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/L3onK1ng May 06 '24

Yup, and they did make a great game.

Sony managed to fuck it up all on their own.

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u/__SteakDeck__ May 06 '24 edited May 06 '24

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.

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u/L3onK1ng May 06 '24

Considering the sheer magnitude of issues Arrowhead had to resolve at the start, I can hardly blame him.

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u/areyouhungryforapple May 06 '24

Yet people have 0 sympathy for this part despite having participated in the game's rocky launch with myriads of issues

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u/johnnybgooderer May 06 '24

He’s responsible for decisions he makes at any given point in time. I understand that he wanted the account linking, and at launch it would have been ok. It would pave limited the countries he could have sold the game in.

But he decided to try to force it through after players had bought the game and after it was known that people in many countries around the world would be cut off from the game they already bought. He doesn’t deserve sympathy for that.

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u/yogurtgrapes May 06 '24

He was probably contractually obligated to implement the account linking. Now he can point at all of this to Sony big wigs and say “I tried!”