Arrowhead announces that Helldivers 2 PC players will soon need to link their Steam accounts to PlayStation Network.
  • Iapar@feddit.deEnglish
    20·
    2 months ago

    There should be an option for steam refunds called “bait and switch”.

    • CluckN@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      Sony published the game and bailed them out when servers went down in February. Still absolutely blows that players in certain regions will be completely unable to play.

      • CaptObvious@literature.cafeEnglish
        33·
        2 months ago

        That’s the point. There are plenty of other great games that Sony doesn’t control, though. How often do people need to get burned before they learn?

        Edit: giant typos

        • Forester@yiffit.netEnglish
          92·
          2 months ago

          This was a bait and switch. There was no obvious information that I would be required to make a PSN account when I started playing over a month ago.

          • Jax@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            51·
            2 months ago

            Was it?

            Is it really out of left field when they have you install a rootkit for a game that isn’t competitive?

            Idk, maybe I’m just cynical, but bad business decisions are bad business decisions. I’m not surprised by this in the least.

            • Forester@yiffit.netEnglish
              14·
              2 months ago

              Kernel level anti-cheat while I detest it is common. And it’s only common because people cheat. If 30% of gamers as a whole weren’t cheating in PVP games then we wouldn’t be seeing such stupid enforcement attempts in PVE games

              • Jax@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                31·
                2 months ago

                I will simply never accept that a PvE game needs anticheat. The concept is silly.

                This is just bad decision making.

                • Forester@yiffit.netEnglish
                  22·
                  2 months ago

                  As somebody who has administrated PVE PVP and PVPVE game servers, I will unfortunately have to laugh at your uninformed opinion. People are shitty and will cause conflict and grief for the smallest reasons. I do not agree with the implementation of such obtuse software to prevent this in a PVE game. I am merely stating the reason it’s happening. Personally, we would be much better off of a robust report system. It could have even been done so well in lore. “. Due to fellow citizens report of your undemocratic and unpatriotic behavior, you have been assigned to a suicide squad where you will only be interacting with other degenerates of your nature.”

    • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
      10·
      2 months ago

      Because it was a genuinely good game to play with friends. But the party is over now