Helldivers 2 Reviews Just Tanked...
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- Опубликовано: 3 май 2024
- Sony just mandated PSN account linking for Helldivers 2 the other day, and since then the community has been in an uproar. We went over an article from Paul Tassi covering the breaking news and also gave our thoughts.
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Cross: "I believe we are still part of the helldivers community".
Me: still waiting on the next installment of "This Week In Democracy"
Fr.
right. it's because it's a flash in the pan game because he was bored and needed content because destiny didn't.
@@marty_mcfly_jr helldives maintains an incredible player count. Its not a flash in the pan game lmao.
@@loopygordo unfortunately, that could change soon with this news
@@marty_mcfly_jr it has more players than destiny. Double the count even sometimes
Sony watched BattleState Games (creators of Tarkov) piss off their entire community within a day and said “bet we can do it faster.”
Not even remotely similar. Paywalling exclusive features behind hundreds of dollars compared with asking people to sign up to something as part of a $40 dollar game. One is annoying the other is egregious greed.
@@robfit’s not just “annoying” for the people who can’t create PSN accounts in their country and thus can’t play the game they payed for. At least the Tarkov expansion is optional.
Edit: and it is about greed. Sony wants this because it lets them take a higher percentage of revenue from purchases on steam, and they can sell the data from those making an account for a profit.
The problem is that players are being FORCED to create an account to play a game that isn't on Sony's platform. No other PS game has this requirement.
This tactic doesn't benefit PC players in any way whatsoever. F! Sony!
@@robf they have been caught changing there own ToS after the fact because they got corrected on twitter with proof (webarchive dont lie) they rug pulled and F'd over like 60 countries because they ILLEGALLY sold a product they knew they couldnt support with PSN being a non option in those countries oh and Sony breaching GDPR rules by forcing us to link a PSN account with steam to access an online service that was already granted so by there own admission of waivering the requirement for 3 months they open themselves up to the EU on a GDPR fine which isnt cheap and EU take that VERY seriously.
Sony can shove it on this move if they think im linking my PSN to steam they can F off
@@kogden8110 You are misinformed. Irrespective of your location you can create a PSN account. There is nothing stopping anyone from playing the game they paid for. The issue was for some regions you'd have to select a country that didn't match your location and could technically be in violation of TnCs. Sure harvesting email address on a forty buck game is the same as trying to charge $250 for exclusive PvE content. 👍
PSN is unavailable in 118 countries, including the Baltic states...who just so happen to be members of the EU. The only alternative is to use a VPN to create fake credentials, which is a direct violation of Sony's terms of service. America has horrible digital consumer rights, but the EU takes it VERY seriously. This could legitimately be grounds for legal action.
EDIT: Steam has now delisted Helldivers in over 100 countries and is approving refunds regardless of playtime. This is directly impacting Sony's wallet now.
the main reason i changed my review to negative.
that sony has data breaches so often that you can practically set your watch to it is another one entirely.
if not for those 2 reasons. this would not be so bad but here we are.
Don’t live there.
They now removed purchase options in such countries... uff
F*** it I might refund it even though I play on ps
can I refund it on PS Store? I’m not gonna be in U.S for couple months
Hit Sony with that ⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️
500kg 😂
Bro not gonna sugercoat it. 🤣
For 🗽
better ↓↑←↓↑→↓↑
Calling an Orbital Dislike ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️
Helldivers 2 devs tell the community to review bomb the game ... One of their strategies to pressure Sony
Not a Dev, a community manager, who's not so great at his job anyway. Could even cost him his job.
@@FcoEnriquePerez I'm pretty sure the CEO is okay with that strat. As for costing him his job... I think his job will likely be safe at Arrowhead, at least until his contract is up. Then he'll likely have a harder time finding a new position.
"To ban players"
"This decision would help us ban players"
2 of the community moderators that have both been employed by arrowhead since the first helldivers said this. Can people please stop cutting companies slack and just blaming higher ups all the time
Yea even the CEO doesnt seem okay with this decision of account linkling
He also said stop playing it. If players really want change they should heed that. looking at Steam DB, there has only been a dip of 5k players at peak since the announcement. Given the downward trend happening even prior to the account linking debaucle, that 5k drop could just be natural attrition and not due to the backlash. Players love to complain, but can't seem to put the game down. Mixed messaging.
if they end up requireing me to have a psn account for destiny thatll be the nail in the coffin for me. im not gonna be apart of their next yearly data breach
I know right?
