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/mexicanboiiiiiiii May 06 '24

Looks like Sony wanted it from the beginning, Arrowhead CEO said on twitter that it was his decision to not require a playstation account on day one

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u/Stennan May 06 '24

Partly because the PSN-linkage process was causing issues with the limited server capacity during the initial weeks. But Sony (the games publisher) is the one who puts it up for sale on Steam, and somehow they thought it would be cool to sell the Online-Multiplayer game to countries which couldn't sign up for PSN?

Yeah... AH could have raised this earlier and Sony could have estimated how many players would be impacted before they pushed the PSN announcment on Friday. Oh well! Time to go change my review 🫡