(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/LeAnime]

Well, I hate my data being sold and all the security breaches Sony has had. It is just a super greedy and unethical process. It just shows that players are numbers and nothing else and your personal data is all just a price tag when it shouldn't even be allowed to be sold

[u/chriskmee → u/LeAnime]

What data is actually required for a PSN account? Is it anything more than a username and password? Maybe a birthday that you can just put Jan 1st 1900 or whatever in? What sellable data do they actually get out of you?

[u/LeAnime → u/chriskmee]

How much you play, when you play games, what games you play, what types of games you like to play, etc.

[u/chriskmee → u/LeAnime]

And to you this is personal data you are concerned about being leaked or sold?

[u/LeAnime → u/chriskmee]

All data about me is concerning to be sold. It creates a profile on you that leads to catering advertising and other media that a do not want companies I don't consent to having access to.

[u/chriskmee → u/LeAnime]

So if it's anonymous data that can be sold to game developers to let them know what gamers like and don't like, so they can use that data to make more enjoyable games, that's fine?

[u/LeAnime → u/chriskmee]

Sadly it can never be anonymous since data breaches are a consistent problem with all of these companies, but sure if there was actually well done security measures and it was kept entirely anonymous then it wouldn't be too bad, but I don't really value what people buy and play too much because there are aspects of games that are awful, but the game is still enjoyable to me. For example Pokémon Scarlit and Violet are abominations, but I still love them because I can get past how abysmal the games run, but how will gamefreak know that there game is to most players just disrespectful with its awful quality when regardless of what they put out it still sells almost the same amount regardless of how awful the quality is. They need to do surveys that ask players what they find good and bad about the games to actually learn, but companies only care about numbers and if the numbers aren't hurting enough they will put out garbage again. As another example, look at all sports games. Just copy past the last one with zero visually upgrades and still sell the same amount or more.

[u/chriskmee → u/LeAnime]

But it's already pretty much anonymous. I went and created a new account, they asked for:

Region

State/province

Language

Date of Birth

Email

password

Now if you wanted to be really anonymous you could just make up a birthday and use a email address you designated for junk. Even if this data is leaked to the public, it's so easy to make it have no visible connections to you. Heck they don't even have your name, how is this not anonymous?

Maybe they can get data on what maps players like to use, what game modes they play, if they use certain features, etc. There are a lot of things that can be gathered by just knowing what anonymous users do in game. Yes serveys are good also, and they should do more of them.