Helldivers 2 will require Steam players to sign in with PSN account, led to review bombing games & refunds. |UP| Gamers organizing to revert reviews.

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controversy, exposure, even more PR for free. this game will live rent free in people's heads for whole year.

only negative could be, if your are doing some evil, immorally bad things.

The bitch phase will go away. They went through the game's anti-cheat bitch phase that is way, way more destructive on a kernel-level.
 

saltyashell

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The active playerbase continues unaffected in Steam, the game is performing exactly as did yesterday:

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I suggest to block this type of accounts on Twitter instead of giving them publicity sharing their nonsense to more places.
What probably happened is all of the clowns who had a tantrum today immediately got FOMO when all their friends made PSN accounts and went back to playing Helldivers without them.
 
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The active playerbase continues unaffected in Steam, the game is performing exactly as did yesterday:

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I suggest to block this type of accounts on Twitter instead of giving them publicity sharing their nonsense to more places.

As usual its a small but very loud minority of cry babies.
 

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how is signing up for a free account "nickle-and-diming"?
If something is free, you are the product. The more info you give away, the more money the company makes. Do you see a cut of that money? No.
It's not bullshit at all unless you want to start crying about people signing into their Microsoft accounts to load up windows & then signing into their steam accounts
I don't use windows or, when I did, sign in to a windows account.

I wouldn't/won't buy a quest because it wants a Facebook log in, which I don't have, because Facebook makes money from me, none of which I see. Unfortunately, not all data can be avoided been given away, but I avoid It where I can.

Don't reply to me after this as I'm done with the subject until next time. If you think this is not a big deal, then that's ok take "120 seconds" to sign up for an account and I hope you continue to enjoy your game.
Remember that death comes in a thousand cuts and the frog boils slowly.
 
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If something is free, you are the product. The more info you give away, the more money the company makes. Do you see a cut of that money? No.

I don't use windows or, when I did, sign in to a windows account.

I wouldn't/won't buy a quest because it wants a Facebook log in, which I don't have, because Facebook makes money from me, none of which I see. Unfortunately, not all data can be avoided been given away, but I avoid It where I can.

Don't reply to me after this as I'm done with the subject until next time. If you think this is not a big deal, then that's ok take "120 seconds" to sign up for an account and I hope you continue to enjoy your game.
Remember that death comes in a thousand cuts and the frog boils slowly.
nickle-and-diming doesn't mean profiting off of your data, it means actually making you pay money. you need to use the right words to describe something because words have meanings. regarding the money that sony is "making" off of you creating a free PSN account, it's literally nothing. It's some bullshit metric to cram into their quarterly earnings reports to make investors happy, and has nothing to do with shaking the customer down for more money.
 

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What online games don’t require your email or an account? Serious question. I can’t think of any. It’s been streamlined to be just a click of a button and carrying over your username on consoles but it’s everywhere, from ea to square.

Even on consoles where you have a xbl or psn account… to play any ea Ubisoft game you have to make accounts. I’ve had to deal with the problems this can cause too when ea decided to retire my account for no good reason locking me out until I went thru customer service hoops.

Bungie has their own accounts and since they’re publishing under their brand I don’t expect marathon to require psn. But they have their own.

When you game across platforms a unified account is somewhat better for online gaming anyway. Easier migration.

This is such faux outrage bs lol
 

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The true measure of success for an online game is the amount of hate it gets from warriors who hate online games to begin with.
I hope helldivers still perseveres after this.

It's very stupid, how much this has gotten out of hand.
 
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Meh at this point Sony should not back down, you never negotiate with terrorists. This is not a free to play game and they have already finessed 40$ of these steam suckers so let them make a hue and cry. I hope this results in Sony shutting down on PC releases going forward