PlayStation cancels plans to force Helldivers 2 players to link a PSN account
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.
We’re still…
— PlayStation (@PlayStation) May 6, 2024
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Wow they actually backtracked. I’m impressed
Whether you thought this was ridiculous or not the lesson learned here is that users have way more power than they think and if they were just willing to use it they could get companies to change their tune on a lot of awful shit.
PC gaming in general is pretty good at this. They resisted paid exclusives (GFWL, EGS) and paid online (also GFWL). Console people should be taking notes instead of bashing them for not immediately bowing to the whims of every company.
Now if everyone could do this with all goods across the board, and stop consuming so much for a while, the companies would stop price gouging us and blaming “inflation”.
Money talks. Take it away and these major corporations would change their tone.
Would love to know what the uninstallation stats were this past week.
They did the right thing. That’s a win.
I love democracy.
Anybody wanna take bets on if they learned anything from this?
Can’t unshoot yourself in the foot, you can only try to heal.
r/PS5 is gonna be pissed
Absolute Feeling of Freedom Rah!!!!
Wow, fans actually won
Don’t try and pull this bullshit off again. But let’s be honest, they probably will
Welp I just left a negative steam review before this went out, so you’re welcome everybody.
Dang, the backlash was large enough to get them to change their minds.
I LOVE DEMOCRACY
Press ‘B’ to salute
WE DID DIVERS
Another victory for the right side of history.
Holy shit the review divers won the war
This was too much backlash even for Sony. Not just money wise, this was destroying all good will the game generated over these past months. For once, they had a live service game people were itching to play, that they enjoyed and had minimal controversy about it.
Sony has been chasing the golden goose of live service games for years, that’s why they bought Bungie who had a successful game in Destiny 2.
The endless refunds, bad reviews, bad press and endless criticism, was too much even for them to bury their head in the sand. Helldivers 2 is what Sony chased for years and they were going to destroy it out of sturbbonness unless they folded.
The helldiver players dived sony to hell with their negative reviews. 2
Outstanding Patriotism
Holy shit! It…actually worked? I’m honestly shocked. Most companies today just say “fuck you” and that’s the end of it.
We should do this more often.
#REMEMBER TO SET YOUR REVIEWS BACK TO POSITIVE, HELLDIVERS!
**For Liberty, Justice and Managed Democracy! For Super Earth!**
Gamers mass refunding and making a giant spectacle actually works! But I’m guessing a major contributing factor was all the units sold in unsupported regions suddenly losing access was also a big issue with no way to fix outside refunding them. At that point it makes no financial sense to cut access.
I’m on ps5 but that whole plan was really stupid
In 2 weeks time this will die down, people will forget as with every othet thing then Sony will probably try to do something else but less agressive.
All I hear is Letterkenny in my head. That’s a win boys.
Obligatory fuck every bootlicker who said negative reviews/refunds didn’t matter and actively tried to put their fellow man down for daring to demand to be treated better and failing to stick up for their foreign brothers and sisters.
Too late. They already destroyed all that built up good will.
They learned their lesson; they won’t launch any more games until the PSN integration is ready.