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  <title>Helldivers 2 popularity takes a dive?</title>
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  <description>According to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://kotaku.com/helldivers-2-steam-reviews-apology-psn-login-1851455150&quot;&gt;article on kotaku&lt;/a&gt;, Helldivers 2 is currently being review bombed due to the devs/publisher reinstating a PSN login requirement for the game on PC.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Boss says sorry.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And that&apos;s the extent of it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Personally, I&apos;d be pissed as well, and that&apos;s even with me having a PSN login.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If I want to log in to PSN to play a game, I will BUY THE GAME ON PSN TO BEGIN WITH.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*pauses to mark both Arrowhead Studios and Sony PC LLC on ignore - ignores are permanent for me so they&apos;ll never get another dollar out of me on Steam.*&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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&apos;s locked behind a PSN login, then that would just probably solidify the fact that I&apos;m not buying Playstation consoles anymore. (Still haven&apos;t bought a PS5 to this day, but it&apos;s only because there&apos;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 ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Case in point. I already had Helldivers 2 ignored. Just the game. I&apos;m not entirely sure why it was ignored anymore although I don&apos;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&apos;s more than good enough for me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=owsf2000&amp;ditemid=158479&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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