Like most PlayStation first-party games, God of War Ragnarök requires a PSN account. A fact that we've known about since the State of Play earlier this year, alongside a short blog post that mentions this in italics at the bottom of the page.

This might sound familiar: Steam users are frustrated with a PlayStation first-party game on the PC storefront because it requires a PSN account. Well, this time PC players are review-bombing God of War Ragnarok because of the log-in demand.

God of War Ragnarok‘s PC launch hasn’t been well-received, if player response on Steam is anything to go by. Not only is the game being review-bombed, thanks in no small part to its PSN integration requirement,

God of War Ragnarok PC requires 6GM of VRAM to even recognize a graphics card, despite being advertised as being able to run on both the GTX 1060 and RX 5500 XT. Both were released with versions with less. Thankfully, with this workaround, I could boot into the game and start my PC review of God of War Ragnarok.

Ragnarök’s PC port. I was hoping this would be a chance for me to reassess a game I probably played under the wrong circumstances (rushing to the end because I had to know what happened). Unfortunately,

It’s been exactly four days since the bombastic PS5 system-seller God of War Ragnarök landed on PC… and modders are already hard at work on it. One of their first priorities? Stripping the game of its Sony software hooks,

Ragnarök PC bypasses PSN login requirement. God of War: Ragnarök's PC port has more problems than PSN, including performance and crash issues on powerful PCs. The PC gaming community will likely continue to buttheads with Sony if their anti-player behavior continues.