Helldivers2 is going to link your PlayStation Network account — and Boy, Liberty's best upset about it. If you dare to challenge the game's Discord server at the time of writing, you can see that the place is completely burning and the timeouts are issued left and right. 

As a summary if you haven't seen the news before: Helldivers2 will require you to link your Steam account to the PlayStation Network from May 6, the requirements will be deployed piecemeal, but the above requirements will be deployed step by step. By 5/30 Steam users will face the login screen, and by 6/4 they will absolutely have to register 100%.

The move, which Sony claims is to "protect players from grief" among other "benefits", was only delayed thanks to the state of Helldivers2's servers at launch. Here is an appropriate overview of policy changes, or more precisely reinstatement. But for now, let's turn our gaze towards the community.

First of all, people — of course — are worried about locking in the area. PSN serves about 69 countries at the moment, not all of them as you might have put together. From where I sit, this fiasco is almost evocative and a great example of Sony stepping in, but this is the most legitimate worry surrounding the controversy

given that players in these countries have been able to play the game before, the game's store page that a psn account is required. If you lie about it, Sony is technically within their right to prohibit you in accordance with its Terms of Use.

"Sony must find a solution for this, and it cannot: "Absolute clusterf*ck" with your credentials we could ban your helldivers account adds fellow divers- dull but never wrong.

The game has also been thrown into a grinder on Steam. Over the course of one day, it has been flooded with more than 10,000 negative reviews. That number is set to increase over the next few hours, knocking recent reviews of the game into "mixed" territory at the time of writing.

The whole fiasco had led to a lot of intrigue flying around with songs like "Sony wants to sell your data" or "Sony just wants to increase the number of PSN for investors, considering that more than half of Helldivers2 players experience the game on Steam." 

I think this decision not to ascribe malice to what can be explained by stupidity is as stupid as it is from an optical point of view, especially since this is what we (technically) knew from day one, but "requires a third-party account: PlayStation Network" is pretty clear. .

However, the handling from Sony was clearly devastating. As Arrowhead Games community manager Twinnbeard writes, a big part of the problem is that while the development studio knew about the shift, it didn't make the statement itself. "We're chasing Sony to get more information," Twinnbeard wrote on Discord on the issue of regional rock, in a common chat that flocked it became a full-on lord of the flies.

Johan Pilestedt, CEO of Arrowhead Games, also issued a statement on Twitter, directing players to support Sony: "If you have any further questions, you can reach out using the "Contact Playstation Support" at the bottom of the page.One can not help but wonder if the studio itself was given much advance warning.

Nevertheless, democracy certainly seems to be acting. Whether Sony will listen and change the tack remains to be seen — baseline, I should not know the border, the joy of the Eagle 500kg bomb (delivered by everyone's favorite pilot) everyone, they happened to buy a game in a particular country.