After many complaints from fans, Sony has made concessions and Helldivers 2 will not require a PlayStation account on PC.
The last few days have been some of the busiest in the community. helldivers 2 on PC, which last Friday revealed that Sony had announced its future commitment to using a PlayStation Network account to be able to play its shooters and sci-fi games on the computer.
Link both accounts It was necessary from May 30th. after the update that was supposed to be published today, something that had caused complaints from many fans who began to negatively evaluate the game on Steam, especially since yesterday, when the game was removed from those countries in which it was impossible to create PSN accounts.
However, after all the controversy and reaction from the community Sony decided to retreat and just announced a few minutes ago that Finally, you won’t need to link your Steam and PlayStation Network accounts to play Helldivers 2 on PC. put an end to a dispute that could have caused a reputational blow to the Japanese brand.
“Helldivers fans, we’ve heard your feedback on the Helldivers 2 account linking update. An update on May 6th that would require linking Steam and PSN accounts for new and current players. as of May 30th, it will finally not be implemented,” Sony said in an official statement.
“We’re still learning what’s best for PC gamers and your comments were invaluable. Thank you again for your continued support of Helldivers 2, we will keep you updated on future plans,” he concludes.
Helldivers fans – we’ve heard your feedback on the Helldivers 2 account linking update. The May 6 update that would have required Steam and PlayStation Network accounts to be linked for new players, as well as for current players, will not be implemented starting May 30.
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Retreat after hundreds of thousands of negative reviews on Steam
Sony’s failure occurred after Steam players launched leave more than 215,000 negative reviewssa Helldivers 2 on Steam protests account linking by downgrading recent reviews of Arrowhead games to “very negative” and overall reviews to “mixed.”
Things got even worse yesterday when Helldivers 2 stopped being available in many non-PSN countries, adding fuel to the controversy, and Valve began refunding the game to users in those regions without counting the hours required.