Sony is at a crossroads right now where they could remove the PSN requirement and watch their reviews go back to positive, or double down on it to gather your information and fuck over the playerbase.
You all fucking know what they'll choose and it won't be the consumers. Yet people are still defending this trillion dollar company.
I think this will be the unfortunate, grim reality. Capital G gamers are mad about this and, in their anger, are lashing out.
Whether Arrowhead survives is yet to be seen. Sony will continue to live on regardless. The game they love could die just so people can feel a little bit better. I'm aware one of the devs said to do this, but I can't help but feel like the monkey's paw is curling.
I definitely feel the paw is curling. This is a lot of backlash for Sony trying to implement its own internal anti-cheat instead of relying on anything from Valve. I get that Arrowhead’s CEO signed off on the idea to disable this for a while, but it seems like good intentions that had awful unintended outcomes.
Sony’s primarily at fault here. I hate seeing developers caught in the crossfire, especially given how hard it is to be a game dev in this age of constant layoffs. Arrowhead is just programming what they’re told to.
Hoping Arrowhead isn’t destroyed by this. I really like this game and they seem to be pretty great devs who try hard to be transparent.
Even if most people make an effort to change their score, there are a lot of people who will just have stopped playing altogether or have forgotten and moved on. Someone was pointing out in the Helldivers sub that they're never going to get back that incredibly 98% positive score they had, that's reserved for the absolute best games on the platform.
As it should be. Even better would be if people stopped playing the game when this change goes in effect if Sony doesn't back the fuck off, but we'll see.
Thing is, this was a huge arrogant move from Sony because everyone on PC saw that the game was perfectly working without PSN account. Not only that but multiplayer relied on Steam network, not PSN network. They simply expected that we didn't notice something absurd like "this is now required for your own security".
Sony shot themselves in the foot, and it needs to be used as an example now not to try to push too hard onto their user base on PC at least. Other companies did the same thing in the past, Sony is not the first or the worst, it simply was stupid enough to do this blatantly.
It's just sad that a good software house is going to suffer for this.
Just as a follow to up, 13% of reviews in the past month were positive around 30 minutes after PlayStation announced they were backstepping on the decision, and as of right now, 61% are positive. In 24 hours, 55% of people who left a review in the past month have switched it to positive.
Maybe they aren't so stupid though. Helldivers could be THE franchise for them or they could be THAT publisher and studio. EA, Ubisoft and Activision would welcome them I'm sure.
Someone I know on Discord told me that it was "completely undeserved backlash, at that point people are sheep who follow each other", and I almost said "If I'm a sheep then you're a bootlicker", and they don't even play Helldivers2
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u/GuyMansworth 27d ago
Sony is at a crossroads right now where they could remove the PSN requirement and watch their reviews go back to positive, or double down on it to gather your information and fuck over the playerbase.
You all fucking know what they'll choose and it won't be the consumers. Yet people are still defending this trillion dollar company.