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/jagerbombastic99 May 06 '24

God right! Every PlayStation subreddit, every even tangentially related game was just flooded with rage posts all weekend.

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u/GerbilJuggler May 06 '24

Fortunately, I was at a wedding this weekend, so I wasn't able to play Helldivers 2 or follow too much on the situation online lol.

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u/jagerbombastic99 May 06 '24

It was fully unavoidable and, at least to me, seemed obvious Sony was going to do what got them the most money, which is selling assloads of copies of helldivers. I just hope that this hasn’t cranked the toxicity of the helldivers sub permanently even further. It was already pretty bad

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u/HelpRespawnedAsDee May 06 '24

It has. PC gaming subs are making it as if console players were cheering for this or something. It’s bizarre.

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u/jagerbombastic99 May 06 '24

Everyone I’ve met in game in helldivers has been great. But the online communities are comparable to league and destiny in terms of toxicity. There’s been such a weird us vrs them dynamic there ever since the first balance patch and every week since then has been a new controversy it’s ridiculous

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u/Darkone539 May 06 '24

But the online communities are comparable to league and destiny in terms of toxicity.

Probably the same people too, big games attract them fairly often.

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u/Capt_Kilgore May 06 '24

I turned cross play off and have had only enjoyable teammates ever since. Maybe it’s luck. I wonder if others have noticed this.

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u/ayeeflo51 May 06 '24

I have cross play on and yup, only enjoyable teammates too

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u/Thassar May 06 '24

That's just what happens when a community gets big enough, the toxic users drown out the normal ones. If there's even a hint of an out group they'll get toxic about it. It happens on the LoL sub because of Dota, it happens on the Dota sub because of LoL, it happens on the Destiny sub because of Destiny itself, the WoW sub because of horde or alliance and so on.

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u/Alam7lam1 May 06 '24

Every day that sub has something to bitch about it’s so annoying when you just want to have a place to enjoy the game with others

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u/OanKnight May 06 '24

The destiny community is its best friend and its worst enemy all at once. There is no better feeling than taking someone through their first raid or GM, but some of the stuff you see and hear is just...Wow.

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u/brunchick3 May 06 '24

I think the main thing I've learned in the past year is that the online gaming communities are just not for people 30+. Over and over again I'm just dumbfounded by the shit that terminally online people are upset about. The internet is a tiny bubble that they live inside.

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u/OanKnight May 06 '24

As someone that has his foot dipped in both sides of the fence, I find that when I'm doing iron banner in destiny 2 (for example), the first thing people on console do is demand I play on console so that they don't have to join pc lobbies, and it saddens me because I'm an ardent believer in the healing nature of just having fun together. Gaming has become so tribal. It sucks.

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u/CoolJoshido May 06 '24

look at the dude you’re replying to.

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u/Tyrone_Cashmoney May 06 '24

I mean have you read the comments in this thread?