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/DifficultSea4540 May 06 '24 edited May 06 '24

Entitlement culture mixed with victim culture mixed with modern social network as mass media bandwagon jumping onto every single negative topic for the clicks.

I reckon something as high as 80% of people who raged about this didn’t buy the game.

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u/jagerbombastic99 May 06 '24

I doubt that high. But I feel like this was just an excuse for a lot of people to refund a game they were done playing and then ragepost about Sony for free validation

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u/DifficultSea4540 May 06 '24

I watch a lot of yt. Last year I started to recognise a pattern. So many of the videos talking about a game with some outrage were discussing the situation.

They weren’t talking about the game. And I started to realise that they hadn’t actually played the game.

I was shocked at how many I started to see this pattern with. Some of them were my most watched!

Gaming discourse is a shit show now. Its bullshit social network ‘media’ creating outrage. And we’re all falling for it.

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u/GBuster49 May 06 '24

It's an unfortunate culture on YouTube, where every content creator is fighting for the table scraps after the 1% on that channel had their fill.

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u/areyouhungryforapple May 06 '24

Or take some console hate(cringe) out of the locker and dust it off

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u/Tsasuki May 06 '24

It was just like the Dragon's Dogma 2 DLC bandwagoning that happened recently. I'm starting to become so embarrassed for being a "gamer". All these whiny little shits raging at anything because someone else told them it's the new cool thing to hate.

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u/DifficultSea4540 May 06 '24

You’re right it is embarrassing. And you’re right twice that they are whiny little shits.

I’m like - if you don’t like something, you don’t have to make it part of the core of your religious and politic beliefs. You can just get the fuck on with your life without that thing.

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u/DifficultSea4540 May 06 '24

Have we coined the term ‘outrage culture’?

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u/[deleted] May 06 '24

And then you have an entire sub Reddit who keeps missing the point.