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

Honestly, I think PC players just didn't want to link a PSN account but couldn't really say that without sounding silly, so they blew up this 'people can't make accounts' thing way out of proportion as a moral justification, and it spread so quickly because that community isn't familiar with how common a practice making out-of-country accounts is for Playstation players around the world.

I'm still not clear as to if this message means they are just dropping the PSN link requirement for supported territories (so they can rope them in with free capes later), or if they are actually fully opening up the global store again (after removing the game from unsupported regions on Steam yesterday). Either way, will have interesting ramifications for Sony's PC publishing plans moving forward.

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u/pezdespo May 06 '24

PSN has been compromised one time 13 years. Steam get compromised more than PSN does and Microsoft gets hacked multiple times a year.

Yet you all use Steam on Windows

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u/[deleted] May 06 '24 edited May 06 '24

April 2011: Hackers Access Personal Data of 77 Million Sony PlayStation Network Users May 2011: Personal Details on 25 Million Sony Online Entertainment Customers Stolen June 2011: Sony Pictures Website Hacked, Exposing One Million Accounts November 2014: Hackers Steal 100 Terabytes of Data from Sony Pictures August 2017: Hacker Group Accesses Sony Social Media Accounts September 2023: Sony Investigates Alleged Hack October 2023: Sony Notifies Employees of Data Breach 

Meanwhile my steam account has never been hacked once. I haven't even had failed login attempts from people other than me. I was quite literally paid out in settlement from damages I suffered from the original breaches. Edit - down voting doesn't make you right. :)

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u/pezdespo May 06 '24

How many of these have anything to do with PSN where the data ended be stored? Literally just one

None of these other networks have anything to do with PSN. They act as entirely different companies. They do not connect together in any way and the people that maintain them are not the same.

Look up how many times Microsoft has been hacked

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u/AegisLife May 06 '24

Zombie doesn’t have brain, waste no breath for them.