Sony reverses position & will no longer require PSN account linking for Helldivers 2. Must take the right lessons from this fiasco.

[quest4441]

I guess the 28 $ they earn from steamtards is more valuable than the 7-8k me and my brother together spend on the PSN store each year. I hope they find the audience and revenue they are looking for because from now on nintendo gets the money from me as being spineless is what I despise the most

 

[JAHGamer]

where do you get numbers bro what

Sony's quarterly earnings reports....

 

[Box]

I guess the 28 $ they earn from steamtards is more valuable than the 7-8k me and my brother together spend on the PSN store each year. I hope they find the audience and revenue they are looking for because from now on nintendo gets the money from me as being spineless is what I despise the most

Same here next generation I'm switching sides to Nintendo. Sony this gen has lost all of my respect.

 

[Thirty7ven]

Sony looking like clowns and bending over a userbase that will barely contribute to their bottom line.

 

[anonpuffs]

Sony looking like clowns and bending over a userbase that will barely contribute to their bottom line.

They made quite a bit on helldivers 2, and if they wanted more like that in the future they had to bend the knee.

The suits already told you their plan, it's on you if you keep putting your hands over your ears.

Playstation is going to PC, and they want all the moneys. Maybe if the console people were able to band together like the Helldivers players did and make a mass protest to Sony, then they wouldn't be porting more games to PC. But only a few gamers care.

 

[Exicide]

For anyone worried about the review percentage: It seems to be going back up, the user Pirate Software (Thor) said he won't change his until they relist the game in the countries they delisted the game in.

 

[Evilms]

Sony at the moment

 

[JAHGamer]

They made quite a bit on helldivers 2, and if they wanted more like that in the future they had to bend the knee.

HD2 made "quite a bit" in a sea of flops

"They had to bend the knee" is dumb and terrible foresight. Good luck trying to implement PSN on future releases, there are already big influencers campaigning against it.

The suits already told you their plan, it's on you if you keep putting your hands over your ears.

Those same suits that wanted to piggyback on PC to inflate their MAUs like Xbox does? Their plan failed miserably.

Playstation is going to PC, and they want all the moneys. Maybe if the console people were able to band together like the Helldivers players did and make a mass protest to Sony, then they wouldn't be porting more games to PC. But only a few gamers care.

There is no money to be made on PC, the numbers over the past 4 years have shown that one little "victory" for PC and now you're trying to act like they're a relevant audience?? You must've been hacked by Yurinka or something

Reminder:

PlayStation revenue - 30 billion
10 PC ports + Destiny 2 revenue - 250m
PSN store weekly revenue - 300m

After 4 years, porting almost the entire library and spending 3.7 billion on Bungie, not even 1% of PlayStations revenue comes from PC. PC revenue cannot generate what PSN does in a week. This initiative has been an objective failure. It’s wild that people try to spin it to look good instead of just admitting it.

Now you want them to spend even more resources creating launcher and more ports that will flop? PS launcher on PC is a stupid idea. You guys are lost in the sauce, PC as a whole is nothing but a waste of time that shouldn’t be acknowledged in the slightest.

Put that time and money into new games for console owners, improving backwards compatibility, and remaking classics that need it (ps1/ps2). Things that actually strengthen the console and make PS users experience better.

Wild idea….try catering to people that don’t hate you that are actually willing to spend money and not cry over something as stupid as creating a free account.

 

[Nomen_Nescio]

The question going forward is: will SIE get their senses and strength back?

 

[Nomen_Nescio]

It wont. GOT was announced with trophies and few days ago for Legends will require PSN. They are warned! If they are start to whine, it literally means they don't want to make a PSN account.
OK, Helldivers 2 had a warning with PSN requirement, just it didn't worked at the beginning.

They need to enforce it from the start for multiplayer games ( any game that has a multiplayer mode available, not just multiplayer only games). Don't like it? Don't buy it.

 

[xollowsob]

So does every other publisher get away with this EXCEPT Sony?

Doesn’t this technically mean outrage for every multiplayer game forward? I’m just interested in the precedent this sets. I really think the internet chose the wrong battle here tbh.

Hopefully this starts the pushback against multiple Sign ins. Unfortunately, I think the industry shills have been deployed to attack the wrong areas, making it look like PC gamers are attacking Helldivers 1, when in reality it's a paid distraction to kill the movement before the push back aims at other companies and their sign ins.

 

[Evilnemesis8]

HD2 made "quite a bit" in a sea of flops

"They had to bend the knee" is dumb and terrible foresight. Good luck trying to implement PSN on future releases, there are already big influencers campaigning against it.


There is no money to be made on PC, the numbers over the past 4 years have shown that one little "victory" for PC and now you're trying to act like they're a relevant audience?? You must've been hacked by Yurinka or something

The only correct play would've been to never re-instated the PSN functionality, but hindsight is 20/20.
Now it's only choosing between two bad decisions.

I agree here.
HD2 is the first release that actually makes a noticeable revenue number in its opening quarter.
All other PC releases(ports) look great from a Return on Investment standpoint(ports are cheap) but are not noticeable in terms of absolute numbers.

 

[arvfab]

The only correct play would've been to never re-instated the PSN functionality

They shouldn't have made it optional because of the initial server issues. That's what they get for, for putting PC gamers first.

But they didn't care for PS people with server issues BECAUSE of PC players, all the while getting their PS+ sub money.

 

[Gamernyc78]

 

[JAHGamer]

The only correct play would've been to never re-instated the PSN functionality, but hindsight is 20/20.
Now it's only choosing between two bad decisions.

I agree here.
HD2 is the first release that actually makes a noticeable revenue number in its opening quarter.
All other PC releases(ports) look great from a Return on Investment standpoint(ports are cheap) but are not noticeable in terms of absolute numbers.

Exactly, and even tho HD2 did well on PC, it generated some of the worst gaming controversy in a long time and has the most negative reviews in Steam history.

 

[Yuniac]

That's what they get for, for putting PC gamers first.

I believe they put their business first: selling the game to a huge amount of people.

They made it optional so their servers could handle the insane amount of players, to whom they sold the game. They have a product to sell.

 

[Thirty7ven]

They made quite a bit on helldivers 2, and if they wanted more like that in the future they had to bend the knee.

The suits already told you their plan, it's on you if you keep putting your hands over your ears.

Playstation is going to PC, and they want all the moneys. Maybe if the console people were able to band together like the Helldivers players did and make a mass protest to Sony, then they wouldn't be porting more games to PC. But only a few gamers care.

I’m not oblivious to their plan, but if their plan is for the PC audience to be the one they cater to first then this just heralds a new era of arrogant Sony.

 

[Nhomnhom]

Maybe we should learn from PC players and boycott Sony charging for online.

 

[arvfab]

I’m not oblivious to their plan, but if their plan is for the PC audience to be the one they cater to first then this just heralds a new era of arrogant Sony.

That's where Sony and others are being short-sighted. Even Xbots had enough after two gens from MS bullshit, what does Sony think will happen with their userbase if they follow the same bad decisions?

 

[Umar]

They gave into those clowns and pirates. Had a feeling something like this happening.