Well, they /are/ self regulated. Just not the way that anyone but them wants.

Looking for an invite. Will forward to 10 others in this post if it will allow me

What’s stopping someone from creating a new one. The devs? “Please select a username for your account” when creating your first character. After that you cannot change it, and is linked to all your characters. If you get reported, the report would include the account name = unique “John1836q83” getting banned.

This enforces band the same way as PSN linked email would do, but is all ingame and accessible to 100% of players that own the game.

If it is a simple popup that has 0 implications and is only visible when reporting, no one would care, and definitely not enough to boycott the entire game.

They obviously want to force psn account for other reasons.

I don’t even own the game. Im just saying, if their argument is unique identifiers, there are more ways than a third party solution. It’s not like they don’t have options. They chose this over any other solution. If they did a unique identifier ingame, no one would complain. So the reason they chose this is something else then being the only solution.

Why can’t they make a unique username when you create a character the first time that is just your “account name”? That would give you the samw powers as a psn username when it comes to banning. Edit:spelling