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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.
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Last week I picked up a 5 Terabyte external drive for the sole purpose of plugging it into my PS4 to act as external storage for games. The 500 gigs that a PS4 comes with by default is simply in no way suitable when you have games topping 100 gigabytes. (Hello Final Fantasy XV)

Of course, the PS4 will only install games themselves to the hard drive. Your screenshots, saves, etc, all belong to Sony after all - so they only ever get saved to the internal drive.

Working on downloading the various games I got on sale over the years but either never installed or couldn't keep installed due to space concerns but it's slow going. Just doing one game a day or so on average for these larger games. I was actually surprised at how many games were showing as not installed, until I realized that a bunch of them were apparently the PS3/PS4 bundles that Sony was doing early in the PS4 life cycle. Valkyrie Chronicles 4 (Complete Edition) is taking about 11 hours to install. I started it when I went to bed and it's still got 4 hrs to go. I think the game tops probably 50 gigs in total after all the DLC is included.

Glad I have the physical edition of FFXV for when it's time to re-install that. Might spend time installing some of the physical discs I have tomorrow morning to give my net a slight break (each game typically has to download the multiplayer portion of the game as well as bug patches etc)

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