After revealing that Helldivers 2 on PC would require a mandatory link with PSN, many players rebelled on social media. In the last few hours, refunds, complaints about the title’s availability in countries where Sony does not provide servers, and many disputes have been sent to Arrowhead, but this could have been avoided.
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Let’s go through this story in parts. In the statement released by Sony on Steam, they said they had stopped creating accounts on the PlayStation system due to the large number of connection errors presented at launch. The number of crash reports made Arrowhead worry only about fixing the game.
As the months went by, everything came together and Helldivers 2 grew, causing the studio to expand the capacity of the servers to receive more audiences and thus serve everyone. The whole problem? The studio already knew about the implementation of this security measure with PSN, but did not alert fans.
Johan Pilestedt, one of Arrowhead’s main spokespeople, said the following on his social media:
I have a role to play. I’m not innocent in all of this – it was my decision to disable account linking at launch so players could play. I didn’t make sure players were aware of the requirement, and we didn’t talk about it enough. We knew about 6 months before launch that it would be mandatory for online PlayStation titles.
Many consumers felt aggrieved because the product was sold in regions where PSN is not supported. But, at the moment There are some conversations going on behind the scenes to try to adjust this situation. Will this have a happy ending?
Helldivers 2 dev reveals that decision to link with PSN came from Sony
Pilestedt only revealed this Sunday (05) that he knew about the mandatory connection to PSN, but on Saturday (4), he explained how this request came from Sony itself. Understand better here!
