Don't feel lame. I'm not buying it now. Requirements like these are taking over gaming and it's asinine.

I'm not creating a new account for every new game I want to play. Ubisoft, Rockstar, EA, Sony, Microsoft... It's absolutely maddening.

Half the reason companies do this is to spam your email address, track you, and sell your data.

I played for 90 hours, it's fun. But like many games where the narrative is determined by hundreds of thousands of people, it suffers from the Marvel Studios problem where nothing ever happens. The aliens destroy X planet and it gets rebuilt and everyone moves back. No attacks on super earth, two enemy types, mostly the same set of planets.

The gameplay loops are fun, but I have most stuff unlocked and was hoping the robots would really make an incursion, or the bugs would attack super earth. So far though, no dice.

For $40 and 90 hours of play, I can't complain. It just doesn't feel like it has the staying power of a DRG though.

I want to play but not with a rootkit

I bought this game, then couldn't remember my PSN password, or recover my PSN account. Didn't realize it was optional. But I got a Steam refund.

I'm right there with you

Buy it. The game is fun.