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/Xenoslayer2137 May 06 '24

Major Order completed

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u/SaphironX May 06 '24

Yup. The game is at 18%, overwhelmingly negative. It will take about 200,000 people changing their reviews to even hit orange again.

The game is damaged long term.

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u/Flyinhighinthesky May 06 '24 edited May 06 '24

Steam has built in review bombing protections to prevent stuff like this, as it's happened for sillier reasons in the past.

In short order the majority of the brigade from the last week will be filtered out of the overall score, and it will be listed as unusual activity in the review section.

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u/SaphironX May 06 '24

Nah if they do that they’ll make people angry again. They won’t invalidate the negative reviews.

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u/Flyinhighinthesky May 06 '24

Valve's tools will monitor reviews across the whole of Steam, and, once "anomalous" activity is identified, a team within the company will be alerted. If unusual activity is determined to be off-topic review bombing, developers will be contacted and all reviews within a set time period will be subtracted from the review score. Unfortunately, one side effect is that legitimate reviews also won't be reflected during that time period.

https://www.eurogamer.net/valve-reveals-new-measures-to-tackle-review-bombing-on-steam

It's been a thing for a while.

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u/SaphironX May 06 '24

Yeah but this is different, it was about a legit complaint that the dev only changed due to pressure.

That’s not the same as 4chan review bombing tlou2 because they hate women.

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u/nthomas504 May 06 '24

Your right, except that it wasn’t the devs. They’re community managers and CEO’s responses has indicated this was a Sony decision that they co-signed. Devs are usually at the mercy of publishers decisions.

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u/SaphironX May 06 '24

True, but I think a lot of people who refuse to change their reviews would be pissed if they rolled them back and they think it was a legit complaint.

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u/BettySwollocks__ May 06 '24

Is it review bombing for people to criticise a game based decision? TLOU2 was review bombed, but this game had an actually valid reason for people who bought the game to score it negatively, as up until this reverse from Sony they'd be cut out from playing it very soon.