Sony's decision to require a PlayStation Network login for the PC port of the single-player mode God of war Ragnarök is drawing expected levels of ire from frustrated PC gamers. Now, however, those angry players can do something about it thanks to a new mod that removes the PSN login requirement from the game entirely.
The NoPSSDK mod, hosted on NexusMods, promises to “completely remove the PlayStation PC SDK runtime requirement for god of war ragnarok.” The open source mod uses a simple Microsoft Detours library to bypass the game's calls to the PlayStation Network API without “touching.”[ing] or modify[ing] any original game code.”
The mod, which has already received an update related to the offline mode simulation, has been downloaded just under 2,000 times at the time of writing. “I'll try to keep the tool even if something changes, but I hope nothing crucial happens,” wrote the author of the iArtorias mod in a NexusMods post.
It's not a new problem
Sony initially required a PSN account to play the PC version of helldivers 2 in May, but backed away from that requirement after a few days of widespread complaints among the player base. However, weeks later, the PC release of Ghost of Tsushima It required a PSN account to access the game's online multiplayer Legends mode.