Phew, Marathon is set to avoid a PSN account requirement on non-PlayStation platforms, hopefully suggesting Sony’s finally learned its lesson from the likes of Helldivers 2 | Gaming

Good news, if you’re planning to play Bungie extraction shooter Marathon on PC or Xbox, you won’t need to worry about having to log into a PlayStation Network account. Yep, it seems Sony might be learning its lesson from all the backlash its insistence in forcing this on some cross-platform games has landed it.

If you don’t know what I mean, I’ll direct you back to last year. You’re PlayStation. In Febuary, one of the live-service games you’re backing in a big way, Helldivers 2, comes out and immediately hits the ground running. People love it, and it doesn’t have PSN account linking as mandatory requirement. May hits and boom, you decide to make that linking mandatory. Cue lots of very unhappy players, and you quickly having to walk back your decision…more

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