Helldivers 2 received over 14,000 negative reviews today due to an update that will require PSN accounts next week.

my man genuinely doesn't understand how steam usernames work

also the implication that steam reviews don't matter? then why are you mad about them?

So how does Steam tell their own users’ usernames apart if they’re mostly duplicates? Something smells like bullshit.

Why can't they make a unique username when you create a character the first time that is just your "account name"? That would give you the samw powers as a psn username when it comes to banning. Edit:spelling

I really like the community manager's reply in the first one, pretty funny

https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1cjyll7/some_discord_updates/

Bro, Bungie is owned by PlayStation and even they have made cross-platform, Bungie-specific accounts the norm. I don't see why Arrowhead couldn't go with Arrowhead accounts, unless it's a cost issue. Otherwise there really isn't an excuse

That third comment aged like a nice, fine glass of milk.

Also locks out anyone not living in the 66 countries serviced by the PSN.

Also now requires giving your personal info to yet another third party and their friends. A third party which has a storied past of losing user data.

The game was sold other places (like the Humble store) without the PSN warning.

Also it’s been sold in countries that the PSN doesn’t support.

I thought someone had gone to the waybackmachine and confirmed that it said it was optional initially and changed it when they made this decision?

Not having a system up to spec, I didn't look at the Eula. That's bizarre.

It's not in the EULA at all. A major problem with this change is that PSN is only available in about 66 countries. Locking out the rest of the world from playing without fear of repercussions due to falsified account info.

Also just the shitty problem of having to give your personal info to yet another third party. One who has a long history of losing personal data of its users.

Idiotic analogy

If you bought an electric car and the company recalled it and changed it to a petrol motor, would you be a Tesla owner and just roll over and lube up your sphincter?

Ha ha yeah I actually typed that 😂

This is a good analogy if you think of video games as a consumable product.

It's not a good analogy if you see video games as art. Like if you buy a portrait from a painter and two weeks later they come to your house and paint over it to be a stick figure. Especially if it's just because they want more money from you.

It's also not a good analogy if you see video games as rented or leased goods, like most game studios execs want video games to be. Imagine renting a car for your trip across the country and half way there, you wake up at your hotel, look out the window, and the rental company swapped it out for a tractor in the middle of the night. Hope that works for you!

Sure, it's in the contract that they can do that. And maybe you finished the trip so it doesn't really affect you. But it's happening to other people, and we shouldn't trust the company going forward because one day it could be you that's screwed out of what you paid for.

I would expect to be able to return a sandwich if halfway through eating it, the owner came up to my table and put cheese on it after specifically asking for no cheese because I'm lactose intolerant.

Or in the case of discontinued online games, it would like eating half the sandwich and having it taken away.

Yeah you need to just read back into the history of Atari

Well they still are beholden to Sony executives that have no idea what gamers want unfortunately.

their decision to use an unnecesary intrusive rootkit ai should have clued players into how little the devs care about the players

There's no rule. Those games that disappeared in your app store disappeared because they suck and went into an app store.

QA team, finding someone to do localisation, porting your game to other platforms if needed, marketing

All of this will be done for free by fans of the game if it's a good game and there isn't a publisher to slap on DRM. Otherwise, how am I playing Seiken Densetsu 3?

What I'm hearing is that marketing is the problem - if so much money wasn't wasted on it then the world would be a better place.

So PSN gives them the money needed to make up for the damage caused by PSN?

Imagine a publisher established on actual good will though.

I suspect since it hasn't gone into effect yet people are still playing the game as normal, some hoping they change their mind, some not realizing it's even happening and some getting the last bit of the game before quitting.

Once it goes into effect, that's when the dive will happen.

Wait till it hits people who "just play the game" when they actually enforce it.

This is exactly what I expected. People are liars and slacktivists.

I think the people who live in the 100+ countries that the game just got delisted, are not supported by PSN, and Sony, the publisher, failed to region lock the game from being sold into, are rightfully pissed a game they bought up to 3 months ago is suddenly bricked because a corporation lied and wants to force a 'feature' onto an exsisting game just so they can get better internal metrics on people playing the game to bombard them with more advertising.

If they enforced it from day 1 then you're right, no one would have cared. At day 1 it would be upfront and everyone would know what they're getting and far fewer people would have bought it. Enforcing it at day 40 or whatever is not cool. I, along with many others by the sounds of it, was looking forward to finally buying this game and now I won't be. In general I am so fucking sick of good-sounding games coming along just for them to be fucked in one way or another, i.e., missing content, under developed/tested, broken promises, "we'll patch it later", etc.

My entire extended friend group has refunded. It hurts em