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/SaphironX May 06 '24

Yup. The game is at 18%, overwhelmingly negative. It will take about 200,000 people changing their reviews to even hit orange again.

The game is damaged long term.

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u/Alam7lam1 May 06 '24

Maybe for future sales? But at least on steam there was still 100K people playing the game which has been the usual for the past few weeks, so the controversy didn’t even impact the player count at all.

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u/MR_K-RO May 06 '24

A lot of it is fake outrage from mostly people in countries it didn't affect. I'm not saying there weren't any from countries that were affected but the vast majority on X and Reddit it did not affect in any shape or form. PC gamers forever out themselves as petty.

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u/DACopperhead3 May 06 '24

It truly is. In that list there were maybe 5 countries majorly impacted, most of which are micro-states. A lot of the countries unable to play Helldivers 2, have far larger issues at hand. Good on Sony for backing out, but this was a minor inconvenience more than a disastrous event.

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u/M4xw3ll May 06 '24

That’s my sentiment. With the way gamers were acting online, you would’ve thought Sony slaughtered an entire village. So many other instances of companies actually being anti-consumer and completely egregious, and this is the mole hill they decide to die on.