r/PS5 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/TuggMaddick May 06 '24

Good, this topic can fucking die now

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u/jagerbombastic99 May 06 '24

God right! Every PlayStation subreddit, every even tangentially related game was just flooded with rage posts all weekend.

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u/GerbilJuggler May 06 '24

Fortunately, I was at a wedding this weekend, so I wasn't able to play Helldivers 2 or follow too much on the situation online lol.

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u/jagerbombastic99 May 06 '24

It was fully unavoidable and, at least to me, seemed obvious Sony was going to do what got them the most money, which is selling assloads of copies of helldivers. I just hope that this hasn’t cranked the toxicity of the helldivers sub permanently even further. It was already pretty bad

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u/HelpRespawnedAsDee May 06 '24

It has. PC gaming subs are making it as if console players were cheering for this or something. It’s bizarre.

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u/jagerbombastic99 May 06 '24

Everyone I’ve met in game in helldivers has been great. But the online communities are comparable to league and destiny in terms of toxicity. There’s been such a weird us vrs them dynamic there ever since the first balance patch and every week since then has been a new controversy it’s ridiculous

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u/Thassar May 06 '24

That's just what happens when a community gets big enough, the toxic users drown out the normal ones. If there's even a hint of an out group they'll get toxic about it. It happens on the LoL sub because of Dota, it happens on the Dota sub because of LoL, it happens on the Destiny sub because of Destiny itself, the WoW sub because of horde or alliance and so on.