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Helldivers 2 Players Express Frustration On Steam As It Will Soon Require A PSN Account (www.gameinformer.com)

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Helldivers 2 Players Express Frustration On Steam As It Will Soon Require A PSN Account

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[-] SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip 76 points 3 months ago

This feature doesn’t affect me personally, but it is still very scummy to add it after launch. Long after refund window is out of the question.

[-] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 40 points 3 months ago

Well, it affects me in that now I know not to buy this game and support such a scummy practice.

[-] atrielienz@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Is the game developer involved or is it just Sony doing Sony there are some things that there are some things that don't things?

[-] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago

“this step will help us continue to build a community that you are all proud to be a part of”

Someone is selling ad data from this, not entirely sure if it’s Sony or dev or both

[-] Phelpssan@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

The developer is involved. Though it's pretty obvious that the push for this is from Sony, they are the publisher for the game.

[-] GoodEye8@lemm.ee 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The developer is involved to the extent that they have to do what Sony says. The CEO of Arrowhead even tweeted that people should email Sony, referring to a Playstations own website where it stated that PSN is optional. Sony then quickly changed their web page to say it's sometimes required.

From my point of view this is all Sony.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 33 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

A change like this may warrant special exceptions to the refund rules. Steam has made exceptions for similar changes to games made after launch in the past.

[-] thisbenzingring 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It wasn't added after launch. You could bypass it. Now they are changing that.

[-] nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de 22 points 3 months ago

That's true. Personally though, it not being optional for any amount of time just shows that there's no good argument to have it be mandatory in the first place.