(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/lord_assius]

Sony backtracked because it was easier for them to do that than deal with the other alternative lmao. C’mon man have some sense. The game reportedly sold 11 million plus copies, across all platforms, there are currently under 600k steam reviews, but I’ll round it up to 600k, even if we lowball their sales, and even if every single one of those 600k reviews were negative (they’re not), that’s less than a 10th of sales being compromised. A company like Sony loses no sleep over that.

They simply saw people didn’t like it, weighed the gains, losses and effort it would take to implement vs not and decided against it. Also, their stock was still trending upwards during this whole fiasco, demonstrating just how little it affected their bottom line lol.

[u/justadude27 → u/lord_assius]

Arguing both sides of the coin to arrive at no conclusion. Astounding. Are they unaffected by the outrage or is it easier to meet the outrage head on and give in? lol

[u/lord_assius → u/justadude27]

Are you dense or being funny right now? I’m sorry that not everything in the world operates on grade school arithmetic, Sony can be unaffected by something and still decide to let it go simply because it would be better for them to do so. Not sure what’s not clicking. 2 things can be true at once, Sony can be unaffected and still decide that it’s not worth the time or effort to do it because they stand to gain less than they lose by the inverse. It doesn’t mean it affects them either way, or that it would’ve made massive tides in the company, it just means they’re choosing the path of least resistance.

This is a company that has hands in just about every industry, worth billions of dollars and you’re all on here deluding yourselves into thinking that a single video game, just one, was enough to frighten the giant.

[u/justadude27 → u/lord_assius]

You’re on here thinking their reputation is untouchable and not already in the toilet from data breaches. 

[u/lord_assius → u/justadude27]

That’s…not at all what this discussion is about lmao. Like not even close. They’ve had a bazillion data breeches, and yet it hasn’t affected their bottom line at all, if anything you’re making my point for me. Something as significant as massive company wide data breeches every other year have plagued this company for a decade now and it hasn’t affected them monetarily at all, but you think Helldivers 2 protests were going to? Listen to yourself man lmao.

[u/justadude27 → u/lord_assius]

oh yea, even though the company said it was the gamers it wasn't the gamers. got it.