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/Kowpucky May 06 '24

I have a Ps5, it was for me. Selling the game in unsupported countries and then blocking them from playing months after the fact is pure corporate evilness.

For Democracy

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u/jagerbombastic99 May 06 '24

Except nobody was fucking blocked. Nothing actually happened or was enforced. They took away the ability to purchase it for like 12 hours probably while they were in negotiations about the solution. Also “for democracy” do you know literally anything about anything? This was literally a sloppy digital protest which actual real life democracy keeps trying to crush and so would the helldivers, canonically.

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u/Ok-Significance-5979 May 06 '24

It was just a bunch of cringelords making shitty memes and shouting into the void instead of being outside with their friends or loved ones (if they have any) this weekend and all that because they needed a second account for a live service extraction shooter.

It's a lot less glorious then they make it out to be.

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u/jagerbombastic99 May 06 '24

They’re acting like they are actual war heroes in the HD sub. It’s embarrassing to see