Sony say their PSN account requirement on PC is so you can enjoy their games 'safely'

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Zippy Bot · 5 days ago

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“Safety” because they are incapable of uploading a clean game to steam?

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Also, this used to be on their website before they realised just how much data they could hoover from PC sales.