PlayStation announced via a blog post that it was going to start offering players on PC bonus in-game items and rewards if they chose to create and login with a PSN

Following protests, PlayStation maker Sony is backpedaling its PSN requirement policy for several of its games on PC.

Sony’s biggest single-player games on PC will no longer require you to link to a PlayStation Network account to play them. In a press release Wednesday, the company said that linking a PlayStation Account will now be optional for select PlayStation titles on PC. The news hits just one day before Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 is set for release on PC.