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With its player community up in arms and its reputation on fire - with 200,000 negative reviews landing in just three days - Sony has decided maybe Helldivers players on Windows don't need a PlayStation Network account after all.
msn.com/en-us/entertainment/gaming/helldivers-2-is-copping-backlash-after-forcing-psn-logins-and-being-pulled-from-over-150-countries/ar-BB1lS4PY
This comes a day after the game was removed from sale on Steam in 177 countries and dependencies because the PlayStation Network was not available there.
Which also goes to show how widely available Steam is. They don't care if you live in the Aland Islands or Andorra or Antarctica, if your credit card works you're in.
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@Largo @thefinn @Rasterman @Aether Legal situation was even worse. Selling a product and then retroactively changing the terms of the contract so that a portion of the paying userbase cannot utilize the product (in some countries you cannot join the GayStation network at all) is pretty close to fraud.
This is a monstrous fuckup at all levels. Does Soyny not have a legal department? What niggerfaggot diversity hire thought this was a good idea?
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@thefinn @TrevorGoodchild @Rasterman @Aether I'm not certain about the legal situation. But if Arrowhead played their cards right, they could've had massive negotiating power with Sony.
"Either drop the PSN requirement or I tell the fans you're trying to fuck them over... and let you deal with the resulting explosion."
What actually happened was people refunding their money before Sony eventually caved in... about 3 days too late.
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@TrevorGoodchild @Rasterman @Aether 8 million copies sold at $40 each?
Naaa, let's fuck around and find out.
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@thefinn @TrevorGoodchild @Rasterman @Aether Peak player count has been like 99,000 during this whole drama.
I can't imagine how much money this is gonna cost Arrowhead/Sony, since Steam was refunding people with hundreds of hours in-game.
Arrowhead's CEO bears a good part of the blame, his dumbass didn't know when to shut up and read the room on Twatter.
> "I don't know."
> "We had always planned to implement this function."
If he knew that half the world wouldn't be able to play his game after this "planned function", then why did he sell this game to that half of the world? Lol.
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@Largo @TrevorGoodchild @Rasterman @Aether It beggars belief.
I would've just said to sony "Naa, can't do that anymore. The time has passed. This will obviously destroy the game if we do."
Makes zero sense.
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@Rasterman @Aether Two hundred thousand negative reviews in a matter of days. The game went from "Overwhelmingly Positive" to "Mixed", which is a kiss of death for the studio.
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@TrevorGoodchild @Rasterman @Aether They destroyed it.
It's fucking amazing how many people in this day and age simply cannot take the win and walk away from the table.
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@Aether Gamers stay winning
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@TrevorGoodchild @Aether Just learnt about this yesterday. Apparently PC gamers aren't as willing as console gamers to roll over and let companies do whatever. PC Master Race for multiple reasons. :pepe_brightsmile:
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@TrevorGoodchild @Largo @thefinn @Rasterman @Aether it's like boeing, at some point it doesn't matter which DIE did it, what matters is youre at 15,000 ft with negative cabin pressure
Aether ???
Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb:
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Bread up, Bro
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