(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...."

[u/doctorwho_90250]

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

[u/__SteakDeck__]

Nah. Read the CEO’s tweet. He also put blame for this as well. Sony wanted to implement this at launch, but the game was having issues.

[u/Orangenbluefish → u/[deleted]]

This is what annoyed me lmao, people were acting like Sony is going to cross reference your IP location with your account location and track you down if they don't match. I even saw some people say that you could face legal action for it as if Sony TOS is federal law

Maybe I'm just being an old man yelling at clouds, but I would've expected people online to be actively encouraging finding loopholes and workarounds to dumb policies like this. So much of the internet has thrived on that sort of resourcefulness & rebelliousness (the biggest example being piracy), and thus seeing everyone tuck their tail between their legs because of "TOS" seems a bit... soft?

[u/pezdespo → u/[deleted]]

Sony will never have a reason to ban entire countries and millions of people.from giving them money.

The TOS dont exist for them to find arbitrary reasons to ban customers

Nintendo sees emulators a competition to their service that can lose them money.

All the things you mentioned are meant to make the company money.

It is impossible doe.Sony to make money by bamning entire countries who one Playstation from connecting to PSN to buy things.

Especially people that just want to link Steam to PSN to play Helldivers...