If it's the "data breach of the century" why the hell does it happen every other week?
destiny 2 unlike helldivers 2 is on xbox, there's probably something in place to prevent that from happening
You know if they will take over cheaters, ximmers on a daily basis, i'll be fine)
@@bacon_208 My guy, Sea of thieves on PS recquires a microsoft account.
Not just credential data breaches anymore either. Sony is pushing one of the most insanely intrusive anti cheats in all of gaming. So the future data breaches could compromise a metric ton of user data for each individual account. Sony is downright dangerous for its customers and their data.
I miss offline mode games.
FACTS
They still exist. You just don’t play them by choice
@@KodexKatyou should be able to play this without PSPlus by just playing offline
then play them bro
@@flymasterkyle1277 it’s not a free game. Only free games don’t require ps plus for online.
And then Sony will come and blame Arrowhead that Helldivers population numbers tanked, and take 0% of the blame for their actions causing it
I can definitely see this happening. Bethesda did it to Obsidian with Fallout New Vegas.
lmfao watching y'all be this upset is hilarious to me. the game is mid. the devs are shitheads. this was inevitable.
@sonnyankau9239 so, why did you click on the video if you hate the game so much? I haven't even played the game. I'm just talking about how Capitalism works. The people at the top come up with bad ideas, and it's the people at the bottom who take the fall for them
@@GloverGaming3 so i could revel in the suffering of people who love it
@@sonnyankau9239 Sorry, you're not going to get a lot of revelry from me. I do like the game, and I've thought about trying it, but as a dad to young kids, I don't get a lot of gaming time, and I have enough to do just playing Destiny
sony being sony, forcing devs to take the brunt of their greedy decisions
Real this is why spider mam 2 sucked ass
@@thiagoarxalmeida606Spiderman 2 was good wtf are you talking about 😭
@@MyNameisVyke bugs every where rushed game development no option to switch time of day 💀
@@thiagoarxalmeida606your crazy, it ran great at launch and if your end all be all is the ability to change the time of day… I don’t know how to converse with someone so braindead
Nobody is forcing anything 💀 the average consumer just doesn’t know that this was a top down choice
Cross say he’s part of Democracy but gave up the fight months ago 😭😭😭😭
He's on a mandatory vacation, super earth mandate
He'll be back. He's currently fighting a different intergalactic war of light vs dark.
No content
^ what they said
@@chillhour6155 Evidently incorrect - there's been new enemies, new missions, new warbonds and new lore pretty much every other week.
Objectively more content than Destiny, subjectively better/more exciting content than Destiny
Hell has come for the Divers. We now fight a war on three fronts. Automatons, Terminids, and Sony. To my fellow Divers to the East, fighting those dirt crawlers relentlessly, please head South. To my fellow Divers to the West, fighting those loveless bots in the name of Malevelon Creek, please head South. We must now dive not just for Democracy, but for Survival. Pick up your TD-15 Reviewer, head over to the game page, and leave a negative review, or change your review to negative. This new foe is powerful, but with the combined power of Brasch Tactics and Pilestedt Benevolence, we have a chance. We may fall, Democracy taken away, but we may stand victorious. It all depends on how this newest Major Order goes.
PC brainrot
@@bognareff7991 womp womp
Its not pc brain its called standing up for yourself and telling an awful Corporation to go to hell
Your just a pushover that won't survive in the real world
@@bognareff7991 Keep brown nosing soyboy. Because unlike you, I'm standing for something.
Also, aren't you a little young to be playing Helldivers? Who the hell says "brainrot" other than 13 year olds? Pretty sure you need to be at least 17. So, go back to watching sky kiddie toilet or whatever it's called.
People saying its not a big issue because they are from a country that isn't concerned by the change :
1. You are still required to put your personal information in a service that is known to be unreliable and frequently hacked, which has had massive banking data leaks in the past
2. The concept of Helldivers 2 is literally hurt by the game not being widely accessible. Yes you will still be able to play it if you live in the US or in most european countries, but every single defense campaign and conquest of new automaton and terminid systems is gonna be harder because we will miss DOZENS OF THOUSANDS of players that cannot play the game
Yeah, honestly the saddest part about all of this is all the divers we’re gonna lose because of this bullshit.
Sony trying not to ruin gaming: level impossible
PC brainrot
And we’ve only reached Tier 1 level of impossible! They still have three other tiers to go through.
@@bognareff7991doesn't Pay attention to Spiderman 2, calls the kettle black
lmao they are one of the lesser scandalous ones
and people have the balls to tell me "always online" wont have any issues down the line
The more worrying thing is that this could be a prelude to them trying to enforce PS+ on PC gamers.
