Halo: Campaign Evolved PS5 split-screen needs Xbox account and PS Plus
Halo: Campaign Evolved on PS5 requires each split-screen player to have a Microsoft/Xbox account and an active PlayStation Plus membership. Players must link their PSN profiles to Microsoft accounts, and the game scales difficulty based on the number of co-op players. That means local couch co-op now demands two paid PS Plus subscriptions and account linking on a single PS5. This matters because it adds cost and setup friction for households who just want simple two-player split-screen play.
Halo: Campaign Evolved split screen on PS5: "both accounts will need to have PlayStation Plus and be linked to a Microsoft account. Having these active PlayStation Plus subscriptions will also provide access to online co-op play." www.halowaypoint.com/news/june-co...
oshata.bsky.social204lol needing an online account to play local co-op… guess I’ll be playing on OG with the Duke
Ultima*110In the span of three days Xbox has introduced “cancelling games then announcing them” AND “you have to pay for split-screen”. Two things I both haven’t heard of before and am shocked exist because of how stupid they are, even for *this* industry. MS is really finding new and innovative ways to suck!
Damon 53No one is going to play this will they
LuigiXHero42This is very clearly to make PlayStation the worst way to play the game, what bullshit.
Ajay Kundlas38Nintendo has a console you can just pop controllers off of and be playing local multiplayer in 5 seconds. Meanwhile they're asking you two subscriptions just for the same privelge. The fuck is this??????????????
Peter G20Remember when the Xbox 360 let you sign in on multiple accounts at the same time to play online and earn achievements? Why have we gone backwards?
Jordan Vulich15Why do both accounts need playstation plus to do splitscreen, and if its online only....WHY HAVE SPLITSCREEN AT ALL
limp007.bsky.social13this is just so fucking ridiculous.. just the fact that you HAVE TO have a second account for fucking split screen is just wild and then on PS you NEED both of them to have PS+?? What is fucking wrong with this industry..
𝙎𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙁𝙤𝙭™13I miss when game went in system, handed friend controller, played game, had fun.
Hunter Ɐ12Microsoft, you're fucking up bud
Matcha (He/Him) ☭🇵🇸10no thanks, I'll just play a crack instead, this shit is too much effort
Ripley The Fairy9This is like what Sony did with Steam players, requiring a PSN login even with single player games, which went famously well and everyone loved it 🤣
Philnemba 2.0 PNGtuber arc 😈🎮🏳️🌈🔞9Needing to have an Xbox Live account in general just to play offline local coop just sounds absolutely ludicrous 💀
Koda89 - ENVTuber ^( ;,; )^8Dawg, you seriously need 4 total accounts, 2 of them Microsoft/Xbox accounts, and 2 of them paid PlayStation Plus subscriptions linked to the aforementioned MS/Xbox accounts, to play Halo: Campaign Evolved in split-screen co-op on PS5. *deep inhale*
Fabi, tatsächlich ✨️7Do we also need the GameCube to GBA Link Cable ™️?
dracojill.bsky.social7Someone should tell Xbox that I don't need more reasons to not buy their games.
stvcortina.bsky.social6Have to point out that the the PlayStation Store has the game as "Online play required", NOT "Online play optional". Meaning the game has to be connected to the internet at all time, even when playing solo. Fuck that.
Cherry5So it is online only then
BlueAizu 青5Geez! Whatever happened to just plugging in a second controller and being good to go?
Skeletal Minion4Lmao, oh fuck right off
ch33pgaming.bsky.social4Lol, these idiots can't even provide a normal local multiplayer feature. 343/halo studios suck so much.
lilmahogany3Translation: forcing more monthly active users makes shareholders happy so do it
morgan3needing ps+ TWICE for split screen while Xbox allows guest accounts for free What the fuck is wrong with them
Freck3we figured this shit out in 1958
KaijuJustice2Well, guess I can take that off of the to-buy list for the ps5. Greedy shenanigans in their purest form.
Erika 💀 Anarkat2it’s like companies are speedrunning the destruction of the game industry
Kyle2Actual insanity that people are blaming Microsoft for Sony requiring both accounts to have PS+, as if Microsoft can somehow control that. I agree that requiring a Xbox account is dumb, and I hope they drop it.
betamillion.bsky.social2What kind of kangaroo bullshit is this
Mist2wording is weird here or im dumb, there's no way you need PS plus to play LOCAL split screen
muffin: egregious diddler2I read 'both accounts' and just got sick, I hope the backlash is so visceral that their lawyers get whiplash
captainbubbaloo.bsky.social2Why do you need online for split screen co-op?
Alex2waiter waiter! more restrictions on my gaming experience, please!
Vee, The VGM Lover2JUST ASK THEM BOTH, EVERYONE!!! THIS IS STUPID AND RIDICULOUS, NO MATTER WHO'S DECISION THIS WAS!!!
adroide.bsky.social2This is a preventative measure for when they decide to remove their games from Playstation. The same reason for incomplete physical releases. MS doesn’t want PS users to keep the games
HybridPK_2This reminds me of when you needed an Xbox Live account to play PSO Ep1&2 on the original Xbox, even when playing offline. Meanwhile, the Gamecube version had no such requirement.
Rozekail2Ohhhh, so they WANT the game to fail so they can use it as a tax write-off/excuse to close another studio/scapegoat for executive meddling and failure. Got it.
Nickocalypse2*Watching Xbox this week* I can’t… I can’t stop looking.
Cadaverik-Art2Can't microsoft just kill me instead?
elvancho.bsky.social2What a mess. Doesn't matter which company is to blame, somebody in one of them should have seen this and slammed on the brakes and called a big meeting to spell out how dumb it was to people that could get it changed.
halo campaign evolved looks pretty fun but its not filling me with that same sense of wonder and joy that it did two and half decades ago. think the devs clearly missed with this one
☀️ Starshine24everyone is 12 and everyone is utterly unaware they arent 12 anymore. related but slightly different Types of Guy
rimidar 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️18I suspect this is because of capitalism or possibly the Jews
Matt Ficke16Thank you for reminding me of this @guan.dk banger.
the kid writes4How did they decide they didn’t need the same sense of scale?
