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Helldivers 2 CEO Apologizes For PSN Account Requirement

insider-gaming.com Helldivers 2 CEO Apologizes For PSN Account Requirement

After negative fan backlash and Steam reviews, Helldivers 2 CEO Johan Pilestedt has apologized to players for the new PSN account policy

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It's not an apology if you keep trucking right the fuck on along. You apologize, in part, by fixing the problem. Absent that, it's just empty words. Meaningless.
- You can't fix a problem that you're being forced to create by your owners.
  
  Sony owns¹ them. Sony says "force PSN log in" and Arrowhead either does what they're told or gets replaced.
  
  it has been pointed out that Sony doesn't literally own them. They're the publisher and choose if the game ever sees the light of day but since that's legally distinct from ownership: Sony doesn't own Arrowhead, they just have their balls in a vice grip and a gun to the CEO's head. Totally different.
  
  "This is entirely out of our control, and if you want an apology, here are the contact details for the person who has the authority to give you one."
  
  Make a deal with the devil, and the cost might be your soul
  
  They are an independent studio...
Yes, please, because the rootkit implication that every single one of my fellow Helldivers is cheating wasn't enough for Sony (hell, that was only their foreplay)... Now, we get the next step in the data mining cash grab.

I mean, what did you expect? Truly.
- Better.
  
  That one's on me -_-
  
  I don't, but I do at least expect that a massive corporation will at least try to make money by not doing something this fucking foolish, I swear they fucking hate money and reputation.
- Well I remember the Sony XCP rootkit scandal, and that is 2 decades ago.
  
  Yeah, same. This species is fucked. 😅
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Copy_Protection
- It's not just a data mining cash grab. It's a bigger cash grab than that. If they had required the account link from the beginning they would not have sold the game in countries where you can't get a PlayStation account.
  
  They clearly waited until the hype from the game settled in before they made this requirement so that they could make all of the money from the countries they don't service.
  
  That way they could squeeze a little extra out of the player base by mining their data long enough later that players can't get a refund. Doesn't matter to them that they're forcing players in half the geological world to quit.
  
  Truly despicable. They should be forced to issue refunds to players they are effectively kicking from the game, but something tells me nothing is going to happen.

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