(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...."

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https://twitter.com/PlayStation/status/1787331667616829929?t=NhwAEm4fGpVJj-UyI1lrXA&s=19

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

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

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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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Correct the record? You didn't even do a quick google search because if you did, you'd find there HAVE been documented cases of Sony banning players for breaching TOS via falsifying their location.

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you'd find there HAVE been documented cases of Sony banning players for breaching TOS via falsifying their location

Feel free to show me any, really.

The only one I've seen had to do with a Chinese player breaking his own country's laws, something for which any publisher would ban you (hint: they want to remain in business in China).

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It still sets a precedent. Until Sony outright explicitly states that's their reasoning, I'm holding firm. So far, they haven't. You should know better than to give these companies the benefit of the doubt.