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Helldivers 2 has received 100,000 negative reviews since announcing players must link Steam to a PSN accountNosedivers
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Earlier this week,Helldivers 2players on PC were told that they’dsoon need to link their Steam account to a PlayStation Network (PSN) account. Two days later and the game has received 100,000 new negative reviews on Steam.
What’s more, developers at Arrowhead have made several statements to say that they’re on the players' side.
When Pilestedt made that comment yesterday, Helldivers 2 still had a ‘Mostly Positive’ user review rating on Steam, with a ‘Mixed’ rating based on reviews just from the past two weeks. As of the time of writing this post, the overall rating is now Mixed - indicating only 59% positive reviews - and recent reviews are Mostly Negative.
Players object to the requirement to link their PSN accounts for a range of reasons, from the basic inconvenience to more general data collection and privacy concerns. The change is of particular concern to those players in regions where it’s not possible to sign-up for a PSN account. An earlier comment from Arrowhead had suggested that such players should sign-up to PSN for a region other than that which they reside, but doing so would actually breach Sony’s own terms of service.
“If a better solution isn’t provided for players who are in regions without PSN coverage, I’m assured that we won’t be making the requirement mandatory for those players,” wrote Spitz. “We’re not going to force people to either break Sony TOS or not play the game.”
