Sega Launches Online Profile Sega Account - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 22 January 2025 / 1,581 Views
Sega has announced and launched Sega Account, an online profile that will give benefits for playing Sega and Atlus games.
Those who create a Sega Account will get the latest news on Sega and Atlus games, events, and promotions. It will also give exclusive bonuses and the ability to link accounts on multiple gaming platforms.
Those who create an account and complete the specified requirements by March 7, 2025 will get an in-game bonus for Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii.
Linking a Sega Account to a platform compatible with Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii will get the Kazuma Kiryu outfit.
Sega Account users will be able to connect to Nintendo, PlayStation, Xbox, and Steam, with Epic Games coming at a later date.
Users will also be able to look at their records for games they've played in the future.
セガ／アトラスのゲーム・Webサービスをより便利に利用できる共通アカウント「SEGA Account」が登場しました。
ご登録いただき指定の条件を満たしていただいた方へ、『龍が如く８外伝 Pirates in Hawaii』『PSO2 ニュージェネシス ver.2』のゲーム内アイテムをプレゼント中です。
— セガ公式アカウント (@sega.jp) January 22, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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Please don't be the prelude to yet another launcher.
I am praying so hard, because I honestly just want to be able to play my |Yakuza games without the need to yet another account or another crappy DRM-based launcher.
Sega games were fine before this new system, and I don't see it existing as any sort of worthwhile boon (I know my data is valuable to them, but a skin isn't worth that price).
It's like Sega didn't get the memo with what's been going on these past few years.
Seriously hope they don't pull a Sony and require sign-in for their games on PC (at a later date), let alone pushing a launcher to launch their games from Steam, or worse, where they don't support all regions, and thus people get blocked from seeing their games on stores like Steam/EGS.
All of these type of accounts are used for is mostly for data harvesting. There's no real otherworldly benefit to these systems (cheevo hunters already get their small fix from consoles and storefront clients that support cheevos and games with them built in). We also have social media networks and spaces, so lumping in all the sega fans into their own little pen isn't going to deter them from using what has worked before and forever will.
"Sega account".
I love Sega. So, I DO NOT WANT to be harsh.
BUT, if this has NO REAL use and real benefit for its users, this better disappears before being even launched. Cause it will harm the image of the company amongst its users and fans.
And to be even more honest: It is very difficult to make it work.
This kind of things were normal around 25 years ago (1996-2004), when the (by then) BRAND NEW internet burst into everybody's life (in that time, basically a lot of internet users where teens and very young adults, easy to awe and please), and the usual ending was always the same: The company just being bored and closing that service few years later, I suppose when a new manager replaced the old one, or not even that, but simply when they saw it was not doing benefits for the company, or even worse, was a waste of money and did not attract many new buyers.
Yeah, of course now companies can try to use those things to monitor its users and try to make some money exploring its market behaviours in real time, but... in general, that is basically useless, and now, only desperate companies try to do it, cause succesful ones DO NOT NEED to do that crap: if you sell... you sell. If you don't,... you have a problem... but spying on your actual users will not be that useful.
I have my doubts Sega could achive great results with its plan to "resurrect" many of its 90s and early 2000s succesful franchises, not only because Sega has not the economic and studios muscle to do it anymore (compared to what they had in the 90s), but because ALL japanese videogame industry has not either (apart from Nintendo, and Nintendo itself was in real danger not that long ago), to do some titanic achievement like the one Sega pretends to do: Square Enix, Capcom, Konami, Tecmo Koei... you name it, they are just... suffering to make any new important game.
In fact, Sega is now in much better situation than those companies compared to 20 years ago, and that's what ideas like this SEGA account... are NOT that interesting idea,...UNLESS SEGA DO KNOW VERY WELL what they will offer to its users to be REALLY interesting to them, and the service will have a really LONG LIFE in the planned mid-future of the company. And that demands money investment.
(Namco, by the way, is the BIG loser of the japanse companies in early 2000: has been totally erased from the VG panorama beyond its "Tales" series. And Tales... is, and always was, a secundary RPG franchise. Had some "success", but I never knew why Bandai Namco bet that HARD in that series, instead of trying a new RPG series with more... "charisma". You named Xenosaga? oh, well...)
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