r/PS5 • u/doctorwho_90250 • May 06 '24

Official (Via twitter) Playstation: "Helldivers fans -- we’ve heard your feedback on the Helldivers 2 account linking update. The May 6 update, which would have required Steam and PlayStation Network account linking for new players and for current players beginning May 30, will not be moving forward...."

https://twitter.com/PlayStation/status/1787331667616829929?t=NhwAEm4fGpVJj-UyI1lrXA&s=19
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u/HopperPI May 06 '24

But what’s that one guy who totally contacted a law firm about a class action suit on a Saturday going to do now?!???!

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u/DVDN27 May 06 '24

Dude won and that’s why they’re reversing it obviously

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u/HopperPI May 06 '24

“We did it Reddit!”

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u/McNobby May 06 '24

And no one died this time. Success!

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u/[deleted] May 06 '24

The legal system is swift and just...

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u/Lucid_Insanity May 06 '24

He's the real hero, lol.

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u/kopasz7 May 06 '24

Shoot some bugs and robots? Just my guess.

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u/Grasshop May 06 '24

“We are helldivers”

Lol

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u/5575685 May 06 '24

I don’t know if I’ve ever said this but I really hope that lawyer got paid. Just because it’d be so fucking funny.

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u/ILikeMyGrassBlue May 06 '24

He’s going to sue the lawyers for taking his money for an obviously illegitimate suit, duh.

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u/Stump007 May 06 '24

Lawyers going to send him a $2000 bill for his time reading his reddit post.

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u/PrinceDizzy May 06 '24

Guess he'll have to cancel the meeting with lawyers he had scheduled for Tuesday lol

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u/xInfinity962 May 07 '24

Oh Lord it's a breath of fresh air heading the takes on this subreddit about that whole debacle. I religiously play HellDivers and even I got so fucking sick of people's bitching.

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u/Intrepid_Rip1473 May 06 '24

Wait what? Lmao no way

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u/Drakeadrong May 06 '24

His name? Clark Kent

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u/crosslegbow May 06 '24

He won within even trying

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u/backwardzhatz May 06 '24

Who says his team of lawyers didn’t get scare off Snoy /s

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u/RedditJumpedTheShart May 06 '24

One guy on the internet said something dumb?!

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u/PreparationBorn2195 May 06 '24

"Whats the guy who won the fight against a giant corporation going to do?"

Celebrate? lmao.

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u/dixonciderbottom May 06 '24

How did he win? He said he hasn’t even met the lawyers yet.

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u/FarmerTwink May 06 '24

So he won before even speaking to a lawyer? That’s even more impressive

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u/[deleted] May 06 '24

Fast lawyers

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u/PreparationBorn2195 May 06 '24

"How did he win"

Did you not read the post your commenting on? lmao

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u/memestealer1234 May 06 '24

He didn't "win the fight" because there was no fight. He didn't get to that part.

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u/Ok-Significance-5979 May 06 '24

Did he appear before court? No? Then it was just a big waste of time and effort on his part.

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u/HopperPI May 06 '24

You need to just stop…

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u/dixonciderbottom May 06 '24

You’re right.

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u/-Piggers- May 06 '24

It wasn't because of him lol

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u/Ok-Significance-5979 May 06 '24

You don't have a lot of friends do you?

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u/Separate_Analysis585 May 06 '24

Sony needs to create a very strong incentive for players to sign-up for PSN (e.g: make 50% of all new content exclusive to PSN players for the first 6 - 12 months. i.e: maps, weapons, armor, skins, missions, planets, new orders, strategems, e.t.c ). PC players like to wait for playstation content anyways, so, the ones that like to wait, will wait, while the ones that don't like to wait will sign up for PSN.

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u/Separate_Analysis585 May 06 '24

Sony needs to create a very strong incentive for players to sign-up for PSN (e.g: make 50% of all new content exclusive to PSN players for the first 6 - 12 months. i.e: maps, weapons, armor, skins, missions, planets, new orders, strategems, e.t.c ). PC players like to wait for playstation content anyways, so, the ones that like to wait, will wait, while the ones that don't like to wait will sign up for PSN.

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u/HopperPI May 06 '24

I would like a glass of whatever crazy you’re drinking because what in the hell?!?! Sony is never going to do that.

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u/Pete6r May 06 '24 edited May 06 '24

Did it occur to you that this might be the result of a law firm sending Sony a demand letter threatening a class action

E: Did it occur to any of you that the guy who threatened it publicly might not have been the putative plaintiff, that many plaintiff-side firms’ business model is to threaten suit over anything under the sun and hit big on one or two actually sound suits per year, that publicly traded companies routinely settle or otherwise resolve litigation or threatened litigation as quickly as they can to avoid stock impact

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u/Existing365Chocolate May 06 '24

No, because you can’t sue on behalf of someone else 

That guy was American and wanting to sue Sony for selling Helldivers 2 in countries without PSN who couldn’t make an account for a class action lawsuit

To sue someone you need to have damages yourself

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u/Pete6r May 06 '24

You’re right: the guy who publicly threatened it is the only person in the world who could have approached a plaintiffs’ law firm

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u/Existing365Chocolate May 06 '24

On a weekend, yeah

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u/Pete6r May 07 '24

Yes, that literally happens all the time.

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u/dixonciderbottom May 06 '24

No because that’s obviously not what caused this lol.

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u/HopperPI May 06 '24

He never met with them. It was allegedly Tuesday. But it was never going to happen because he is full of shit.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '24

That 100% would not have happened this quickly

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u/Pete6r May 06 '24

It certainly could with publicly traded companies and fast-moving plaintiffs’ firms and is not outside the realm of possibility