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[-] Xx_Aru_xX@hexbear.net 44 points 1 month ago
[-] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 31 points 1 month ago
[-] pinguinu@lemmygrad.ml 28 points 1 month ago

The DRPK has fallen, millions must game deng stare

[-] TheKanzler@hexbear.net 26 points 1 month ago

The Balts are unable to make PSN accounts... critical support to comrade Sony Computer Entertainment

[-] Xx_Aru_xX@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago

They play fascism irl

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

Confirmed: Kim has a PlayStation

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[-] dannoffs@hexbear.net 39 points 1 month ago

I refuse to empathize with someone who watermarks a meme with their reddit username.

[-] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 27 points 1 month ago

this meme is private property

[-] SovietyWoomy@hexbear.net 24 points 1 month ago

I love to see people getting mad at Sony, but I wish microtransactions and $70 games also received this level of anger.

[-] Esoteir@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

yeah i didn't see any outrage at helldivers 2 locking a majority of the new content each update behind a monthly ten dollar battle pass microtransaction lmao

[-] Grownbravy@hexbear.net 23 points 1 month ago

Is it bad? Yeah. But fuck are they whining a lot

[-] edge@hexbear.net 21 points 1 month ago

The worst part is the chuds that didn’t understand the game is a parody of their ideology using this as an excuse to be mad at the “woke” devs

cw transphobiaand the community manager who is trans.

Then don't interact. If they're right they're right. I will never understand this need to point at people complaining about something that actually sucks and going "Yeah but I don't like you complaining about it"

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[-] SSJ2Marx@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago

It's a very popular game.

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago

True

Especially since the level of smug self-satisfaction they're reaching is pretty fucking high considering its just a video game really

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[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 22 points 1 month ago

Imagine playing Helldivers II

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[-] Smeagolicious@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago

I'm on PC, I have a PSN account from forever ago, and I still think this move is stupid.

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

I'm the two guys on the right

[-] SSJ2Marx@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

Whatever happens, I'm not gonna make a PSN account shrug-outta-hecks

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

I'm on the left

AS WITH ALL THINGS

[-] deforestgump@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago
[-] Babs@hexbear.net 26 points 1 month ago

When the game launched, if you played on PS5 you needed a PSN account and if you played on PC the game encouraged you to make one and link it, but it was optional.

New patch made doing so mandatory. Tiny inconvenience for PC players in regions where you can make a free PSN account (basically everywhere except parts of Africa, Eastern Europe, and tiny island nations/colonies), but if you live in one of those regions without PSN access, or refuse to make and link a PSN account, you can no longer play the game. It has also been removed from the Steam storefront in regions without PSN.

This has led to review-bombing and a lot of very angry gamers, most of whom the problem doesn't actually affect but who still see it as representative of shitty media industry practices. Like how last December, Sony lost access to their license for Discovery content and removed access to paid content for users.

Helldivers was made by a small studio using a big company's resources to make it cross-platform, but now that big company is making very unpopular business decisions for them.

[-] unmagical@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 month ago

Most of whom the problem doesn't actually affect.

Sony has an abysmal data security track record. By forcing everyone to provide a bunch of data to Sony (when it's been obvious for months that it isn't a technical requirement, and when their own website says that account linking when playing Sony released games on a PC is optional) everyone who wants to continue playing must now agree to have their data leaked just to pad the publisher's account numbers.

[-] MiraculousMM@hexbear.net 20 points 1 month ago

This is the biggest issue that a lot of these angry gamers aren't even talking about. If you look at the last ~15 years or so, Sony has suffered a major data breach every like 1.5 years, why the hell should anyone trust them? And you know this new requirement is gonna grab the attention of bad actors who know that hundreds of thousands or millions of new accounts will be made, ripe for the picking.

[-] Orcocracy@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

Yeah sure the entire US credit score system got owned a few years ago, but what if hackers deleted my DLC purchases?

[-] sloth@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Apparently only 69 countries offer PSN accessibility, the game has been purchased in dozens of countries beyond those. These players cannot play a game they bought, using a VPN will get you banned from PSN.

[-] blakeus12@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago

Sony is requiring everyone who plays Helldivers II to link their Sony™ PlayStation™ Network accounts because greed

[-] kleeon@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

grillman me, playing minecraft

[-] Gorb@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

None cos by the time i get around to buying this game they would have shut down the servers.

[-] sloth@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago

inside of me are 2 of these guys

[-] RedundantClam@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago

I got tired of the gameplay loop a few weeks ago. My diver is on on their super destroyer sipping mai tais with Eagle 1 and Pelican 1 somewhere over a planet on the old bot front.

[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

this game has mai tais?! now I'm even more upset about missing out

[-] radiofreeval@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

Didn't they say they were requiring PSN accounts from release but only decided to enforce it now?

[-] dannoffs@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

Yes. It's been on the steam page this whole time.

[-] radiofreeval@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

This seems like an instance of Redditors being allergic to reading

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[-] blakeus12@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

I'm the planet in the background

[-] Rojo27@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

I already have a PSN account from having Playsations in the past, but I don't know if I really want to bother with trying to remember passwords or reset passwords.

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