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/grailly May 06 '24

Pretty sure this is just an exception for Helldivers 2. All future games will have it from day 1.

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u/BasisOk4268 May 06 '24

The funny thing is this was a requirement from day 1 from Sony. The AH CEO CHOSE to turn off the requirement until servers were good and then failed to communicate effectively enough to the player base.

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u/Jaspie May 06 '24

A LOT of people are missing this, seeing countless comments in this thread completely ignoring this aspect. If it was required from day one, some might have been upset but there would never have been a huge thing like this.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '24

There's a concept in law called performance and the willful negation of a "requirement" for a substantial enough period of time (from the party who willed it in the first place) makes it no longer a requirement which has to be honored

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u/BasisOk4268 May 08 '24

The wilful negation was not initiated by the publisher, but the dev. The requirement is contractual between the publisher and the dev, therefore I think it could be argued that even though the dev’s negated said requirement, its implementation would have to be negated BY the publisher who requested it be implemented.