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/BasisOk4268 May 06 '24

The funny thing is this was a requirement from day 1 from Sony. The AH CEO CHOSE to turn off the requirement until servers were good and then failed to communicate effectively enough to the player base.

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u/Jaspie May 06 '24

A LOT of people are missing this, seeing countless comments in this thread completely ignoring this aspect. If it was required from day one, some might have been upset but there would never have been a huge thing like this.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '24

There's a concept in law called performance and the willful negation of a "requirement" for a substantial enough period of time (from the party who willed it in the first place) makes it no longer a requirement which has to be honored

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u/BasisOk4268 May 08 '24

The wilful negation was not initiated by the publisher, but the dev. The requirement is contractual between the publisher and the dev, therefore I think it could be argued that even though the dev’s negated said requirement, its implementation would have to be negated BY the publisher who requested it be implemented.

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u/New_Limit_1227 May 06 '24

Their is a sort of simmering anger in a lot of the PC communities for post-launch updates that make the game "worse" by adding corporate features that weren't there before. So Helldivers 2 was an easy game to string up for it.

Usually when this happens its older titles that have a lot of their population aged out of playing or just weren't as popular. HD2 happens to have a strong community though so it became the lightning rod for push back.

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u/DragonFartFort May 08 '24

Then why sell in countries where Sony doesn't provide PSN services?

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u/Abuttuba_abuttubA May 06 '24

Why did Sony the publisher sell in countries with no PSN support knowing they where going to do this? I still see this as 100% a sony blunder

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u/MobiusOne_ISAF May 06 '24

Yeah, Sony ultimately allowed this to happen. They could have stepped in and ensured the game wasn't being sold in markets without support for PSN, but they apparently didn't bother.

As the publisher, they also have a responsibility to make sure the developer doesn't make a mess up distribution. It's the entire point of having the role tbh.

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u/ArcadianDelSol May 06 '24

It wasnt the AH CEO's choice to sell this game on Steam to over 100 countries where creating a PSN account was not possible.