Helldivers 2 has received 100,000 negative reviews since announcing players must link Steam to a PSN

Thats why i buy old games atleast 1 year old. New region restriction destroyed the game. Its allowed in my country but i am busy playing cs2 xdd.

Fuck around and find out

Looks like it now sits at 47% positive reviews. I was not familiar with the game but seems like the kind of thing that will go F2P someday anyway.

Feel bad for the devs that just want to make a game and get forced to do things like this by management.

a little late to the party
https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/3tZNS/aaaannnnd-the-award-for-most-clown-awards-farmed-in-one-day-goes-to
reports of people with over 100+ hours of gameplay getting refunds.
depending on where you live the countries laws will back your refund. obviously not in usa....

The change is of particular concern to those players in regions where it's not possible to sign-up for a PSN account. An earlier comment from Arrowhead had suggested that such players should sign-up to PSN for a region other than that which they reside, but doing so would actually breach Sony's own terms of service.

Why the rocket scientists at Sony didn't think of that before announcing that change speaks wonders about how much they care about customers in those regions.

It's sad but it's Sony being Sony

Its clear they want more PSN users, but why not offer some crazy cosmetic or some other shit for linking PSN account. Instead they wake up and chose violence, by showing their PSN fist in peoples throats, pissing their customers and making it so some people cant play anymore(after it goes live). They had awesome thing going and now their review score is going down, they literally stoped selling H2 on steam in some regions and they efectivly losing money because of refunds.

Its outstanding how hard they fucked it up.

It really reminds me of this scene from Breaking Bad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i6eVY0QoiA

It's a shame.
Even if they reverse this, the game is mortally wounded.

Feel bad for the Devs. Looking forward to their next game.

Sony is killing a golden goose.
Some Psychopathic "Peter principle" executive at Sony really fucked this up.
I'm sure they want to Data to use with AI. This should have been opt in with an optional cosmetic.

Yet another reason to support indie dev's that don't charge much and don't sell out.
Look at the VLC guy. He could sell out for millions, easy. He refuses.
(To be clear, IDK if these dev's sold out, Don't know them at all.)

142k negative reviews on 3 days. On those same 3 days, only 3% reviews have been positive.

The biggest the corporation is, the shittier their decisions are.

it's reportedly the seventh highest grossing Sony published game of all time

That's really saying something, especially since the game has only been out for 3 months. Whoever green-lit this decision is a greedy fool.

Gotta love Sony/Playstation. They've been shitting the bed since late 2006, and they still haven't figured it out.

All I can do is laugh at the whole stupidity of this situation. At which point did they think this was acceptable after selling the product? This should be a class action lawsuit. Easy way to kill a title and make sure helldivers 3 will never stand a chance as long as it comes from any connection of sony's. Why would anyone buy helldivers 2, or again any of the future titles, knowing they would do this?

It's always corporate brainrots who think they're in to something that are so off mark it makes the distance from here to the edge of the explorable universe short. There should be a law if you get let go for bad performance, fired, etc. as a ceo coo, executive ass smeller or something in a high enough position in any company , you should not be allowed to apply again for a ceo position for 30 years. Because all these rats do is hop from one spot to another with no useful ideas, they never bring anything of value there and by the time they finally let go the place is always in a worse standing.

I mean let's be honest, we know this wasn't the idea of a gamer who's trying to do something good for the community, and the goal here is for sony's psn to get as many people to use their useless platform and steal steam user data and maybe convince them to buy that shitty useless hardware(a ps whatever) that's extinct and outdated the day it comes out and gets worse with every single second. It isn't rocket science sony, we know what you're up to, you're just like every other slimy scammer we avoid when they try to steal our inventory just big scale, but no thanks, I ain't buying that garbage nor am I subbing to your stupid psn plans, and psn clubs, and psn hoes, I wouldn't take it for free and you clearly can't afford normal anyways. So maybe like Take-two you need some financial advisors cause it seems your expenses are wasteful and that's why you're so desperate for every dollar.

I'm not a huge fan of 'review bombing' in general but I think this one is definitely warranted. I have no stake in this game in particular but adding a mandatory 3rd party account requirement after the fact is a terrible move.

Even if it was a day one thing it wouldn't be great but at least people would know what they're getting into and could choose whether or not to buy it.

the funny thing is that the community managers (sony bootlickers) were blaming this on the players and now are "trying" to change the agreement with sony, yeah sure

240.000 negative comments and %15
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As a person who is related to a former Sony employee and who has some of the SONY consoles, the way they shoot themselves in the feet tragicomic. Their games sell well and then decide it's a good time to introduce PSN restrictions, throwing their success story down the drain.

I have never owned either Helldiver game, but I can shill for Isonzo and Verdun, even if they are niche multiplayer games.

Game gets insanely popular and hyper to heavens despite:

• Requirements + the fact that PSN is strictly limited to mostly first world coutnries
• Needing a kernel-level rootkit anticheat to work
• Needing a constant internet connection to publisher servers
• DRM x2 (Steam, PS App)

BUT... having to create another account? OvErWhelMinglY NeGaTiFe

Help me understand, Its a Games as a service type of game, what did the players HONESTLY expect? To own the product and be able to play it whenever? Really?

My guess is Sony wants to force ps plus subscription to play helldivers online in the future and this is just a start. I hope that I am wrong.

What a dumb way to kill a successful game. To some extent I can see why they want people to sign up to PSN and they did explicitly say that it was going to be a requirement, but selling the game in countries where PSN isn't even available and then pulling the rug from under those customers might actually be a crime in some places. Not to mention that now the Helldivers brand is gonna be treated like radioactive waste by a large chunk of the gaming public, Sony just took out a shotgun and blew up an entire leg and now it's confused about why it cracked its skull against the ground.

They are just preparing the ground something similar to this.

Well, I don't think it will affect the game much. People will still play it unless they are from those countries.

Buying option on Steam for countries where PSN isn't available has been deactivated and according to unconfirmed info from YT Steam offers refunds no question asked to license holders (a.k.a game owners) in those countries.

It was all on the store page. I read the store page, as I do with every purchase.

The problem I have was that it was purchasable in those 177 countries where PSN was not available.

Community won, Sony backtracked.

Back to the void I go.

I've been playing this game since release with crossplay and I want to say playstation players are very friendly, more and more friendly than pc players.

KInda late to the party, this update has been cancelled.