Helldivers 2 Steam page reviews are now "Mostly negative" with "mixed" overall (old reviews are switching too)

Wish people had got this animated over the discount rootkit it shipped with.

I wasn't ecstatic about GG nPlayProtect either (though the fact that it runs in Linux userspace makes it okay for me). I don't think people would be outraged as much if PSN account was always enforced or the timelines for how long one could "skip" the integration was made clear in game and in community announcements.

The issue I think is that Sony and Arrowhead are making it users' fault for their arbitrary change for not reading the fine print, yet they are selling it in places that wouldn't legally be able to access it after the enforced mandate.

I think similar hell would be raised if GG nPlayProtect or some other anticheat had a malfunction so it was disabled for sometime post launch, then later enforced and again blaming the players for not knowing better.
Yes! Thank you! I'm puzzled by all these people who are revolting over a big publisher account but would take second helpings of a rootkit.

That’s sad. Helldivers 2 slaps and the developers have to go through this because Sony fucked up.

Make a deal with the devil, and the cost might be your soul
What did Sony do?
- Requiring a PSN account to play the game.

Good. Informative user review update for people like me who haven't bought the game yet.

Saw that coming. No doubt Arrowhead will be taking the punishment for Sony's poor business decisions.

I feel bad for Arrowhead. Sony fucked them over and it's not going to take any of the backlash, they will.

Arrowheads response to this was to sic their community managers on people and blame the community for being too lazy to “make a throwaway account to make yet another account for a game”
- As far as we can tell that was never an order or anything. The CMs seem to be cracking under pressure.
idk, helldivers going from insanely popular to universally reviled is gonna hurt future deals with Sony. why would any indie or medium sized dev risk doing business with Sony when Sony will randomly push the "destroy game and profitability and reputation" button? this will decrease the number of people willing to publish titles through Sony. "oh you went with Sony? you must want to kill your game lmao"

The incredible stupidity and vitriol of gamers is hilarious.

Install rootkit: 😎

Create PSN account: 🤬

Yeah, I'm happy they drew any line at all. But it is perplexing why that is where they drew the line instead of at infecting their computers with a rootkit.

I was thinking about buying the game since it was a massiv hit. But guess I will pass now. Even though it wouldn't affect me as PS5 player. I just can't support such decisions.

The real problem for me is the fact this could have been implemented at launch....no reason not to except it would just hurt sales. How many people actually read the fine print of all the games they buy? I would never expect to create a PSN account if I'm playing on PC. Just sneaky dirty tactics not to mention the whole point of this is not to ban players easily its so Sony can suck up that data..

Does this qualify the game for a refund under Steams EULA at all?

Normally not if you played more then two hours. But Steam is making a special exception and allowing refunds anyway.

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