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Sony backs down regarding Helldivers PSN account linking on PC (twitter.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] gmtom 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You know, part of me wants to believe there was actually nothing malicious going on here and when this all went down some guy at Sony was just very surprised this turned out to be a big deal and wa just kinda like "if it matters that much to you we just won't do it I guess, idc."

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don't even work for Sony and "you need to create a third party account to play our game" isn't something I expected to generate 300k negative reviews in 3 days. There are a lot of games that come with third party accounts and launchers. With all the shit companies like EA, Epic, and Ubisoft force onto their players, I'm genuinely surprised this caused any pushback.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

We think the main reason was the amount of countries you couldn't make a PSN account in, locking out a lot of people from playing a game they bought. So honestly, with that in mind, it's probably justified.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah also at one point they claimed this was the plan from day one, but if that was the case why would it have been for sale in countries with no PSN support.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Their terms even stated that a psn account would be optional for PC users, right up until this debacle. Then they quietly changed the wording to "some games may require it"