LOL, what? The people that were upset with Sony are the people that didn’t want to link their accounts or worse, lived in a country that did not even have a PSN. Imagine that. Imagine buying a game and then a month later, a notice says that to continue playing, you need to link your account. You go to link it and it says, “sorry, that service is not available in your country.” That’s just a massive middle finger and most certainly illegal in most of the countries Sony did this in.
The fundamental problem is developers and publishers have too much legal control. They can ban players without reason. They can make changes without answering to anything more than “bad reviews.” The fact they can even make changes like this retroactively shows that digital rights are in the dark ages; favouring only big business, never the player.
I don’t think I’ve seen this happen since or before ID backpedaled on adding anti-cheat to DOOM Eternal, and even backpedaled on adding an entire multiplayer mode because the players hated the anti-cheat so much.
Leave it to the communities of hell divers to force corporations to bend to their will. Fuckin awesome man.
Too bad arrowhead and PSN let their masks slip.
This is a shitty money grab and nothing else.
Pretty cool to see the swing happen.
Only 2-3 hours after Sony’s announcement:
Compared to now:
A little unfortunate that the first Helldivers game was review bombed as well, but looks like that even came out above with more positive reviews than the negative ones in the end:
Edit: more fun numbers.
Yesterday’s number of Positive reviews: 2,217
Today’s total positive reviews (at the time of this edit about 15 hours after PlayStation announced the news on twitter): 47,743
Now this is what liberty looks like. Well done Helldivers.
