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

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Damn, Totoki had It all planned. Obligatory PSN linking just before the shareholder meetings, so he could flex the MAU numbers skyrocketing lmao

Sony aint stabbing their console, just to leave It all on the table.
The PSN linking will still be obligatory in the future, they will get it their way.
Slowly, step by step, first give some capes for linking (they will give the preorder bonuses), then lock some features of the game like crossplay, behind the linking, and when PSN is ready all around the globe (we know that Sony is expanding into Africa anyways), then they will one day just make it obligatory and people will be so used to it, that they will not care.

Sony should just make regional stores instead of making every store tied to a country. Meaning Asia, Africa, NA, SA, Europe, etc. So when you don't have your own store, you use these. When PS Store is present in your country, your account automatically migrates to it. My older Omani PSN migrated to Oman PS Store in 2014, I made it in 2007. I'm using a US account though I made in 2013 When somehow PS4 launched and Oman and 5 other countries didn't have support for like 6 months.
 

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This tweet will be brought back up by PC freaks & those words “leave it optional” will comeback to haunt him & Sony & create another PC fiasco in the future

Expect this tweet to be deleted or edited if they were smart. As we find out never say never to a potential decision in the future that allows to be closed or open to change in the future


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.
 
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Polyh3dron

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Maybe this whole fiasco will finally convince Sony to fix their PSN account bullshit so that you can have a PSN account no matter what country you live in before they ever attempt something like this again.
I'm not surprised. The moment this started costing Sony money - refunds, the game being delisted in several countries - was when this outcome became inevitable. It's obvious they're going to keep working on PSN integration with their games on PC, but the issue of PSN availability is a big one. I'm curious about how they intend to tackle that.
The solution is pretty fucking obvious. Make PSN available everywhere.
 

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The only real issue was that there would be many people from around the world who already bought the game would not be able to play it.

This was THE issue, people who were crying about having to create an account is literally a fucked up double standard.

Expand PSN regions, to atleast 130 countries or so, you don't need to match steams 160 countries, but the current supported regions are way too low.

& also make it so that we are able to switch regions, because right now you can't & its very annoying because most people who are not from supported regions have made a US account and have alot of progress and trophies on this account and cannot switch the region.
 
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Yuniac

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"Sony will not bend the knee for you PC jerks 😠"

Season 3 Lol GIF by The Office
 
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Yuniac

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Steam users when they realize they need to connect Ghost of Tsushima to a PSN account to get that overlay and them trophies they did victory laps about:
perfect loops smash GIF
No one is going to use that overlay bro, we have Steam's, and nobody cares about your trophies, Steam has achievements.
 
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You give these reddit trolls an inch and they will take a mile. They won't stop here and now they know they can win with mass review bombs
This time Sony back in because the dumb leadership should hsve required the linking from Day 1. Next time they won't budge in. Sony is pretty proud and arrogant company. No way they will surrender to some basement incels. Next ports will require PSN linking, at least the MP titles.
 

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Steam users when they realize they need to connect Ghost of Tsushima to a PSN account to get that overlay and them trophies they did victory laps about:
perfect loops smash GIF
no one cares about creating a PSN account, in fact, a lot of us probably already have one, I do. The outrage was for the hundreds of thousands of players in other countries who had to risk bans to create a PSN account or the absurd barrier of entry in some countries such as Ukraine where you MUST own a PS4/5 to make an account. Some countries straight up have denied access to creating one.
 

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This won’t work since people like grumz are PC centric. These people really don’t care for PS



Now the conversation is how PC bend the knee of PS & more conversation how PS is gonna go day n date. The PS brand is a joke & a former shell of itself. All the toxic conversations is leading me to fully jump ship from PS console. The conversation are actually sad & pathetic I will always tip my hat for Nintendo they would’ve release a statment 1 hour later from this whole fiasco & stated how you’ll need a PSN account to play & either refunded the county’s that isn’t supported or change PSN selectable regions but I’m no legal expert so it may not be that quick



At this point PS is just looked at like a Xbox 2.0

PSN store makes more in a week than PC does for an entire year, but Sony "needs PC badly"???
 

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Now Sony knows they are not welcomed on PC and they need to get the fuck out of there ASAP. Value your own platform and your customers first. Fuck these leeches.

Start by cancelling Ghost of Tsushima PC 💙


There was no winning at this point. The lies, FUD and hate being spread was unprecedented. All the biggest accounts in gaming were signal boosting the outrage.

This will go down as the biggest and most fake manufactured outrage in history. They will still talk about this in 5 years. The Sony tax is real.
wishful thinking. That's all I have to say.

"manufactured outrage" is when people stand up for the 177 countries that got Helldivers delisted from their Steam stores because of Sony's incompetence.
 

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no one cares about creating a PSN account, in fact, a lot of us probably already have one, I do. The outrage was for the hundreds of thousands of players in other countries who had to risk bans to create a PSN account or the absurd barrier of entry in some countries such as Ukraine where you MUST own a PS4/5 to make an account. Some countries straight up have denied access to creating one.
That and the way they did it. Absolute scum. Let people buy and play for three months then surprise them on a weekend. So unprofessional.

But anyway, we won.