Exactly! It's Sony. They totally would!
@@kurtisdeakinya, because Microsoft isn’t greedy either😂 you do realize ALL these companies are the same right, not a single one of them cares more about you than the other. I guess at least Sony still makes good games😂
Biggest mistake was putting basic multi-player behind a Paywall. That is singlehandedly one of the stupidest decisions I have ever seen both Sony and Microsoft make. Glad Steam hasn't followed suit.
@@cl4-tpgaming He didn’t mention Microsoft. Obviously MS is bad. They tried the same thing over a decade ago.
But trying to defend Sony by shifting blame to MS, your fanboyism is showing.
@cl4-tpgaming This isn't even about Microsoft or any other video game companies. This is about Sony. Take your Adderall and stay on track buddy.
Play stupid games win stupid prizes. Disrespect the playerbase, they will disrespect you.
Literally last year on May 1st War Thunder was review bombed the hell out of. This action forced War Thunder devs to actually make good changes to the game.
Upvote the shit outta this. If it worked for gajin to fix the state of warthunder then we gotta do the same here.
It was all so perfect, then Sony kicked Arrowhead in the balls
Sony removed the game on steam from countries that can't make a PSN account. Well now we know they won't be backtracking this.
It’s always the damn higher ups
Not always. Bungo is proof.
@@gargathulothhastur4981 bingo is proof that their higher ups sucks be fr did u think the devs wanted to fire them selves
@@gargathulothhastur4981 You mean the higher ups in Bungie? The ones who made all the decisions that have caused issues for the company?
The tldr is that a corporation (most likely sony) is forcing players to link a psn account to their helldivers profile. This change also occured when sony made changes to their EULA regarding their games on steam. This means that players in regions that cant make a psn account at all due to restrictions there will effectively be banned from playing the game they already paid money for without ever being able to do the things they need to be allowed to keep playing the game
This is considered fraud in multiple countries and additionally can also be considered a customer rights, tos and breach of contract violation by sony at the international level.
Meaning there is currently grounds for Sony to be sued by over 200,000 individuals at a minimum across 30+ countries for a rough estimate of hundreds of billions of dollars and lawyers from across the world have already begun preparing to file suits
Thanks for explaining, I was having trouble understanding why it’s such a big deal, I know lots of games ask you to make an account on login
The change didn't occur when Sony made the EULA change because there was no change. From the moment preorders where announced it was made clear that you would need a PSN account to play the game. If you bought it on Steam day 1 you needed to make one. The issue was that the launch of Helldivers was awful and one of the problems was trying to link your PSN account crashed the game. So they disabled the requirement while stating that it was a temporary disable. Players just either ignored it or missed it but that isn't on Sony or Arrowhead that is on gamers not actually paying attention.
The only legit thing to call Sony/Arrowhead out on is selling the game to areas that wouldn't be able to play it, that is scummy. But there was no changing of the requirements.
@@mattf8779 I assume in territories without legal access to a PSN account it will just allow you skip registration. In fairness they ought to have foreseen trying to implement it at a later date would upset some section of the player base. They should have offered some crazy weapon as a sign up incentive, ppl still would have been mad because it's the internet but less mad I guess. If there are any benefits to requiring registration for banning players they should have set up an 'international' sign up for everyone not in an existing territory prior to launch, poor implementation and communication on this front.
HD2 devs are great, but their CM are literally reddit mods. (like, actually. Used to be reddit mods in HD1)
The people making the game genuinely care, but the people acting as the face are just crazy.
I mean... Spitz is out of line, but he's right.
@@ShaoShaoMienshao Mm. Spitz has done nothing wrong. The helldivers community are fucking awful people. The man had to destroy the community discord server he'd made into one of the best servers on the planet because Gamers tm were spamming gore and CP in it. If the helldivers community weren't such terrible people they wouldn't keep getting treated like it.
Cozmo used to be a reddit mod for Destiny. I don't really think it's fair to make blatant assumptions about people based on a type of class they fall under. V prejudicial
From PlayStation official X 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 learning what is best for PC players and your feedback has been invaluable. Thanks again for your continued support of Helldivers 2 and we’ll keep you updated on future plans.
“We’re still learning what’s best for PC” translated = we stepped in shit trying while trying how squeeze the most corporate benefit from you playing this game.
I remember coming home, popping in a disc and being able to chill and play games with zero downloading/copying every other day.
