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Helldivers 2 Players Express Frustration On Steam As It Will Soon Require A PSN Account (www.gameinformer.com)
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Helldivers 2 Players Express Frustration On Steam As It Will Soon Require A PSN Account

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I had to sign up for PSN over a month ago, why is there outrage now?

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Account creation fatigue. I'm personally not fond of creating a one-off account for every fucking game I play on steam. It's enough already. EA account, ubisoft account, rockstar account, PSN account, xyz account, ugh. Every new account I create is just an additional attack vector for when all of these companies eventually get hacked. I get occasional emails about security breaches or unauthorized attempts for random ass accounts I created years ago, and it's so frustrating. I don't even have a playstation. It's just so annoying. I'm sick of it. I don't believe for a fucking second that Sony is requiring this for "security and safety." Those fucks just want to inflate their user numbers for the shareholders and collect our data to sell to 3rd parties. I am so fucking sick of this shit already. I bought the game on steam. Just let me use my steam account only god dammit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wwwwwaaaaaaaa

I don't have Xbox or PlayStation and I still signed up. Just use a stupid throw away password. Ya know how many times people have tried to log into my twitch account and I ignored it because even if they did get the password it means absolute jack shit. If ya do use the acct to buy stuff, use a virtual credit card to make payments so its as easy as shutting down that CCD and opening a new one.

Be more pissed about the rootkit of a anti cheat that they use

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Maybe be pissed about both?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They are removing the “Skip” button from the linking page on game launch and forcing anyone who used it to link a PSN account now

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There was a skip button?

I mean its not like EA games where ya need to install a 3rd party launcher

Still anyone review bombing over such a stupid thing needs a slap upside the head. Took me all of 2 min to sign up and now I have 90 house played

No one complains about having to sign up for Xbox shit.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Steam is available in 237 countries, while PSN is only available in 69 countries. Some people are going to be locked out from the game they bought. E.g African players are going to be fucked.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same— my understanding is that there’s now no option to play without making one, which for some countries and territories is not even an option, making the game unplayable for them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

This makes sense, that's kind of a shitty deal for them.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was apparently skippable before.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was so skippable I never even knew there was an option to link to a PS Account, which I dont have because my last PlayStation was the PS2