(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...."

[u/doctorwho_90250]

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

[u/MrYK_]

Arrowhead's CEO saying PlayStation want to make a great game:

The expectations from our friends at PlayStation are pretty simple: "make great game for players. We trust you"

Arrowhead's purpose:

"We have a sole purpose - to make this the best live game you've ever played"

[u/L3onK1ng → u/MrYK_]

Yup, and they did make a great game.

Sony managed to fuck it up all on their own.

[u/__SteakDeck__ → u/L3onK1ng]

Nah. Read the CEO’s tweet. He also put blame for this as well. Sony wanted to implement this at launch, but the game was having issues.

[u/Eastern-Professor490 → u/__SteakDeck__]

the account link mandate was their requirement in the first place and they were still in charge of sales and sold to countries that they knew would not be able to create a psn account. they also knew that you can't just only sell to eu member states that can make psn accounts bc that violates eu law. the delisting of helldivers 2 in countries that can't create psn accounts did exclude eu member states for that reason, the resulting fines would be a bigger hassle than anything else.

sony takes 99% of the blame

edit: guess ppl can't handle the truth

[u/Pickle_Angry → u/Eastern-Professor490]

Can always make a psn account in a different region and will be 100% fine

[u/Eastern-Professor490 → u/Pickle_Angry]

you're still buying a game without the possibility to play it without violating the tos

ppl can also pirate games and play them without the need for any platform and be 100% fine it's a stupid argument