Helldivers 2 popularity takes a dive?

[owsf2000]

According to the article on kotaku, Helldivers 2 is currently being review bombed due to the devs/publisher reinstating a PSN login requirement for the game on PC.

Boss says sorry.

And that's the extent of it.

Apparently it originally had a login requirement at first until it became quite popular at the start of release - so they removed it due to the network issues it was causing them. So a lot of the players on steam are seeing it for the first time now.

Personally, I'd be pissed as well, and that's even with me having a PSN login.

If I want to log in to PSN to play a game, I will BUY THE GAME ON PSN TO BEGIN WITH.

*pauses to mark both Arrowhead Studios and Sony PC LLC on ignore - ignores are permanent for me so they'll never get another dollar out of me on Steam.*

I will of course continue to buy games on PSN, potentially. Although depends on the type of game when a PSN login is being required. An online game, sure, PSN login not a problem, for a PSN game. If the game was an offline game or had an offline mode that's locked behind a PSN login, then that would just probably solidify the fact that I'm not buying Playstation consoles anymore. (Still haven't bought a PS5 to this day, but it's only because there's nothing on the console I absolutely want to play. Certainly nothing worth the cost of the console. Microsoft can stop laughing since I stopped buying their stuff after the 360 ;)

Case in point. I already had Helldivers 2 ignored. Just the game. I'm not entirely sure why it was ignored anymore although I don't think it was the login thing. (I auto-ignore anything that comes up in my discovery queue that has a 3rd party login requirement.) Because Arrowhead and/or Sony decided to pull a fast one here with switching around the requirement, everything they touch got tossed under the ignore along with it. Do I expect Sony or Arrowhead to feel the weight of my ban? Hell no. :D But my wallet will feel a little heavier until I put that money they might have gotten to my other hobbies and that's more than good enough for me.

Comments

[kane_magus]

Yeah, I saw this on a different site earlier and, yeah, Sony done fucked up.

Also, as some people have already pointed out, in some countries, creating a PSN account apparently isn't feasible, for whatever reasons, so for those people, if they bought HD2 on Steam, and even if they wanted to create a PSN account for it, they'll be shit outta luck when this goes into effect, assuming nothing is done to fix that problem.

[kane_magus]

Also, some people are speculating that is might be a first step toward Sony making its own online PC storefront, like OriginEA App or Epic Gangrene Store or Battlenet or whatever. Honestly, I wouldn't put it past them at all to make some kind of shitty thing like that and then pull HD2 off of Steam entirely, kind of like what EA did with allmost of their games (at first, at least, though even EA eventually came crawling back to Steam later, though EA games sold on Steam now still require an EA account, so fuck 'em, regardless).

[owsf2000]

Missed this reply earlier in the month. ^^;

But yeah, I could see Sony trying to expand their PSN store to general PC sales as well at some point.

To which I say... whatever. I already have Steam for PC digital sales. (And Gog, although until Gog gets serious and starts offering wallet code giftcards I can buy at a physical store like Steam does, they're probably going to continue to be up shit creek with regards to my wallet.)

And honestly they better not hope for much success in the PC market as a Steam competitor. More so than most others that have been trying to compete with Steam, Sony has a history of fucking up customer security. That's the biggest reason players are refusing to obtain even just link their PSN account to Hell Divers 2. So stand alone or on Steam, it won't be any difference to PC gamers[1]. If it was only available on PC via Sony directly, the people refusing to link their accounts would still refuse to buy it since the problems they have for it are linked directly to Sony's shitty reputation. (And it's not that Sony -can't- secure their systems. The whole infamous PSN hack from a decade+ ago was made worse because despite spending billions of dollars on encryption for their consoles and games, they made the decision to store customer information in human readable txt files. Which got stolen.

If I buy anything Sony, it'll be on a stand alone Sony console that's dissociated with anything important. And in that regard Sony's only probably 3-6 years before they're cut off from my wallet permanently as to this day I -still- haven't had the slightest inkling to buy a PS5 due to the horrible price tag, the horrible state of physical media, and the complete and utter lack of any must play game that's exclusive to the PS5. (All previous consoles at least had -something- to justify the console purchases, but those reasons have since become non-reasons. ie: the particular game franchises I had to get the console for either ended without further sequels (Ar Tonelico), or just became fairly shit in quality compared to the earlier games I loved. (Hatsune Miku Project Diva))

... that was more of a rant than I expected it to be. Oh well.

[1] Why is 'gamers' being flagged as a typo while 'gamer' is perfectly acceptable. I didn't realize there was only one gamer in the world.

[kane_magus]

Depending on whatever game may be in question, I might be slightly more willing to buy something from a Sony PC store (or be slightly more tolerant of games on Steam that require a PSN login) than I would be to buy things from the Epic Gaping Shithole (or games on Steam that require an Epic Goop Stank login), but that's kind of like saying I might be more willing to drink a glass of piss than I would be to drink a glass of piss and also eat a turd hotdog with pus and phlegm condiments. (The game in question sure as fuck ain't Helldivers 2, though.)

But, more likely, I'd probably just go back to treating Sony games as "may as well not exist," even if they're "available" on PC, the same way I treat console (or Epic Gimp Suck) exclusive games as such, these days.