Helldivers 2 Hit By Wave of Damaging Steam Critiques After PSN Announcement

Sony lately introduced that Helldivers 2 gamers on Steam will quickly have to hyperlink to a PlayStation Community. Whereas this was the case at launch, the writer made it non-obligatory attributable to technical issues. Nevertheless, many PC gamers are sad with the choice to carry it again, flooding the sport’s Steam web page with unfavourable opinions.

Helldivers 2 will get over 17,500 unfavourable opinions in someday

Sony introduced Helldivers 2’s PlayStation Community requirement in a Steam Submit at 8:33 PM Japanese/5:33 PM Pacific on Thursday, Could 2. This triggered a large spike in unfavourable opinions on Friday. As of this writing, over 17,500 Steam customers have posted a unfavourable overview in a single day. Whereas the sport’s total Score remains to be “Principally Optimistic,” its current opinions have already Dropped to “Combined.”

 “The Automatons have taken over Sony headquarters,” reads the headline of 1 Steam overview vital of the change. Over 11,700 customers rated it useful, and fairly a couple of others made comparable jokes.

One other reads, “I purchased this recreation on Steam with the intention of enjoying it on Steam. I don’t now, nor will I ever have a PlayStation account. Forcing gamers to hyperlink or be banned from the sport months after launch is unacceptable.”

There are additionally Helldivers who gained’t be capable of bounce in in any respect after the brand new rule goes into impact. “As somebody who lives in Estonia,” writes one Reddit consumer, “I can not even make a PSN account. So [the] recreation technically is blocked for me.”

Sony claims that requiring a PlayStation Community for Helldivers 2 makes it simpler to police abusive gamers. “That is our essential solution to defend gamers from griefing and abuse by enabling the banning of gamers that have interaction in that kind of behaviour,” writes Sony. “It additionally permits these gamers which have been banned the proper to enchantment.” Nevertheless, many gamers consider the rule is motivated by monetary acquire fairly than safety.

The requirement goes into impact on Could 6, although present Helldivers 2 gamers gained’t see a compulsory login till Could 30. They then have till June 4 to hyperlink their Steam and PlayStation Community accounts.