Also their FAQ page on steam is locked down (except for moderators and their disciples) so I can't post about not being able to use native voice chat. Literally KILLS any teamcentric gameplay.
"Let me pause and type out that I just launched an airstrike so my team doesn..."
"Let me delete the warning and retype an apology for nuking my entire squad."
The two biggest issues I've seen people talking about are 1, they don't want to give Sony their data for literally no benefit and 2, there are countries where there is no PSN support, meaning that players who own the game and have been playing will no longer be able to access it.
Okay so I must be missing something. Could someone explain to me why exactly this, of all things, is getting the nuclear backlash? It's not like they're adding a subscription charge or new microtransactions, you just need to have an account.
The account link was optional, but somewhere they have written that the PSN account will be required at a later stage, seemingly due to issues at launch. Now, people who are living in a country where PSN is not available (which are quite a lot actually) will no longer be able to play, neither to refund, since the launch is months ago.
So it's way more than just having yet another account, which is especially ridiculous in the case of PSN for Steam PC games.
Okay so THAT makes sense, people for whom a PSN account is simply impossible will not be able to play, THAT is worth being mad about. But we are absolutely not just seeing outrage from players in countries where they CAN'T have a PSN account, we're seeing outrage from people who could and just don't want to.
What I'm trying to understand is why. I get that it's a greedy data-grab from Sony that is fully not necessary, but also... it's just not a big ask. They're not asking for your credit card, they don't want your social security number, I don't even think there's anything keeping you from telling them that your name is "Bofa Deeznutz." I get wanting to control your data, and I would absolutely suggest a randomly generated super-strong password, but it just seems to me like everyone so angry that they're quitting just... has a pretty easy fix for that.
So for MOST of us, it really, really is just having yet another account. The few who genuinely don't have that option are right to be angry, but for most of us it really just seems like an overreaction.
It works just fine without it, so the reason playstation are enforcing has nothing to do with making the game better and something to do with data collection and them profiting from it.
It's a fucking idiot move, burning goodwill for probably very little actual gain
It's a case of the straw that broke the camel's back I think. People are getting sick and tired of needing an account for everything. And this is getting more attention than it otherwise would have both because of how popular the game is and the fact that the requirement is coming after launch. I'm tired of making an account for epic games, for battlenet, for microsoft, for gog, for capcom, for PlayStation Network. Especially when the game has clearly been functioning perfectly fine without it this entire time
I think that people are finally just reaching the breaking point on this and helldivers was just in the unfortunate position of being the one that finally broke that back
but it's not a game dev. It's the publisher wanting to boost active user numbers for shareholder purposes, Arrowhead doesn't gain anything from this happening.