I may have gotten bored and tired of Helldivers, but Arrowhead stays taking massive Ws. Sony on the other hand.. Classic Sony, ruining a great game and tarnishing a game studio’s reputation. Good to see Arrowhead fighting back.
If you live in a place where PSN is not supported I cannot stress this enough as Aztecross didn't mention it.
DO NOT CHANGE THE LOCATION OF YOUR ACCOUNT!
That is a clear violation of Sony's EULA which terminates your account. This also will lock down the steam account that you linked to Sony.
And it's not necessary.
They dont realize it but theyve been training a group of internet entities to all focus on a singular goal. Everyone forgot the billion bugs we killed in 24 hours, thats a million reviews in less time.
Sony just put out a tweet that they changed their mind on the account linking.
I hate that it's always the people who made a fantastic game who are going to get hurt the most, not the brickheads making the decisions (and taking the $$$)
Most I’ve been able to do is make my review negative as my refund request has been denied due to the whole more than 2 weeks and 2 hours policy. Feels bad man
keep sending them until you get it, every request is one more match on the fire. Valve will get further involved soon, bet on it.
It’s crazy that the whole Escape From Tarkov fiasco is happening and then this happens. What has happened to these upper management at BSG and Sony… both are burning bridges.
A quote from another video I watched "You don't mess with a player base that killed 2 billion bugs in 12 hours". And I feel it explains it all. I'm a Destiny 2 player much sure I've switched games to HD2 but now I'm unsure.
Other then Destiny 2 and Outriders I think I’m done investing my time and money on the online with servers type games. I’m mainly sticking with single player type games where you’ll never lose your stuff and everything is saved on hard drive. Like the Borderlands games. It sucked watching Destiny 1 die.
Destiny 1 didn't die. There are still people who play.
@@andy.jehoshaphat I logged into Destiny 1 not to long ago. I couldn’t get into a PvP game. I did some strikes with matchmaking. It was extremely weird with no FOV and 30 FPS. It’s not dead, but it’s painful to play after being used to D2.
Epic Games lost my 70 hour's Remnant account I mostly played solo, these launchers are a curse either way
Destiny is the only Live Service game that I play, I’ve never been interested in playing another cuz of how time consuming they are. Always been a single player, player since ps1 and will stay like that for ever. Single player (offline) games’ where it’s at
Average Sony L
Mr. Editor please tell me what was the music in the outro. Sounds very fimiliar
Arrowhead: hey let's make a game where the whole community has to work together to achieve major orders
Gaming media: how did all these HD2 players come together to bomb the reviews?!
Looks like there's new information about this controversy, just the countries were PSN is available will need their account to play, the ones that don't have access won't need it
Edit: the game is no longer available to purchase in countries that don't have psn
If this is true then the only complaint I had about this account link is gone
The devs told the to review bomb it so they had more ammo when they talked to sony
I'm part of the my countries military too Cross. I just don't show up to any drill trainings and my arm or leg is conveniently fractured around any deployment period.
It's ok now, crisis averted. Everyone's data on the internet is safe now.
I have a PS account for 17 Years, I have a PS5 and I WILL NOT LINK my Helldivers 2 account to my PS5 or any Playstation exclusive PC Game.
Womp womp
🎻
Sure you're not going too.
@@robfI'm not, Sony just trying to use a great game to pull some numbers for share holders. Good luck with that.
Cool?
Sony is well known for old-world samurai business tactics and idiotic fuckery like this.
I highly doubt they'll walk this back.
As of now countries where psn isn’t available are straight up blocked from even playing/buying the game. Even people who already own the game can’t launch it.
Nonsense.
I like that twist of events you described.
Definitely would be fine with a Bungie like pivot that lets arrowhead put helldivers on a Xbox
all video games that are big have this. minecraft, sea of thieves, fortnite, apex legends, overwatch…
AND DESTINY 2
That Spitz CM changed his tune didn't he?! 1st had a go at the community which only made the situation worse. The backlash changed his tune, to blame SONY.
Which is the truth I imagine because the game was running fine without this until now.
I’m just curious what the conversation with spits looks like right now lol.
This is very similar to what happened with Google classrooms due to the Genshin 1st anniversary problem but this is actually on the initial game
It’s not the developers. It’s the publisher.
They definitely are the one pushing it, but Arrowhead is the one bending and letting this shit f their game.
The devs actually deleted a bunch of discord messages that prove that they were approving the change
@@andredayton1424says you?
