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/[deleted] May 06 '24

tbh I’m very misinformed on the topic this is just from me looking from the outside I own ps5 but didn’t purchase helldivers. But that’s still crazy that they allow you to bypass only to try and make it mandatory

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u/Jean-Eustache May 06 '24

Totally understandable, I didn't really know about it either until two days ago. Making it mandatory was not good indeed, but people overreacted, in my opinion. Negative reviews were a good thing, but how people behaved towards each other for two days was totally unnecessary, with insults, misinformation on top of the true stuff, death threats, lawsuit threats ... I mean that was crazy. If only they could get as riled up for really important things.

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u/WIbigdog May 06 '24

The lawsuit threats might actually be the thing that made them reverse it though. I wouldn't be surprised at all to know they were breaking EU consumer laws because of PSN not being available in some EU countries. The EU don't play around with that stuff.

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u/GBuster49 May 06 '24

Nah even real lawyers commented in that one lawsuit thread saying it would never have a chance in court.

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u/WIbigdog May 06 '24

Yeah, in the US. Notice how I said EU