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by Knajjars 773 days ago
Am I the only one who doesn’t care about account linking that much? Like, what are they going to steal from me that Google, Meta, Apple, doesn’t have already.

Plus if people wanted to protest, go against PlayStation directly, don't fuck up an indie studio that finally made it after 15+ of releasing games, this decision was made by Sony, not them.
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zik 773 days ago
I think you're missing the point here. Lots of people bought Helldivers 2 and happen to live in countries like Estonia where it'll no longer be possible to play the game because PS doesn't operate there. Even more people don't have PlayStation accounts and specifically don't want them. They bought the game in good faith and now the terms have been changed on them to something unpalatable.

This shouldn't be possible. If you buy something it should belong to you. It shouldn't be subject to the whims of companies who simply don't care about you.

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eps 773 days ago
Well, no, the point was that they sold it under certain conditions and then retroactively and unilaterly tried to change these conditions.

That's no bueno irrespective of PSN's availability in specific countries (thouh it does make for an extreme case in those).

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Knajjars 773 days ago
In the case of not been able to play what you bought legally, I agree, it’s BS. I do remember reading that developers were working on a solution for this.

But my point remains for people screwing up the little guy (Arrowhead Studios).

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Ekaros 773 days ago
With games you often really can not separate the publisher, the studio and the game from each other. And honestly in feedback consumer should not need to care where the demand for change came from. Maybe attacking studio is not fair, but attacking game due to changes by publisher or developer certainly is.
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aaomidi 773 days ago
They did willfully sign a contract with Sony. Game devs need to think about who they’re using as a publisher.

If Sony was willing to take them on, then probably a ton of other publishers were too.

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eps 773 days ago
In some countires, e.g. the UK, creating a PSN account apparently requires sending Sony a copy of your ID. Given Sony's stellar record of not getting hacked this quite naturally doesn't sit well with some people.
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