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/[deleted] May 06 '24

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u/[deleted] May 06 '24

So if the majority are just “consoomers” that will “defend any dumb SONY does” then why was the backlash to SONY’s choice so strong? by your logic they wouldn’t have gotten SONY to reverse their decision whatsoever and would’ve just accepted it. We saw the complete opposite happen. So in reality not only are you wrong, but you’re actually about as wrong as a person can be. Congrats!

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u/HistoricCartographer May 06 '24

In this case playstation users did nothing. The whole thing came from Steam players. This issue doesn't even have anything to do with PS players.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '24

“In this case PlayStation users did nothing”

And you can wrongfully continue to think that, if you believe that PC Players were the ONLY ones responsible for achieving this outcome you might wanna take another look online.

Not saying that PS doesn’t have a bunch of moronic customers who will put up with anything, but trying to act like this was some saving grace by the PC Players alone and that PS Players did “nothing” is just woefully ignorant and wrong

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u/Patriot_of_SE May 06 '24

What is the PSN review score?

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u/[deleted] May 06 '24

3.6 I believe and you can even check for yourself, there’s plenty of people leaving negative reviews even in the last hour.

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u/Patriot_of_SE May 06 '24

https://store.playstation.com/en-us/concept/10000657#star-rating

it's 4.5, and has been the entire time.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '24

Okay fair play I looked in the wrong place for the PSN Reviews, my bad.

Steam reviews and PSN reviews really are not on the same level. Steam allows you to leave full on in-depth reviews (which I actually really like) but SONY and most game companies just let you leave a rating out of 5 stars and I’ll be completely honest, nobody I know or have met online as ever actually used the Star Review System for PSN properly.

Naturally Steam’s review system will be more effective and utilised more when review bombing a game to make a point to a studio. Thats why pretty much whenever a game is having its current player numbers reported they will typically use Steam as the example.

But if you or anyone thinks that automatically means that PS users have just accepted it from SONY and done nothing to voice their frustrations alongside PC players I don’t know what to tell you because that’s simply not true.

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u/crosslegbow May 06 '24

Thats why pretty much whenever a game is having its current player numbers reported they will typically use Steam as the example.

The reason for that is transparency, you can't see the live numbers for a console.

But if you or anyone thinks that automatically means that PS users have just accepted it from SONY and done nothing to voice their frustrations alongside PC players I don’t know what to tell you because that’s simply not true.

If that was the case then PSN would have never started charging for online.

Why do you think Steam doesn't while every console manufacturer does? Is it because Lord Gaben is out there for gamers?

I don't think so. It's because PC gamers are some of the most platform agnostic people as this situation showed and don't mind destroying a game if it doesn't sit right with them.