[georgemcbay]

> The main issue was that it was not actively enforced due to server issues at the time - which the studio CEO acknowledged:

I'd say the bigger issue is that Sony listed the game for sale in many countries in which the requirement to have a PSN account could not be met because Sony doesn't offer PSN there.

If PSN were available in all of those countries then having the requirement listed (which of course nobody reads, because we're programmed to ignore that sort of thing) would be a reasonable out and I'd be fine with telling people to suck it up and make a free PSN account, but the unrestricted selling in regions in which that requirement can't be met was a huge fuckup that's entirely on Sony (and likely why Steam rightfully started giving people no hassle refunds).