- Shortly after the release of the PC port of Ragnarök, Nexus Mods user iArtoriasUA created a mod called NoPSSSDK for it that allowed players to bypass this requirement and play without a PSN account.
- However, the mod has now been mysteriously taken down without explanation or reason. Nexus Mods reports that the author was responsible for the removal and has "reached out" to find out why, though a recent statement from iArtoriasUA suggested they planned to keep it up and maintained as much as possible.
Just a few days after the PC launch of
God of War Ragnarök and the subsequent release of a mod that allows players to bypass Sony's controversial PlayStation Network (PSN) sign-in requirement, the mod has been taken down without any explanation or reasoning. At the time of writing, it is no longer available to download from GitHub or the hosting site Nexus Mods.
Titled "NoPSSDK" by its author iArtoriasUA, the mod works by using a .dll file placed into the game's folder to disable its PSN interface and “fully strips the PlayStation PC SDK runtime requirement for God of War Ragnarök.” Aside from letting fans skirt around the need for a PSN account, this also effectively allowed them to play Santa Monica Studio's action-adventure title while offline — something that isn't possible with the PSN requirement, as it serves as always-online DRM.
At the moment, it's not clear why the project has gone offline, though
Nexus Mods reports that iArtoriasUA is responsible for its disappearance. "By the way: We've noticed that the popular PSN-bypass mod for God of War Ragnarök has been removed from our site by the author, and so we've reached out to find out why," reads a post from the site's official X (Twitter) account shared Wednesday morning.
With that in mind, a natural assumption to make is that Sony got involved somehow, though that can't be said for certain since there's no concrete evidence of the firm doing so. Still, given that the mod had already racked up several thousand downloads in just a couple days, I can't imagine Sony was happy about a popular workaround for its policy.
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