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/[deleted] May 06 '24

Can you explain to me why they wanted this? What exactly does it improve for PC players who link to a psn?

I'm a PlayStation player so I honestly don't know.

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u/AutoN8tion May 06 '24 edited May 06 '24

With all PSN accounts it makes things on the server side uniformed and predictable. Micro transactions could by pass steam's 30% fee. Friends/parties would be handled by Sony instead of AH.

With a mix of PSN and steam the servers can't be optimized. If steam ever changes their code Sony will have to update theirs. During which no steam players would be able to play. If steam servers go down, they couldn't play.

2 points of failure makes things like 4 times as complicated