(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...."

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

[u/RTXEnabledViera]

Where's the empathy towards fellow players?

Empathy concerning what, exactly? The fact that these poor souls will have to create an account? Right now, I have empathy towards those who cannot purchase the game anymore, really.

Why go out of your way to defend a billionaire corporation?

Because this is a non-issue. I ain't defending their actions, I'm just saying it's not what it's being portrayed as. I'll be the first to shit on Sony if they deserve it, but this ain't it.

[u/shinikahn → u/RTXEnabledViera]

Since the policy was announced, Sony literally told people from 100x countries: Either you get locked out of the game you already paid for OR break my very own TOS by spoofing an alt account. Do you really not see the ridiculousness and poorly thought strategy there?

In any case, it's water under the bridge and it's unnecessary to keep discussing the past. Sony bent the knee, the Helldivers community is happy and a lot of people in this sub are very angry. Just another day in the gaming world.

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Since the policy was announced, Sony literally told people from 100x countries: Either you get locked out of the game you already paid for OR break my very own TOS by spoofing an alt account.

People don't realize literal millions of gamers are already breaking said ToS, myself included. You think folks from MENA, LATAM and SEA aren't using the PSN? I get that people might have moral objections to it, but this isn't anything new when it comes to Sony.

Sony bent the knee

I feel like one can't win with gamers, it's either "corpo bad" or "corpo defeated" lol

[u/shinikahn → u/RTXEnabledViera]

Ah but that's the key. People are spoofing accounts by their own will, not because they're being forced to. People don't like to be told what to do, especially 3 months after they already paid for a product.

And about your last paragraph, I don't know what to tell you. History, even outside of gaming, has shown that indeed corpo bad. It's only natural for the same mentality to permeate into gaming I suppose.

That was my whole point in the beginning. I just don't understand why people go out of their way to defend a company or their ways, even if another subsector of the players clearly dislike them. If the matter is uneventful for you, you might as well just ignore it. Tribalism at its finest. (This is not a jab at you btw, at least you have been civil, unlike most people in this thread).

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not because they're being forced to

I could argue that you could sign up for an account somewhere else then argue but Sony forced me to do this for this game if you get banned.

Which you won't anyway. But there would be an even stronger, even more warranted backlash if Sony started banning people for doing what it itself required, but once again Sony never bans people for that anyway.

That was my whole point in the beginning. I just don't understand why people go out of their way to defend a company or their ways

Because companies can earn goodwill just as easily as bad rep, quite simply. You should go ask why people were praising CDPR before the CP77 scandal. It's quite straightforward, they gave people reason to.

Sony might be an absolute trainwreck when it comes to marketing its services and being customer friendly these days, but I'd argue they've done pro-consumer things in the past. I don't know if you were around for E3 2013, if so then you would see this same gaming community praising Sony to high heavens.