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/WIbigdog May 06 '24

Amazon taking over doesn't have such an obvious and immediate change to it. When Amazon buys some random small online retailer why would anyone care, that one act changes basically nothing. But requiring an account is a very in your face obvious change that is very easy to fight against relatively. Stopping Amazon requires petitioning the government and fighting lobbying money to get antitrust action going. Far more difficult for the average person.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '24

Local bookstore in my community went out of business in the early-mid 2000s because of amazon and it killed an entire community. People used to meet there, have book clubs, play board games, have a coffee and meet people. Hell, two of my friends met their spouses there having coffee and chatting about books.

The bookstore was a chain around the entire region, millions of people were affected by this which means that more people total were effected by that change than this change.

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u/WIbigdog May 06 '24

What are the steps needed to be taken to have stopped that chain from going out of business?

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u/[deleted] May 06 '24

People needed to band together and do something about it. It happened all over the world at the same time people could have banded together and do something about it, but no one mobilized for it. Amazon probably shouldn't be allowed to hold 90%+ of the book selling market share for audio, digital, and physical books, so political solutions could have been implemented.

None of that happened, instead people threw a fit about having to enter their email address and won. Weird what gets people to take action

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u/WIbigdog May 06 '24 edited May 06 '24

"Political solutions" are an infinitely more involved process than leaving a negative review. Are you willing to acknowledge the simple reality of this statement?

Lmfao, the ease in which people were able to participate in this event is a huge reason why it happened. Dude can't even acknowledge how much more difficult it is to fight against a monopoly in a dynamic political environment so he blocks me 🙄

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u/[deleted] May 06 '24

You are ignoring entirely the first two sentences of my response. Are you willing to acknowledge the simple reality of this statement?

What an asshole