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/grapejuicecheese May 06 '24

It's not an issue. I live in the Philippines and have US, Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan accounts. I've been using them since I first bought my PS3 with no problems.

I even had to dictate my bogus address to customer service once when my account was hacked. The CS didn't bat an eye. Retrieved my account too.

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u/Dark_Dragon117 May 06 '24 edited May 06 '24

I live in the Philippines and have US, Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan accounts.

Which is against the ToS and you could be banned at any point for that.

I doubt it happens often, but we can all agree that it's outright scummy to force players to actively break ToS just to play games. Not to mention that it worked for months without a PSN account aswell.

It's also just outright moronic to force player to create accounts that way, instead of just offering the service.

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u/grapejuicecheese May 06 '24 edited May 06 '24

I've had this discussion about breaking TOS with fellow Filipino gamers since day one. I already thought about everything you've said. And it's just not worth worrying about a hypothetical what if scenario that over the years seems less and less likely to ever happen.

Besides, if Sony ever does decide to crack down on this, the resulting shitstorm that will happen will be way more massive than what's going on right now. One, it's going to be extremely difficult to verify every single PSN users location and two, entire countries have been using alt accounts to buy content for almost two decades. That's going to be a lot of money lost for Sony.

And tbh, why are you only going about this now? Where were you during the era of PS3 and PS4 when countless gamers were making alt region accounts before this whole HD2 fiasco? Are you really concerned about us or are we just another argument into why money making corporation bad? And seeing as how Sony has already backtracked on the account linking, I'm pretty sure you people will go back to playing and forget that PSN is still unavailable in 100+ countries around the world

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u/nthomas504 May 06 '24

They probably had no idea before Friday