“Gamers who made Steam purchases of Helldivers 2 at the moment are, months after the very fact, being instructed by Sony that their video games will probably be ineffective until linked to a PSN account,” writes longtime Slashdot reader Baron_Yam. From a report: Writer Sony Interactive Leisure announced today that Helldivers 2 gamers on Steam will quickly be required to hyperlink their in-game profiles to a PlayStation Community account — a characteristic that was non-compulsory at launch because of “technical points” — or threat dropping entry to the sport. SIE defined that account linking permits gamers to benefit from “security and safety” supplied by PlayStation, as it may well extra simply shield of us from “griefing and abuse by enabling the banning of gamers that have interaction in that kind of habits.”
Many Steam gamers have not responded nicely to the information. As of the time of writing, over 2,500 destructive person critiques have been submitted to the sport’s storefront web page right now, blemishing an in any other case spotless “Very Constructive” score. Some critiques cite knowledge harvesting and safety issues as potential worries. Others level to the truth that Sony waited months after launch to make account linking obligatory. How this impacts gamers in areas that do not have entry to the PlayStation Community is a much bigger concern, although. Within the Helldivers 2 Discord, neighborhood supervisor Thomas ‘Twinbeard’ Petersson mentioned they are not but positive what these rule adjustments meant for gamers in areas with out PSN entry, which could possibly be one other issue contributing to the destructive downturn.