@@FcoEnriquePerez PC brainrot
@@andredayton1424 PC brainrot
Apparently, Steam begun to roll out refunds, even with many hours on the account.
Denied my request twice, this seems false, only have 26hrs in the game too since launch
Highly doubt this. It's been advertised that this was a requirement from the very start, both in-game and on the store page. Steam won't be refunding for that reason.
@@N7ZaeedMassani you need to get a human support to look at it. automated ones generally dont do jack
@@N7ZaeedMassaniI think you have to contact support for it, if you use the normal feature it’s automatically denied if you have more than 2 hours iirc
Spitz was talking to the D2 communtiy, not the Helldivers community when he said that steam reviews make a difference.
Does it mean that they might enforce this on Bungie as well?
They might honestly, but after this fiasco, hopefully Sony learns their lesson.
Reviews might've tanked, but the game is still fantastically fun to play. This will all blow over soon enough.
Maybe it’s due to Microsoft wanting to try and get it onto Xbox and this will absolutely rule that out if you need a psn account. 🤷♂️
Even if they do that, they wont take away the game from xbox platforms, only makr it worse for everyone playing + the more than 90 countries that dont have psn
The biggest issue is the change of the terms of sale after the sale took place.
For no reason
Thanks for the information I've added my 2 cents for managed democracy. :)
People really being crybabies over making a psn when people gotta make a Microsoft account to play Sea of Thieves on PS5 which no one bats an eye to
Sea of thieves isn't comparable at all in numbers to helldivers 2. It was also clearly communicated up front that you needed to do that. I have been gaming long enough to remember the psn network being down for months. I have had e credit cards have to be replaced due to data breaches of psn. That has never happened with my ms account nor ea.
@@TitusAndromadonexcept the psn requirement was there before launch. Not Sony, steam or arrowheads fault people can’t read. Dont buy a game if you can’t meet the requirements.
Did Microsoft force you to link your PSN account to the Microsoft account?
But not this shit sony literally force you to link your PSN account to your steam account just to play the game
Log in just to play the game is okay but forcing people to link account is a whole different matter
You need to play more helldivers, Cross!
Didn’t sony put a pause at the beginning to allow steam players to join because the linking was causing server delays, so they allowed pc players to bypass it. That doesn’t mean that it was gonna stay like that forever the psn linking was gonna happen one way or another
Make a video on the other side of this now it’s being walked back. Doesn’t have to be a gush on Sony but even a hey sometimes they listen
And this is why Destiny will never die
Lmao yeah, right. Watch the point fly right over your head.
Uninstall, change review and ask for refund! IM DOING MY PART.
If we get it denied, I'm waiting to sing up that class action.
And to whoever mfkr who thinks we should bend it, just because other's do it too, nah, f them too.
It’s too late for the refund tho
And now they have moved back on the PSN requirement. 🎉
Maybe if Sony wouldn’t gatekeep most of there games that hadn’t been an issue because then the account had a use other than to pump up there statistics
Moral of the story, PS games should remain exclusive lol we wouldn't have any issues of it was. MS forced us to make a MS account for minecraft (I lost my account so WOMP WOMP online), but no one batted an eye to it.
Microsoft has been doing this exact samething for years now & yet nobody says anything. It's just PC karens being mad.
that shit is on electronic arts like level the only thing that could help more would be if devs put a message in the game so even the players who still buy games blindly and don't have social media accounts know what's going on
They actually walked it back, and arent moving forward with it
Lol. imgine using any site or app on the web and thinking Sony is somehow the one that breaks you data security.
If your online and they want your info, they're getting it Sony account or not. People are so dumb for throwing temper tantrums
People are just taking this shit way out of proportion
Fr
bro you need to do more research and less ignorance maxxing
List of countries where people cant make PSN accounts:
Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Antigua Barbuda, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bosnia Herzegovina, Botswana, Brunei, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo-Kinshasa), Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville),Djibouti Dominica, Dominican Republic East Timor (Timor-Leste), Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Eswatini(Swaziland), Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Grenada, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Madagascar, Malawi, Maldives, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Micronesia, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar (Burma), Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Nigeria, North Macedonia (formerly Macedonia), Palau, Papua New Guinea, Rwanda, Saint Kitts, Nevis Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent, Grenadines Samoa, San Marino, Sao, Tome, Principe Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Sudan, and Suriname
Oh! You're one of THOSE people.
Isn't changing the words in a user agreement after it was already signed a form of fraud? Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
I like your gaming news videos!
