The current top Steam Review;

Yeah i'm not linking my account to PSN.

• April 2011: Hackers Access Personal Data of 77 Million Sony PlayStation Network Users
• May 2011: Personal Details on 25 Million Sony Online Entertainment Customers Stolen
• June 2011: Sony Pictures Website Hacked, Exposing One Million Accounts
• November 2014: Hackers Steal 100 Terabytes of Data from Sony Pictures
• August 2017: Hacker Group Accesses Sony Social Media Accounts
• September 2023: Sony Investigates Alleged Hack
• October 2023: Sony Notifies Employees of Data Breach

Didn't think this was real at first read. But holy fudge it it is.. Game is now being review bombed on steam. Here's an additional article from Gaming on Linux:

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/helldivers-2-will-soon-actually-require-a-playstation-network-account/

So, at first install, I actually linked my account to a PSN account that I knew was banned due to a charge back on an unwanted purchase. At the time, I figured if I discovered that I can't play because my account is banned from PSN, I'd just refund on Steam. I feel I'll be very justifiably pissed if my account is now banned from playing retroactively, long after the refund window.

This feature doesn’t affect me personally, but it is still very scummy to add it after launch. Long after refund window is out of the question.

They sold this game in dozens of countries where you can't make a PSN account. That right there is what pisses me the fuck off. Complete horseshit to do that to people.

As a PlayStation user, I’d be pissed if I needed to use a steam login.

Well that’s certainly one way to kill a game. Heck, I HAVE a PS5, and I still would be annoyed as fuck by that.

Sure, you can offer to link an account for things like progress tracking. But it certainly shouldn’t be forced on anyone.

Why would people not trust putting any info and linking their Steam account to a company with a history of at least 8 hacks + 5 massive data breaches? I wonder. 🤔

Well my PSN account is banned so am I just fucked? Lol what a joke

I would love to see Valve allow refunds. This was not an agreed upon stipulation at the time of purchase. If they pull the game from you now so soon after purchase, is it not grounds for a refund? Give Sony the choice to backtrack or lose money.

Man it's such a shame. I was looking forward to trying it, but I'm not going to create a psn acc for it

Even worse! You can't even have a PSN account everywhere you can have a Steam account with this game

Trying to refund it, although pretty low chance since it's well past the window. But that's part of what makes it so bullshit to bring this in long after that window closed. I'd have refunded the game on the spot if it actually required the account creation from the get go. I refunded Red Dead 2 after it turned out to require a Rock Star account. Fortunately that was apparent on start up so I just quit and refunded.

Looks like Nintendo and Sony are competing who can get away with being a bigger asshole. Boundary testing sociopaths. Game becomes popular, dev and publisher foist unpopular requirement to continue playing in order to see what the response is and if it doesnt tank numbers too much, they now have a green light to weasel this into other games. Hell even if it does tank numbers, they already have their money and you probably wont be able to get a refund at this point.

People have been remarking that numerous countries are unable to join PSN and this will lock them out of the game. But can someone explain to me how that could be true? Are they literally not on the drop-down menu for selecting your country?

Welp it was fun playing while it lasted. Sorry arrowhead but fuck that not happening. Time to move on to another game

I was gonna finally get around to buying this last night, and this stopped me.