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[-] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 114 points 1 month ago

Remember the people suggesting to change the Hell Divers negative reviews because Sony listened?

They have learned nothing

[-] Trikami@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago

They walked the PSN thing back, but still forbid sales to some countries. That doesn't make any sense, is the Sony ship slow to steer or is Valve doing that? Or the third option, Sony is cooking up some bullshit...

[-] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 48 points 1 month ago

Sounds like they will be bringing the PSN requirement back for future games maybe. The only thing they probably learned was to announce the requirement for account linking from the start and make it more vissible

[-] Shyfer@ttrpg.network 9 points 1 month ago

Is that worth the loss of sales from those 177 or whatever it was extra countries? That's the part that confuses me.

[-] RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago

Sony has written off those countries for years of PS sales, its been a resounding yes for them since long before they started inching into the PC market

[-] Swarfega@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

It seems the answer is yes.

[-] Dagnet@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I think for the executives the only reason to release old games on pc is to bring more players to their console, and if they can't have a psn account that means they will nvr buy a PlayStation. That's my guess

[-] MeaanBeaan@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Definitely the third option. They're going to wait until Helldivers hype dies down then quietly reimplement the requirement when much less people are tuned in. Guaranteed.

[-] saigot@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Probably bullshui but there's a 3rd option that they have legal reasons not to operate servers in some of those regions and helldivers was violating those restrictions. It takes more than a week to review the legal code in 180 countries, review the internal policies in place and audit the game for any violations all with the added complexity that arrowhead and sony are independent entities.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world -5 points 1 month ago

Yeah I'm sure changing negative reviews is a factor here and totally wouldn't have been an incentive for future good behavior

[-] frezik@midwest.social 5 points 1 month ago

Their incentive is money. All this is teaching them is that they need to find a different approach to do the same thing.

The AAA outfits are trash and should die.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Bad reviews tend to lead to worse sales...

[-] barsquid@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Sorry, the argument is they should have zero consequences for trying something reviled because they abandoned it later? And that will make them not try similar things later, because of reasons?

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

The "argument" is that a few people said people should reward them doing the right thing eventually but others somehow think that's evil or some weird ass shit.

It's not complicated, as much as Internet weirdos want it to be

[-] barsquid@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

They are being rewarded for doing the right thing simply by people not continuing to refund.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Ok it's just weird to me that people like you have some moral objection to a slightly different attitude applied to reviews. It's not something worth talking about.

[-] barsquid@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Nobody cares what attitude to apply to reviews. You decided to have a conversation. You don't have to continue it.

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