Operation Completed? Sony announced their plans for forcing PlayStation Network accounts for Helldivers 2 have now been scrapped.
Writing on X (formerly Twitter) the official PlayStation account posted:
This comes after a huge backlash seeing the Steam page for Helldivers 2 hit over 200,000 negative reviews in the space of only a few days. As a result, it became one of the worst reviewed games of all time on Steam.
The situation was evolving pretty quickly, with Sony removing the purchasing option of Helldivers 2 on Steam in 177 regions. At of time of writing, that has not been reversed yet but hopefully it will so people won't have to resort to workarounds.
Now we have to wait and see what happens to all the negative reviews. I imagine quite a lot will stick, but there will likely be a good amount of players that either remove their negative review, or swap it over to a positive rating to reflect Sony actually listening.
HELLDIVERS 2 works great on Linux with Proton and is rated Steam Deck Playable.
You can buy it from:
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
StalePopcorn May 6
TimeFreeze May 6
The next game that they publishes I'm sure they'll have "required" from the start.
ssj17vegeta May 6
Sony were testing the waters and see how far they could go with their PC player base. I'm quite surprised they didn't double down on it since there are plenty of bad examples for the last two years.
It's a good example on how a harsh reaction by large numbers is efficient against big corpos. It's all about the balance of power afterall.
Don't think for a moment they won't try again though.
Things like this will continue to happen. And, yes, the game servers will be eventually shut down and all your micro transactions content will be gone.
Years ago I did a Warner account just for the free batsuits of the Arkham games.
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