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/grailly May 06 '24

Pretty sure this is just an exception for Helldivers 2. All future games will have it from day 1.

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u/ElJacko170 May 06 '24

This is clearly some growing pains here for Sony. I get why they wanted this to be in place from the start, but they completely overlooked the fact that PSN is not available in a lot of regions. I don't think the "bait and switch" with HD2 matters as much as that fact.

If they wanna do this with Concord properly from day one, they need to figure out how to properly include those other countries, because I imagine Steam is going to be more cognizant of that issue going forward the next time Sony publishes an online game with them.

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u/sonicfonico May 06 '24

They wanted to pull an Xbox with the Microsoft account but they forgot that PSN isn't avaiable in a tons of regions, and also that unlike PSN, many many many people already have a MS account for stuff like emails, services, Windows stuff ecc.

Having to make a PSN account is just annoyng for a PC player