The DPRK has PSN lol
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The Balts are unable to make PSN accounts... critical support to comrade Sony Computer Entertainment
They play fascism irl
Confirmed: Kim has a PlayStation
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I refuse to empathize with someone who watermarks a meme with their reddit username.
this meme is private property
I love to see people getting mad at Sony, but I wish microtransactions and $70 games also received this level of anger.
yeah i didn't see any outrage at helldivers 2 locking a majority of the new content each update behind a monthly ten dollar battle pass microtransaction lmao
Is it bad? Yeah. But fuck are they whining a lot
The worst part is the chuds that didn’t understand the game is a parody of their ideology using this as an excuse to be mad at the “woke” devs
cw transphobia
and the community manager who is trans.
Then don't interact. If they're right they're right. I will never understand this need to point at people complaining about something that actually sucks and going "Yeah but I don't like you complaining about it"
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It's a very popular game.
True
Especially since the level of smug self-satisfaction they're reaching is pretty fucking high considering its just a video game really
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I'm on PC, I have a PSN account from forever ago, and I still think this move is stupid.
I'm the two guys on the right
Whatever happens, I'm not gonna make a PSN account 
I'm on the left
AS WITH ALL THINGS
What happened?
When the game launched, if you played on PS5 you needed a PSN account and if you played on PC the game encouraged you to make one and link it, but it was optional.
New patch made doing so mandatory. Tiny inconvenience for PC players in regions where you can make a free PSN account (basically everywhere except parts of Africa, Eastern Europe, and tiny island nations/colonies), but if you live in one of those regions without PSN access, or refuse to make and link a PSN account, you can no longer play the game. It has also been removed from the Steam storefront in regions without PSN.
This has led to review-bombing and a lot of very angry gamers, most of whom the problem doesn't actually affect but who still see it as representative of shitty media industry practices. Like how last December, Sony lost access to their license for Discovery content and removed access to paid content for users.
Helldivers was made by a small studio using a big company's resources to make it cross-platform, but now that big company is making very unpopular business decisions for them.
Most of whom the problem doesn't actually affect.
Sony has an abysmal data security track record. By forcing everyone to provide a bunch of data to Sony (when it's been obvious for months that it isn't a technical requirement, and when their own website says that account linking when playing Sony released games on a PC is optional) everyone who wants to continue playing must now agree to have their data leaked just to pad the publisher's account numbers.
This is the biggest issue that a lot of these angry gamers aren't even talking about. If you look at the last ~15 years or so, Sony has suffered a major data breach every like 1.5 years, why the hell should anyone trust them? And you know this new requirement is gonna grab the attention of bad actors who know that hundreds of thousands or millions of new accounts will be made, ripe for the picking.
Yeah sure the entire US credit score system got owned a few years ago, but what if hackers deleted my DLC purchases?
Apparently only 69 countries offer PSN accessibility, the game has been purchased in dozens of countries beyond those. These players cannot play a game they bought, using a VPN will get you banned from PSN.
Sony is requiring everyone who plays Helldivers II to link their Sony™ PlayStation™ Network accounts because greed
me, playing minecraft
None cos by the time i get around to buying this game they would have shut down the servers.
inside of me are 2 of these guys
I got tired of the gameplay loop a few weeks ago. My diver is on on their super destroyer sipping mai tais with Eagle 1 and Pelican 1 somewhere over a planet on the old bot front.
this game has mai tais?! now I'm even more upset about missing out
I'm the planet in the background
Didn't they say they were requiring PSN accounts from release but only decided to enforce it now?
Yes. It's been on the steam page this whole time.
This seems like an instance of Redditors being allergic to reading
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I already have a PSN account from having Playsations in the past, but I don't know if I really want to bother with trying to remember passwords or reset passwords.
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