Helldivers 2 gamers who’ve been taking part in the sport on Home windows PC through Steam since launch will now want a PlayStation Community account to entry the sport. Helldivers 2 writer Sony Interactive Leisure posted a discover to the sport’s Steam web page on Thursday informing Steam gamers of the change.
“Resulting from technical points on the launch of Helldivers 2, we allowed the linking necessities for Steam accounts to a PlayStation Community account to be quickly optionally available,” the writer wrote. “That grace interval will now expire. See particulars under on this put up.”
Sony claims account-linking with PlayStation Community is “essential” to the “security and safety” of Helldivers 2. “That is our major option to defend gamers from griefing and abuse by enabling the banning of gamers that interact in that sort of behaviour,” it stated. “It additionally permits these gamers which have been banned the appropriate to enchantment.”
Beginning on Might 6, all new Helldivers 2 gamers might be required to attach their Steam and PlayStation Community accounts earlier than taking part in the sport. Present Helldivers 2 gamers will start to see the necessary PlayStation Community log-in on Might 30, and might want to have their accounts linked by June 4. You’ll be able to join a PlayStation Community account on the PlayStation web site in case you don’t have one already.
From these dates on, Helldivers 2 gamers might be prompted to hyperlink their accounts when the sport is launched. You’ll see a QR code and a hyperlink to the sign-in web page for PlayStation Community, based on an FAQ web page on Arrowhead’s web site. By signing in there, you’ll have your accounts linked. In case you haven’t created a PlayStation Community account earlier than you comply with the QR code or hyperlink, you’ll then comply with the directions to make one — and the account might be routinely linked, Sony stated.
There’s no option to hyperlink your accounts exterior of this, so that you received’t have the opportunity to take action as a present participant till you begin seeing the immediate pop up in-game.
Some Helldivers 2 gamers utilizing Steam are livid — notably that this wasn’t a requirement from the start, and that gamers are all of a sudden pressured to hyperlink up. One of many greater issues is that some folks received’t have the ability to create PlayStation Community accounts in the event that they don’t reside in a area supported by Sony; South Africa is the one African nation that’s acquired PlayStation Community, as an example. Belarus and Lithuania aren’t on the checklist. Based mostly on Steam’s obtain statistics, there’s not a ton of Steam visitors from these areas over the previous seven days, but it surely’s nonetheless there. Positive, you possibly can decide a unique nation, however that would require a VPN or threat a ban. There’ll possible be numerous gamers who bought the sport on Steam who will quickly be unable to play.
The Helldivers 2 web page does have a discover alerting gamers of the third-party account linking, nonetheless. It was simply unenforced till now.
Different gamers are merely unwilling to offer their data to Sony. Since Arrowhead posted the replace, Helldivers 2 has acquired an inflow of unfavourable critiques on Steam — on the time of writing, hours after the put up went reside, Helldivers 2 has greater than 6,000 new unfavourable critiques, a dramatic improve from the two,500 seen on April 25.
We’ve reached out to Sony Interactive Leisure and Arrowhead for extra data, and we’ll replace this put up after they reply.
