1y ago

Sony backs down on demand that Helldivers 2 players log into a PSN account

www.pcgamer.com

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Gamers: be like this every time. Raising hell works.
- Steam giving out refunds works.
  
  They value the goodwill of their users; being a privately owned company they have the luxury of thinking that far ahead.
- It didn't help they hadn't thought it through either... the game was for sale in countries where you can't get PSN 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️
- Didn't work with the kernel level anti cheat. Not enough hell was raised.
  
  Not enough folks refunded the game over it.
  
  But that was there at the launch right?
- And it only took 100,000 negative reviews
  
  300k*
It didn't even take them the whole weekend. Good.
- It's Monday in Japan, it took precisely the whole weekend.
  
  Fair enough I guess
This isn't a win. A win would be gaining something. This is just getting back what they stole.
The game should be offline co-op anyway (and P2P). So many co-op games just made 'always online' for the sake of MTX.
- Well this one comes with rootkit DRM and season passes, so it's no wonder it wants to be as online as possible.
  
  Cool story.
  The anticheat came after the prolific hackers started
- I mean, this game has a meta war that determines all available planets, mission types and rolls out content based on community involvement. It would be nice to have an offline mode, too, but this game is not completely decoupled from being online, unlike Hitman or something.
  
  I present to you: Helldivers 1.
  Its just an arbitrary mechanic added to justify an always online requirement. Helldivers had an offline option. There's still a game there without the need for "community involvement", the missions etc could be completely random or seeded for people who dont want to connect to a server.
  Its always sad to see potential great games ruined by greed.
- Obviously you’ve never played the game with that L take.
We did it, lemmy!
- Lemmy was overall a very small part of it. It is a very small community compared to other social platforms. Even if every single Lemmy user owned Helldivers 2 AND left a review, it would still account for less than a quarter of the recent Steam reviews.
  
  I bet you are fun at parties
For Super-Earth!
- Automaton propaganda is nothing against RAW DEMOCRACY!
When push back and player voice once in a lifetime matters.

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