The problem is this. I bought the game and have been able to play since. NOW Im being told I wont be allowed to play the game I bought and have been playing fine since, unless I make a 3rd party account
Based on that will they be required to play PS+?
The issue isn't having to sign up. We do that a lot for other games up front. The issue is that it we paid for something, was told it was optional, and then a few months later get told we have to sign up or we lose access to the game. Worse for those in countries who don't have even have access to the game anymore. It feels like their money was stolen in a bait and switch.
People are tired of not owning the games they pay for and, more importantly, hate feeling like they've been deceived.
To be fair so many other companies require what Sony is asking. This is nothing new. It sucks though but again this not new. The lack of transparency is inexcusable 100% for not letting people know from the beginning.
Sony.. this could’ve been done so easily you could’ve have your cake and eat it too…
Keep the game optional for PSN, but add bonus cosmetics and exp booster if/when you add your PSN account by a certain date. You could get your earning numbers and also make the playerbase happy.
Cross will you try the BO3 Zombie mode Destiny map?
PSN has officially rolled back their requirement and helldiver's put out a major order to change your reviews to positive lol
On top of how many countries can't even make an account Sony is notorious for its data breaches way more than ms or ubisoft or ea.
I don't necessarily want arrowhead to go indie if it means losing funding so we end up with a democracy filled version of the ever verse from d2 to pay for things but it would be better than this I guess. Since it would still be optional
When we will see you playing new Remnant 2 dlc?
Its been fixed, sony is undoing it
Dood, I'm not worried the "it's just an account" Problem, I'm worried that this is a starters for 1 day those multi billion company, would charge you subscription not matters what platform you play as long as it's their games 😅
THEY REVERTED THE DESCISION , WE WON
This article clearly avoids the crux of this problem: that some people are unable to create their psn account due to regional restrictions from psn. Creating an account from some countries is straight up impossible without a vpn.
I feel this issue very hard as these kinds of restrictions from Sony disallowed me to purchase any more dlcs for Destiny 2 and to keep playing the game i loved.
It just sucks man
Money this is why this is happening. Its always about sweet precious lewt when it comes to big companies/corporations. Its unfortunate and i hope AH can recover from this drama.
I live in Jamaica but technically i created my psn account with a usa address and it works fine but i have to buy psn money with us dollar eventhough we don't use USD , it's annoying but it works
Terms of Service are absolutely disgusting agreements.
It’s not crazy that we can come together for one bigger goal, that’s what we did in the game for hours all the time.
And in some places that the where players are allowed to make psn accounts they can only do so with a purchase of a playstation system I think it was Sweden? I've even seen some chinese player already getting banned because they used a vpn to link their account. There is crossplay witih helldivers 2 but no cross progression, for the past 3 months the game has worked fine without the need to make and link a psn account and has been able to track steam accounts/psn players. Conservatively, I'd estimate at least 20-30k of player base just got fucked out of 40-60+ USD and were told to kick rocks which is why I think the review ratings tanked so swiftly in under a day.
I hear Hungaria is lovely this time of year...
They already denied access to the countries already 2 hours ago on steam
i suppose if steam has say 2mil hd2 players, half of them sign up, it be an easy migration of 1mil onto the ps pc launcher, hypothetically.
Two things: this all takes place before their psn+ model, which is subscription based. So buy the game and pay for monthly access. Second, having to provide a driver's license for Sony, who loses PII every year, is not acceptable period.
Players have said Sony is known to have information leaks, also a reason why people don't want to link their STEAM account.
What i have yet to see people ask is why was the game being sold to countries that can't make a PSN account?
Im here to say we won this battle onto the next!!! For Democrussy!!!!!!!!
Well this was always the case, linking the steam account to the psn. In addition, look at the real reasons why Sony is requiring this. They need to be able to protect players. Even arrowhead said it themselves.
This was a simple problem for me. I am a bit older now , and i have the child in me under control. Helldivers rocked, and i loved playing, but just like Destiny2. I am an adult, and if a company starts doing shady stuff...... I am out! All the issues Playstation has had with personal info, and security. I have zero desire to have anything to do with Playstation whatsoever. As an adult gaming is maybe 3rd or 4th on my list of hobbies, so walking away from a game is easy. So, I have played my last match of Helldivers. Nowhere else in adult life do we put up with this kind of crap from other companies. I have no idea why so many of us allow games to do it. I understand Arrowhead didnt do it, but this was filthy , and just like if i paid for an oil change , and my car got scratched up....... They gets no more business from me.
So basically AH just said “Hellbomb armed, clear the area”