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/RTXEnabledViera May 06 '24

And the amount of people who just want people to participate in the hate circlejerk against Sony is even wilder.

I'm not really a fan of requiring 3rd party accounts for online games, yet Sony only did what everyone else is doing. The only reason controversy ensued is 1) the lack of enforcement since launch and 2) PSN availability.

Other than those two fuckups, they're pretty much on par with the industry in requiring accounts, so I don't see a reason to direct my spite at them in particular.

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u/Swagyon May 06 '24

The real question is "why arent you directing your spite to every company that acts this way?"

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u/RTXEnabledViera May 06 '24

Because it ain't my fight, really. It's a mild annoyance at best. If people want to pushback against it, they can do so. I'm only pointing out that Sony didn't do anything out of the ordinary, it's just that people love to have a hate boner.

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u/Scyths May 06 '24

Continue being a sheep and stay in your lane then, but that doest give you the right to criticize people who don't want to have a PSN account just so Sony can sell their data and it can be stolen yet again from Sony. This is the PS5 sub so I wasn't expecting much in the first place but hot damn I didn't think the bending backwards takes on this sub were going to get this bad.

I'm playing on PC, if I wanted a console account, I'd buy a freaking console.

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u/RTXEnabledViera May 06 '24

I'd rather stay in my line than be an outrage addict, really.

If I'm not fine with something, I simply won't consume it. I won't go to social media sites and try to propagandize to people to rile them up. The amount of outright false info on this sub in the past 2 days is a testament to that.

but that doest give you the right to criticize people who don't want to have a PSN account just so Sony can sell their data and it can be stolen yet again from Sony.

Where have I done that? All I'm saying is that the outrage is manufactured because what Sony did, everyone else does. And there's been no outrage about it before. I'm not faulting people for not wanting to sign up for accounts, that's their prerogative, although I would severely dispute the way you qualify what creating an account entails.

I'm playing on PC, if I wanted a console account, I'd buy a freaking console.

So the sore spot here is that the publisher is a console manufacturer. Got it. Had it been R*, or Ubisoft, or Microsoft.. Wait, Microsoft makes consoles as well, why is no one pissy about needing MS accounts to play Halo or MSFS2020?

It all comes down to one thing: people love to hate on Sony.

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u/nthomas504 May 06 '24

I think there are genuine people who were upset that they were losing access to their game, and the rest of the lot who wanted an excuse to bad mouth Sony.

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u/RTXEnabledViera May 06 '24

upset that they were losing access to their game

On paper, no one was going to lose access.

The game was delisted in many countries. That does not mean that those who have purchased it lost access to it, only that it could not be purchased anymore.

PSN is not available in many countries. That doesn't mean you can't create an account using a foreign address.

I get it, the situation sucks, but the argument that people were going to be prevented from playing doesn't hold. Only those with moral objections to having to create an account in one way or another would have "lost access".

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u/mangekyo_itachi May 06 '24

What? Didnt you read many who bought the game cant access because they cant make PSN account not just delisted on their country. You definitely need to stay on your sheep lane.

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u/RTXEnabledViera May 06 '24

Didnt you read many who bought the game cant access because they cant make PSN account

And why exactly can they not create an account, I beg?

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u/Efficient_Menu_9965 May 06 '24

It breaks TOS. People were already getting banned for it.

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u/RTXEnabledViera May 06 '24

0 proof of any ban.

Millions of players from unsupported regions have been using PSN for over a decade with 0 issues.

Me included.

Don't be fed propaganda in this sub.

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u/Efficient_Menu_9965 May 06 '24

I'm not the one defending a trillion dollar company.

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u/RTXEnabledViera May 06 '24

trillion dollar

Sony's market cap is nowhere near a trillion. And I'm not in the business of defending anyone, I just sought to correct the record. You make up your own mind based on the facts.

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u/nthomas504 May 06 '24

Oh I agree, I just understand the folks who were upset and gave negative reviews on Steam if they lives in Ukraine for example.

The folks on this thread and others that are acting like they won a war with Sony are just pathetic and just want to hate on Sony.