impacting players. But the situation wors affects them. If you unlink later, you “will be constrained to relinking to only that specific and originally linked” Microsoft account.
The lack of cross-platform saving is clearly a problem, as progress made in the PS5 version of the game is not reflected on the Xbox version. As the page also notes, Horizon 5 players will need a PlayStation Plus subscription to access the game’s multiplayer feature, and there are “no plans for a disc release.”
It’s worth noting that in the past, Sony has faced negative feedback from gamers when it implemented required Xbox account linking for some PC games. The company removed the requirement for you to sign in with your PlayStation Network account for certain versions of Helldivers 2 and, more recently, God of War Ragnarök and Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered.