10,000 negative reviews and counting.
Helldivers 2 is going to make you link your PlayStation Network account—and boy, are liberty’s finest upset about it. If you dare to venture into the game’s Discord server at the time of writing, you’ll find the place is thoroughly on fire, with timeouts being issued left and right.
As a recap in case you didn’t see the news earlier: Helldivers 2 will require you to link your Steam account to PlayStation Network starting May 6, though said requirement will roll out piecemeal. By May 30 Steam users will be confronted with a login screen, and by June 4 they’ll absolutely, 100% need to register.
This move, Sony claims, is to “protect players from griefing” among other ‘benefits’—and was only ever delayed thanks to the state of Helldivers 2’s servers at launch. Here’s the proper rundown of the change—or, more accurately, reinstatement—in policy. For now though, let’s turn our gaze towards the community.
First up, people are—understandably—worried about region locks. PSN serves around 69 countries at the moment which, as you might have put together, is not all of them. From where I’m sitting this whole debacle is mostly just irritating, and a great example of Sony putting its foot in it, but this is by far the most legitimate worry surrounding the controversy.
