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Helldivers 2 Players Are Organizing to Revert Negative Helldivers 2 Steam Reviews

Killjoy-NL

Member
Trying Not To Laugh Rooster Teeth GIF by Achievement Hunter
Clever. Gotta give you that one.😘
 

rofif

Can’t Git Gud
For this one GTA4 actually required you to have a Social Club account AND GFWL, GFWL was dropped but Social Club was rebranded into Rockstar Launcher, so technically it's the same requirements still, they just overhauled one of them into a worse service.
No. Social club was dropped and the game only required GFWL for years.
Then they patched launcher in
 

YCoCg

Member
No. Social club was dropped and the game only required GFWL for years.
Then they patched launcher in
Social Club was always there, but it was easy to disable, it's only when it became Rockstar Launcher it was worse because they patched the EXE to require it instead of just using a DLL.
 

feynoob

Banned
Yeah I get that but the "horse armour moment" has passed 5 years ago when the likes of EA, MS, Bethesda, Ubisoft, etc did it without any fight back. It's like trying to claim you're fighting horse armour in the already mtx infested industry years later. As I said 3 days ago I do support people complaining about account logins :
It led to this garbage mtx. People kept buying it nonstop and bringing more revenue to Bethesda.
 
The whole scoring system for the game is compromised. Now let's see if we can get it to swing back too far the other way because Sony did something not wrong for a change.
 
The PSN accounts are no doubt a linchpin of Sony's PC strategy and they can't afford to botch it any further or they will never get PC PSN accounts to be universally accepted.

That's what makes it interesting. The reaction to the trophy support and the overlay was met positively on this board, but the PSN login which would be required for that is looked at negatively.
 

Loomy

Thinks Microaggressions are Real
This is a UX problem for Sony now. "How can we make people take their medicine without knowing they're being fed medicine?"
 

bender

What time is it?
This is a UX problem for Sony now. "How can we make people take their medicine without knowing they're being fed medicine?"

Link your account for free access to one Premium War Bound and also receive this exclusive emote.
 

poppabk

Cheeks Spread for Digital Only Future
Link your account for free access to one Premium War Bound and also receive this exclusive emote.
See that is what they should have done at the outset. Now people are gonna laugh at that and dig their feet in.
 
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bender

What time is it?
See that is what they should have done at the outset. Now people are gonna laugh at that and dig their feet in.

I still think it's an easy solution, even after the controversy. Some bullshit napkin math:

-85-90% of the userbase would have been fine mandatorily linking their accounts had Sony's mandate gone into effect today.
-1-3% of the userbase are hardliners and would probably never link their account.
-One free Premium War Bound and an exclusive emote probably sways the 7-14% that are on the fence.

And then, Sony could send their monthly advertising emails that end users can opt out of but in those emails, for those that don't opt out, include a code for free team boosters (forgot what those are called in H2) and some small amount (50?) of Super Credits. That would keep people from opting out of advertisements and actually get them to look at your emails. And finally send them a happy birthday email with 100 Super Credits and thank them for spreading democracy.

Someone give Jim Ryan my number.
 
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Killjoy-NL

Member
Mate, all this mess started when we let do this shit. You understand right. If we let these companies get away with crap, they will do so much shit.
Do all the other companies that require an account charge PC gamers to play their games online?

*MMOs excluded
 
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