Nexus Mods says the creator of the God of War Ragnarok PSN bypass mod has taken it offline

A modder named iArtorias took matters into his own hands by removing the PSN requirement. iArtorias' NoPSSDK mod, which was downloaded thousands of times by Nexus Mods before it was removed, “completely removes the PlayStation PC SDK runtime requirement for God of War Ragnarok.”

However, since the mod removed the PSN overlay from the game while mimicking an offline mode, it was used to bypass the linking requirement between PSN and Steam account. IGN verified that the mod worked before removing it.

In a post earlier this week on Nexus Mods, iArtorias promised to keep his mod even if Sony updates God of War Ragnarok to combat it. “I will try to keep the tool even if something changes, but hopefully nothing decisive happens,” they said.

But today, September 26th, the mod is no longer available on Nexus Mods or Github. In a tweet, Nexus Mods insisted that NoPSSDK had been removed from its website “by the author” and tried to find out why. It's likely that Sony judged the iArtorias mod poorly, but it's unclear at this point whether the company has contacted the mod to request its removal or whether iArtorias has taken it upon itself to do so . IGN attempted to contact iArtorias about Nexus Mods and has reached out to Sony for comment.

Prior to the mod's removal, iArtorias had received requests to release a similar mod for other recently released Sony PC games such as: Ghost of Tsushima. Ghost of Tsushima requires a PSN account for Legends online multiplayer and use of the PlayStation overlay, but is not required to play the single-player game.

With the release of Arrowhead's explosive PC and PS5 co-op shooter, Sony's PSN account requirement for its PC games came into the spotlight Helldivers 2 Earlier this year. Helldivers 2 suffered a bombshell review campaign on Steam after Sony made PSN accounts mandatory for PC gamers on Valve's platform (Subsequently, Arrowhead decided to convert the Steam user rating history graph into a cape, which is ready to launch but has not yet been released).

Sony eventually backed down and revoked the PSN account requirement for Helldivers 2but the game remains unavailable in the many countries where there is no PSN. And in fact, all of Sony's PC games now suffer from this issue, meaning God of War Ragnarök is not available on PC in over 100 countries.

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