The Helldivers 2 neighborhood imploded yesterday afternoon when developer Arrowhead Sport Studios and writer Sony Interactive Leisure introduced that PC gamers would quickly be compelled to hyperlink their Steam and PSN accounts as a way to play. The transfer went down like a lead balloon, with gamers promising to give up the sport if the studios went by way of with the choice.
There is a magnitude of causes as to why the sport’s participant base is outraged. Whereas Arrowhead and Sony did state on the sport’s Steam web page that gamers would want to hyperlink their Steam and PSN accounts to play, this was not enforced at launch resulting from a myriad of server points. Gamers now really feel as if they have been duped after taking part in for months on finish with out having to hyperlink their accounts.
Some gamers have acknowledged that they merely don’t need to create a PlayStation Community account, even when it is utterly free and easy to do. This comes all the way down to a number of causes, in line with gamers. However the primary one is that avid gamers merely don’t belief Sony with their knowledge after the studio suffered a number of knowledge breaches over time.
Sony has acknowledged that account-linking will not be enforced till Could sixth for brand spanking new gamers and June 4th for present gamers, however the outrage this determination sparked has already had gamers promising to give up the sport. Or so they are saying.
Helldivers 2 Continues To Thrive, Regardless of Gamers Promising To Give up
Whereas hundreds of Steam gamers promised to give up Helldivers 2 yesterday following Sony’s determination to implement account linking, Steam’s database seems to indicate the sport’s concurrent participant depend stays regular, with seemingly no person truly quitting the sport.
As you may see from the picture under, Helldivers 2’s 24-hour peak sits at simply shy of 120,000, which is concerning the common quantity of gamers on Steam, that means there was no important drop-off since this complete fiasco started. On the time of writing this text, there are nearly 60,000 gamers in-game proper now. Whereas this may appear low, it is the conventional quantity of gamers for this time of day.
Whereas there’s seemingly a lot of gamers that can drop off as soon as the account-linking rule is enforced, you’d count on there to have already been some kind of decline contemplating the entire supposed refund requests and outrage. There has, nevertheless, been an enormous variety of gamers assessment bombing the title on Steam, which has resulted in a “combined” assessment badge on the platform.
Sony Sneakily Updates PSN FAQ
Whereas Sony has but to formally reply to the entire outrage surrounding Helldivers 2, it has managed to take the time to replace its PSN FAQ with regard to PC account linking. After Arrowhead’s CEO John Pilestedt pointed gamers within the path of PlayStation’s official assist web page, gamers shortly seen that one of many solutions within the FAQ did not fairly add up.
In accordance with the FAQ (earlier than it was up to date), Sony acknowledged that “signing in to PSN is non-obligatory when taking part in a PlayStation sport on PC.” Now, nevertheless, the brand new reply reads: “Some PlayStation video games could require you sign up and hyperlink to an account for PSN.”
It isn’t precisely out of the atypical for an organization to replace its FAQ pages or phrases and situations, however you’d suppose Sony would have completed that earlier than beginning one of many greatest controversies of the 12 months.
