers so why is this a surprise? its not different to Minecraft or signing up to EA or Activision for their 'online' games.

The only thing that makes this 'news' is really the fact that Sony and Microsoft have been reluctant to release their games on each others platform. However , its no different from Sony requiring a PSN account for Helldivers 2 on PC or requiring an Activision account to play online in CoD enabling you to add friends on other platforms - I have some PS/PC players in my CoD friends list and can chat with them in 'game' without requiring EVERYONE to be in an Xbox Party for example...

@NoLifeDGenerate You are a very angry person 😂

@Fenbops they should have dropped Sea of Thieves at the same time as Skull & Bones lol That would have been interesting to see

@NoLifeDGenerate 20 years ago, if you bought CoD or Battlefield on 'Xbox' you could only play ONLINE with those on the same Platform as you. CoD Ghosts for example had Xbox 360, XB1, PS3, PS4 and PC versions but each had their 'own' player base.

Now if you buy MW3 or BF2042, you can play with everyone else who has MW3 or BF2042 regardless of what platform they are on. Not only that, you can also chat, add friends from other platforms. You don't 'need' them in your Xbox friends, don't need an Xbox party to chat etc.

Its a 'change' that's happened because the Circumstances and what most of the players want. If you could only play with other 'Xbox Series' owners, then your games would generally dire sooner, would be a 'worse' experience as fewest players online to fill lobbies, to minimise 'ping' and or facilitate faster match-making.

By 'refusing', that's literally like 'cutting your nose off to spite your face' type attitude. You want games filled with players, cross-play/cross-progression and all those other 'benefits' that come from this 'change' in requirements. If you only want to play with 'Xbox' gamers, or the game is only on Xbox, then Xbox online is sufficient but you can't play with PS in cod, have party/game chat with them without signing up to an Activision account...

@BAMozzy I get the reasons for why the accounts are required, but it would still be nice to have to option to remain single platform only and bypass the need for extra accounts. My default position is to disable cross play for any game that includes cross play with PC to avoid being placed in games with hackers and cheaters on there.

game companies like to annoy gamers.

There's no scenario where Microsoft "keeps everything on Xbox" going forward. How MF***ing PENTIMENT sells has zero impact on their grand strategy to become the world's largest 3rd party publisher, that was corpo-speak for the gullible who apparently ate it up. This is just softening the fanbase for what's coming.

Pretty sure this is crosssave and in order to make that work; you’d need Ms to be handprint the saves. Do people not read?

@TwoDents you think everyone is intrested in hack and slash with bodysuit lady that you cant take seriously? Even gow which is the biggest hack slash game is around 23m copy sold across ps4 5 and pc, which is far behind sea of thieves that reached 25m copy sold by 2021!!

Sea of thieves is a mainstream game and the genre is so diffrent than stellar blade and i dont think they will compete

Sea of Thieves is about to be the best live service game on Playstation.

@TwoDents iuno. all of my friends an myself have a PS5, pretty much all the systems and a gaming pc, but none of us are talking about stellar blade. we're just not all that interested tbh. Sure it looks neat but i'd probably just rather play devil may cry. The only times I see anyone talking about stellar blade is, shocker, places like this. Its very few.
Hopefully it does well but word of mouth really isn't happening with the game.

@GhanaViking nah uh, no way. It's not that good.

@CutchuSlow Name a better one

@GhanaViking gimme a list of live service games. N I'll pick one from the list. I don't really know what games are live service haha. I just know that I played a bit of sea of thieves and it was crap.