• Shayeta@feddit.deEnglish
    4013·
    1 year ago

    Ha! I remember the devs tweeting during the Helldivers 2 fiasco barely a week ago that they WOULDN’T require a PSN account for PC. What a bunch of shameless liars.

    • Aielman15@lemmy.worldEnglish
      934·
      1 year ago

      It’s not the devs’ fault, it’s Sony.

      I wouldn’t be surprised if they were told one thing three days ago, and another one now.

      • DacoTaco@lemmy.worldEnglish
        626·
        1 year ago

        The developers were told 6 months before release that it needed to have psn required. Granted, thats waaaaaay too late to tell a dev that, but they could have delayed the game. Instead, they made it half arse and still told sony it was good to go.
        Imho, both have gone wrong here

      • RubberDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
        26·
        1 year ago

        If they would have put up a banner in the game or a popup every log in stating …

        "Sony account requirement temporarily suspended.

        Please note that in a future update this will be a hard requirement and you will not be able to play Helldivers without a PSN account".

        Then this would not have been an issue. The question is if their game would have gotten as big as it did. I’ll bet ‘no’.

        Also how fucking lame is the playstation network that they still cannot handle proper game launches… ffs this should be a non issue by now. The servers that handle this should be setup to spin up and down clones when needed… But nooooo that costs extra money.

          • RubberDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

            Absolutely. The region not being limited is a big indicator on intent. Or it’s the dev that “forgot” and got more sales.

            I’m curious how many copies are sold in regions no longer supported.

    • BrowseMan@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      17·
      1 year ago

      To be fair, thy said the one player game campaign doesn’t need it, but multiplayer did.

      That’s still the case and that’s why steam is giving refund: people are basically buying the game with part missing.