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Helldivers 2 received over 14,000 negative reviews today due to an update that will require PSN accounts next week.
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this post was submitted on 04 May 2024
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I feel sorry for the Arrowhead devs. They made a spectacular game that was revered across the entire industry and loved by its fans, and their overlords at Sony went and caused so much damage to their reputation overnight. Literally just 24 hours ago people were writing articles about how Helldivers 2 is the right way to make a game and should be an example for the rest of the industry, and then Sony calls in a hellbomb on the reviews.
After seeing a community manager on Discord mistreating on people who voice their concerns with this change, I certainly do not feel sorry for the Arrowhead devs.
Why can't they make a unique username when you create a character the first time that is just your "account name"? That would give you the samw powers as a psn username when it comes to banning. Edit:spelling
They literally don't need to do that. Every platform has some sort of unique user ID, usually numeric.
What's stopping you from deleting the game, redownloading it, and setting a new account name? Etc
I don't even own the game. Im just saying, if their argument is unique identifiers, there are more ways than a third party solution. It's not like they don't have options. They chose this over any other solution. If they did a unique identifier ingame, no one would complain. So the reason they chose this is something else then being the only solution.
But a unique identifier in game doesn't actually enforce bans, because what's stopping someone from creating a new one? VS if you create a PSN account, you need some sort of verification (e.g. email address).
They could've done something similar with a non PSN login, though people would've probably still complained. And for them, it's not 3rd party because it's published by Sony IIRC, so it's actually an in house system.
I also don't own the game, but I just wanted to point out the reason in their argument isn't entirely invalid.
This enforces band the same way as PSN linked email would do, but is all ingame and accessible to 100% of players that own the game.
If it is a simple popup that has 0 implications and is only visible when reporting, no one would care, and definitely not enough to boycott the entire game.
They obviously want to force psn account for other reasons.