56% review recently?

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what happen O_O

[Tigerhawk71]

people forgot to read the store page and are upset that the thing it said is actually the thing it said

[Sera]

Sony decided that HD2 is doing too well so it must die.

[The Ironguard]

oh boy... where do i begin...

TL:DR: Sony are being corporate jerkoffs, people aren't having it, the CMs are throwing gasoline on the fire, and the bots are out in force running corporate defence.

[Sigvuld]

Arrowhead are enforcing a required account link between your Steam account and Playstation Network, MONTHS after the game's release. There are players who will just simply have their game effectively bricked due to the fact that PSN is unavailable in their country. Whether or not it's purely Sony pushing for this, the fact is that it's happening. I'm not willing to risk my information with PSN being the way it is.

The community manager, Spitz, has made Arrowhead's stance on this issue clear with the comment that I will transcribe below:

"It's not like this is the first or even the fourteenth mainstream game to require a third-party account that takes a couple minutes to create, but if it's a dealbreaker to have to take 120 seconds out of your day to enter an email and password and then forget about it, change your Steam review and make your displeasure known on a platform where it matters."

They have consciously chosen to ignore the greatest issue with this requirement, which is NOT THE AMOUNT OF TIME IT TAKES TO MAKE A PSN ACCOUNT. It's something far, far more dangerous. What do I mean? Case in point below.

April 2011: Hackers Access Personal Data of 77 Million Sony PlayStation Network Users
May 2011: Personal Details on 25 Million Sony Online Entertainment Customers Stolen
June 2011: Sony Pictures Website Hacked, Exposing One Million Accounts
November 2014: Hackers Steal 100 Terabytes of Data from Sony Pictures
August 2017: Hacker Group Accesses Sony Social Media Accounts
September 2023: Sony Investigates Alleged Hack
October 2023: Sony Notifies Employees of Data Breach

Beyond this, Sony have also VERY RECENTLY patented an AI-assisted system that will allow them to record their users' biometrics across their entire PC WITHOUT REQUIRING THEIR CONSCIOUS CONSENT, effectively giving them access to everything you say in online games, even the ones not owned or run by Sony, so that they can lock you out of accessing any of their games' online functionalities if they detect something they don't like. At least, this is the use they CLAIM it's for - "anti bullying", but really, they just want even more data to sell. EXTREMELY invasive move.

TL;DR Arrowhead are getting ready to enforce a change that will put your Steam account at risk of being far more easily hacked.

[Shiroe (cortana)]

sony happened,

[Flying Fish]

The Sony bots are back yet again

[FluffyPotato]

They added a requirement for a PSN account which is apparently only available in like 70 countries. So for me I won't be able to play when it goes into effect. They should not be selling this game in regions where you can't play it.

[Varyn765]

People don't want to make a crappy and insecure PSN account to play Helldivers 2. Shills are claiming it's needed for crossplay but the game works just fine without a PSN account.

it's just a push from Sony to exert more control because they're probably butt-mad about Stellar Blade and Helldivers 2's colossal success at being a kick-ass, apolitical video game.

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Originally posted by Flying Fish:

The Sony bots are back yet again

what are sony bots?

[ベル・ムーン]

Originally posted by FluffyPotato:

They added a requirement for a PSN account which is apparently only available in like 70 countries. So for me I won't be able to play when it goes into effect. They should not be selling this game in regions where you can't play it.

Oh wow thats crazy bad

[Tigerhawk71]

Originally posted by ♥ RubyRose ♥:

Originally posted by Flying Fish:

The Sony bots are back yet again

what are sony bots?

someone thinks reading the store page makes you a bot or something idk

like sony care enough to post here, the devs didn't lol

[Longduzboub]

What happened? Well nothing we ve just been screwed if you dont know now you must create and link a psn acount to your steam acount if you want to play
And since everybody know how sony s security is full of holes and how halves of the country just cant even create psn acount this particular trap is not really welcome so basicaly the pc pc players are angry alots of us just quit and uninstall the game and i bet hd2 will loose a big part of its base players

[Smoku Znad Potoku]

Maybe just read the posts on Steam, Reddit, Discord or Twitter to find out? O_O

[ベル・ムーン]

Originally posted by Tigerhawk71:

Originally posted by ♥ RubyRose ♥:

what are sony bots?

someone thinks reading the store page makes you a bot or something idk

like sony care enough to post here, the devs didn't lol

I happen to check the page since i was looking for similar games at the bottom of the store page of the game haha.

[Moriarty!]

I refuse to ban a game because of politic or other bad greedy tactic (i like when games are done with passion and let young creator improve their skill. But here i cannot acceptate stealing product from paying customers.