Review bombing taking place.

"CALLING IN AN EAGLE"

What a dumb move, timing this with trying to convince people to buy the new warbond. Hopefully Sony reverses this decision after seeing how badly this damages the health of the game.

Unfortunately for those requesting refunds, unless you're in an area that's soon to be excluded, you likely won't get your money back. The game has had the requirement for the PSN account linking listed on the Steam page since day 1, so it's unlikely that Valve will do much in this situation.

Arrowhead isn't free of guilt in this, but Sony and Valve should have both done a much better job at making this clear to players earlier on, since they're in charge of marketing/sales on PC. Like, in-game messaging would have been good for this. They also should have never allowed the sale of the game on regions PSN isn't available to in the first place, since they already knew they would killswitch non-linked accounts eventually.

What a disappointing day for democracy.

Was the account linking mentionned anywhere on steam?

~~It's really feels like a new condition sneaked in...~~ Edit: apparently it was clearly stated on steam and on the first launch of the game. I really have bad skipping habits...

The "it's to protect players against hakerzzzzz" doesn't feel very legit.

Very disappointing

What's next? Verification butt plug?

Crummy move to do after release.

I don’t own a PlayStation and by extension don’t have an account. So I have to sign up for a service I have no desire for to play?

Please inform any inactive / retired Helldivers to ask for a refund if their country does not support a PS account as they should not have been able to play the game in the first place.

I am unable to verify which countries are affected.

Well that's horseshit.

This is how democracy dies.

How kind of them to remind us that a live-service game is still a live-service game, and that arrowhead is still owned by a for-profit corporation.

I still plan to play, though. Wasn't account linking already required for crossplay, or was that a separate thing?

Big thanks for sharing this, this is my chance to ask for a refund.

I like the game's flavor and I think it's a good game but I just didn't get into it.

I loved this game but PSN isn't available in Estonia so I'm just locked out a month from now. I don't even want a refund, I just wanna play with my wife and friends.

Refund request is already pending, was fun while it lasted.

Okay, fuck that noise. That is all

What a great advertisement for EDF6 they've made with this change.

It wasn't required before? I was prompted to do it when I launched the game for the first time, and it didn't look like I could skip it. I fumbled with it for a bit because I apparently already had a PSN account with my email when i tried to make one, and ended up having to reset the password.

Whelp, fun while it lasted. This game is going to be dead within a month so I guess I'll stop playing now lol ...

I'm keen to buy this.

Does it mean I need to create a PlayStation account to play the game ?

When I asked Sony's support about playing in the Philippines they replied with

Wow. I was thinking about buying this, but it will absolutely never happen now.

Nahhh that’s ok the gameplay loop was getting samey anyway I’ll stick with game that respect the user base