Sony has eliminated Helldivers 2 from sale on Steam in additional than 170 areas, per SteamDB. That is following Sony’s push to implement a requirement for all Helldivers 2 Steam gamers to hyperlink their Steam accounts to a PlayStation Community account.
When the announcement was made that linking accounts can be a requirement for all gamers, many have been incensed, particularly these gamers who stay in areas the place PlayStation doesn’t function, and it might be unattainable for them to get a PSN account.
When Helldivers 2 launched, nobody noticed its success coming, which was obvious in the truth that Arrowhead needed to work shortly because it might to ensure the servers might deal with such an surprising quantity of gamers.
It was a beautiful shock for Sony and Arrowhead to have Helldivers 2 accomplish that properly, and an enormous a part of that success got here from the sport releasing concurrently on PS5 and PC.
All was going properly, till Sony made this push to implement a requirement that it’s now clear, nobody needs. The quantity of participant backlash from the entire Helldivers 2 group, not simply these in areas the place they’ll’t even get a PSN account, appears overwhelming. It’ll be attention-grabbing to see if Sony finally decides to backtrack, or simply push by.
Supply – [SteamDB via VGC]
